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Andrea Rosen Closes Her New York Gallery, Cites Need to be 'Responsive to Our Times'
ArtfixDaily / February 22nd, 2017
Gallerist Andrea Rosen surprised the New York art world with an announcement on Tuesday that she will be closing her eponymous gallery in Chelsea after 27 years. “I have come to realize that in order for me to be fearlessly open and responsive to our times and the future, [it] requires ...
Desert X Installs Site-Specific Artworks to Discover in California's Coachella Valley
W Magazine about the Desert X artists / February 22nd, 2017
An exciting new art project of the Desert Biennial, a nonprofit steering committee and charitable organization that promotes art and the local environment, will pop up in California's Coachella Valley this month. Desert X, from Feb. 25 to April 30, 2017, will populate indoor and outdoor ...
NYC's Museum of Ice Cream Heads to California
LA Magazine / February 20th, 2017
The sensational pop-up Museum of Ice Cream that sold-out tickets when it opened in New York last summer is heading to southern California. A new location is expected to open next month, possibly in the Santa Monica/Venice Beach area, according to reports. In five days, all 30,000 tickets were ...
New Global Arts Coalition Launches to Counter Right-Wing Populism
ArtfixDaily / February 16th, 2017
Hundreds of artists have signed on to a new coalition that aims to counter right-wing ideology and policies with public-facing responses in art. The group called Hands Off Our Revolution already lists support from notable artists, musicians, writers, and gallerists such as Ed Ruscha, Anish ...
Lunders Make Another Gift of $100 Million to Colby College Museum of Art
Portland Press Herald / February 2nd, 2017
The Portland Press Herald reports that Colby College Museum of Art has received a gift worth $100 million from Peter and Paula Lunder. It is the couple's second gift of that magnitude to the institution in Waterville, Maine, which they have long supported in various ways, including ...
Anish Kapoor Creates Protest Piece: 'I Like America and America Doesn't Like Me'
ArtfixDaily / February 1st, 2017
British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor has released a riff on German artist Joseph Beuys’ famed 1974 performance piece, “I Like America and America Likes Me,” as a protest to the exclusionary policies of the Trump administration. Kapoor has reimagined the poster that Beuys made for his performance, ...
Artist Christo Quits 20-Year, $15 Million Project in Protest of Trump
ArtfixDaily / January 26th, 2017
Renowned artist Christo has decided to halt his current Over the River project after two decades of work and $15 million of his own money has already been invested in it. "I can't do a project that benefits this landlord," said Christo to the New York Times, of the federal land to be ...
National Endowments for the Arts, Humanities Could Face Elimination Under Trump
The Hill / January 19th, 2017
The Hill first reported that staff from the Trump transition team have been briefing White House career staff ahead of the inauguration about plans to slash government spending -- from major cuts for several departments to all out eliminations. Budget cuts and program deletions are ...
Performance Art Piece Across Golden Gate Bridge Set for Inauguration Day
ArtfixDaily / January 9th, 2017
A general strike from work and schools across the U.S. has been called for January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration. The art world is joining in with its own #J20 Art Strike, proposing in bold letters on the action's Facebook page, “NO WORK NO SCHOOL NO BUSINESS,” with a suggested ...
John Berger, Art Critic Known For 'Ways of Seeing', Remembered
Guardian / January 3rd, 2017
Influential English art critic, essayist, poet, playwright and novelist John Berger, who lived mostly in France, has died at age 90. His 1970s Ways of Seeing BBC television series, also a book, opened up new ideas about viewing art and culture. Among his many publications, Berger's novel G. won ...
New York Opens Art-Filled $4.5 Billion Second Avenue Subway Line
ArtfixDaily / January 2nd, 2017
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo debuted Manhattan's new Second Avenue Subway station at 86th Street on January 1 - and it's part of a new transportation line full of world-class art. "In many way, this is a remarkable New York story. It started 100 years ago – 1920 – when an engineer for the ...
Think Nature: Pantone's Color of the Year is a Rejuvenating Green
Pantone / December 8th, 2016
Rather weary of seeing red and blue? Taking the pulse of the times, the Pantone Color Institute has offered up a bright shade of green for its Color of the Year. Greenery is Pantone's choice for 2017. Expect the color to repeat in art, design and fashion - although this shade is ...
National Petition Circulates to President-Elect Trump to Support the Arts in America
Arts Action Fund / December 8th, 2016
With legislative changes ahead under a new US Presidential administration, American for the Arts Action Fund developed a pro-arts action list in a national petition. While pointing out the important economic impact of the arts and culture sector in the US, the petition also includes the ...
Political Art Snapped Up at Art Basel Miami Beach
Forbes / December 4th, 2016
Political art was more prominent than usual at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, with more galleries devoting prime real estate in their booths to works inspired by the US presidential election. Many of those works sold quickly. By Friday afternoon, London gallery Sadie Coles HQ had sold almost ...
Art Basel Miami Beach Kicks Off With Some Conversations
Forbes / November 29th, 2016
The world’s largest and most important contemporary art fair takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center this week, and Forbes reports on the Art Basel Miami Beach highlights. For one, Galerie Gmurzynska will present visitors with an extraordinary exhibition of Russian Avant-Garde ...
Artists Spark Political Protest in New York
New York Times / November 29th, 2016
About 150 artists, gallerists, and curators marched outside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Manhattan residential building on Monday with signs in protest of the president-elect's offensive comments about women and his proposed policies, reports the New York Times. The peaceful protest ...
Guess Co-Founders Set to Open New Museum in LA
Time Out / November 28th, 2016
TIME OUT Los Angeles: After years of buzz, the Marciano Art Foundation’s new museum in Los Angeles is getting closer to an opening date. Starting in spring of 2017, the doors will open on what looks set to become a Mid-Wilshire answer to the Braod or MOCA museums in Downtown, backed by ...
Iran Cancels Exhibition of Shah's Art Collection in Berlin
Guardian / November 28th, 2016
An exhibition of artworks from Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art that was due to open in Berlin next month has been indefinitely postponed because the Iranian authorities have failed to allow the paintings to leave the country. Ticket sales for the event – which had been hailed as a sign ...
Jeff Koons Gives Giant Bouquet Sculpture to Paris in Honor of Terror Victims
France 24 / November 22nd, 2016
Artist Jeff Koons announced Monday that he will give a monumental sculpture to France in honor of 130 victims lost in November 2015's jihadist attacks on Paris. The 34-foot bronze, stainless steel and aluminum "Bouquet of Flowers" will depict a bunch of tulips in a hand resembling the Statue of ...
Germany Buys $13.25 Million Thomas Mann Home in California for Artist Residency
Los Angeles Times / November 22nd, 2016
To save a landmark from possible demolition, Germany has purchased the former Southern California home of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann who fled the Nazi regime in the 1940s. The coastal Pacific Palisades residence was built in 1941 by modernist architect J.R. Davidson. It was ...