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A UPS truck crashed into the lobby of the Hirshhorn at about 8:30 Monday night. The museum was closed and empty. The driver of the truck was injured, but DCist (lots of pictures!) and the Washington ...
The first time I drove across Kansas, I thought I might die of boredom. Aside from occasional billboards advertising adult video stores, there didn't seem to be anything to look at except for 424 mil...
@KnightLAT nails it: This Carol Vogel story is the kind of alleged journalism that would be an embarrassment to a college newspaper, let alone the NYT. Everyone quoted in the story is selling the pai...
The coolest link I've posted in years: The Norton Simon makes way for goslings. [via]
Artist Steve Roden visits a Fra Angelico at the Prado and spends an hour with it. And thinks about mp3s.The LAT's Jori Finkel says that the Huntington could score more than $21 million from the sale ...
In the jump, the emailed press release that I just received from Christie's, complete with actual colors. Click on it to unfurl it even larger, or something.
Because who doesn't wonder what Donald Judd read (or didn't read), the Judd Foundation has launched a cool online toy: An accounting of the 13,004 books in Donald Judd's Marfa library (10,718 of them...
This morning Holland Cotter took to the NYT's arts blog to consider whether the Picasso that sold for $95 million (plus premium) last night was really a Grade-A Picasso. (Amusing : Cotter rolls...
At the end of April, Shirin Neshat's film installation The Last Word (2003, above) premiered in Washington at Irvine Contemporary. It's one of the most important works of art made in the last decade....
Yesterday the Supreme Court announced that it was closing the front doors of its magnificent, underrated Cass Gilbert-designed building. In today's Washington Post, Philip Kennicott excoriates the Co...
In the wake of a decision by Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli to cover up the bare-breasted woman on the Virginia state seal, officials at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond are con...
Last month potential donors to Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek's plan to build a bulbous membrane at the museum were scheduled to visit. MAN has an acquired an email that was sent from Koshalek's...
As my Twitter followers know, over the weekend I popped up to Philadelphia to peruse the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Picasso and the Avant -Garde in Paris exhibition. The show was nothing special: I...
In the LAT, Sharon Mizota (I think -- there's no byline) looks at what goes into a museum's (mostly LACMA's) permanent collection reinstallation. Also in the LAT, David Pagel says the best paint...
The strange, fabulous story of LACMA and Chinese art. It includes Americans in the Chinese army, a curatorial suicide and pictures so good you won't stop staring at them.Given in Eyjafjallajokul in I...
The Columbus Museum of Art has acquired a John Marin watercolor: New York Series (1927, at left). The acquisition makes Columbus' already-strong collection of early American modernism -- and Marin in...
Christopher Knight says it's time to re-organize the Getty Trust. Expect to see a lot of Latin American light-and-space art in the next couple years. First up is the Miami Art Museum, where Carl...
Delighted to see the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona score Joe Deal's archive. Deal's work is on view at Robert Mann Gallery. The University of Chicago Press published hi...
Jonesborough, Tennessee is a cute little town of about 4,000. It is the oldest town in the state. It has an funky history: It was originally in North Carolina, was part of a region that tried to sepa...
Christopher Knight says that Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek has tried this before, 30 years ago at the Hudson River Museum. Number of museum directors to try in between 1979 and now? None.Emerge...
This morning the Washington Post published this Hirshhorn press release announcing the museum's plans to relocate its bookstore. Because the new bookstore will be designed by Los Angeles-based artist...
One of my fondest memories of Missouri is of throwing a baseball around under the Gateway Arch before walking over to the old Busch Stadium to watch the Cardinals play. Something about it seemed very...
Looking at one work of art, hung in a different way, can help you think something new. It can even motivate you. This is why we spend time, in person, with art.
One of my favorite places to wander through the collection galleries is the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth. Tadao Ando's galleries are divine, MAMFW's collection is good, and the art is always thoughtf...
For the LAT, Susan Emerling visits Pae White in her studio.The LAT's Karen Wada looks at the Getty Research Institute's plans to consider the future of the bibliography. (Which is great, but the GRI ...
Nancy Spero was an artist who made work because a principle motivated her and not because the market beckoned. Her work is physically substantial and full of detail. It's the kind of art that lives e...
Re: the news that new director Jeffrey Deitch's first MOCA show will be a Julian Schnabel-curated Dennis Hopper retrospective, Man Bartlett suggests you view this. Go ahead and fast-forward to 1:47 o...
Watercolors tend to be lovely little things. They tend to sit on a wall a bit; they don't jump off a wall and grab you. A great oil painting may draw you in with the intensity of its color or dynamic...
"Skin Fruit," an art exhibition selected entirely from Greek Cypriot industrialist Dakis Joannou's art collection now at New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art, is badly flawed. The problems with ...
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