Artlyst.com, 26.01.2018 : “Turner Prize Winner Martin Boyce Unveils New Commission At Tate Britain” The new work, unveiled on Thursday, was made possible with the support of the Clore Duffield Foundation. It consists of a newly paved terrace into which the words ‘Remembered Skies’ have been spelt out in illuminated letters, situated between the Clore Gallery – the…
New-York Times, Andrew R. Chow, 29.01.2018 : “Christo to Build Floating Structure in London’s Hyde Park” Christo has long been interested in mastabas, trapezoidal structures that originated in Mesopotamia. He designed a Texas mastaba in 1975, for example, and is devising plans to build a permanent one in Abu Dhabi, which he says will be the…
Le Figaro, Eric Biétry-Rivierre, 24.01.2018 : “Crue de la Seine : le Louvre et Orsay en état d’alerte” Le niveau bas du département des Arts de l’Islam est interdit au public depuis que le fleuve a dépassé la cote des 5,12 mètres. Une procédure préventive en attendant le pic d’alerte prévu samedi et une éventuelle réouverture…
New-York Daily News, Chris Sommerfeldt, 26.01.2018 : “Guggenheim Museum offered Trump a golden toilet after he requested a Van Gogh for the White House” President Trump turned down a golden throne for the White House. The First Couple had asked the Guggenheim to borrow a Vincent Van Gogh painting for their private White House quarters,…
FranceInfo/CultureBox, Odile Morain, 22.01.2018 : “Le cadeau de Jeff Koons à Paris devient le bouquet de la discorde” “The Bouquet of Tulips” réalisé et offert par Koons en mémoire des attentats du 13 novembre 2015 ne cesse de diviser le milieu de l’art parisien. L’oeuvre monumentale est sur le point d’être achevée dans un atelier…
The Antiques Trade Gazette, Laura Chesters, 19.01.2018 : “TEFAF scraps art market report for smaller focused survey” The annual TEFAF art market report has been scrapped in favour of a number of smaller, focused reports, leaving Clare McAndrew’s Art Basel report as the sole market-wide survey. According to a report in the Financial Times today, TEFAF said its…
LaLibre.be, Guy Duplat, 15.01.2018 : “Avant-garde russe à Gand: des experts “doutent” Dix marchands d’art et experts de l’avant-garde russe ont de “grands doutes” sur 26 œuvres exposées au MSK. Les 26 oeuvres de l’avant-garde russe (de 1910 à 1920), dont des Kandinsky et Malevitch, prêtées et exposées depuis octobre au musée des Beaux-arts de Gand…
BBC Scotland, Graeme Ogston, 18.01.2018 : “V&A Dundee Museum of Design announces opening date” Dundee’s £80.1m V&A Museum of Design will open on 15 September, it has been confirmed. The museum’s opening exhibition will be Ocean Liners: Speed & Style, which will “re-imagine the golden age of ocean travel”.It will also feature Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s…
