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Trump Ubu Alles: Rainer Ganahl Remakes an Alfred Jarry Classic in a Harlem Funeral Home
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National Portrait Gallery’s Nicholas Cullinan Appointed Director of British Museum
via artnews.comThe British Museum has appointed Nicholas Cullinan its new director. Currently director of London’s National Portrait Gallery, Cullinan now has the tough task of helping lead the institution while it continues to deal with the fallout from last year’s revelation that 2,000 items in the museum’s collection were stolen or damaged, or otherwise went missing.Cullinan has been the National Portrait Gallery’s director since 2015. He oversaw a three-year, $53 million redevelopme -
$18 M. Painting by Basquiat and Warhol Heads to Sale at Sotheby’s
via artnews.comAn untitled 1984 painting done by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat will sell at Sotheby’s in a contemporary art evening sale this May, making it one of the top lot of that marquee auction week.This will be the picture’s first appearance at auction since it sold, also at Sotheby’s, back in 2010 for $2.65 million. Sotheby’s has placed its estimate this time at $18 million, meaning that if it sells for that price, it will have increased in value more than sixfold.Th -
Museum Workers Flex Union Muscles, Dealer Inigo Philbrick Freed from Prison, British Museum Names New Director, and More: Morning Links for March 28, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESNEW BRITISH MUSEUM LEADER. Nicholas Cullinan has been appointed the new director of the British Museum in London, following the resignation of former director Hartwig Fischer, who stepped down in the wake of a massive theft from the museum collection, which the institution alleges was committed by its former curator. Cullinan is currently the director -
‘Every single work is a masterpiece’: the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest Flemish drawings
via theguardian.comA new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century lifeThe women gather in a circle, talking intensely and unselfconsciously, their attention passing from one animated face to another as the conversation darts around the group. They seem completely unaware, from a window above the courtyard where they’re chatting, the artist Jacques Jordaens is sketching them in quick red chalk and brown ink.It -
Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’
via theguardian.comIn the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaningNick Cave has a touch of Dr Frankenstein about him – long, white lab coat, inscrutable smile, unnerving intensity. He introduces me to his two assistants, the identical twins Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland, who are helping to glaze his ceramics series, The Devil – A Life. The twins are -
LA’s Broad Museum to Gain 55,000 Square Feet with New Expansion
via artnews.comOne of the Los Angeles’s most high-profile museums is set to get a lot bigger just in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics.On Wednesday, the Broad, a private museum founded by the late collector Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, announced plans to add 55,000 square feet of space, increasing the institution’s current footprint by around 70 percent. The Los Angeles Times reported that the expansion comes with a $100 million price tag—nearly as much as the original building itself cost -
Parents File $1.16 M. Lawsuit Accusing Quebec Teacher of Selling Students’ Artwork Online
via artnews.comA group of parents recently filed a lawsuit for more than $1.5 million Canadian dollars ($1.16 million) against an art teacher and a school board after students found classroom artworks available for purchase on the instructor’s personal website.The students attended Westwood Junior High School in the Quebec suburb of Saint-Lazare. The lawsuit, filed in Quebec Superior Court on March 22, seeks $1.58 million, or $155,000 for each of the 10 students, plus punitive damages, against former ins -
Kim Kardashian Sued for Claiming Tables Were Made by Donald Judd
via artnews.comKim Kardashian has been sued by the Donald Judd Foundation for claiming that a set of tables were created by the late, famed Minimalist. The lawsuit, first reported by the New York Times, centers on a promotional video released by Kardashian in 2022 in which she tours the offices of her Skkn by Kim company, pointing out notable designs in the chic premises—including what she calls “Donald Judd tables.”Kardashian praises Judd, whose work received a Museum of Modern Art -
With Supper Club, Hong Kong Gallerists Try to Create the Anti–Art Basel
via artnews.comThis week, for those in Hong Kong looking for a change of scenery from the hustle and bustle of the show floor of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, there’s Supper Club.The brainchild of William Molesworth and Ysabelle Cheung (the founders of PHD Group gallery) and Alex Chan (a co-founder of the Shophouse gallery), Supper Club is a kind of not-fair pioneered by other such alternative events like Basel Social Club during Art Basel and, more recently, Our Week during Frieze Seou -
‘Titanic’ Door that Saved Rose (But Not Jack) Fetches Six Figures at Auction
via artnews.comThe prop from one of the most memorable scenes in the 1997 film Titanic—in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack selflessly freezes to death in the North Atlantic while Kate Winslet’s character, Rose, lies on a door and thus lives to tell their tale—has sold at Heritage Auctions for a jamb-busting $718,750.According to Entertainment Weekly, the doorwas the evening’s top lot, second only to the whip used by Indiana Jones in the series’ second installmen -
‘Poorest Quality’ Statue of Prince Philip Ordered to be Removed by Cambridge Council
via artnews.comA Cambridge council has ordered the removal of a faceless statue of the late Prince Philip, according to the Guardian. Years after it was initially erected without permission, the statue will be removed from the site.The 13-foot monument depicting the late queen’s husband in academic robes with an abstracted face stands outside of a Cambridge office block. It was previously described by Cambridge city council public art officer Nadine Black as “possibly the poorest quality work that -
Molten magnificence: how Richard Serra’s giant steel sculptures bent time and space
via theguardian.comThe American’s mighty masterpieces – straight, curved or set at thrilling angles – sucked everyone nearby into their mysterious gravity. Our critic pays tribute to art’s legendary man of steelRichard Serra – obituaryRichard Serra – a life in picturesWhat could seem more out of step or more timeless than Richard Serra’s work – with its obdurate metal blocks and curving steel walls that can feel as threatening as the side of a ship that curls above y -
An Ambitious Show in Hong Kong Plots Connections Between Nature and Indigeneity
via artnews.comIn Back to Mu Village‘s Fairy Big Lake (2023), a two-channel video installation by Chengdu-based artists Cao Minghao and Chen Jianjun, a disembodied voice speaks over a rippling blue-gray lake, describing a Tibetan herder ritual meant to resolve illnesses and disasters caused by human environmental degradation. The lake in question has already fallen prey to these interventions: it is shrinking due to climate change. In the second channel, the herders meticulously enact the ritual against -
‘Obnoxious’: sculptures and installations that have divided opinion
via theguardian.comStatues in St Pancras station and Newbiggin-by-the-Seaendure despite opposition from publicIt was described by one council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted and has attracted so much controversy that no artist has admitted to making it.But the faceless sculpture of Prince Philip outside a Cambridge office block that is to be taken down years after it appeared is not alone as a work of divisive public art. Continue reading... -
‘Eye-wounding erection’: UK public art that is loved or hated
via theguardian.comThe faceless sculpture of Prince Philip is not the only work to have split public opinion. Here are some other installationsIt was described by one council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted and has attracted so much controversy that no artist has admitted to making it. But the outside a Cambridge office block, which is to be taken down years after it appeared, is not alone as a work of divisive public art.Here we take a look at other sculptures and install -
In Melancholy Prints and Drawings, Käthe Kollwitz Opened Eyes to the Many Sorrows She Witnessed
via artnews.com“I want to be effective in this time in which people are so perplexed and in need of help.” Käthe Kollwitz wrote in her diary toward the end of 1922. She had just completed “War,” a series of seven woodcuts expressing what she saw as the deluded fervor and emotional scars of the recent European war. In 1920s Germany, that disaster, with its tragic consequences, was a subject on everyone’s mind. Kollwitz saw suffering firsthand, not only in Berlin streets and de -
Defaced Banksy Tree Mural Covered in Plastic Screens and Boards
via artnews.comA Banksy mural in north London defaced shortly after its debut has been covered with sheets of plastic and surrounded by wooden boards.The work is a stencil of a life-size woman holding a pressure washer next to green paint in the shape of a tree’s leaves. The mural is on the wall of a residential building next to a cherry tree whose branches were pruned using a method called pollarding, which can appear extreme. The British street artist uploaded photos of the mural to his popular In -
Prominent Art School in Kyiv Severely Damaged by Russian Air Strike
via artnews.comA prominent school of art and design in Kyiv sustained severe damage from a Russian airstrike on Monday, becoming the latest landmark of Ukrainian culture drawn into Russia’s invasion. The news was shared by Ukraine’s ministry of culture and information policy, which said in a statement that “as a result of falling fragments of a missile launched by the Russian Federation, the central part of the building at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design -
Richard Serra obituary
via theguardian.comSculptor whose monumental steel forms transformed public spacesRichard Serra, who has died aged 85, was a remarkable cultural figure – a sculptor who belonged to the generation of American minimalists, was associated with process art and made experimental films, yet evoked something of an earlier, more heroic age. The critic Robert Hughes described him as “the last abstract expressionist”.Although this statement stretches the point, Serra’s interest in the processes -
Amid air raids and electricity shortages, a Ukrainian artist paints the Russian invasion
via theguardian.comFor Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, art-making became a compulsive way to process the anxiety of living in a war zoneTo look at Sana Shahmuradova Tanska’s paintings is to sense that something is awry, without quite knowing why. A series of canvases hanging in Artspace in Woolloomooloo as part of the Biennale of Sydney depicts strange, fantastical scenes that walk a line between Dionysian and dystopic: naked female figures in molten, fiery landscapes; mussels with moony faces swimming next to pro -
Chanel Awards $108,000 Prizes to Artists Dalton Paula, Ho Tzu Nyen, and More
via artnews.comTen artists from a wide range of disciplines, from opera to fine art to video game development, have been named among the second group of winners of the Chanel Next Prize, which comes with a no-strings-attached €100,000 ($108,000) purse and two years of mentorship from the brand’s global partners. The prize, which is awarded every two years, was first established in 2021, though its roots go back a century, according to the global head of arts and culture at the French fashion ho -
Madame Song, the Socialite Who Brought Pierre Cardin’s Designs to China, Gets a Big Museum Show in Hong Kong
via artnews.comIn 1968, fashion designer Pierre Cardin expanded his licensing business with plans to grow his brand in China. It took a decade of visits to the country before Cardin staged his first ready-to-wear shows there, with the first ones taking place in Beijing and Shanghai in 1979. That was just three years after the death of Mao Zedong, whose passing initiated a period that saw China’s economy open up, allowing in foreign businesses that had once faced significant obstacles there. And the -
Richard Serra Dies, British Museum Sues Curator for Theft, Titanic Door That Saved Rose (But Not Jack) Auctioned, and More: Morning Links for March 27, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESIN MEMORIAM. Richard Serra, the sculptor whose monumental steel works defined the Minimalist art movement, has died at 85, reports ARTnews’ Senior Editor Alex Greenberger. “Serra crafted gigantic artworks that enlisted spirals, cubes, and cones of steel. These works loom over viewers, threatening to squash them,” writes Greenberger. They -
Richard Serra Dies, British Museum Sues Curator for Theft, Titanic Door Auctioned, and More: Morning Links for March 27, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESIN MEMORIAM. Richard Serra, the sculptor whose monumental steel works defined the Minimalist art movement, has died at 85, reports ARTnews senior editor Alex Greenberger. “Serra crafted gigantic artworks that enlisted spirals, cubes, and cones of steel. These works loom over viewers, threatening to squash them,” writes Greenberger. They have al -
Rare show of sculptor Constantin Brâncuși’s work opens in Paris
via theguardian.comExhibition features more than 120 sculptures by Romanian who revolutionised the art formA rare retrospective of Constantin Brâncuși, who revolutionised sculpture in the early 20th century but whose works can be extremely tricky to transport, opens in Paris on Wednesday.Born in Romania in 1876, Brâncuși arrived in Paris at the age of 28 and soon after joined the workshop of another historic sculptor, Auguste Rodin. Continue reading... -
Cambridge council orders removal of ‘poorest quality’ statue of Prince Philip
via theguardian.com£150,000 abstract sculpture described as worst ever submitted was erected without planning permissionA faceless sculpture of Prince Philip, once described by a council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted, will be taken down years after it was erected without planning permission.Standing outside a Cambridge office block, the 4-metre bronze statue depicted the late queen’s husband in academic robes with an abstract face resembling a twisted owl mas -
Wolfgang Laib’s Piles of Rice and Pollen Meet Claude Monet’s Ethereal ‘Water Liles’ in a New Exhibition
via artnews.comThe 1.3 million visitors that come to Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie every year are primarily drawn to the eight Water Lilies mural paintings that Claude Monet donated to the French State in 1922 and are displayed in a space the artist designed with architect Camille Lefèvre. But earlier this month, in the second of the museum’s two oval rooms, German artist Wolfgang Laib staged an intervention, creating one of his notorious mountains of pollen in front of a ca -
Richard Serra – a life in pictures
via theguardian.comThe famed artist, who has died of pneumonia aged 85, was once described as ‘the best sculptor alive’ and known for his monumental steel works Continue reading... -
Richard Serra, uncompromising American abstract sculptor, dies aged 85
via theguardian.comThe Californian artist, who died of pneumonia, was known and eventually loved for his massive rusting steel structures now housed in museums around the worldRichard Serra, the American artist known for bending the boundaries of sculpture, has died at the age of 85.Serra died at home on Tuesday at his home in New York. The cause of death was pneumonia, his lawyer John Silberman confirmed to the New York Times. Continue reading...
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