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Monday, March 29th, 2021
The sale of a Banksy work depicting a child playing with a superhero nurse has raised £16.7m for UK health services. “As a charitable gift it ensures our staff have a say in how money is spent to benefit them, our patients and our community and is a fantastic way to thank and reward them for the sacrifices they’ve made,†says David French, interim chief executive officer of University Hospital Southampton Trust. (more…)
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Monday, March 29th, 2021
San Francisco is weighing the possibility of a $1000 monthly grant for artists in the city. “The arts are truly critical to our local economy and are an essential part of our long-term recovery. If we help the arts recover, the arts will help San Francisco recover,†Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “This new program is an innovative effort to help our creative sector get through this challenging time, and come back even stronger and more resilient than before.†(more…)
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Monday, March 29th, 2021
A piece in the New York Times this week documents the rarely seen photographic work of Ray Johnson. “I felt it was a hidden treasure, and at some point it would be revealed,†says dealer and estate manager Frances Beatty. “If you know Ray Johnson, you know that he never did anything casually and without intention. It was all of a piece.†(more…)
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Monday, March 29th, 2021
Artist Gary Simmons is heading to Hauser & Wirth, finding a new home with the mega-gallery as his longtime representative, Metro Pictures, closes shop. “Over the past 30 years, Gary has achieved an incredibly rare alchemy of feeling with his paintings, installations, sound works, and sculptures,” says Marc Payot, president of Hauser & Wirth. “Simultaneously depicting and erasing—a process that in itself suggests the strange, willful impermanence of American culture—he’s created a powerful artistic language to express the personal and collective experience of Black Americans.â€
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Monday, March 29th, 2021
The Serpentine Galleries have removed the Sackler name from its North Galleries. “We recently introduced new way-finding terminology to help visitors distinguish between the two galleries. These terms will appear on the website and on all marketing materials,†a spokesperson said. (more…)
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Monday, March 29th, 2021
The Louvre has put its full collection online, allowing users around the world to browse and view works easily from a digital database. (more…)
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Sunday, March 28th, 2021
After weeks of behind the scenes discussions and rumors, Leon Black will step down from his chair at MoMA. Black will leave the position on June 30th. Black has come under fire in the past months over his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein before the financier’s death. (more…)
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Friday, March 26th, 2021
A piece in the New York Times this week reports on the return of the Gwangju Biennale, one of the first art world events to reopen as the pandemic continues. “It’s been a long journey,†says curator Defne Ayas. (more…)
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Friday, March 26th, 2021
Roni Horn, Wits’ End Mash (Elvis has left the building), v.1 (2019) via Hauser and Wirth
Artist Roni Horn has spent the past four decades questioning accepted notions of identity and meaning, thwarting closure and opening up new possibilities of perception through her expansive body of work across mediums. This relentless approach to her craft, exploring modes of perception and language as expressed through nuanced, subtle material inventions, takes center stage here in a show of recent work at Hauser & Wirth in New York. Compiling a selection of drawings described as “a kind of breathing activity on a daily level,”the show welcomes an engaging continuation of her interest in speech, written text, and understanding.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2021
Sotheby’s will have a 1982 Basquiat as a centerpiece of its May 12th auction in New York, estimated to sell for $35 million–$50 million. “In Versus Medici, Basquiat melds the political and art historical as he consciously stages a reckoning with the Westernized ideal of visual culture and was intent on mastering and commandeering the accepted ‘rules’ of art history in order to break them,†says Grégoire Billault, Sotheby’s New York head of contemporary art. (more…)
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
Peter Joseph, The Border Paintings (Installation View), via Lisson Gallery
Marking the latest entry in a long-running string of collaborations between the estate of artist Peter Joseph and Lisson Gallery, a show of works from the 1980s and 1990s the artist was in the process of planning when he passed away at age 91 in November 2020 is now on view. Presenting a series of contrasting geometric frames across the gallery space, the show investigates Joseph’s commitment to color and space as the central tenets of his practice. (more…)
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
Artist Santiago Sierra is once again causing controversy after announcing plans to immerse a British flag in blood donated by indigenous peoples from former colonies. “The blood will be combined in an aluminum bucket in which the British flag will be immersed,†Sierra said. “The use of the British flag is not about any specific people, but rather seeks to reflect on the material on which states and empires are built. The use of First Peoples’ blood from different populations, and its indiscriminate mixing, has impact within the act itself—all blood is equally red and has the same consistency, regardless of the race or culture of the person supplying it.†(more…)
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
Gerhard Richter has permanently loaned 100 works to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, a to-be-completed museum complex in the city. “I am delighted the paintings are coming to Berlin,†Richter said in a statement. (more…)
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
The French government will return a Gustav Klimt landscape stolen from its original owner by the Nazis in 1938. “It is in recent years that the true origin of the painting has been established,†says French culture minister, Roselyne Bachelot. (more…)
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Hong Kong’s M+ museum has taken a strong stance on freedom of speech, announcing that it will mount shows by Ai Weiwei and work that references the 1989 Tiananmen Square violence. “We have always had a robust curator-led approach to everything we do and that is underpinned by research and academic rigor,†says director Suhanya Raffel. “Like any global museum, it is our role to present art in a relevant and appropriate manner and stimulate debate, knowledge and pleasure. A city can only be a welcoming arts hub if it offers an open environment for artists and for different views.â€
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Painter Pat Lipsky has won a ruling against her gallery, with a New York Court ruling that artists’ work cannot be distorted in online reproductions. “This ruling should help artists to protect their legacies and reputations, particularly in this pandemic-induced time of virtual art exhibitions and fairs,â€Â Lipsky counsel William Charron of Pryor Cashman says. (more…)
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Marina Abramovic will launch a “digital manifestation” of The Abramovic Method on WeTransfer, making the work “available to everyone, all day, every day, reaching 70 million people worldwide.â€Â (more…)
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
John Waters, La Mer (2009), via Sprüth Magers
Taking over the exhibition space at Sprüth Magers’s Los Angeles gallery, John Waters takes a shot at the famous and infamous among the long annals of film culture, pop culture, and celebrity, opening a show that compiles a range of works from the past ten years that drive home the artist’s bitingly satirical abilities as a foremost critique of American culture, both high and low.
John Waters, Hollywood’s Greatest Hits (Installation View), via Sprüth Magers
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Dutch Museums are pushing ahead on a €4.5m plan to build a practical guide advising on colonial collections and repatriation. “We will examine the diverse routes that objects took to enter museums—were they sold under duress or looted in times of war, traded or exchanged or given as gifts, and if so, was this in a colonial context?†says Wayne Modest, the director of content at the National Museum of World Cultures. “We will also look at how to jointly decide on the future of an object and whether there are various modes of return that are possible. And, finally, this is about reconciliation—how do modes of return or restitution help us to reconcile with the past?†(more…)
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
A piece in the New York Times this week catalogs a series of outside investigations and complaints at the Detroit Institute of Arts, particularly around a “lack of facility with race-related issues.†“The Board wants anyone with concerns, new or lingering, to come forward, and be heard,†the museum said in a statement. (more…)
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Caitlin Keogh, Waxing Year 3 (2020), via Overduin and Co.
Painter Caitlin Keogh‘s works are orchestrations of symbolism, blending together a range of images and patterns that give the final composition a dizzying series of touchpoints, and ultimately arrive at a final composition that seems to rarely rest on any single image. Such is the case with her new show of works currently on view at Overduin and Co. in Los Angeles, a selection of pieces that emphasize shifting grounds and a composite sense of reality. (more…)
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Financier Leon Black is currently in discussions with the trustees of MoMa regarding his future with the museum and ties to Jeffrey Epstein. “I would love to show at MoMA but you have to stick to your ethics,†says Nan Goldin. “How can MoMA stand by Leon Black?†(more…)
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Six artists and one collective have pulled their work from a show at Chicago’s MCA over complaints about access, equity and labor.“I was very disappointed to learn how employees were being treated and did not want to lend my work to a show whose sponsoring institution was operating in contradiction to the show’s very premise,†said the artist Folayemi Wilson. (more…)
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
Michelle Grabner (Installation View), via James Cohan
Marking a range of new explorations in an already diverse and wide-ranging body of work, artist Michelle Grabner opens a new show of works this month at James Cohan in downtown Manhattan. Marking a renewed engagement with restoration and material, Grabner’s installation meditates on simple gestures and repetition as a manner to explore an expansive interior world.
Michelle Grabner, Untitled (2021), via James Cohan (more…)
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