4 August 2006 | Books
From blogger Bostonianne: “A couple of years ago while on vacation in Florida with my parents, I was, naturally, watching television in the hotel room. They had taken me to Disney World for my twentieth birthday, an extraordinarily sweet gesture that was somewhat complicated by the fact that my parents positively loathe amusement parks … [...]
3 August 2006 | Museums
The Louvre presents a “bilingual online catalogue presents more than 1,700 works produced by United States artists that entered the national collections of France before 1940.”
2 August 2006 | Architecture, Museums
From the Architectural Record: “In June the Museum of Modern Art announced that Barry Bergdoll will succeed Terence Riley as Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design … His main focus will be the 20th century—and the 21st. In addition to what he calls ‘monographic shows,’ he expects to mount shows on ‘process,’ including, [...]
1 August 2006 | Books
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: “If scholarly publishing had an endangered-species list, the art monograph would be at the top. At least that’s the perception of many art historians as they struggle to publish their work … ‘It’s not unusual for a scholar working on the Renaissance to pay $10,000 or $15,000 [to supplement [...]
