7:20pm
Charles Saumarez Smith opened the press preview on the forthcoming Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, by announcing that despite the economic climate and its enormous impact on gallery budgets, and in contrast to his experience of state-funded galleries, he had enjoyed the relative freedom of raising funds for a private institution.
Necessary funds for the show, he added, which opens at the end of September, ‘were very nearly there’. Saumarez Smith was also keen to point out that this was a landmark show for the Royal Academy as it will be the first time that a...
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12:06pm
Wooden figure of Jesus Christ bought by Italian government for £2.5m is a
fake, not Michelangelo:
Tomaso Montanari, Professor of Art history at Naples University, has criticised the Italian government for spending £2.5 million on a wooden sculpture of Christ which they believe to be by Michelangelo. The Culture Ministry, which has been forced to cut its budget and jobs recently, bought the sculpture without a third party opinion, and critics argue that Michelangelo never used the style employed in the sculpture. Since its purchase late last year, the figure has toured Italy and been seen by 60,000...
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4:44pm
One of the most popular exhibitions of this year’s calendar has been Picasso: Challenging the Past (currently at the National Gallery, London), a monumental exhibition that seeks to highlight Picasso’s response throughout his career to the great painters of the past, both in theme and style.
The way in which this idea is explored is one of the talking points that have surrounded this somewhat controversial exhibition. The same group of 60 Picasso paintings travelled to London from the Grand Palais in Paris, where they were displayed next to full-size reproductions of the paintings to which Picasso responded. In...
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2:52pm
Reinstallation of LACMA wins Curator Award
The reinstallation of LACMA's permanent collection of modern art has earnt its curator, Stephanie Barron, recognition from the Association of Art Museum Curators' Awards. Other recipients were Anne Umlandm from the Museum of Modern Art, Norman Kleeblat at the Jewish Museum, and Charlotte Eyerman at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts appoints new head of decorative arts
MIA have announced the appointment of Eike D. Schmidt as the new ‘James Ford Bell Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture’ and head of the ‘Department of Decorative Arts,...
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6:09pm
David Hockney has criticised school inspectors for publishing a report that claims that schoolboys no longer enjoy painting and drawing classes at school. The findings, which were published recently in an Ofsted Report, suggest that modern equipment in the form of digital cameras and the latest software programmes cause more of a stir in today's classrooms.
Hockney has countered this claim by arguing that poor teaching is the reason why young boys are turned off by the arts. The artist explained that all children have a basic need to draw and believes that the Ofsted Report findings are on a par with arguing that schools shouldn't be bothered with teaching grammar.
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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