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The Long Weekend

rlacayo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:13:42 +0000

Back Monday.

Sarah Jessica Parker — Queen of the Artworld?

rlacayo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:04:54 +0000

I hadn't heard much recently about the plan Sarah Jessica Parker announced last year to co-produce a Top Chef-style artists' competition show for cable TV. I thought the slump in the art market, and the attendant downward plummet of the Artworld Glamor Index, might mean that the whole idea had gone away. But [...]

Decaptivating

rlacayo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:04:16 +0000

Yinka Shonibare is the London-based artist of Nigerian descent best known for those headless mannequins dressed in 18th and 19th century costumes made from very neo-colonial cloth. "Neo-colonial" is this instance means that what we tend to think of as "traditional" African textiles turn out to be manufactured by the Dutch, who borrowed [...]

There's the Rub

rlacayo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:08:13 +0000

It's often the case that when a museum director sees a big expansion to completion he or she steps down within a year or so after the project is completed. That's what Mimi Gates did at the Seattle Art Museum and Marc Wilson at the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City. But things have happened [...]

Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

rlacayo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:39:27 +0000

LACMA, Meet Dasha

rlacayo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:04:01 +0000

Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is well known in the museum world for his fund raising skills. He seems to have scored a coup this week by attracting some very affluent names to the LACMA board of directors. One is Gabriel Brener, CEO of Brener Interenational Group. [...]

Last Talk with Maya Lin

rlacayo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:55:26 +0000

Let's finish up that conversation with Maya Lin about her new earthwork project, Storm King Wavefield. LACAYO: The Wavefield is a succession of enormous grassy mounds. It's made of planted earth, it's outdoors and exposed to the elements. So do you expect that this piece will eventually decay? LIN: It'll erode, it'll soften. [...]

More Talk with Maya Lin

rlacayo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:19:41 +0000

Let's continue that conversation with Maya Lin about Storm King Wavefield, the large earthwork she just unveiled at a sculpture park in upstate New York. LACAYO: For a long time people have understood that your Vietnam Veteran's Memorial is in some ways a Minimalist work or post-Minimalist work. What the Wavefield makes you [...]

The Mapplethorpe Wars

rlacayo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:16:19 +0000

It was 20 years ago this month that the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. decided to cancel a show of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe rather than risk a confrontation with culture war conservatives who were gunning to take down the National Endowment for the Arts. They came close to taking it down anyway and [...]

Prince Charles in Charge — The Plot Thickens

rlacayo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:39:41 +0000

In April I posted a few times about the latest royal architectural dust-up in Britain, where Prince Charles stepped in at the last minute to object to the design of a London apartment project being developed by a company headed by members of the royal family of Qatar. The Qataris had chosen as their [...]