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6 Artists Who Made It Big After Turning 70
by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball on March 26, 2013
- Last week, Toyo Ito was awarded the Pritzker Prize. Ito is most famous for his 2000 Sendai Mediatheque in Japan. Ito has not yet designed a structure that’s been built in the US. His only commission got scratched. [Culture Grrl]
- Somebody get this woman a Pritzker. During a speech in London last week, leading architect Denise Scott Brown demanded retrospective recognition for her longtime creative partner Robert Venturi’s 1991 Pritzer. At the time of the award, they’d been working together as Venturi Scott Brown and Associates for over twenty two years. Brown suspects that their being married has something to do with her snubbing. [archdaily] It’s not the first time the issue has been brought up. [Architect]
- Speaking of late recognition, Julia Halperin’s “6 Artists Who Made It Big After Turning 70.” They’re all women. [ARTinfo]
- Call 1-855-FOR-1993 from a city pay phone and hear an oral history from 1993. It’s part of the New Museum’s 1993 show, a would-be fun idea were it not for having to touch a pay phone. [Gallerist]
- This is ugly: New York based artist Mertin D. Simpson has died, his collection is worth millions, but there’s too much family squabbling over the estate to even cover the cost of his burial. [NY Times]
- A brownnosy profile on David Zwirner: a charmer, an odd amalgam, a boy on the playground, a Dr. Strangelove, part shrewd salesman, part cultivated European, and a self-described spring chicken. [NYT Magazine]
- Horrific. Conservatives in Egypts new government say that women are inviting rape by participating in public protests. [NY Times]
- Maud Newton writes a fascinating story on the unusual trend of Christian fundementalists who are now integrating Jewish traditions into their lives. The piece was sparked by the TLC reality show, “The Sisterhood”. [NY Times]
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