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LA MoCA Makes it Official: Johanna Burton Will Be Its Solo Director

Two weeks ago, she was named executive director, working alongside Klaus Biesenbach, whose title was changed to artistic director. Last Friday, Biesenbach was appointed to lead Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie. Now MoCA says Biesenbach won't be replaced and Burton will be the sole director. - Los Angeles Times

The New Hot Spot For Art In Athens Is — Piraeus (?!)

Yes, the Greek capital's grotty old seaport, which has been busy, industrial and unpleasant for 2,500 years, is seeing serious art galleries, and the high-end restaurants that service gallery patrons, bustin' out all over. - T — The New York Times Style Magazine

Peru Has A New National Museum With Thousands Of Pre-Columbian Objects

"The Peruvian government has inaugurated the Museo Nacional del Perú, a $125m museum that was initiated by the ministry of culture to preserve the country's heritage and now boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 pre-Columbian objects" — including some looted items now repatriated. - The Art Newspaper

South Korea Considers Adding A Serious Museum To Its Busiest Airport

Authorities are planning to set aside two spaces at Seoul-Incheon, one in each terminal, as a satellite location for one or two major museums. Among those reportedly under consideration are the Tate Modern and the Pompidou Center. - The Korea Herald

Triomphe de Christo: Wrapping the Arc

At the Arc de Triomphe, "most in the crowd of onlookers just held their breath. It was a slow and meticulous operation, requiring to stop make adjustments to the folds in the material every few metres while avoiding touching the arch itself." - The Guardian (UK)

Coronavirus Art, But Make It Optimistic

When a retired nurse saw that hundreds of vaccine vials were empty and going in the trash, she set about creating something from them instead. - NPR

The Movie Museum Is Finally Open

The new PR line is that "the long-awaited cathedral of movies is landing at just the right time — perhaps when the film industry needs it most." - Los Angeles Times

The Paintings Within A Painting Of Matisse’s The Red Studio

A new show puts it all in context - and explains why Matisse suddenly decided, when the painting was finished, to make it red. - The New York Times

Glasgow Gets Back Its 26-Ton Floating Head

After decades forgotten and unclaimed in a boatyard, then carefully restored, Richard Groom's Floating Head is back. - The Guardian (UK)

It’s Time To Reassess The Architecture Of The Twin Towers

Rowan Moore: "Japanese-American Yamasaki was dismissed by his contemporaries for being 'dainty', 'prissy', 'epicene', 'ballet school', for example, on account of the slender gothic-looking arcades that ran around the bases of the towers." - The Guardian (UK)

How The World Of Theme Parks Affected The New Academy Museum

Dream it and you can do it, or at least you can pretend to lift your own Oscar at the long-awaited museum. - Los Angeles Times

Some Of The White Art World Is Finally Cluing Into Dindga McCannon’s Work

The artist is well known in many circles - after all, "for more than five decades, McCannon has been making work rooted in who she is: an African American woman and third-generation Harlemite." - The New York Times

Italy Seizes 500 Fake Francis Bacon Works

"Five people have been charged with criminal conspiracy to authenticate and circulate fake works of art and fraud and money laundering." - The Guardian (UK)(AFP)

That Didn’t Take Long: LA MoCA Leader Flees To Berlin

Just eight days after the Museum of Contemporary Art said Klaus Biesenbach would run the Los Angeles institution with a newly named co-leader, Biesenbach was announced Friday as the new director of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. - Los Angeles Times

Designers Are Working To Make US Airports Less Miserable (And Maybe Even Pleasant)

"A clutch of new terminals and recent upgrades to existing concourses from New York City to San Francisco demonstrate ways both small and large — from muting the televisions to installing indoor gardens — that airports are trying to ease psychic turbulence on the ground." - The New York Times

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