Thank you to everyone who replied about last week’s selection – and I’m glad I wasn’t the only one charmed by the idea of ‘complaint choirs’! Any comments on the news from this week are, of course, very welcome here.
News stories from the art world:
National campaign succeeds in saving Irish arts from severe cuts http://bit.ly/7FCEPJ
Arts organizations complain that immigration officials sometimes exercise somewhat arbitrary power over whether artists are ‘culturally unique’ enough to be given a visa http://bit.ly/5rEe1e
Looking back at one director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art who changed who the nature of the game, for better or worse http://bit.ly/4s4y7x
Bigger is not always better; how builders have been blinded by hopes of the Bilbao effect http://bit.ly/6vUkZC
Chinese art can contain sharp critique and original ideas – but Beijing’s ‘cultural zones’ have more gift shops than art galleries http://bit.ly/76KGrZ
Popular stories from the week:
Masterworks in agar jelly (they’re beautiful) – http://bit.ly/8pdKEq
Hugh Grant admits it wasn’t an eye for art that made him his Warhol profit – he was drunk http://bit.ly/5DdlJN
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