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The new, temporary Serpentine Pavilion in London by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen (phoyo by Luke Hayes)

See more pictures (Frankfurter Allgemeine)

Go to website Serpentine Gallery

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Daniel Richter in front of Centre Pompidou (© F.A.Z.-Julia Zimmermann)

Visitors last week to Paris’s Centre Pompidou may have recognized a familiar face among the street artists who do portraits of tourists outside the museum: none other than the German painter Daniel Richter. As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Niklas Maak reports, Richter joined the street artists incognito and spent two days doing portraits for sums far less than his work typically command in galleries.

Taken from Artforum.com (International News Digest, week of 08.20.07)

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Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava

A 2006 survey by the American Association of Museums found that 50 percent of responding museums had begun or completed construction, renovation, or expansion in the previous three years. The boom is partly due to museum officials who recognize that using name architects for expansions helps attract tourists, according to association spokesman Jason Hall. Also, it is easier for museums to get donors for capital improvements than operating expenses because donors like having their names attached to the work.

Read article (The Boston Globe/AP, August 22, 2007)

For an overview of all institions in the US that over next several years will either expand, relocate or build new museums, you can see an interactive map on the website of the New York Times.

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Eight contemporary Chinese artists have been offered their own personal museums in Dujiangyan, in Sichuan Province. The city plans to begin construction on an 18-acre plot of land soon. (photo by Xiao Quan)

For years their work could not be exhibited in China, but in recent years the country’s leading contemporary artists are being courted by major art collectors abroad and their paintings set records at international auction sales. And now, a local government in Sichuan Province (the area in western China) has offered to give eight contemporary artists, all under 60, their own personal museums to operate. In a country with no major museum of contemporary art — not even in Beijing, where most of the eight artists work — this is a novel development.

Read article (New York Times, August 25, 2007)