Rebounding, NYC Museums Look Hopefully Toward Recovery
New York City’s theaters and museums are reporting rising attendance figures and, with cautious optimism, anticipate recovery.
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Plans for London Skyscaper Approved
London city-planning authorities have approved plans for a sixty-six-story skyscraper, designed by Renzo Piano, which if constructed will be the tallest in the UK.
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Criticism of Anatomy
An English artist defends legal challenges to his upcoming exhibition that will feature work comprising human anatomical specimens.
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Reconceiving Berlin Through New Museums
A spate of new and renovated museums in Berlin is helping the city reconcile its fraught past and position itself for a brighter future.
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Urban-Design Team to Study Lower Manhattan Waterfront
A team of urban designers has been commissioned to study New York's East River waterfront.
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A Conversation with Tom Sachs
In anticipation of the Jewish Museum’s already controversial exhibition “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,” Deborah Solomon talks with artist Tom Sachs—whose work for the show will feature a model of a concentration camp made from a Prada hatbox—on fascism, firearms, and fashion.
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Future of Polaroid’s Photograph Trove in Question
With the Polaroid Corporation in financial turmoil, laid-off employees are not the only ones whose futures have become precarious: The fate of the company’s collection of 12,000-plus photographs, including works by Weston, Mapplethorpe, and Rauschenberg, is also unclear.
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Ralph Rumney, 1934–2002
English writer, artist, and early associate of the Situationist International Ralph Rumney has died at the age of sixty-seven.
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New NEH Chief Sees Agency as Part of “Homeland Defense”
Bruce Cole, an art scholar recently appointed new chief of the National Endowment for the Humanities, sees the agency as a part of “homeland defense.”
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Congressmen Suggest Successful Artists Repay NEA Grants
Artists who become commercially successful should pay back grants made to them earlier in their careers by the National Endowment for the Arts, two Republican congressmen suggested on Wednesday.
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Robert Hughes Cubed
Many consider Time art critic Robert Hughes a piece of work. However, Australian artist Danius Kesminas, 35, has turned him into a work of art—a 150-pound cubic yard of crushed metal.
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Stand-Off Continues in Italy on Robert Hughes
Italian undersecretary of culture Vittorio Sgarbi forced the early resignation of the President of the Venice Biennale in order to appoint Robert Hughes curator for 2003 and 2005. Yet he is not having much success convincing the new president, Franco Bernabe. Hughes, who reportedly asked for $700,000 to accept the position, also published a diatribe against Italian politicians in the New York Post.