Criticism is always a map of possibilities, roads taken, neglected, and cut fresh, and the map of art is never more vivid than when the possibilities of a period are incarnated as the people in a life.
Other storied art havens include Los Angeles, Berlin and Hong Kong, amongst others -- locales that have managed to snare auction houses or gallery giants, rounding out an entirely too sparse a map of art destinations.
The less kind view of him is as a critical Edward Casaubon, always trying to place and map works of art into political and social contexts that grey and wither their more complex luminosity.
No bells and whistles went off today, but the Walters Arts Museum just won the distinction of providing the 10,000th entry in the World Digital Library, a Library of Congress project launched in 2009 that provides free Internet access to manuscripts, maps, books, works of art, photographs, films, recordings and more from every continent.
A side note: Whenever I surf the web, I see maps, maps about maps, and maps about map-making as a form of art and illustration.
It's the reason we are here: to put Cascais on the map of the art world".
At the time hippies were hitching to India but in the West the map of "serious art" had an empty quarter stretching from Vienna to China.
The Big Art Project, funded by Channel 4, Arts Council England and the Art Fund, can be seen from 10 May at 7pm on Channel 4. Alongside the series, the award-winning Big Art Mob website is the UK's first interactive map of public art.
It represents a tremendous effort of retrieval; adds many names, locations and artworks to the constantly expanding map of postwar art; and offers further proof that American and Western European artists did not, and do not, act alone.
The show is dedicated to her, and on a much larger scale it has the infectious mood of pluralistic optimism that made her gallery a perennial bright spot on the map of contemporary art.
The man who redrew the map of British art and whose institution is so effective that - well, that it creates enemies like this? Look, the Tate is just a museum.
