Audrey Flack, the Pioneering Photorealist Who Elevated the Everyday, Dies at 93
Feminist painter and sculptor Audrey Flack, one of the founders of Photorealism, died in Southampton, New York, on June 28. The 93-year-old artist’s death was confirmed by her former dealer and longtime friend, Louis K. Meisel. Born in New York in 1931, Flack studied at the city’s Cooper Union before receiving a scholarship to Connecticut’s […]
Art Collective Rebukes Stedelijk Museum for ‘Failure’ Over Barricade Loan Standoff
The Not Surprised Collective of artists is blasting the leadership of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum over a statement it issued about the group’s request to loan an Ahmet Öğüt artwork for a pro-Gaza protest to protect students from clashes with police. The museum had acquired Öğüt’s installation Bakunin’s Barricade (2015–22) with a contract that stipulates it […]
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
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WARHOL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES SPRING 2024 GRANTEES
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on June 27 announced the forty-nine recipients of its spring 2024 grants. The foundation will award more than $4 million to visual arts organizations and institutions dispersed across nineteen US states and the District of Columbia as well as one in South Africa. Included among the recipients are small […]
MANIFESTA 15 REVEALS PROGRAM AND PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
The organizers of Manifesta have announced the program and named the eighty-five artists and collectives participating in the peripatetic biennial’s fifteenth iteration, set to take place in Barcelona September 8–November 24. The event will investigate the region’s built and natural environs and their relation to one another and to the world at large, with a […]
SUPREME COURT REJECTS PURDUE PHARMA BANKRUPTCY DEAL
The Supreme Court on June 27 voted 5-4 to reject a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement plan. The deal would have shielded members of the Sackler family who owned the beleaguered drug maker from liability regarding civil claims connected to the company’s aggressive marketing of the powerful opioid OxyContin. The family members—whose name long adorned the walls of […]
ANTON VAN DALEN (1938-2024)
Dutch-born artist Anton van Dalen, who for more than fifty years chronicled New York’s East Village and its wild denizens, from people to pigeons—a particular passion—died at his home on June 25. He was eighty-six. His gallery, P.P.O.W, confirmed that he died of natural causes. Working in a Surrealistic style at a time when more […]
Jacqueline de Jong, Painter Who Expanded the Possibilities of Her Medium, Dies at 85
Jacqueline de Jong, a Dutch painter who for six decades remained committed to figuration, even when the art establishment did not value it highly, died on Saturday in Amsterdam following a short illness. She was 85. References: this article is based on content originally published by Alex Greenberger on ARTnew. You can read the full […]
Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s Surrealist Film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ Guest Stars on ‘The Bear’
Many things get sliced in full view of the camera on The Bear, an FX TV series set at a Chicago restaurant, but the newly released third season features a rather unusual one: a human eyeball. References: this article is based on content originally published by Alex Greenberger on ARTnew. You can read the full […]
John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art
A generative art series by Irish artist John Gerrard is helping restore Ireland’s temperate rainforest. Hosted by Feral File, an online platform for digital art founded in 2020, the series, titled “crystalline work,” offers dozens of collectable digital works a day for the next 12 months. It went public on June 18. References: this article […]