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Alexander Gray Associates to Launch Exhibition Program Upstate ↠
May 17th, 2019New York’s Alexander Gray Associates will host a series of shows centered around single works in a barn upstate this summer, Art News reports. The project will kick off with a show of Harmony Hammond’s Bandaged Grid #5 (2016). “Certainly, with the environment that we’re in right now, there’s so much noise, and there’s a big emphasis on spectacle,” Gray says. “We’re interrupting that really fast-paced rhythm of looking.”
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RIP: Lutz Bacher, Relentless Pioneer of Various Forms and Processes, Has Died ↠
May 17th, 2019
Lutz Bacher, via K21
Artist Lutz Bacher, a relentless innovator whose works frequently defied easy categorization or understanding, has passed away. The artist, who has long avoided releasing much biographical information about herself, was either 75 or 76 at the time of her death.
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The Met Will No Longer Accept Gifts from Members of Sackler Family ↠
May 16th, 2019The Metropolitan Museum of Art will no longer accept gifts from members of the Sackler family linked to the maker of OxyContin. “The museum takes a position of gratitude and respect to those who support us, but on occasion, we feel it’s necessary to step away from gifts that are not in the public interest, or in our institution’s interest,” said Daniel H. Weiss, the president of the Met. “That is what we’re doing here.”
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