‪‬As MAXXI museum in Rome waits 20 day period for government’s final decision on closure of the museum, the Economist features director of Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in Naples burning works in protest of government cuts in arts funding
‪‬Centre Pompidou plans new international approach, especially targeting Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRIC countries) “with temporary projects in existing venues like museums [and] universities, but why not historical monuments, former industrial facilities or shopping malls?” says museum president Alain Seban
‪‬Artist David Weiss died this morning of cancer at age 66, half of the Fischli/Weiss duo and represented by Matthew Marks Gallery
‪‬Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture to renovate a 1960s prefab concrete structure with architect Rem Koolhaas for new 5,400 sq meter ‘Garage Gorky Park’ in Moscow, “we have these traces of Russian history as a partner of the art.”
‪‬Philanthropist Jo Carole Lauder has headed the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) since 1996, placing artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Louise Bourgeois in American embassies across more than 140 countries, “the art in our embassies program waves a less obvious cultural flag for America,” says the foundation’s president Eden Rafshoon
‪‬Glenn O’Brien discusses art, music, TV, politics, Andy Warhol and Basquiat in an interview with Open Ceremony; on his show TV PARTY, “I was rebellious but not angry”
‪‬CNNCTD+ to launch ‘sound graffiti’ project May 1, installing 100 Playbutton MP3 players and headphones throughout Manhattan with participants including Cindy Sherman, James Franco, and Bill Powers
‪‬New Museum names curators of third Generational Triennial to be held in 2015: Lauren Cornell, Adjunct Curator at New Museum and leaving her seven-year post as Executive Director of Rhizome; and artist and filmmaker Ryan Trecartin
‪‬Collector and artist widow Corice Arman has filed a lawsuit against Louise Blouin Media Inc. for shattering a sculpture while setting up for a photoshoot, the 2,630-year-old Nigerian terracotta sculpture appraised post-accident at $300,000
‪‬Collector Adam Lindemann to open new 3,200 sq foot Upper East Side gallery named Venus Over Manhattan, referencing a 1940s Art Deco sculpture with the opening show of 50 various works titled ‘À rebours,’ translating to “against the grain”
‪‬Russian oil tycoon and art collector Viktor Vekselberg battles Christie’s in High Court regarding authentication of £1.7 million Boris Kustodiev painting, claiming signature over a decade post-humous
‪‬Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi profiled in short film by Hong Kong-based filmmaker Ringo Tang as first feature of newly launched Nowness Chinese language site, “…So how can we use the element and form of the East and combine them with the special character of Western paint materials to use lines to create space?”
‪‬Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki company to open new exhibition space in Berlin named Hidari Zingaro as its first venture beyond Japan, the opening preview April 27-28 to coincide with Berlin Gallery Weekend and include all-day live painting, while the first official exhibition will open in June
‪‬MoMA PS1 and M. Wells Dinette joint application for liquor license supported by local Community Board 2, now must be approved by the State Liquor Authority in time for June launch of the museum’s “proper restaurant” in Long Island City
‪‬Recovered Cezanne reportedly worth $130 million returns to Switzerland after Serbian police arrested four suspects earlier this month on April 12
‪‬Two Alexander Calder works, ‘Untitled’ (1957) and ‘Snow Flurry’ (1950), from the home of the late architect Eliot Noyes join three other Calders at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale May 8th, individually estimated at $3–4.5 million
‪‬China bolsters international art presence with “Going Out, Inviting In” strategy, promoting work abroad as well as building 395 museums last year with plans for larger museums to come in Shanghai and Beijing
‪‬Cooper Union, off Astor Place in New York, free of tuition for over 100 years, to charge tuition for graduate programs and other online and continuing-education courses to reduce current $16.5 million annual budget deficit, “It’s a viable strategy,” says President Jamshed Bharucha
Elizabeth Peyton, David Bowie (2012). All images courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York. © Elizabeth Peyton.
Currently on view at Regen Projects is the sixth solo exhibition of works by New York-based painter Elizabeth Peyton. Peyton, who rose to fame in the 1990s for her portraiture of rock stars like David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, and Keith Richards, delivers in her most recent paintings the twin pillars of accessibility and devotion that have come to characterize her practice.
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‪‬In related news, Occupy Wall Street movement publishes a fake press release from the Whitney Museum announcing museum closure on May Day and various institutional changes in observance of a General Strike on May 1 planned by OWS
‪‬Museum of London adds several Occupy London protest works to its collection including placards, banners, and masks, currently on view online; “The museum tries to document all major events in London history,” says a museum curator Jim Gledhill
‪‬Jeff Koons and Lisa Perry collaborate with apparel and accessories featuring designs from Koons’ entire oeuvre, T-shirts starting at $150 with a portion going to the Koons Family Institute
‪‬The ‘Salon of Art and Design’ forthcoming Park Avenue Armory fair of jewelry, art, and antiques organized by Sanford Smith and the Syndicat National des Antiquaires changes its name to THE SALON: Art + Design to avoid a ‘SAD’ acronym
Installation View. All images courtesy of the Lisson Gallery
On view at London’s Lisson Gallery is the latest exhibition of work by Santiago Sierra, Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed. The show features fifty-three videos thematically grouped: performance-based works, films, and video documents of sculptural projects. Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed includes a conversation between Sierra and the curator and critic Hans-Ullrich Obrist and will be open through March 3, 2012.