In the current issue of Bookforum, Choire Sicha calls Museum of Modern Art curator-at-large Klaus Biesenbach a “cultural truffle hound," partly in response to his stagings of MoMA-produced blockbusters like the recent eight-night Kraftwerk extravaganza and a sold-out performance by Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall.
The director of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples says he is waging an “Art War” and plans to burn 1,000 art works to protest of Italy’s budget cuts in the arts.
Supposedly Lucian Freud hated sitting for portraits himself, but, as he lay on his deathbed last summer, he agreed to let his daughter, artist Jane McAdam Freud, spend several weeks sketching him.
