Robert Hughes a Favorite for Venice Biennale Curatorship
Italy's ultra-conservative undersecretary of State for culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, has announced that Time art critic Robert Hughes is his favorite candidate to curate the 2003 Venice Biennale.
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Irish Museum Gets a New Wing
The National Gallery of Ireland opened its new Millennium Wing last week. The soaring sixty-foot ceilings and white stone walls demonstrate Dublin's transformation into a European capital.
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Arts Groups Suffer in Wake of September 11
Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged New Yorkers to go out and enjoy the city's cultural offerings. At the same time, the city started to slash its contributions to nonprofit art organizations. A report due out this month seeks to quantify the loss to the art community.
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MoMA Film Still Archive Heads to Pennsylvania
Created by MoMA's founder, Alfred Barr, the museum's Film Still Archive is being shipped into storage in Hamlin, Pennsylvania. Originally set to go to MoMA's temporary Queens location, its curator, Mary Corliss, was recently laid off, prompting speculation about bureaucratic infighting at the museum and its ultimate plans for the film department.
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The Critic as Myth: Robert Hughes on Display
The car Robert Hughes crashed is on display in an Australian exhibition.
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Are ‘Starchitects’ Having All the Fun?
With a handful of architects now international superstars—Koolhaas, Gehry, Piano, and Foster are increasingly household names—they are receiving the lion's share of commissions for high-profile projects around the world. Is the media attention leaving less well-known though equally talented architects out in the cold?
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New NEA Chief Dead
Michael P. Hammond, the new chief of the National Endowment for the Arts, was found dead in his home in Washington.
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Retrospective on View
A retrospective delves into the otherworldly work of the late Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, who reveled in words.
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A MacArthur Fellowship to the Rescue
With a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology gains a more secure future.
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced
Jonathan Franzen, W.G. Sebald, Alice Munro, Nicholson Baker, Colson Whitehead, and others have been nominated as finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award. See the complete list of fiction and nonfiction authors.
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Was the Pompidou Center Just a Pipe Dream?
Twenty-five years after it first opened in the heart of Paris, the Pompidou Center—designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers—is clearly a success. But has the unique structure of brightly colored steel pipes and glass lived up to its radical ideals, or has it become a monument to a dead era in Parisian life?
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Is Gerhard Richter Beyond Isms?
Gerhard Richter has long been known for putting painting through the most trying of paces. Does that place him beyond the stultifying power of the “ism”? Michael Kimmelman visits Richter in his home outside Cologne, Germany, to find out if the famously contradictory antimaster escapes all attempts to corral him.