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18 New York Artists Tapped to Create Works for JFK’s New Terminal
John F. Kennedy Airport, one of the world’s busiest crossroads, will soon be its destination in its own right for world-class art. Eighteen artists hailing from seven countries have been tapped to create installations for the airport’s new Terminal 6, set to open in 2026, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced on Tuesday. ARTnews in Brief: Public Art Fund Names Melanie Kress Senior Curator, ICI's 2023 Leo Award Goes to Uzodinma Iweala, and More The $4.2 billion terminal is now set to host works by artists based in New York, including Sky Hopinka, Charles Gaines, and Barbara Kruger....
Maya Structures and Pyramids Discovered Among Mexican Tropical Forests
Among Mexico’s dense tropical forests in central Campeche, archaeologists have identified pyramids and a ceremonial center, as well as a subterranean structure beneath a ball court constructed by the ancient Maya.Site of 'Clash' Between Spartacus and Roman Army Discovered in Italy The archaeological efforts, which focused on a lesser-studied forest called the Balam Kú Biosphere Reserve, were spearheaded by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The area covers roughly 54 square miles of rough terrain. Given that terrain and its difficulty to farm, fewer settlements and structures have been found there previously. “The inevitable impression is that the Maya culture...
V&A Beats Out Met Museum to Acquire $2.6 M. Ivory Sculpture of Christ
The Victoria & Albert Museum, also known as the V&A, recently raised the $2.6 million (£2 million) needed to acquire and save a 12th-century walrus ivory carving after a temporary export ban last November.Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers Head to Auction, Warhol Foundation Settles Copyright Dispute, Vienna Gets an Actionist Museum, and More: Morning Links for March 19, 2024 A press release from the museum called Deposition of Christ from the Cross “one of the finest and most important examples of English Romanesque ivory carvings to survive.” The walrus tusk ivory sculpture depicts Jesus Christ’s body being lifted from the cross by Joseph...
Tokyo Gendai Art Fair Moves To September for 2025 Edition
Tokyo Gendai recently announced a shift in dates for its next edition in 2025. Sales Start Slow at Tokyo Gendai, But Founder Magnus Renfrew Is Playing the Long Game Instead of taking place in July, as it has for its first two editions, the art fair will return next year to the Pacifico Yokohama convention center about an hour south of central Tokyo on September 12 to September 14, with its VIP preview day on September 11. The VIP email on July 10 acknowledged the new dates in the fall “will mean a more comfortable climate for visitors and galleries”. Co-founder...
Christie’s Auction Sales Down 22 Percent in First Half of 2024
Christie’s, the world’s largest auction house, reported Tuesday that it generated $2.1 billion in live and online auction sales in the first half of 2024, a figure that represents a 22 drop from the same period last year.Aspen Art Museum will Share a Portion of Profits from Charity Auction with Artists During the first half of 2023, Christie’s brought in $2.7 billion in live and online auction sales. That figure was already down 23 percent from the $3.5 billion generated during the same period in 2022. In years past, Christie’s has reported the total revenues of auction and private sales. But this...
LA’s MOCA Announces New $100,000 ‘Environment and Art’ Prize
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will soon award three editions of a major artist prize over the next six years.ARTnews in Brief: MOCA LA Names José Luis Blondet Senior Curator, Walker Art Center Hires Rosario Güiraldes Called the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, the award, which comes with $100,000, will go to an artist whose practice “address[es] critical intersections in art, architecture, design, climate, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice,” according to a release. “Eric and Wendy Schmidt, through their philanthropic initiatives, have long supported projects at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts. MOCA is...
Centre Pompidou Málaga to Remain Open Through 2034 Under New Deal
A Spanish outpost of Paris’s Centre Pompidou will continue to operate through 2034 under a new deal inked with the city of Málaga last week.New Jersey Pulls Funding for Centre Pompidou Satellite, Stonewall Monument Unveiled, Teddy Roosevelt's Stolen Pocket Watch Returned, and More: Morning Links for July 1, 2024 The space, formally known as the Centre Pompidou Málaga, measures 65,000 square feet. It opened to the public in 2015 and has welcomed more than 3 million visitors since then, according to the Centre Pompidou. Under this new arrangement, the museum will remain open for 10 more years. Laurent Le Bon, president...
Europe Creeps into Art Basel Miami, RIP Thomas Hoepker, Frida Kahlo Portrait Securely Dated, and More: Morning Links for July 16, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.A Madonna-Frida Kahlo Controversy, Hirst Backdating Scrutiny Grows, Critics Pan New Royal Portrait, and More: Morning Links for May 22, 2024 THE HEADLINES GO EUROPE, GO! Le Quotidien de l’Art focuses on the 11 European galleries that have never participated in Art Basel Miami since its creation in 2002. The American iteration of the fair, which will next take place from December 6 to 8 (VIP days are on December 4 and 5), has asserted its place in the art market by attracting a strong network of loyal collectors from South...
How Technology Enables Arts Institutions to Reach New Audiences and Expand Access to the Arts
When COVID-19 forced institutions worldwide to close, arts organizations quickly developed digital programs to stay connected with their audiences. New World Symphony in Miami Beach, equipped with state-of-the-art technology, was particularly well-prepared for this transition.Championing Art and Technology Integration During the pandemic, locals gathered in SoundScape Park for socially distanced live-streamed performances projected on the venue’s wall, while hundreds watched from their homes. Even three years later, the concert venue continues to prioritize a digital-first approach. “We are never going back,” said Howard Herring, New World Symphony president and CEO, at Knight Foundation’s forum Catalyst: Digital Transformation in the Arts, during...
Bill Viola Changed Art Forever by Using Video to Confront the Limits of Vision
From the white void, a black speck emerges. No more than a few pixels wide at first, this blob drifts closer and closer to us. As it slowly nears, the blob becomes a being whose legs and arms can be seen swaying in the wind, whose blustery din acts as this image’s soundtrack. Then, at the point when it is finally obvious that the blob is a human marching through a wind-swept plain, the man collapses to the ground and the shot ends.Bill Viola, Video Artist Who Established the Medium as an Integral Part of Contemporary Art, Dies at 73 This...
Beloved Statue of Hiroshima Bombing Victim Stolen from Seattle Park
A bronze statue honoring a 12-year-old victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, was stolen from a Seattle park this weekend, according to local media reports. Brazilian Artist Steals Historic Coin From the British Museum as Part of Art Project The statue of Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia caused by exposure to radiation, was discovered on Friday severed from the ankles. The Seattle Police Department is investigating and said in a statement that local scrap collectors had been notified. City members, meanwhile, have theorized online that the bronze was taken by thieves who planned to sell the metal, suggesting...
London’s Science Museum Ends Contract with Oil Sponsor After Protests
London’s Science Museum Group, a collective of five UK-run museums, has ended a sponsorship deal with the oil company Equinor after calls for its board to divest from the energy giant. Court Decides Activists Who Glued Themselves to Vermeer Painting Don't Deserve Jail Time The Norwegian company had been a backer of the UK museum since 2016, sponsoring its Wonderlab gallery, a space devoted to children’s programming. In a statement published at the end of June, the museum confirmed that its contract with the firm would not be renewed, but praised the company for providing funding aimed at “young potential engineers and...
Brazilian Artist Steals Historic Coin From the British Museum as Part of Art Project
Last month, the Brazilian artist Ilê Sartuzi stole a historic coin from its display case at the British Museum in London, and shortly after dropped the coin in the musem’s donation box, the Art Newspaper reported Monday.Beloved Statue of Hiroshima Bombing Victim Stolen from Seattle Park Sartuzi filmed the theft and the return, and is now including that footage, a seven-minute video titled Sleight of Hand, in his MFA thesis exhibition at Goldsmiths, University of London, on view through July 16. The incident occurred on June 18 when Sartuzi stole the silver coin minted in 1645 in Newark, England from its...
Curator Konstantin Akinsha on Saving Ukrainian Modernism from Russia’s Missiles
While a vast survey of Ukrainian modernism in London appeared to open at the end of June without a hitch, the show’s journey to the UK was not an easy ride.EU Court Says Getty Should Return Ancient Greek Bronze to Italy, Kyiv 'Derussifies' Monument, Da Vinci Gets Biopic, and More: Morning Links for May 3, 2024 Konstantin Akinsha, the curator of the Royal Academy of Arts’s “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s,” spent several frustrating years trying to convince Western museums to host the show. But he kept hitting roadblocks: some were uninterested, and some were simply...
UK’s Henry Moore Institute Reopens, Bill Viola Dies, V&A Museum Pursues Met Loan Agreement, and More: Morning Links for July 15, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Thailand Celebrates Return of 11th Century Sculptures Repatriated by the Met Museum THE HEADLINES AS GOOD AS NEW. The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds has opened its doors after the first major redevelopment in its 31-year history, reports The Art Newspaper. The institute, which is situated next to Leeds Art Gallery, stems from the British sculptor’s frustration that he did not have more access to sculpture as a young man. Together with Leeds Art Gallery, the organization looks after one of the greatest collections of British sculpture in the world, as...
Miami Art Dealer Gary Nader Fighting Foreclosure of Art Collection and Gallery after Lawsuit by Former Lawyers
For the past two years, Miami art dealer Gary Nader has been in a legal battle with a law firm over unpaid attorney’s fees. Now the dispute has grown to involve the possible foreclosure of Nader’s extensive art collection and the building housing that collection.Gary Nader to Sell $100 M. Worth of Artworks From His Collection to Fund New Miami Museum According to court records reviewed by ARTnews, a lawsuit was first filed against Nader, Gary Nader Corporation, and Nader+Museu I, LLLP by attorney Robert A. Stok in November 2022, on behalf of AIM Recovery Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary used by...
Bill Viola, Video Artist Who Established the Medium as an Integral Part of Contemporary Art, Dies at 73
Bill Viola, whose decades-long engagement with video proved vital in establishing the medium as an integral part of contemporary art, died on July 12 at his home in Long Beach, California. He was at 73 years old. The cause was complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. The news of his passing was confirmed by James Cohan Gallery.Bill Viola Changed Art Forever by Using Video to Confront the Limits of Vision Viola’s works are centered around the idea of human consciousness and such fundamental experiences as birth, death, and spirituality. He delved into mystical traditions from Zen Buddhism to Islamic Sufism, as well as Western devotional...
Alex Janvier, Pioneer of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Canada, Has Died at 89
Alex Janvier, an Alberta-based painter and pivotal champion of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada, died on July 10. He was 89. The news was confirmed by his family on July 10 in an Instagram post. A moment of silence was held in his honor at the Assembly of First Nations annual general meeting that same day.Bill Viola, Video Artist Who Established the Medium as an Integral Part of Contemporary Art, Dies at 73 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, writing on X, said: “His art reflected so much of Canada’s history, including some of the hardest parts of our story.” In some of Janvier’s...
Site of ‘Clash’ Between Spartacus and Roman Army Discovered in Italy
A stone wall built by the Roman army as a defense against slave revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus and his men has been identified by archaeologists in an Italian forest.Archaeologists Identify 4,000-Year-Old Temple and Theater in Peru Local environmentalists who found the wall alerted archaeologists, who have now been able to provide greater insight using advanced radar and laser scanning methods, as well as soil sample analysis. The ditch and mound (or fossa and agger, respectively) was a common Roman defense system. This stone wall and earthwork, for instance, stretches nearly two miles through the Dossone della Melia forest in Italy’s Calabria region....
Motherwell Estate Gifts $200,000 to Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center and its Famed Residency Program
The estate of Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell and photographer Renate Ponsold Motherwell, who died in 2023, will give $200,000 to Fine Arts Work Center, a residency program and arts education center in Provincetown, Massachusetts that Motherwell cofounded more than 50 years ago.After Nearly 80 Years, Marlborough Gallery Will Officially Begin Closing in June The gift will go to support FAWC’s two main programs: its fellowship, where a cohort of 10 visual artists and 10 writers stay at the organization’s campus for seven months during the off season, and its Summer Workshops, weeklong programs in focused disciplines of art and writing. “The mission of...
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