Thursday, 11th December 2008
10:59am
Arguments that Britain badly needs a system of tax incentives to encourage collectors to give works of art to public collections will be strengthened by the publication this week of the report of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) allows estates to settle death duties in whole or in part by offering works of art to the nation. The report reveals that in 2007-08 tax liability to the tune of £10.3m was settled in this way, meaning that the country’s collections received works whose total value amounts to £15.2m.
The range and depth of the art...
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Friday, 5th December 2008
5:54pm
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
In a recent ‘Times’ opinion piece Eli Broad (pictured above) announced that he would make a voluntary donation of $30m to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The money, if MOCA decide to accept it, has been offered as a no-strings-attached payment which Broad believes will keep the organisation ‘a vibrant, independent Museum of the city’. Part of Broad's proposal includes a $25 million donation to replenish the endowment that has gradually diminished over the last eight years and a $5 donation to cover the museum's future operating costs. Broad is known...
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Wednesday, 3rd December 2008
5:05pm
Mark Leckey, 44, was announced as winner of the Turner Prize on Monday evening and awarded the £25,000 prize by the singer Nick Cave.
As curator Michelle Cotton forecast in a blog for Apollo after the October announcement of the shortlist, 'The Turner Prize has a habit of falling into the hands of the artists whose careers are underwritten by a highly singular practice. If the tradition is upheld this year either Wilkes or Leckey will serve a handsome match.'
The success of the centrepiece of Leckey's exhibition, Cinema in the Round (2007), hinges on its ability to...
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Friday, 28th November 2008
5:53pm
LA MOCA
The Geffen Contemporary Space in Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts, Little Tokyo, hosted 450 art fans as well as some of LA's most prominent artists, this week. The massive turn out was in aid of a rally organised in aid of MOCA which, according to recent reports, is experiencing serious financial problems. The popularity of the event, despite it only raising $4,000 dollars, is hoped to bode well for future support of MOCA.
UAE: Cultural Hot Spot
The UAE’s plans for its first Pavillion at the 53rd Venice Biennale,in June 2009 were announced...
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Thursday, 27th November 2008
5:06pm
On 22 November the Emir of Qatar opened Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art. Michael Hall attended this much-anticipated event.
No sooner had the Emir of Qatar unveiled the plaque that marked the official opening of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha than the sky over the museum exploded in a spectacular firework display. Some Qataris in the opening party told me that they were delighted that it was not more spectacular: ‘we don’t want comparisons with Dubai’. Only two days before, the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai had opened amid scenes of near-Bacchanalian extravagance. That is not the Qatari way....
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Recent and upcoming shows explore J.G. Ballard's influence on the visual arts, and an exhibition on art and magic proves unsettling.
A new report highlights the threats to one of Europe's least-known legacies of historic buidlings: the country houses of Silesia.
A visit to a great art fair such as TEFAF is a reminder of some fundamental but undervalued aspects of art history.
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