Art

3 decades delayed, art project blooms

26 May 2012

The rich blue salvia is in bloom. Ditto the red yarrow, the yellow yarrow and the pure white bellflower.Thousand of flowers stand at attention, like horticultural brigades waiting to march up the hill and pour through the columned west entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They create a splashy parade ground — great squares of blue, red, yellow and white — where before had been a simple ...

Art Becomes an Agent of Disruption in Ukraine

25 May 2012

Never on the map of the contemporary art world, Ukraine is experiencing an unusually high level of activity in this realm with a new solo exhibition by British sculptor Anish Kapoor, the first international Bienalle of Contemporary Arts in Kiev and the emergence of the Future Generation Art Prize.

Berlin red light district turns into art hub

25 May 2012

BERLIN (Reuters) - A shabby area of Berlin best known for its curb-crawling prostitutes and drug dealers is recovering some of the Bohemian allure of its glory days in the 1920s as low rents and its central location lure art galleries. Art lovers are surprised to discover such a wealth of galleries on and around Potsdamer Strasse, a long artery stretching southwest from the revamped and now ...