The Art News Top 200 Collectors list is out for 2021, featuring a range of collectors that includes actor Cheech Marin, Jeff Bezos and Roman Abramovich. Read More »
Artist Julie Mehretu will join the Whitney board, just the third artist in the museum’s history to do so. “The Whitney’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, believed that artists were essential to defining, challenging and expanding culture and that the museum should be a site where artists and audiences engaged openly with untested ideas,” says director Adam D. Weinberg. “Today, more than 90 years later, this history informs who we are and how we serve our public, and our trustees, along with our staff, help to ensure that we redouble our commitment to American art and artists.” Read More »
Work by artist Kerry James Marshall will replace two Confederate-themed stained-glass panels at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the NYT reports. “It will have to be work that is able to synthesize a multiplicity of ideas and sentiments about what the country represents for all of us,” Marshall says. “There will be some kind of imagery that presents itself as an invitation to reflection on the meaning of America now.” Read More »
