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 [...]
Below are selected stories from the art news of the week, each with a link you can click on to find out more about the story. All of them (and more) have appeared on the Agora Gallery twitter feed this week, so remember that if you want to be more regularly updated during the week you can follow the Agora_Gallery account there. But as the week draws to a close, here are some of the highlights!
News stories from the art world:
Under layers of grime, the Met finds it had a Velazquez all along http://bit.ly/4AwpNl
One of the newest frontiers in the contemporary art world proves to be somewhat unexpected – it’s Azerbaijan http://bit.ly/82CjbX
The stunning new wing of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum gives artifacts a new voice, and the audience a new version of art history to ponder
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