AUDREY FLACK (1931–2024)
Pathbreaking artist Audrey Flack, who pioneered Photorealism before turning to massive bronze sculptures monumentalizing women, died of an aortic dissection on June 28 in Southampton, New York. She was ninety-three. One of the first artists to use a photo as the prototype for a painting—her 1964 Kennedy Motorcade is arguably the first Photorealistic work ever […]
JUNE LEAF (1929–2024)
June Leaf, whose idiosyncratic oeuvre was shaped by a desire to find new ways of seeing the world, died of gastric cancer on July 1 at her Manhattan home. She was ninety-four. Through poetic paintings, intimate drawings, and trembling kinetic sculptures, Leaf maintained a constantly evolving practice whose eternal freshness guaranteed its longevity and allowed […]
NEW FINDING COMMITTEE APPOINTED FOR DOCUMENTA 16
The supervisory board of Documenta has revealed a new six-person finding committee for the quinquennial event’s sixteenth edition, set to open in Kassel in 2027. The group comprises Yilmaz Dziewior, director of Museum Ludwig, Cologne; freelance curator Sergio Edelsztein, who founded the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv; independent curator N‘Goné Fall, an academic and […]
JOAN KEE TO LEAD NYU’S INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS
Art historian Joan Kee has been announced as the next director of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She will step into her new role on August 19. Currently a professor of the history of art at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Kee is an expert in modern and contemporary art of Asia and […]