“I am hoping that people will take away from the whole range of exhibitions that we’re doing that democracy was achieved as a result of a struggle and that it was hard fought and hard won.” And she added, “that it is something that needs to be safeguarded.” - The New York Times
Their faces concealed, they rode a monte-meubles, a truck-mounted electric ladder that is a common sight on the streets of Paris, where it is used to ferry bulky furniture through the windows of apartments. - The New York Times
"Only the museum will require a paid ticket. Nearly a dozen other spaces — meeting rooms, classrooms, parks, an N.B.A.-size basketball court, even a branch of the Chicago Public Library — will be reserved for visitors or the activities of the foundation.” - The New York Times
In Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown, the “revision follows more than a year of conversations that included Filipino-led groups, local nonprofits and the muralist, Eliseo Art Silva.” - LAist
Gao Zhen’s “detention is linked to three very specific sculptures about the legendary founder of the People’s Republic, Mao Zedong. One entitled Execution of Christ represents a firing squad of seven Maos who are preparing to shoot Jesus.” - El País English
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi enjoy watching their architecture vanish beneath the landscapes they also design. Or is it all one artistic product? - The New York Times
“The thieves used a basket lift to access the room directly, forced a window and broke display cases to steal the jewels, before escaping on two-wheelers.” What is believed to be the Empress Eugénie’s crown, broken, was later found outside the museum. - Euro News (Yahoo)
‘Luxury needs this link to the world of culture, because that is what gives it its nobility, its legitimacy, its roots,’ says Jean-Michel Tobelem, a professor of management at the Sorbonne and expert in cultural policy. - Apollo
The Stirling Prize for the country’s best new building of the year, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects, has gone to the Appleby Blue Almshouse, a project providing affordable housing for seniors in London’s Southwark borough. It’s the second Stirling Prize for architects Witherford Watson Mann. - Dezeen
It’s been suggested that she was the artist’s daughter, a servant girl, or even a sibyl from Greek mythology. Scholar Andrew Graham-Dixon writes that he now believes she was the daughter of Vermeer’s most important patrons and was dressed as Mary Magdalene. - The Times (UK)
The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said: “A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.” For much of their history, football stadiums used to be more bike shed than cathedral but their time has now spectacularly come. - The Guardian
“Showing in real life that democracy is melting away before our very eyes, I think it’s a powerful symbol that helps express the feelings and the sadness and the horror of Americans." - Washington Post
