Aug 27 2010

Eli Broad raises the stakes in Los Angeles



I’m in Los Angeles, where the chatter is about Eli Broad’s decision to build a museum for his art collection downtown, in a 120,000-square foot complex designed by Diller and Scofidio. The choice puts to rest some questions about the fate of Mr. Broad's collection. It also leaves a larger ...

Aug 23 2010

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Aug 3 2010

Revenge of the apps



I’d like to enter a contrarian view about navigation apps, which are poised to infiltrate our endearingly technophobic art institutions. Forgive me for sounding like a cave man. But then, this post was inspired, in part, by the American Museum of Natural History, which just launched an ad campaign flouting ...

Jul 22 2010

Artoon




Jul 8 2010

The educational worm turns



As someone who as taken an interest in what I have called the art world's 'pedagogical impulse' and what others have dubbed its 'educational turn', I was of course tickled to read that yesterday marked the first day of classes at Glenn Beck University.  As the news outlets have reported, ...