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Baltimore Museum of Art Will Only Collect Works by Women in 2020
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Christie’s Secures Sale of $30 M. de la Cruz Collection
via artnews.comThe expansive collection of Cuban-born, Miami-based philanthropist and art collector Rosa de la Cruz will be sold at Christie’s over a series of auctions starting this May during the New York evening sales. De la Cruz, who died last month at 81, was central to Miami’s art scene. With her husband Carlos, she opened a 30,000-square-foot museum in Miami to display their contemporary art collection, which is thought to number 1,000 works.The artists responsible for those works range -
Marian Zazeela, Artist Behind Dizzying Drawings and Transcendent Light Shows, Dies at 83
via artnews.comMarian Zazeela, an artist whose abstract drawings and light installations envisioned dream states, died at her home in New York at 83 on Thursday. The MELA Foundation, an organization she cofounded with her partner, the artist La Monte Young, announced her passing on Friday, saying she died of natural causes while sleeping.Zazeela produced work that did not fit neatly within the confines of any movement, even as it flirted with the aesthetics of Minimalism. By her own admission, she produced &ld -
Curator and Collector Racquel Chevremont Rumored to Join ‘Real Housewives of New York’
via artnews.comEarlier this week, Bravo announced that all six cast members of the rebooted Real Housewives of New York City would return for their second season (the franchise’s 15th), as reported by Variety, bringing rumors about whether the network would add two new members, including one with ties to the art world.It’s now rumored that that cast member might be Racquel Chevremont, a collector and curator who is also the ex-partner of artist Mickalene Thomas. Chevremont is also a friend of curre -
California Legislators Push Bill That Would Ease Process of Recovering Nazi-Looted Art
via artnews.comCalifornia legislators have introduced a bill intended to give Holocaust survivors and their heirs a greater chance of recovering artworks stolen, or sold under duress, during periods of political oppression.Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), co-chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, who has led the legislative effort, told the Los Angeles Times that it was inspired by a ruling this January that determined that Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum could keep a Camille Pis -
Two Men Sentenced for Selling $3.2 M. in Dalí, Picasso Forgeries
via artnews.comTwo men have been sentenced to jail in London for selling more than £2.6 million (around $3.2 million) in fake fine art attributed to Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso. A six-year money laundering investigation by Sussex Police found Behrad Kazemi and Raj Nasta had sold works by Dalí for £2,000 to £3,000 and works by Picasso for £5,000 to £20,000 each to more than 125 victims between October 2016 and June 2018. The scheme involved cold calls from a compa -
How a City Agency Saves New York’s Discarded Objects for Art
via artnews.comBreezing through the 35,000-square-foot home of Materials for the Arts is about as close as you might get to touring Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Earlier this year, the vast warehouse in Queens was chock-full of Christmas fixings, like ornaments, pink artificial evergreens, and Lush soap cartons, alongside perennial aisles of paper and books, envelopes, archival photos, all manner of fabric, buttons, beads, and trim. There are also lab coats from hospitals, furniture from the Javits Ce -
Munich’s Haus der Kunst Picks Xue Tan for Chief Curator Position
via artnews.comXue Tan, the curator in charge of a closely watched Hong Kong art center’s acclaimed programming, is set to join the staff of one of Germany’s top museums.Currently senior curator of the Tai Kwun Contemporary center, Tan is now slated to become chief curator of the Haus der Kunst in Munich starting this June. The post is a highly coveted one, and was previously held by Emma Enderby, whose departure to become artistic director of the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin was anno -
Medieval Castle Discovered Under Hotel in France
via artnews.comDuring the development of a fine arts museum in Vannes, Brittany, in northwestern France, excavations revealed the remains of a medieval castle, according to Heritage Daily. The dig began in the courtyard of an 18th century mansion, the Château Lagorce, which currently operates as a hotel. Researchers from France’s national institute for archeological research learned that the castle was built around 1380 by Jean IV, the Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from -
Morocco Cancels Venice Biennale Pavilion, Men Convicted of Smuggling Sunken Corsican Treasure, Warhol ‘Mao’ Print Missing from College, and More: Morning Links for March 29, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESMOROCCO PAVILION CANCELED. After the surprise, last-minute replacement of Morocco’s exhibitors at what would have been the country’s first Venice Biennale pavilion, Morocco has now fully canceled their participation in the exhibition set to open in April, and it’s unclear why, according to The Art Newspaper . In Januar -
Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art
via theguardian.comGreenham Common inspires a new generation, designer Enzo Mari gets playful and Perth Museum dedicates its first exhibition to a mythical beast prized since antiquity – all in your weekly dispatchUnicorn
Medieval bestiaries, Renaissance art and narwhal horns make for a fascinating first exhibition in this impressive new Scottish museum.
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‘Made to be destroyed’: the unexpected appeal of butter moulding
via theguardian.comFrom cowboy boots to Le Corbusier armchairs, miniature sculptures made of butter are having a moment• Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Easter bunny is waiting in the wings and the hot cross buns are ready to be toasted. But have you moulded your butter into the shape of a Doric or Ionic pillar yet? Thankfully, there is still time.Butter moulds and sculptures are enjoying a moment – the sky’s the limit and butter maestros have shared pict -
Anu Põder Pushed Delicacy to the Brink of Brutality
via artnews.comA version of this essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday.Growing up, Anu Põder wanted to be a ballerina. But her small body failed to conform to the discipline’s impossible standards, so she turned to art, where misfit physiques soon became her primary preoccupation. The feminine forms that resulted—made of mate -
Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations
via artsjournal.comSan Francisco Conservatory of MusicThe Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations (AVP) reports to the Vice President of Advancement (VP) and serves as a member of the Advancement leadership team. The AVP is responsible for leading administrative and financial operations, database use and management, data integrity, software use and management, and development of procedures, protocols, and processes. This position requires a strong commitment to SFCM, unquestioned integrity, a keen sense -
Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance
via artsjournal.comUniversity of California San DiegoPosition overviewPosition title: Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance
Salary range: A reasonable salary range estimate for this position is $88,600-$111,200.
The posted UC Academic salary scales set the minimum pay as determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See the following table for the salary scale for this position here: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/oct-2023-acad-salary-scales/t1-l.pdf. Please refer to the 10/1 -
Kennicott: The Baltimore Bridge And Its Symbolism
via msn.comThe loss of the bridge is first a human tragedy. Then it is an economic shock, with a radiating toll that won’t be fully understood for years. But it’s also a powerful symbolic shock, given the metaphorical power of bridges as a form of connection. – Washington Post (MSN) -
Can There Truly Be “New” Opera Without Saying Goodbye To The Old?
via van-magazine.comIn short: There can be no history of operatic modernity that is not also a memorial, no production of new opera that does not account for generic death, no opera written that does not, in its own way, undertake the work of mourning. – Van -
How The Hulu Merger Is Changing The Ways Disney Works
via theverge.comYes, Hulu is just a tile. But that tile also seems to represent something bigger inside of Disney: the full Disney Plus-ification of everything, as the tech and strategy it built over the last few years percolates out to everything else Disney does. – The Verge -
For Centuries The Dutch Have Fought Back The Water. In Climate Change Maybe Cities Float Above The Water?
via newyorker.com“I think some bowls should be full,” he said, suggesting that flooding the land would amount to little more than a natural evolution of a man-made system, not unlike the way skyscrapers transformed cities a century ago. “It’s just an update to the machine.” – The New Yorker -
It’s Been 35 Years Since The Pacific Symphony Last Picked A Music Director. The World Has Changed
via cultureoc.orgCarl St.Clair is currently the longest-serving music director of a major American orchestra, and under his baton the ensemble has flourished: It’s now the largest U.S. orchestra founded in the last 50 years. – CultureOC -
Standup Comedy Flourished In China During Lockdown. Now The Government Crackdown
via newyorker.comFlippant references to China’s military, like those to top leaders, are considered off limits in official life, and such taboos have been codified under Xi, with a new criminal code outlawing the slander of political “heroes and martyrs.” – The New Yorker -
Gwangju Biennale Names Artists for 2024 Edition, a Show Billed as a ‘Soundscape of the 21st Century’
via artnews.comThe Gwangju Biennale, the most high-profile recurring art festival in Asia, has revealed the artists that will take part in the 2024 show, due to open in the South Korean city on September 7.The exhibition is this time being curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French curator best known for theorizing the relational aesthetics style of the 1990s. As is typical for Bourriaud’s exhibitions, his Gwangju Biennale comes with an ambitious framework that envisions sound as a means of structuring life -
What’s The Secret To The Songs That Make People Want To Dance? Syncopation, Says New Study
But not too much — just “a moderate level of syncopation to the point where our brain can still extract the periodic beat from the melodies. (These researchers) contend that the brain is essentially trying to anticipate upcoming beats amid a melody’s syncopation. The result is the impulse to dance.” – Scientific American -
Ghanaian Photographer Gerard Annan-Forson Comes Into Focus with a US Retrospective
via artnews.comWhen Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana in 1999 on an official visit, the British High Commission called Gerald Annan-Forson about photographing the monarch in a private session. Years beforehand, Annan-Forson had developed a habit of standing before Buckingham Palace with the dream of taking images of the queen or the royal family someday. The Commission’s request came as a surprise.“I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. She’s coming with all these pressmen. Why me?’ -
Ghanaian Photographer Gerald Annan-Forson Comes Into Focus with a US Retrospective
via artnews.comWhen Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana in 1999 on an official visit, the British High Commission called Gerald Annan-Forson about photographing the monarch in a private session. Years beforehand, Annan-Forson had developed a habit of standing before Buckingham Palace with the dream of taking images of the queen or the royal family someday. The Commission’s request came as a surprise.“I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. She’s coming with all these pressmen. Why me?’ -
Christopher Knight: Questions About The Broad Museum Expansion
via latimes.comThe conceit of a vanity museum’s design being dubbed “the veil and the vault,” with a perforated exterior draped over a treasury for a private collection being made public, was always more pretentious than meaningful. It’s good to see it go. – Los Angeles Times -
LA’s Broad Museum Announces Major Expansion
via latimes.comThe Broad on Wednesday announced a $100-million building expansion that will increase gallery space at one of Los Angeles’ most popular museums by 70%. The sweeping plans could provide a critical boost to downtown L.A. – Los Angeles Times -
Following Lawsuit Settlement, Latino Student Internship at Smithsonian Now Open to All Students
via artnews.comThe Latino Museum Studies Program undergraduate internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino has been opened to students of all races after the settlement of a lawsuit that said the program amounted to discrimination, CNN reports.The lawsuit was filed in February by the Texas-based American Alliance for Equal Rights against the museum’s director, Jorge Zamanillo, and the director of the Institute of Museum and Library -
Florida’s New Budget Increases Arts & Culture Funding By Over 60%. However, …
“Allocations for fiscal year 2025 total $93.9 million, funding 669 different arts and culture projects or organizations. Just $32 million of that is allocated for grants overseen by the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs, while the rest is earmarked for what are known as member projects.” – Sarasota Herald-Tribune -
Gill Watkiss obituary
via theguardian.comMy mother, Gill Watkiss, who has died aged 85, was an artist whose paintings took their inspiration from the county of Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life.Gill focused on the everyday interaction of Cornish folk with their environment: in churchyards, market squares and parks, by the seaside, or out walking in the countryside. Continue reading...
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