Archive for the 'Minipost' Category

Sotheby’s Names Ruben Work as Star in Old Masters Sale in New York

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

Sotheby’s has named a recently rediscovered Rubens work as a star in its Old Masters sale next month. “It’s a sweet spot of Rubens’s career,” says Otto Naumann, senior vice president of Old Masters at the auction house. “He’s determined to impress. It’s got raw energy to it. He’s working with a very loaded brush to make everything very three-dimensional.” (more…)

Tate Modern Head Frances Morris on Her Sunday Routine

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

The Tate Modern’s Frances Morris gives an interview with The Gaurdian this week, as she discusses her Sunday routine, and her occasional jaunts to the museum when not working. “I like going as a punter, she says, “but when you know all the people working it’s impossible to be invisible. Sundays are perfect for people-watching in the exhibitions. I love to see how people interact with our galleries. I don’t have time to during the week.” (more…)

Art News Taps Arthur Jafa’s “Love is the Message…” as Most Important Work of Decade

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

Art News taps Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death as the most important work of the decade. “I began to learn that what I was manipulating was not the images but the space the juxtaposition of the images was opening up, or disrupting,” Jafa says of his work. “Think about a river: the river ain’t the bank and it ain’t even really the water.”  (more…)

Miami Herald Profiles New Rubell Family Museum in Miami’s Allapattah Neighborhood

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

The Rubell family open their new exhibition space in Allapattah this week, and talk to the Miami Herald about the new space’s vision. “The word ‘museum’ indicates a public space,” says Mera Rubell. “We wanted everyone to understand it’s a public space, and people know exactly what a museum is. If you walk like a duck and talk like a duck, maybe you are a duck, right? (more…)

K11 Musea Opens in Hong Kong

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

A piece in SCMP charts the development of the K11 Musea, a massive cultural-retail destination opening in Hong Kong. “Our firm has the experience, and we’ve done mixed-use projects that involved intensive collaboration before, but this was by far the most complicated building I’ve ever worked on,” says architect Forth Bagley about the project. (more…)

Galerie Perrotin Moves Hong Kong Space to Kowloon

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

Perrotin is moving its Hong Kong exhibition space to the Kowloon neighborhood.  “The move has nothing to do with the umbrella [anti-government protests],” Perrotin says. “This is an earlier project which came to a head when we decided to open a large space in Shanghai [late 2018] where we can organize several shows at the same time.” (more…)

Tal R Wins Case Against Watch Makers Seeking to Cut Up Artist’s Work

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

Artist Tal R has won a court case against watch designers who wanted to cut up the artist’s work to make a collection of watches.“We hope it will mark the end of this case and that it will mean that Tal R and his fellow artists may avoid similar disputes in the future,” says the artist’s lawyer, Jørgen Permin. (more…)

David Zwirner Claims Art Market is Alive and Well in Hong Kong

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

David Zwirner has a piece in Art News this week, discussing his vision of a thriving Hong Kong art market despite the widespread protests in the city. “I had a gallery in New York after September 11, and though the world came to an end, I really felt that people very much appreciated our effort to bring culture into that moment. I feel that’s what’s happening now in Hong Kong,” he says. “The art market is very much alive and well.” (more…)

Staff at London’s Courtauld Institute of Art Go on Strike

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Academic staff at London’s Courtauld Institute of Art have gone on strike over “income and borrowing invested in property and other capital assets rather than on the human resources that are the foundation of student learning,” Art Newspaper reports. (more…)

Yasiin Bey to Show Sound Work at Brooklyn Museum

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Artist and musician Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) will create a new sound installation at the Brooklyn Museum, after meeting and working with Dubai’s The Third Line.  “I gave him my card, and thought nothing of it,” says gallery co-founder Sunny Rahbar. “The next day, he comes back to the gallery, and asks, ‘Do you want to do this with me?’” (more…)

Art Basel Cancels Abu Dhabi Event “Art Basel Inside”

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Art Basel‘s parent company has cancelled Art Basel Inside, a three-day event slotted to run next year in Abu Dhabi. “Art Basel Inside in Abu Dhabi in February 2020 was always an ambitious project on quite a short timeline,” a statement from the company reads. “Despite a lot of excitement for the project, support from our partners, and incredibly hard work by the team, we were not able to move forward with Art Basel Inside.” (more…)

Critic Roger Cardinal Passes Away Aged 79

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Roger Cardinal, a writer and critic who helped coin the term “outsider art” while working with Jean Dubuffet, has passed away at age 79.  “A lot of outsider art rotates around issues of personality, of asking who I am, which means going deep into the inner self of an individual,” he once said. “So this kind of research could be dangerous, provocative, and damaging to you in such a way that you may never be able to write a book again.” (more…)

Keith Sonnier Interviewed in Art News

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

Keith Sonnier gets an interview in Art News this week, reflecting on his early work and his life growing up in Lousiana.  “I sought out unusual people,” he says. “It was part of my nature. I think when you grow up in the middle of nowhere and you do nothing all day but sit up in a chicken tree and watch birds, you don’t have much else to do.”  (more…)

Ai Weiwei Joins Board at Public Art Fund

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Ai Weiwei has joined the board at the Public Art Fund, alongside jewelry designer Ellen Celli, art collector Andrea Krantz, and financier Ruthard Murphy. “As we think about the future of art in public space, it is essential that our board leadership reflect all the aspects of our mission,” says Nicholas Baume, the group’s director and chief curator in a statement, “and we’re thrilled that these four thoughtful, passionate, and engaged members of our community will work with us to further our vision to present boundary-breaking art experiences to all, for free.” (more…)

Nairy Baghramian and Maria Hassabi Win Performa’s Malcolm McLaren Award

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Nairy Baghramian and Maria Hassabi have won the fifth edition of Performa’s Malcolm McLaren Award.  “At this Performa biennial, we encountered the work of familiar artists, whose careers we’ve long followed, and of artists who were new to us,” says curator Nikki Columbus.  “[The pair’s work] TOGETHER, in particular—performed by Hassabi and Oisín Monaghan—marked a new level of achievement: While continuing Hassabi’s movement technique, the piece was about care and community, long-term relationships, and love.”  (more…)

Victoria Miro to Represent María Berrío

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Victoria Miro has announced representation of artist María Berrío, the gallery announced in a statement today. (more…)

Rashid Johnson Profiled in The Guardian

Monday, November 25th, 2019

Rashid Johnson gets a profile in The Guardian this week, as the artist reflects on his new pieces, and the mechanics of walking under the modern condition.  “We think of the grace of it, but also, the obstacles,” he says. “I think of my body moving while being followed by the police, the robotic movement. Not trying to move quickly. Not making reactions. That isn’t graceful in those terms, it isn’t beautiful or rhythmic.” (more…)

Pope.L Profiled in New Yorker

Monday, November 25th, 2019

Artist Pope.L gets a profile in the New Yorker this week, following the artist’s mass “crawl” this year, and his retrodspective at MoMA.  “People ask me what all this support will do for performance art,” he says. “They say, ‘Oh, wow, the problems for performance are over. Modern has come to our rescue! I don’t have to worry anymore.’ But I think performance always needs to be troubled. It needs to have its problems. That’s what gets work done.”  (more…)

Massive Contemporary Art Exhibition to Open in Moscow Next Year

Monday, November 25th, 2019

A massively-scaled exhibition responding to a world in flux following the fall of the Berlin wall to today will open at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery next year, Art Newspaper reports.  “It’s hard for me to even recall something of comparable scale,” says Zelfira Tregulova, the director of the Tretyakov. “This exhibition will present a totally unique slice of Europe’s contemporary art, moreover Europe not just in the sense of the European Union, but Europe in a much broader sense of the word.” (more…)

Restoration of Michelangelo’s Florence Pietà to be Done in Public View

Monday, November 25th, 2019

Restoration of Michelangelo’s Pietà at Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo will take place in full public view, Art Newspaper reports. “We’re making the restoration part of the visitor’s experience,” says director Timothy Verdon.

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Saxon Royal Jewels Stolen from Dresden Museum in Major Heist

Monday, November 25th, 2019

Thieves have stolen three collections of jewelry from the royal house of Saxony, held in a Dresden Museum, in a heist labelled the most prominent and expensive since WWII. “Nowhere else in Europe has any other collection of royal jewels been preserved in this form and quality and quantity,” Dirk Syndram, director of the Green Vault said. (more…)

MOCA Workers Move to Unionize

Saturday, November 23rd, 2019

Around 50 workers at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles are trying to form a union. “We recognize that management has identified a need to shift workplace culture in order to make equity, diversity, and accessibility a greater priority,” the group says. “So far, however, this has been a top-down structure that has involved spending undisclosed amounts of money on external consultants who speak on behalf of the entire staff. Instead of looking outside of the museum for answers, we ask that leadership listen to its own workers and hear our needs directly.” (more…)

Whitney Museum Receives $1 Million Grant from Keith Haring Foundation

Saturday, November 23rd, 2019

The Whitney Museum has received a $1 million grant from the Keith Haring Foundation to complete the construction of David Hammons’s Day’s End. “For a museum of our scale, it’s a heavy lift, no pun intended,” says curator Scott Rothkopf. “This is definitely one of the largest gifts toward the realization of this project.” (more…)

Van Gogh Sunflowers Head to Australia

Saturday, November 23rd, 2019

Van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers (1888) will head to Australia next year for a show at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, traveling from London’s National Gallery.  (more…)