Bruce W. Ferguson.COURTESY OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Bruce W. Ferguson, the first director of SITE Santa Fe, an important art space with a major biennial in New Mexico, has died at 73. The Los Angeles Times, which first reported the news, said that the cause was cancer. Ferguson became director of SITE Santa …
Lawrence Rinder.COURTESY BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE Lawrence Rinder, the director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California, will step down in March of next year, after 13 years leading the institution. The museum did not provide a reason for Rinder’s departure or details about his next steps, but …
Jeff Koons.EVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK A legal battle that pits billionaire collector Steven A. Tananbaum against Gagosian gallery and Jeff Koons’s studio over their alleged failure to deliver three works by the artist is raging on. Last week, Gagosian gallery told the New York Supreme Court that it would appeal a decision reached late last month that …
Christie’s New York will offer Charles White’s 1976 oil painting Banner for Willie J. at its postwar and contemporary evening sale in November. The work carries an estimate of $1 million to $1.5 million. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2019 As the fall art season continues apace, the major auction houses are beginning to reveal what will …
The 2018 edition of MECA. COURTESY MECA The MECA International Art Fair has announced the exhibitors for its third edition in Puerto Rico, with 24 galleries set to sell work at the Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española in Old San Juan from November 21 to 24. First-time participants include Misako & Rosen (of Tokyo), …
Robert Frank, New York City, 7 Bleecker Street, September, 1993.©ROBERT FRANK/COURTESY PACE/MACGILL When Robert Frank died two weeks ago at the age of 94, filmmakers and photographers around the world took to a variety of platforms to remember the artist’s profound impact. Born in 1924 in Zurich, Frank first became widely known for his photographs …
Spring Studios in Tribeca. COURTESY SPRING STUDIOS The Independent art fair, which is held annually in New York and Brussels, has revealed the 63 galleries that will show work in its 2020 edition at Spring Studios in Tribeca. The event will take place during Armory Week, from March 5 to 8. Twenty-one of the exhibitors …
Olafur Eliasson. BRIGITTE LACOMBE/©2016 OLAFUR ELIASSON Olafur Eliasson is widely known for his environmentalist-minded work, which is currently being surveyed at Tate Modern in London. Now Eliasson is entering a new field: politics On Sunday, the United Nations announced that the Danish-Icelandic artist has been named a Goodwill Ambassador of its Development Programme. In this …
A performer with Pope L.’s Conquest. SCOTT LYNCH/ARTNEWS The crawlers knew where to go by following the sound of a trumpet. It was bright and early in New York at Corporal John A. Seravalli playground when a group was congregating to kick off Conquest, artist Pope.L’s performance in which participants drag themselves across a predetermined …
We Make America protestors with the signs they made for the 2019 Climate Strike. ANNIE ARMSTRONG/ARTNEWS In cities across the globe on Friday, people from all climes marched to speak out for climate justice in advance of a United Nations summit on the subject next week, with artists and others from the art world among …