When Max Hollein was tapped last year to became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, it marked a new milestone in a fast-rising career that has seen many of them.
We live, as media theorists have long agonised, in an age of oversaturation: there鈥檚 simply just too much to see, too much to take in, sort through, understand.
In a clich茅 of the desire for art objects, sometimes found in the critical literature, the beholder wants to touch or caress or lick the work, especially if it is a painting.
Two years after opening Team Bungalow steps off the main drag in Venice Beach, California, Team Gallery is opening another Los Angeles space just a few blocks away, a gallery representative told ARTnews in an email.
An intriguing notice recently appeared on the website of Team Gallery, the Soho institution that represents Ryan McGinley, Cory Arcangel and others. 鈥渢eam (bungalow),鈥 it said. 鈥306 Windward Avenue, venice ca 90291.鈥