Los Angeles artist known for original approach to teaching and museum hours
Published online: 16 October 2012
A Spanish grandmother's handiwork hit the headlines, but Ajax and rainstorms have contributed to other amateur disasters
Published online: 15 October 2012
What happens when you mix a Medieval tapestry with a Modern abstract? Collectors are finding out for themselves
Published online: 08 October 2012
Police investigate attack on Seagram mural canvas
Published online: 07 October 2012
The Greek statues have not been seen in public since 2008 while museum renovation is mired in controversy
Published online: 07 October 2012
Protesters demand protection for cultural heritage as militant Islamists target Muslim mausoleum
Published online: 05 October 2012
Three major artists—Jenny Saville, Yan Pei-Ming and Luca del Baldo—have created paintings of the corpse of the deposed Libyan dictator
Published online: 04 October 2012
Six curators create "Round Table" exhibition with contontations of debate but a blurry message
Published online: 04 October 2012
ArtInternational Istanbul is due to coincide with the city’s international biennial next year
Published online: 03 October 2012
Maurice Marciano is looking for a space to house exhibitions, a library and a studio for an artist-in-residence
Published online: 03 October 2012
A billowing mushroom cloud made of ceramic fragments rises from the ballroom table at the Holburne Museum in Bath. The eerie installation War & Pieces by the Dutch artist Bouke de Vries plays on the 18th-century tradition of holding a lavish banquet on the eve of battle, complete with >>>elaborate ceramic and sugar decorations, according to the museum’s website. The disasters of war are recreated on the table itself using figures based on 1770s Derby porcelain, clashing against china soldiers equipped with cyborg prostheses taken from plastic toys, “a new and contemporary material fighting to defeat the forces of sugar and ceramic”.<<<
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Virtual tour of new MoCA Cleveland
MoCA Cleveland opened to the public on Monday 8 October in its new $27.2m home designed by the London architect Farshid Moussavi. Take a virtual tour of the sleek building, clad in black stainless steel, in a video, created by the Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London, and originally posted by the museum.
Cristina Ruiz, our intrepid editor-at-large, completed Gagosian’s Damien Hirst Spot Challenge. She visited all 11 Gagosian galleries from Hong Kong to Beverly Hills “backpacker style”, and is now awaiting her prize—a signed Hirst spot print, with a dedication by the artist. Look back on her blog about her travels.
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