Rebecca Rabinow, director of the Menil Collection in Houston, has been named to the board of directors of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation in Berkeley, California, Art News reports.  “An authority on the work of Henri Matisse, Rebecca has long been aware that the master artist was a lodestar for Richard Diebenkorn, holding for him the spark of modernity and lessons of pure painting,” says foundation president Steven Nash.
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Emmanuel Macron has proposed a new approach to French cultural policy, pushing for a government that seeks to emphasize culture as a prominent part of society, and address the “political struggle we have today, fighting against obscurantism [extremism], and the marginalization of creation and culture.”
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Tomas Saraceno gets a profile in the NYT this week, as he opens his new exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. “He’s a great artist, comparable to Marcel Duchamp or even Leonardo da Vinci, who always thought outside and combined disciplines,” says curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel.
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