It is, in her estimation, a museum that “delivers the goods.” Īlmost 5,000 items have gone missing from a special collection that includes rare comic books and other serials at the Strozier Library at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Miranda ventures into the soon-to-open Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a Renzo Piano–helmed project that has “added an unmistakable silhouette to the landscape of Los Angeles,” she writes. Philanthropist and businessman John Booth, a big donor to the Tories, has been appointed chair of the National Gallery in London. They will be included in the Met’s upcoming show “Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer.” The seven members of the powerhouse K-Pop group BTS presented lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho-a gift from the South Korean government-to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Meanwhile, footage of two legendary 1976 concerts by the Sex Pistols in Manchester, England, sold for £15,000 (about $20,500) at Omega Auctions in the U.K., BBC News reports. In the audience at those famed gigs were young people who went on to form Joy Division, The Fall, and The Smiths, among other notable bands. Radiohead singer Thom Yorke is collaborating with Donwood on an exhibition at the auction house’s London branch that will also feature drawings, digital art, and more. The six large canvases are reminiscent of the album’s art, which was made on a computer. MUSICAL MATTERS: Paintings that the artist Stanley Donwood made while developing the cover for Radiohead’s vaunted 2000 album Kid A will be offered online by Christie’s next month, Penta reports. in Sotheby's Private Sale, Setting New Record
Kanye West Buys Tadao Ando-Designed Malibu House Also in L.A., art dealers Iwan and Manuela Wirth are acquiring Richard Neutra’s Lovell House, which he built in the late 1920s, and plan “to bring back its original lustre,” Alex Ross writes in the New Yorker, in an appraisal of the Austrian architect’s work in the city. West once described a visit to Japan’s art-filled Naoshima island, which sports many Ando projects, as “life-changing.” West has also tapped Valerio Olgiati to design a Los Angeles apartment, as well as “an artists’ colony” beneath his Wyoming ranch that will be “as vast as the subterranean cities of Turkey’s Cappadocia, with up to 200 dwellings, as well as studio spaces and a performance venue,” Nancy Hass writes in a profile of the Swiss architect in T: The New York Times Style Magazine. The HeadlinesĪRCHITECTURAL ASSETS: Designer, musician, and erstwhile presidential candidate Kanye West reportedly purchased a Malibu home by Tadao Ando for $57.3 million, Archinect reports. It does not store any personal data.To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
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