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A Giant Floating Structure Made from Plastic Bags Comes to a Seoul Museum
Frieze Seoul may be over, but as ARTnews reported from the ground last week, there is still plenty of art to see in the Southern Korean capital, including Anicka Yi’s first survey in Asia, at the Leeum Museum of Art. Also at the Leeum Museum, which is operated by the Samsung Foundation of Culture, is a three-month public project in collaboration with the Aerocene Foundation, titled “Aerocene Seoul.” 6 Shows to See in Seoul During Frieze The exhibition is part of the Leeum’s “Idea Museum,” the institution’s first public program supported by the Chanel Culture Fund that features events such as Museo Aero Solar, a massive, community-built, floating...
Thousands of Artists, Including Sonia Boyce and John Akomfrah, Urge UK Government to Support the Arts
Several thousand artists and arts professionals recently signed a letter to the UK department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), strongly recommending that the incoming government support “a roadmap to sustain the visual arts for the long term.”Golden Lion Winner Sonia Boyce Joins Hauser & Wirth Among the more than 4,000 artists and arts professionals are Sonia Boyce, Britain’s Golden Lion–winning representative for the 2022 Venice Biennale, and John Akomfrah, the country’s representative for the 2024 Venice Biennale. Mona Hatoum, Jade Montserrat, George Shaw, and Haroon Mirza also signed the letter. In June, about a week prior to the UK General Election,...
Climate Protesters Force Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to Close
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was blockaded by climate protesters from the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group on Saturday, forcing the museum to shut “until further notice.”Rijksmuseum Director to Criminal Underworld: 'Can We Have Our Frans Hals Painting Back?' XR activists, wearing yellow jumpsuits and face masks, set off yellow smoke bombs outside the museum. Several protesters chained themselves to a fence by the entrance and demanded the Rijksmuseum cut ties with its main sponsor, the Dutch multinational bank ING Group. According to XR, the bank finances projects that contribute to climate change. An XR representative told the Dutch news agency ANP “it’s incomprehensible that the Rijksmuseum...
Slovakian Culture Workers Launch Strike Against Government’s ‘Ideologically Motivated Censorship’
Slovakia’s government felt the heat on Thursday as cultural workers from hundreds of theaters, galleries, and other institutions across the country threatened to strike.Open Letter Slams Slovakia's Government, Banksy Video Interview Resurfaces, George Clooney is Auctioning a Dinner Date, and More: Morning Links for August 15, 2024 The movement, known as Culture Strike, is coordinated by Open Culture! Platform, an independent civic group that was formed in January to “protect culture in Slovakia from the destructive actions of politicians.” At a press conference in Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital, Culture Stike’s organizers laid out their demands. They said the culture ministry must halt “ideologically motivated...
Rebecca Horn, Legendary Artist Whose Sculptures Aspired Toward Alchemy, Dies at 80
Rebecca Horn, a venturesome artist whose work explored states of transformation and viewed the body as a portal to other dimensions, died on Saturday at 80. Her New York gallery, Sean Kelly, announced her death, but did not state a cause.Derek Boshier, British Pop Artist Who Made Work for David Bowie and The Clash, Dies at 87 Horn’s mysterious, beguiling work is considered essential in Germany, the country where she was based. There, her art was a staple in exhibitions such as Documenta, the closely watched show that recurs once every five years in Kassel, although her work has also been...
Professor Pledges to Remove Name from Brauer Museum if Valparaiso University Moves Forward with Deaccession
Richard Brauer, a nonagenarian art history professor who has opposed a controversial plan by Valparaiso University in Indiana to sell three key paintings from its collection, said he will request his name be stripped from its museum building, which currently honors him.An Indiana University's Plan Sell $10M. Worth of Art to Fund Dorm Renovations Overcomes Legal Hurdle Brauer’s statement, which was distributed to ARTnews through his attorney on Thursday, comes after a recent court ruling allowing the university to amend the terms of the legal trust that endowed the artworks. The change means the school is legally permitted to move ahead with...
6 Shows to See in Seoul During Frieze
As the third edition of Frieze Seoul heads into its final day today, many international visitors are likely already on their way home. Some may have already left to head to the Gwangju Biennale, which is now in its 15th iteration and is curated this year by Nicolas Bourriaud. (Some of the festivities started on Thursday, causing many to leave Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning.) A few might continue to the Busan Biennale, which is also coinciding with Frieze this year. Led by $2.5 M. Nicolas Party Painting, Frieze Seoul Sales Attest to a Stable Market in Asia But there is...
An Artist-Made Billboard in Times Square Has a Hidden Message: Save Gaza
In August, LG Art Lab approached artist Patrick Amadon with a seemingly simple request: Contribute the inaugural artwork for the public launch of its blockchain-backed online art market. A sweet deal for exposure; the work would screen on 14 million smart screens and one monumental billboard in Times Square, New York. But the artist, who just goes by Amadon, thought, ‘sure, but are you sure?’Climate Protestors Force Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to Close A cursory Google search of his practice reveals a dedication to dissent: His work—glitchy frames of mundane imagery made hostile—excavates issues of surveillance, media literacy, news propaganda, and artists’ rights....
Derek Boshier, British Pop Artist Who Made Work for David Bowie and The Clash, Dies at 87
Derek Boshier, a British Pop artist who went on to produce work for a range of musicians, from David Bowie to The Clash, has died at 87. A representative for the artist confirmed his death on Thursday to the PA newswire. A cause of death was not provided.Rebecca Horn, Legendary Artist Whose Sculptures Aspired Toward Alchemy, Dies at 80 During the 1960s, Boshier became one of the foremost figures of the Pop movement in England, where, alongside artists such as Pauline Boty and Allen Jones, he envisioned a culture transformed by consumerism. His strange, absorbing paintings from the early part of...
Rebranded London Museum Receives $65 M. Cash Injection as Construction Costs Swell by $130 M.
The new London Museum has been handed an extra $65 million to help get its construction to the finish line. The institution has now eclipsed its original budget of $445 million from 2019, with the projected final bill standing at $575 million.Over 100 Firefighters Tackled a Blaze on Somerset House's Roof in London The mayor of London, Sadiq Kahn, and the City of London Corporation have both put $32.5 million into the pot. To date, Kahn has injected $125 million into the project, while the City of London Corporation has parted with almost $300 million. “We are steaming ahead to deliver a...
Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Goes on View for First Time in Nearly 400 Years at Texas Museum
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting that has been owned by private collectors for nearly 400 years. When the work goes on view today, it will be the first time the painting has been exhibited publicly since the 17th century.Bienal de São Paulo Names 2025 Chief Curator, British Museum Investigated, Protesters Target Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibit, and More: Morning Links for April 2, 2024 The painting, titled Penitent Mary Magdalene (1625–26), centers a female figure from the Bible, making it one of the many by Gentileschi to do so. Gentileschi’s work has been prized...
Rheim Alkadhi Offers a Path Toward Liberation in Palestine-Themed Artworks in London
If you enter the lower galleries of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts right now, you’ll encounter a postcard-like image described by the museum as “an intervention.” The image’s front side shows “this beautiful portrait of probably a queer person,” the other side, “a very direct statement on the genocide in Gaza,” according to its maker, artist Rheim Alkadhi, who first visited Palestine around three decades ago as a teenager. There, she said in an interview, she “got a picture early on of the discrepancy between the news we are given and what is actually happening.”State-Owned Chinese Company Places $1.2 B....
Bridging Art and Technology: Enhancing Human Experience and Building Community
On the dynamic stage of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in Miami Beach, camera lenses peer out like eyes, ready to stream virtuosic musicians performing their craft to audiences around the world. The campus’s Knight New Media Center has emerged as a beacon for artists and technologists alike, serving as a laboratory of innovation and artistic exploration.How Technology Enables Arts Institutions to Reach New Audiences and Expand Access to the Arts Craig Webb, of Gehry Partners, the architect behind the space, calls the center “a place for artists to explore, requiring collaboration between visual artists and musicians.” The works created...
MFA Boston Returns Necklace Suspected to Have Been Looted from Turkey
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has repatriated a necklace to Turkey after scholars told museum staff that elements of the artifact were likely looted from an ancient tomb illegally excavated in the 1970s.A Must-See Matthew Wong Retrospective Reveals New Sides of an Artist Whose Story Is Still Emerging Parts of the disassembled 2,700-year-old gold and carnelian necklace, which has been on display at the MFA for more than forty years after it was acquired, were believed by researchers to have been taken out of Turkey after an illicit excavation that took place in 1976. The necklace is believed to...
Led by $2.5 M. Nicolas Party Painting, Frieze Seoul Sales Attest to a Stable Market in Asia
Talk of a turbulent art market in the West has been met with signs of growth in Asia. That all made Frieze Seoul, whose opening was held this week, an important event for market observers, as it allowed them to take the temperature of the market in Asia.6 Shows to See in Seoul During Frieze One thing was clear: many dealers here seemed willing to take risks. While quite a few booths were lined with paintings, as is common at art fairs, a number also contained sculptures, installations, and videos—mediums that are not always guaranteed to sell as well. Still, it’s...
Art World Con Artist Anna Delvey to Compete on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Fake heiress Anna Delvey is heading back to the spotlight, this time as a contestant on ABC’s hit competition show Dancing with the Stars.Anna Delvey Hosts a Rooftop Fashion Show at Her East Village Apartment The 33-year-old Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, was convicted of larceny, grand theft, and financial crimes in 2019, and sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison, then released in 2022. In early 2022, she went about monetizing her infamy, hosting an art show while still in detention and adapting her life and cons into the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna by Shonda Rhimes. By December 2022, Delvey had sold...
Sasha Gordon Joins David Zwirner, Making Her the Gallery’s Youngest Artist
Sasha Gordon, a painter known for works that envision herself in surreal scenarios, has joined David Zwirner, one of the world’s biggest galleries. At age 26, she is the youngest artist currently on the roster—and among the youngest represented by any gallery of David Zwirner’s stature.David Zwirner Cuts Digital Team After Reorganizing E-Commerce Business Platform Her David Zwirner deal will see her maintain representation with Matthew Brown, the trendy Los Angeles– and New York–based gallery her first-ever solo show, in 2021. Gordon’s paintings draw on her own experiences as a biracial Asian woman. In 2021, she told Art in America that...
Rabkin Foundation Names 2024 Winners of Arts Journalism Grants
The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, has named the winners of its 2024 grants for visual arts journalists, who include Art in America senior editor Emily Watlington. The grants carry an unrestricted $50,000, and recognize the “creative and intellectual contributions” of arts writers, per a release from the foundation.Professor Pledges to Remove Name from Brauer Museum if Valparaiso University Moves Forward with Deaccession The other grant winners are Greg Allen, of greg.org; Holland Cotter, chief art critic for The New York Times; Robin Givhan, senior critic-at-large for the Washington Post; Los Angeles–based writer and painter Thomas Lawson; Siddhartha...
$134,000 Worth of Historic Firearms Stolen from Australia Museum
Late last month, more than $134,000 worth of historic firearms were stolen from the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum, leading the Australian museum to close for the “foreseeable future.”Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales to Repatriate 800-Year-Old Temple Carving to Nepal In a statement posted to Facebook, the museum said that the robbery, which occurred on August 25, led to “immeasurable damage” and that it “will not be reopening any time in the forseeable future. We have an awful lot of work to do and a few major challenges to overcome before we can reopen.” Police told ABC News Australia that...
The New York Mets Close Out Their Artist Series with a Big Win and a Sarah Sze–Designed Hat
By the time pitcher Ryne Stanek put the finishing touches on the New York Mets’ 7-2 win over the Boston Red Sox, it was clear that Tuesday was a picture-perfect night. To be fair, it started out that way, too, with Sarah Sze throwing out the first pitch and the first 15,000 fans receiving a baseball cap emblazoned with a fragmented blue-and-orange globe designed by the artist.Guggenheim to Hold Midcareer Survey for Former Trustee Rashid Johnson The game marked the third and final edition of the Mets “Artist Series” program, where the team ditched the more typical bobblehead giveaways for items...
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