Sheena Wagstaff curerà sezione dedicata a arte XX e XXI secolo

New York, (TMNews) – Anche il Metropolitam Museum di New York punta sull’arte contemporanea. Il museo newyorkese ha appena chiamato Sheena Wagstaff, capo curatrice della Tate Modern di Londra dal 2001, a dirigere un nuovo dipartimento dedicato all’arte del XX e XXI secolo. [Read more →]

UrbanContest – NewYork -  For more than a decade museums have been joining forces to buy expensive art. It’s an arrangement that works to everyone’s advantage: as prices for contemporary art rise, it’s a way to defray costs while allowing a wider public to see significant work. Now the Lipman Family Foundation has gone one better. It has given a seminal sculpture by David Smith jointly to the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, N.Y. The Lipman family has long ties with both institutions. Howard Lipman was a generous benefactor and trustee at Storm King and the Whitney before his death in 1992, and his wife, Jean, who died in 1998, was an editor of Art in America and a curator at the Whitney. [Read more →]

da linkiesta Confalonieri & Buttafava.- Sette miliardi di persone abitano il mondo, di queste quasi un miliardo vive in baraccopoli o ambienti urbani o semirurali fortemente degradati: conglomerati insicuri, insalubri, inquinati, ma anche pieni di vita e di cultura. Nel 2030, i ‘dannati’ della terra saranno due miliardi. Il progetto del Museo Cooper-Hewitt di New York ‘Design with the Other 90%: CITIES ‘ [Read more →]