In the News
frieze.com’s regular round-up of recent and breaking arts-related news.
The record for the number of visitors to a contemporary art exhibition – set 12 years ago by ‘Sensation’ at the Royal Academy – has been broken by ‘The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art’, the inaugural show at Charles Saatchi’s new London space – reports the Guardian.
The beleaguered LA MOCA accepts Eli Broad’s US$30 million bail-out, while chancellor emeritus of UCLA Charles E. Young is appointed as the museum’s first CEO.
The LA Times has an interview with outgoing director Jeremy Strick (pictured above).
After the National Academy Museum, New York received criticism for selling two paintings from its collection,The New York Times asks what’s so bad about deaccessioning.
Two weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes up office, The Art Newspaper looks at his arts policies.
Antonio Villairagosa (pictured above), the mayor of Los Angeles, announces January 2009 as LA Arts Month, claiming L.A as ‘the Venice of the 21st century’. The city has a total of 900,000 employed in the creative industries, who generate a total of US$100 million revenue each year.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London looks to establish an exhibition centre in Blackpool, reports The Art Newspaper.
Cities in the UK will compete every four years for the title of British capital of culture, following the success of Liverpool as the 2008 European capital of culture, reports the Guardian.
The Wall Street Journal reports that artists are taking advantage of a fall in recycled materials.
In an interview with The Independent, Nicholas Penny (pictured above), the director of the National Gallery, argues that blockbuster exhibitions are a thing of the past.
frieze.com’s regular round-up of recent and breaking arts-related news.
The record for the number of visitors to a contemporary art exhibition – set 12 years ago by ‘Sensation’ at the Royal Academy – has been broken by ‘The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art’, the inaugural show at Charles Saatchi’s new London space – reports the Guardian.
The beleaguered LA MOCA accepts Eli Broad’s US$30 million bail-out, while chancellor emeritus of UCLA Charles E. Young is appointed as the museum’s first CEO.
The LA Times has an interview with outgoing director Jeremy Strick (pictured above).
After the National Academy Museum, New York received criticism for selling two paintings from its collection,The New York Times asks what’s so bad about deaccessioning.
Two weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes up office, The Art Newspaper looks at his arts policies.
Antonio Villairagosa (pictured above), the mayor of Los Angeles, announces January 2009 as LA Arts Month, claiming L.A as ‘the Venice of the 21st century’. The city has a total of 900,000 employed in the creative industries, who generate a total of US$100 million revenue each year.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London looks to establish an exhibition centre in Blackpool, reports The Art Newspaper.
Cities in the UK will compete every four years for the title of British capital of culture, following the success of Liverpool as the 2008 European capital of culture, reports the Guardian.
The Wall Street Journal reports that artists are taking advantage of a fall in recycled materials.
In an interview with The Independent, Nicholas Penny (pictured above), the director of the National Gallery, argues that blockbuster exhibitions are a thing of the past.
