- Jonathan Jones speculates about the National Gallery’s ‘new’ Titian.
- Jones also thinks art criticism is too fawning. Is it ever.
- In the Daily Mail, Lewis Smith reports that LED lighting may be responsible for darkening yellow paint in some 19thC paintings.
- Benjamin Sutton visits a Louise Bourgeois church in Provence.
- The Buffalo News’ Colin Dabkowski offers a thorough introduction of the Albright Knox’s incoming director: Janne Sirén. Apparently he’s the guy who thought the Guggenheim Finland was a good idea.
- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s blog features the inventor of the infographic, whose ~1870 work looks a little Diebenkorny.
- Who knew?: The Met has put up a tight little installation of Ingres drawings.
- MoMA’s going all-in on the 100th anniversary of The Armory Show. First up: Curator Leah Dickerman talks about a key Boccioni in “Inventing Abstraction.” WNYC has joined in, producing a one-hour documentary called “Culture Shock 1913,” complete with its own (somewhat dormant) Tumblr.
- At Creative Time Reports, an art collective in Pakistan is collecting the cell phone videos of migrants living in Karachi.
- These interior shots of the renovated Rijksmuseum are holy-cow level.
- A much-discussed artwork honoring labor and commissioned for a state building in Maine has been relocated to a Maine art museum.
January 15, 2013, 9:07 am
