French tycoon to drop plans for Paris modern arts gallery
Pathétique! Francois Pinault (who owns Gucci and Christie's Auction House among other things) offers to spend $195 million dollars to build a museum, and the town of Boulogne-Billancourt in France snubs him. "If Pinault decides he has to move the museum to Venice, it will be because he has been so discouraged by the attitude of the public authorities here," Catherine Millet, editor of Artpress magazine and author of the international best-seller The Secret life of Catherine M, told AFP."
Too Much Information - Guradian article about Gregory Crewdson exhibition in London. “Gregory Crewdson uses Hollywood techniques to create glossy, Hopper-like portraits of American life. But where Hopper stripped lives bare, these images offer an overabundance of detail.”
“The museum has very largely supplanted the church as the emblematic focus of the American city.”
- Robert Hughes
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