Ripped Picasso at the Met Is Only One of Many Art Mishaps
One afternoon not too long ago, a truck arrived on Park Avenue, delivering a batch of Impressionist paintings from a family’s home in …
24 Jan
Why The World Doesn’t Need An Annie Warhol Or A Francine Bacon
Why The World Doesn’t Need An Annie Warhol Or A Francine Bacon
LONDON | In May last year, the Centre Pompidou consigned to storage nearly all its works by male artists and rehung its permanent …
23 Jan
The Familiar Unknown
The Familiar Unknown
Featuring Susan Beiner, Rebekah Bogard, Rebecca Hutchinson & Anne Drew Potter; curated by Ovidio Giberga Expectations, preconceptions, and what we overlook or take for …
23 Jan
An Architect Pays Respects to a Dowager
An Architect Pays Respects to a Dowager
BOSTON | More than a few eyebrows will likely be raised on Thursday when the Italian architect Renzo Piano unveils his design for …
23 Jan
Architect, or Whatever
Architect, or Whatever
SEATTLE | At the Ballard Farmers’ Market in Seattle on a recent weekend, passers-by could be forgiven for thinking John Morefield was running for …
24 Nov
Koons’s $25 Million Dangling Train Derailed By Lacma Shortfall
Koons’s $25 Million Dangling Train Derailed By Lacma Shortfall
LOS ANGELES | The recession has derailed a Jeff Koons sculpture involving a replica of a 1944 Baldwin locomotive with an estimated cost of $25 …
16 Nov
Architecture | Zaha Hadid’s Stairway Into The Future
Architecture | Zaha Hadid’s Stairway Into The Future
ROME | I remember looking at Zaha Hadid’s drawings for Rome’s new museum of 21st-century arts a decade ago and wondering how on earth this …
15 Nov
Tracey Emin | Not Coming To America?
Tracey Emin | Not Coming To America?
NEW YORK | That the artist Tracey Emin had asked to be interviewed at her hotel swimming pool and showed up in a bathing suit …
10 Jul
Death Doesn’t Lie
Death Doesn’t Lie
Napoleon It’s hard to believe that this face once made Europe quake. I’m standing in front of Napoleon – or at least his death mask, …
10 Jul
A New Direction For Embassy Architecture?
A New Direction For Embassy Architecture?
Security line outside the American Embassy, London. Credit: Flickr User Gruntzooki. LOS ANGELES The most recent generation of U.S. embassies hasn’t exactly provided a sterling symbol …