For the first time, the Whitney Museum plans to include digital artists in its Biennial, scheduled for next year. They were getting the packing crates ready to ship 15 million Boticelli from the UK to Fort Worth's Kimbell Museum. Italy is cleaning up its architecture and monuments for the millennium. Too bad someone can't stop the cars and industrial pollution that got them dirty in the first place. Observing apes paint can tell us something about the human impulse to make art.
New show tours blue-chip museums.
Debate over Turner Prize has some wondering if the group making decisions about British contemporary art is too small. At Toronto auction last week, the Emily Carrs went flying out the door. The more abstract contemporary work failed to sell. You're likely to lose as soon as you take it home. Buying art online is starting to take off.