Cutting-edge research in the field of neuroarchitecture is revealing the public health implications of building design Have you ever experienced a space that made you feel uneasy or stressed? Perhaps it was a noisy and crowded shopping mall, with its neon signs, patterned tilework and boldly painted walls in franchise signature colours. Or the poorly…
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BIG FRIEZE TO THAW? The third edition of Frieze Seoul has kicked off against a backdrop of economic and political challenges in South Korea. The country’s GDP is expected to grow by 2.5 percent this year, a recovery from last year’s…
The well-known Chinese artist Gao Zhen was arrested near Beijing last Monday in connection to a series of sculptures he had made criticizing Mao Zedong, his brother Gao Qiang has confirmed. He has been charged under the Heroes and Martyrs Protection Law, which prohibits any slander of historical figures who have been designated national heroes….
In 1951, Leonard Bernstein, age 32, led the New York Philharmonic in the belated world premiere of Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 2 – music composed half a century earlier. The performance was nationally broadcast and widely noticed. Seven years after that, Bernstein began his tenure as the Philharmonic’s music director with Ives’ Second Symphony. In…
The Boy Scouts of America is auctioning off the entirety of its 321-piece art collection, which includes works by Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, and J.C. Leyendecker, and is valued at around $59 million, to fund compensation for sex-abuse survivors as part of a bankruptcy settlement, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Heritage Auctions…