| | Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison: Global Warming  The Brooklyn Rail
While looking at Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison's exhibition Global Warming on a dark, dank, altogether nasty Wednesday afternoon, an unrelated opinion piece from that morning's New York Times kept drifting into my head. It was by the novelist Douglas Coupland, cautioning that the nation's newfound thriftiness, a virtue compelled by the economic collapse, can lead to unforeseen consequences for a system programmed on rampant consumption with no backup plan... | | | | Cash row engulfs Picasso show The Art Newspaper
It should have been a cause for new year celebration in the French art world. "Picasso and the Masters" at Paris's Grand Palais is one of France's most successful shows in history; as we went to press, over 600,000 people had seen the 210-piece blockbuster, which examines the influence on Picasso of artists such as Goya, Van Gogh and Gauguin, with 700,000 visitors expected before it closes on 2 February. But a row has engulfed the project, with three major lenders demanding a 70% share of the show's profits... | |
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