Visual Arts 

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We Need To Change The Way We Build University Campus Buildings - "Over the last decade, many universities have invested in eye-catching architecture aimed, he says, at attracting investors and business, as a way of transforming places that should be free-thinking and outside the immediate commercial equation into marketing-driven "brands". Students have become "customers" in business-style machines for teaching; these are expected to serve the economy by slotting graduates neatly into profitable jobs."... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:43:52 -0800

Controversy: Cape Town Museum Director Takes Down The Gainesboroughs, Puts Up African Art (Oh My) - "For the first time I thought it wasn't really appropriate because it's a kind of colonial English collection and there are many of those around the world in the English colonies. It wasn't really showcasing any aspect of South African culture that was unique to the history of this period. It was a conscious decision to show contemporary work in those spaces."... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:23:57 -0800

The Problem With Architecture Exhibitions - "[They] fixate on trying to represent buildings that are missing. Photographs, drawings and pretentious wall texts only highlight the fact that yours is a second-hand experience." But this year's Venice Architecture Biennale "is much more about what should happen inside buildings, the pure experience of space."... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:37:41 -0800

How Our Sense Of Memorials Is Changing - "We've stopped putting great men on pedestals and started commemorating their victims. In the process we are are losing a sense that human history involved leadership and struggle and, yes, sacrifice."... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:29:15 -0800