Sales Start Slow at Tokyo Gendai, But Founder Magnus Renfrew Is Playing the Long Game
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. References: this article is based on content originally published by Sarah Douglas on ARTnew. You can read the full article here. While the VIP preview Thursday of Tokyo Gendai’s second edition brought healthy buzz—along with […]
Lévy Gorvy Dayan to Close Hong Kong Space: ‘Client Behavior Has Changed’
Lévy Gorvy Dayan (LGD) will close its Hong Kong outpost after five years of operations, the Financial Times reported on July 4. Citing Rebecca Wei, the blue-chip gallery’s head of Asian operations, the report said that the lease on LGD’s Central location will not be renewed at the end of the year. References: this article […]
Dorothy Lichtenstein, President of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Dies at 84
Dorothy Lichtenstein, the philanthropist widow to Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and the cofounder of his eponymous foundation, died on July 4. She was 84. References: this article is based on content originally published by Tessa Solomon on ARTnew. You can read the full article here. The news was confirmed by her family, who said in […]
Are You Ready for It? London’s V&A Museum to Open a Show Devoted to Taylor Swift
When London’s V&A Museum announced in February that it was seeking a Taylor Swift superfan for an advisory role, it may have been burying the lead. Opening at the V&A South Kensington later this month will be “Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail,” a show centered on 16 outfits worn by the 14-time Grammy Award–winning musician. […]
Dance Company Accuses the Louvre of Copying Its Museum Workout
This spring, art lovers in Paris had the rare chance to participate in an early morning workout at the Louvre, enjoying yoga and dance moves while running through the galleries of the famed institution. It isn’t the first time a museum has gotten into the fitness game, but now a New York dance outfit, Monica […]
NJ LAWMAKERS YANK FUNDING FOR POMPIDOU’S JERSEY CITY OUTPOST
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) on June 29 told the Centre Pompidou that it will not supply the tens of millions of dollars it had promised to fund the Paris museum’s planned Jersey City outpost. Announced in 2021 and originally set to open in 2024 in a 112-year-old industrial building in the city’s […]
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 […]