http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary Thu, 16 May 2013 18:06:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/thomas-messer-93-guggenheims-rock-solid-director.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/thomas-messer-93-guggenheims-rock-solid-director.html#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:47 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=7160 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/thomas-messer-93-guggenheims-rock-solid-director.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/special-events-why-ive-stopped-writing-for-now.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/special-events-why-ive-stopped-writing-for-now.html#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 03:34:51 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=7150 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/special-events-why-ive-stopped-writing-for-now.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/expansion-derailed-peabody-essex-terminates-relationship-with-late-rick-mathers-firm.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/expansion-derailed-peabody-essex-terminates-relationship-with-late-rick-mathers-firm.html#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 21:30:17 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=7140 The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, has just announced that it will discontinue its relationship with the architectural firm of Rick Mather, whose death on Apr. 20 threw the museum’s well planned expansion project into disarray. This just in from the PEM: “We are deeply saddened by Rick Mather’s passing. It was a privilege and [...]]]> http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/expansion-derailed-peabody-essex-terminates-relationship-with-late-rick-mathers-firm.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/benny-andrews-rediscovered-holland-cotter-and-my-appreciation-of-michael-rosenfelds-retrospective.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/benny-andrews-rediscovered-holland-cotter-and-my-appreciation-of-michael-rosenfelds-retrospective.html#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 19:25:19 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=7116 There is a capsule review in today’s NY Times that merits wider attention and museum follow-up—Holland Cotter‘s very belated praise for Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s Benny Andrews show (closing May 18). It’s the artist’s first (also belated) retrospective since his death in 2006. As I felt when I visited this show several weeks ago (tweeting appreciatively, [...]]]> http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/benny-andrews-rediscovered-holland-cotter-and-my-appreciation-of-michael-rosenfelds-retrospective.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/diller-scofidio-renfro-may-keep-folk-art-building-in-designing-momas-new-galleries.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/diller-scofidio-renfro-may-keep-folk-art-building-in-designing-momas-new-galleries.html#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 20:30:09 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=7092 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/diller-scofidio-renfro-may-keep-folk-art-building-in-designing-momas-new-galleries.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/auctioneer-andreas-rumbler-gets-deserved-applause-at-christies-bumpy-impressionistmodern-sale.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/auctioneer-andreas-rumbler-gets-deserved-applause-at-christies-bumpy-impressionistmodern-sale.html#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 02:34:40 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=7065 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/auctioneer-andreas-rumbler-gets-deserved-applause-at-christies-bumpy-impressionistmodern-sale.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/campbellcambodia-metropolitan-museums-principled-repatriation-of-looted-khmer-statues.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/campbellcambodia-metropolitan-museums-principled-repatriation-of-looted-khmer-statues.html#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 18:57:30 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=6924 In deciding to repatriate two important 10th-century Koh Ker stone statues of “Kneeling Attendants,” on public display in its permanent collection galleries for almost 20 years, the Metropolitan Museum has set a gold standard for museums’ cultural-property policy, going far beyond what the Association of Art Museum Directors mandates. (AAMD’s antiquities guideslines refer to future [...]]]> http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/campbellcambodia-metropolitan-museums-principled-repatriation-of-looted-khmer-statues.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/sothebys-slog-lackluster-impressionistmodern-sale.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/sothebys-slog-lackluster-impressionistmodern-sale.html#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 01:51:38 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=7019 You know it’s a boring evening when the most exciting aspect of the just concluded Sotheby’s Impressionist/modern sale (which I previewed here) was the first-time use of multiple cameras, allowing those of us viewing the sale online to see not only the auctioneer but also the auction-house officials fielding phone bids. This not only provides [...]]]> http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/sothebys-slog-lackluster-impressionistmodern-sale.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/whither-the-impressionistmodern-art-market-auction-house-pr-machines-in-overdrive-with-video.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/whither-the-impressionistmodern-art-market-auction-house-pr-machines-in-overdrive-with-video.html#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 21:45:42 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=6934 It’s the auction houses’ job, during the run-up to the big spring sales, to hype the robust state of the art market and the importance of works being offered. But while there are some notable highlights, there’s nothing to “Scream” about in this spring’s major Impressionist/modern sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, scheduled for tonight and [...]]]> http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/whither-the-impressionistmodern-art-market-auction-house-pr-machines-in-overdrive-with-video.html/feed 0 http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/debunking-punk-metropolitan-museums-exhibition-from-richard-hell.html http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/debunking-punk-metropolitan-museums-exhibition-from-richard-hell.html#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 23:21:44 +0000 CultureGrrl http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/?p=6956 In a series of tweets (with photos) that I posted @CultureGrrl earlier today, I essentially said all I’m going to say about the Metropolitan Museum’s disheveled, disjointed, dismaying Punk: Chaos to Couture (May 9-Aug. 14). Here’s my first of several salvos against a show that I put down as “theatrics without substance”: My photo, taken [...]]]> http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/05/debunking-punk-metropolitan-museums-exhibition-from-richard-hell.html/feed 0