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Vote paves way for Bass Museum to expand
By Christina Cepero Umpierre
The Bass Museum of Art on Miami Beach will close Sunday until fall 2016 to increase programming space by 47.5% on its existing footprint with a $7.5 million city grant.
The Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board voted 6-0 Tuesday to approve the partial demolition, renovation and expansion of the two-story structure at 2100 Collins Ave.
The interior reconfiguration…
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Of Museums and Racial Relics
Recently, Rush Limbaugh lambasted the first lady, Michelle Obama, for bringing up the idea of diversity among museum visitors at the opening of the new Whitney Museum in New York.
According to Limbaugh, the first lady said: “Museums and concert halls just don’t welcome nonwhite visitors — especially children — the way they welcome white people.”
What the first lady actually said was: (more…)
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Museums: Get the Picture, Sell the Duds
Art purists all over the world are up in arms at museums that are selling off parts of their collections to pay the electricity bill or finance remodeling. Museums of all sizes in the U.K, France, Germany and Wilmington, Del., have been unloading treasures, or thinking about doing so, to help keep the lights on. The practice of robbing Tintoretto to pay the taxman is known as “deaccessioning.”…
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"The arts bring in big bucks" @miamiherald by Ricardo Mor
If you visited Miami Beach recently, you might have noticed the message “Culture = Capital” on top of the rotunda in Collins Park in front of the Bass Museum. It’s a work by artist Alfredo Jaar and was installed as part of Art Basel’s yearly public program.
The work likely was staged during Art Basel as a comment on the flagrant commercialization of art that takes place during the week of the…
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"Obama proposes $240 million in 2016 for Everglades restoration" @miamiherald by Jenny Staletovich
The Obama administration signaled it’s serious about fixing the Everglades Monday by unveiling a budget that proposes spending $240 million on restoration work.
Of that, at least $124 million would go directly toward U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction projects, nearly double the current budget and more than four times what was spent the year before, said Everglades Foundation CEO Eric…
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George Lindemann Journal - "Climate fix for rising seas could foul Miami’s Biscayne Bay" @miamiheald
George Lindemann Journal – “Climate fix for rising seas could foul Miami’s Biscayne Bay” @miamiheald
Last fall as Miami Beach triumphantly drained its streets, beating back seasonal King Tide flooding that has come to symbolize the perils of climate change, scientists got a different view of what the future may hold: one of the world’s most celebrated beaches surrounded by water too foul for…
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George Lindemann Journal - "A Daring Duo Portrays a Divided Britain" @wsj by Mary M. Lane
George Lindemann Journal – “A Daring Duo Portrays a Divided Britain” @wsj by Mary M. Lane
‘Astro Star,’ by Gilbert & George, is at the White Cube gallery in London. © Gilbert & George/White Cube
Strolling through East London three years ago, Gilbert & George stumbled on empty nitrous-oxide gas containers that young partygoers had used for a euphoric high. To the artistic duo, the cans…
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George Lindemann Journal - "Taking Wing in a Time of Extremis" @nytimes By HOLLAND COTTER
George Lindemann Journal – “Taking Wing in a Time of Extremis” @nytimes By HOLLAND COTTER
George Lindemann Journal – “Taking Wing in a Time of Extremis” @nytimes By HOLLAND COTTER
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Jim Hodges’s Emotional Palette
Jim Hodges’s Emotional Palette
CreditStewart Cairns for The New York Times
BOSTON — In the 21st century, we tend to talk about new art in terms of medium and style: Performance is back, painting is back, Pop is back, and so on. But for roughly a decade,…
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George Lindemann Journal - "Miami artist who destroyed Ai Weiwei vase at museum gets probation, must pay $10,000" @miamiherald by David Ovalle
George Lindemann Journal – “Miami artist who destroyed Ai Weiwei vase at museum gets probation, must pay $10,000″ @miamiherald by David Ovalle
George Lindemann Journal – “Miami artist who destroyed Ai Weiwei vase at museum gets probation, must pay $10,000″ @miamiherald by David Ovalle
A Miami artist who smashed a valuable piece by celebrated artist Ai Weiwei at the Pérez Art Museum must serve 18 months of probation and pay back $10,000 in restitution.
In a plea deal announced Wednesday, Maximo Caminero must also engage in 100 hours of…
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George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann - "Digitizing Warhol’s Film Trove to Save It" @ntimes by RANDY KENNEDY
George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann – “Digitizing Warhol’s Film Trove to Save It” @ntimes by RANDY KENNEDY
George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann – “Digitizing Warhol’s Film Trove to Save It” @ntimes by RANDY KENNEDY
“Nico/Antoine” (1966), one of hundreds of Andy Warhol films. Credit Andy Warhol Museum
Andy Warhol wrote lovingly of his ever-present tape recorder. (“My tape recorder and I have been married for 10 years now. When I say ‘we,’ I mean my tape recorder and me.”) But for almost a…
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George Lindemann Journal – ” Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art Looks at Gold” @wsj Jenny Che George Lindemann Journal - " Miami Beach's Bass Museum of Art Looks at Gold" @wsj Jenny Che…
George Lindemann Journal - "Isn't There a Better Way?" @wsj by Lee Rosenbaum
George Lindemann Journal – “Isn’t There a Better Way?” @wsj by Lee Rosenbaum
George Lindemann Journal – “Isn’t There a Better Way?” @wsj by Lee Rosenbaum
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The 145-year-old institution has long suffered from financial difficulties and chronic mismanagement. Associated Press
In last week’s courtroom drama over the fate of the endangered Corcoran Gallery of Art and its College of Art + Design, a crucial protagonist was missing from the petitioners’ case for dismembering…
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George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann "Corcoran’s Merger Plan Draws Fire in Court Hearing" @nytimes RANDY KENNEDY
George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann “Corcoran’s Merger Plan Draws Fire in Court Hearing” @nytimes RANDY KENNEDY
George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann “Corcoran’s Merger Plan Draws Fire in Court Hearing” @nytimes RANDY KENNEDY
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, above, is the topic of a contentious court battle in Washington. Credit Kevin Wolf/Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Two widely divergent views of the financial troubles of the Corcoran Gallery of Art — which is seeking legal permission to…
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The George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann - "Tom Friedman: ‘Paint and Styrofoam" @nytimes by ROBERTA SMITH
The George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann – “Tom Friedman: ‘Paint and Styrofoam” @nytimes by ROBERTA SMITH
The George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann – “Tom Friedman: ‘Paint and Styrofoam” @nytimes by ROBERTA SMITH
“Toxic Green Luscious Green,” a 2014 work by Tom Friedman in his show “Paint and Styrofoam.” Credit Tom Friedman and Luhring Augustine, New York
The artist Tom Friedman tends to blow our minds and then move on, rarely repeating himself. (A starburst made of toothpicks or a realistic…
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George Lindemann Journal by Goerge Lindemann - "Tracey Emin's My Bed set for long Tate loan" @bbc
George Lindemann Journal by Goerge Lindemann – “Tracey Emin’s My Bed set for long Tate loan” @bbc
My Bed by Tracey Emin
My Bed was one of the key works of the 1990s Young British Artists (YBA) movement
Tracey Emin’s controversial artwork My Bed is to return to the Tate after selling for £2.2m earlier this month.
Count Christian Duerckheim, the piece’s new owner, has agreed to loan the work “for a period of at least 10 years”, said Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota.
The 1998 work features an…
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George Lindemann Journal - "A Sculpture King Meets the Sun King" @wsj by Mara Hoberman
George Lindemann Journal – “A Sculpture King Meets the Sun King” @wsj by Mara Hoberman
George Lindemann Journal – “A Sculpture King Meets the Sun King” @wsj by Mara Hoberman
‘The Entry of Apollo,’ a Jean-Michel Othoniel fountain-sculpture, awaits transport to its outdoor Versailles location. Philippe Chancel
A building that once housed the pharmacy of French King Louis XIV has recently brimmed with activity again—this time, involving blown-glass orbs, steel pipes and curious…
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George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann “Oliver Payne and Nick Relph: ‘Ash’s Stash’” @nytimes by Karen Rosenburg George Lindemann Journal by George Lindemann "Oliver Payne and Nick Relph: ‘Ash’s Stash’" @nytimes by Karen Rosenburg…