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The titles
THE BUILDERS. The many architectural firms developing plans for The line— the wildly ambitious new city that will stretch more than 100 miles across Saudi Arabia — includes Adjaye Associates, Peter Cook, Morphosisand OWNon Journal of Architects reports. Some of their proposals are now on display in an exhibition about the effort in Riyadh. Speaking of architecture: An artificial intelligence generator called Halfway through the trip “quickly became the architect’s favorite artificial intern,” Bloomberg reports. Practitioners use it to create unbuildable visions and figure out how it can help create actual structures. However, it has its limits. “When I work with non-Western architecture, it’s hard for me to get good images because these tools seem to lack a deep understanding of these styles,” computational designer, Hassan Ragabtold the publication.
THE BUILDERS. The many architectural firms developing plans for The line— the wildly ambitious new city that will stretch more than 100 miles across Saudi Arabia — includes Adjaye Associates, Peter Cook, Morphosisand OWNon Journal of Architects reports. Some of their proposals are now on display in an exhibition about the effort in Riyadh. Speaking of architecture: An artificial intelligence generator called Halfway through the trip “quickly became the architect’s favorite artificial intern,” Bloomberg reports. Practitioners use it to create unbuildable visions and figure out how it can help create actual structures. However, it has its limits. “When I work with non-Western architecture, it’s hard for me to get good images because these tools seem to lack a deep understanding of these styles,” computational designer, Hassan Ragabtold the publication.
The Digest
The Harvard Law Review selected Apsara Iyer, an antiquities theft expert, as its president. Iyer is the first Indian American woman to hold this position and while working at Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was involved in the case of a billionaire collector Michael Steinhardtwho ended up handing over $70 million in artifacts. [Reuters]
In San Francisco Legion of Honor preparing a show of Sandro Botticellidrawings for November. It will include nearly 60 works (27 of which are drawings); five have been attributed to him recently. His “draftsmanship underlies the character of his paintings,” the museum’s director, Thomas P. Campbellsaid. [The Art Newspaper]
A UK court has ordered two activists who smashed a vegan chocolate cake over a wax effigy of King Charles at Madame Tussauds in London to pay £3,500 (about $4,300) in compensation. [The Guardian]
Ted Shen, investment banker turned music composer, is sending 25 works from his collection of early American modernism to Christy in April at a valuation of $10 million. Batches include lavish Marsden Hartley a 1940 beach scene expected to sell for $3 million. [Penta]
Mary Zimmermanthe 1993 play The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinciwhich was inspired by these astonishing volumes is now performed in the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. “It no longer seems as revelatory as it did when it burst into existence,” according to the theater critic Charles McNulty. [Los Angeles Times]
ArtforumThe February issue of the publication features reviews of a superstar artist Alex Katz of four of his peers: Jamian Giuliano-Villani, David Hall, Amy Sillmanand Sam McKinnis. of Katz Guggenheim Museum the flashback continues for about three more weeks. [Artforum]
The kicker
LET HIM BOARD. Every museum has a history of its founding, a story of people committed to guarding the treasures against the vagaries of time. In case of Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio, one man played an important role, Associated Press reports: James Dicke IIforklift tycoon who snapped up 150 bicycles and other items at a 1997 auction of the collection of the family behind Schwinn bicycle company. But Dicke had help, of a kind: a willing salesman, Richard Schwinn, great-grandson of the founder. The AP notes that Schwinn said at the time, “It’s hard to take care of this mess of things. We can put it in storage or sell it and I’m sick of storing it. The rest is history. [AP]