Collector and former MoMA President Agnes Gund is profiled in the Wall Street Journal this week, discussing the state of the market, her focus on female artists, and her organization Studio in a School, an arts program offering training in teaching art to young students.  “If it’s taught well, art really is important to kids early on,” she says. “It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn’t right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody’s criticizing them for it.” (more…)

As part of a series called “This much I know”, the Guardian solicited artists Gilbert & George for their life lessons. Among observations on topics that ranged from relationships to religion to politics, the duo, whose latest show at Lehmann Maupin closed on August 8th, made several remarks about art and the art world, including their definition of art as “the friendship that’s formed between the person and the picture – both at the moment of seeing and later on as you remember”.

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