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In a public library, styling a bookshelf is simple: Just fill it with books. At residence, a bookcase must do much more than maintain books. So how do the professionals do it? Start by pondering of your cabinets as a sort of three-dimensional wallpaper that provides visible curiosity to a room. The stuff you select […] More

Seattle University is planning for a brand new artwork museum, because of a present of a $300 million artwork assortment and $25 million in seed cash from a donor, the college trustees introduced on Wednesday. The donation — by Richard Hedreen, an actual property developer — is the biggest present within the historical past of […] More

This 12 months’s fifteenth anniversary, Year of the Dragon version of Asia Week, opening March 14, is a form of mini-fair by which out-of-town Asian artwork galleries converge on New York, public sale homes gavel in Asian antiquities and native galleries and museums mount particular exhibits. It is an thrilling event for aficionados of Japanese […] More

Artforum named Tina Rivers Ryan its subsequent prime editor on Thursday, choosing the curator to guide the distinguished journal after a tumultuous yr. “For a long time, the editors at Artforum have ensured that this historic journal has remained a trusted and indispensable useful resource for conversations about up to date artwork and its position […] More

Throughout its historical past, the Whitney Biennial has usually mirrored the heated discourse of the artwork world, welcoming provocative work which may ruffle feathers. But museum officers and curators stated they have been taken abruptly by a message that exposed itself within the flickering lights of a neon set up. On Wednesday night the Whitney […] More

Aesthetically, Los Angeles is usually a multitude. Unplanned, mismatched buildings sprout like fungus among the many grid of its streets, whose orderly classicism is commonly disrupted by tectonically induced hills. Curbs crumble and sidewalks crack beneath telegraph poles festooned with cables. Flamboyant succulents mingle with scrubby native vegetation. What aesthetic perfection Los Angeles presents is […] More

Len Sirowitz, an award-winning promoting artwork director whose inventive work within the Sixties included memorable print advertisements for the Volkswagen Beetle — like one declaring, “Ugly is barely skin-deep” — and a marketing campaign for Mobil through which a automobile was dropped off a 10-story constructing to make a degree concerning the perils of dashing, […] More

The Whitney Biennial, New York’s most outstanding showcase of latest American (or American-ish) artwork, thrives on argument: in print, in remark threads, in barrooms and generally within the galleries themselves. Its 81st version opens Thursday to museum members and to the general public on March 20, and it introduces a “dissonant refrain” — within the […] More

In Venice, an individual is surrounded by gold. It garments the statue of the archangel Gabriel atop the bell tower on St. Mark’s Square and glistens within the mosaics on the facade of St. Mark’s Basilica, aptly nicknamed “the Golden Church.” It generally seems within the artisanal glass from the island of Murano, on gondola […] More

This week, Holland Cotter covers the Studio Museum in Harlem’s residency outcomes, Sarah Grilo’s little-seen work and Mary Lucier’s experimental and heartfelt video artwork. More

The cedar-shingled home that Andre Dubus III constructed for his household within the seaside city of Newbury, Mass., has 4 ranges that sprawl throughout 6,000 sq. toes, with loads of rooms that would have made a pleasant author’s workplace. But Mr. Dubus plies his commerce down within the mechanical room, close to the train gear […] More

Second time’s the appeal? A yr after the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum in Washington named its founding director — solely to have the candidate withdraw earlier than her official begin date — the museum is making an attempt once more. It has chosen Elizabeth C. Babcock, the president and chief government of Forever Balboa […] More