Silvia Federici on violence against women
“Capitalist development begins with a war on women.” …
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MORE SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS: The Politics of Everyday Life: Silvia Federici on women, Simon Critchley on activism, Julie Ault on gentrification, Joseph Vogl on money, Mabel Wilson on space, Alan Berger on infrastructure, Elizabeth Povinelli on the environment, Honey Dijon on nightlife, Cultural Appropriation: A Roundtable
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7/21/17
Neil MacGregor, Director of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, Extends Contract- Bavaria Returns Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs of Jewish Collector
- Australian Center for the Moving Image Names Paul Bowers Director of Exhibitions and Collections
- Baltimore’s Clayworks Closes Its Doors After Thirty-Seven Years
- House Committee Approves Bill that Continues to Fund NEA and NEH
- Private Museum of Arab Art to Open in Beirut
7/20/17
Pompidou Center Moves Forward with Launch of Shanghai Outpost- Spanish Police Recover Three Francis Bacon Paintings from 2015 Heist
- Daisuke Tsuda Appointed Artistic Director of Aichi Triennale 2019
- Getty Announces Major Acquisition of Sixteen Master Drawings
- Oklahoma City Museum of Art Names J. Edward Barth Board Chair
- Vandals Attack Nicole Eisenman Work at Skulptur Projekte Münster
- Richard Prince’s Motion to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Is Denied
- Tang Museum Awarded $160,000 in Grants
- NYC Unveils Cultural Plan to Expand and Diversify the Arts
7/19/17
Nazarian Family Gifts CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center $17 Million- Biennale of Sydney 2018 Announces Artists and Theme
- Wall Street Journal Sued by Antiquities Dealer Over ISIS Story
- Construction Begins on New Affordable Artist Studios in New York
- Cultural Leaders Fight to Protect Free Movement of Artists Post-Brexit
7/18/17
Off Vendome Closes in New York- Eight Arts Writers Awarded $50,000 Rabkin Prize
- Arts Council England Funds New Sculpture Triennial
- Untitled Art Fair Appoints Manuela Mozo as Director
- Trial Postponed for Bardo Museum Attack That Left At Least Twenty Dead
- Rampa in Istanbul Has Shuttered Its Doors
- Salon Art + Design Fair Announces 2017 Exhibitor List
7/17/17
Agnes Gund Awards Parrish Art Museum $500,000 for New Social Justice Fund- Paris Thunderstorms Damage Several Louvre Masterpieces
- Italian Authorities Confiscate Twenty-One Modigliani Works After Several Confirmed as Fakes
- Wim Wenders Receives Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage
- Columbia University Settles Lawsuit over Art Student’s Mattress Performance
7/14/17
Charles McGill (1964–2017)- Turkish Police Arrest Director of Film Featuring President Erdogan at Gunpoint
- Kim Sun-Jung Appointed President of Gwangju Biennale Foundation
- Michael Auping, Chief Curator at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Steps Down
- Mali’s Rencontres de Bamako Biennial Announces Details for Eleventh Edition
- Oregon’s Newspace Center for Photography Closes
- Pierrette Bloch (1928–2017)
7/13/17
Daniel LaRue Johnson (1938–2017)- German Gallery Share Program to Kick Off in September
- University of New Mexico’s Art Museum Names Mary Statzer Curator
- The Bessie Awards Announce 2017 Nominees
- Heirs of Jewish Collector Sue Madrid Museum for Return of Pissarro Painting
7/12/17
Nanne Dekking to Succeed Willem Van Roijen as Chairman of TEFAF- Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Launches Diversity Fellowship
- Christie’s Appoints New Cochairs of Impressionist and Modern Art
- Elizabeth Chodos Named Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Miller Gallery
- Suspects in $4.5 Million Gold Coin Heist Case Arrested
- Denis Johnson Posthumously Awarded Library of Congress Prize
7/11/17
Fashion Designer Agnès B. Reveals Plan to Open Art Foundation in Paris- Ilya Glazunov (1930–2017)
- New York’s Washburn Gallery Leaves Midtown for Chelsea
- New York’s The Shed Appoints Emma Enderby as Curator
- Judge Orders Glafira Rosales to Pay $81 Million to Victims of Knoedler Forgery Scandal
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Names 2017 Artist as Activist Fellows
- Amid Controversy, Bolshoi Theater Postpones Gay-Themed Ballet About Rudolf Nureyev
- Phillips Auction House Promotes Jean-Paul Engelen to Deputy Chairman of the Americas
- Düsseldorf Museum Pulls Painting that Nazis May Have Looted
- South African Artist Assaulted by Airbnb Host
7/10/17
Dallas’s Aurora Names Curators and Reveals Theme- French Police Destroy Art Installation After Mistaking It for a Cannabis Farm
- Castello di Rivoli Acquires Francesco Federico Cerruti’s $570 Million Collection
- Dia Foundation Expands Its Collection of Asian Art
- Eleventh Kaunas Biennial Announces List of Participating Artists
- More Than One Thousand Artifacts from San Francisco’s Mexican Museum May Be Fake, Report Finds
7/7/17
LACMA Names Guadalupe Rosales as Its First-Ever Instagram Artist in Residence- Professor Resigns from SAIC, Citing a “Toxic Environment”
- Queer|Art Launches New Grant in Support of Lesbian Filmmakers
- Berlin’s Haus am Waldsee Begins $3.3 Million Renovation
- Lala Rukh (1948–2017)
- NYFA Announces 2017 Fellows
- Hobby Lobby Forfeits 5,500 Illicit Iraqi Antiquities and Agrees to Pay $3 Million Fine
- Naseem Khan (1939–2017)
7/6/17
Turkey Condemns German Art Installation Featuring President Erdoğan- Collector Roberto Polo to Donate 7,000 Works to Spain
- New Orleans Museum of Art Acquires Works from Souls Grown Deep Foundation
- ADAA Welcomes Four New Member Galleries
- Hirshhorn Elects Isaac Applbaum as Newest Trustee
- Artists Urge Lincoln Center to Cancel Israel-Backed Play
- Hepworth Wakefield Named Winner of UK’s Museum of the Year Award
7/5/17
José Luis Cuevas (1934–2017)- Sprüth Magers London to Reopen After Eighteen-Month Refurbishment
- Met Museum’s Financial Troubles Delay Exhibition of Leonard Lauder’s Cubist Art Gift
- China Bans Online Portrayals of Homosexuality, Raising Questions for Artists
- Artists Rally Against Venezuelan President in New Wave of Anti-Government Protests
7/4/17
Olu Oguibe Wins Documenta’s Arnold Bode Prize- Photographer Matthias Bruggmann Wins 2017 Prix Elysée
- Anri Sala Selected to Create Sydney’s 2017 Kaldor Public Art Project
- Middle East’s Cultural Sector Fears Repercussions of Qatar Boycott
- Jan Fontein (1927–2017)
7/3/17
China’s New Cybersecurity Law Goes Into Effect Amid Some Apprehension- Collector Pulls Works from Exhibition at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
- Estelle Berg (1940–2017)
- Berlin’s Brücke Museum Announces New Director
6/30/17
Guy Tillim Wins 2017 HCB Award- New Website Compiles Provenance Data for Individual Artworks
- London Launches Citywide Contest to Boost Cultural Initiatives
- Le Corbusier Museum Founder Files Lawsuit Against Zurich’s Culture Minister
- Xavier Douroux (1956–2017)
- Philadelphia Gallery Vox Populi Closes Temporarily Following Building Fire
6/29/17
Canada’s New Remai Modern Museum to Open in October- Terra Foundation for American Art Awards $2.5 Million in Grants to Art Design Chicago
- New Study Reveals Increasing Salaries in Museum Field
- VIA Art Fund Announces 2017 Grant Recipients
- Chicago Launches $1 Million Initiative to Create Public Art
- Arts Council England’s Grant Program Shifts Focus from London to Regions
6/28/17
Hammer Museum Names Erin Christovale Assistant Curator- Family of Franz West Wins Court Battle Over Artist’s Estate
- Norway Abandons Jonas Dahlberg’s Memorial to Victims of Utøya Massacre
- Berlin’s Silberkuppe Gallery Closes
- Russian Artist Arrested for Wearing VR Headset in Moscow
- Condo New York Opens Thursday
6/27/17
Art Gallery of Ontario Appoints Four New Curators- New York’s MoMA Receives $50 Million Gift
- Palais de Tokyo Names Artists for Its First US Exhibition with Expo Chicago 2017
- Shortlist Announced for 2017 Jarman Award
- Arts Council England Grant Saves Arts Space in Walsall
- François Pinault Reveals Plans for New Contemporary Art Museum in Paris
6/26/17
Merryn Schriever Appointed as Director of Bonhams Australia- Judge Orders Exhumation of Salvador Dalí’s Body for Paternity Suit
- German Collector Announces Plans for New Museum in Bavaria
- Anthony Goicolea to Design First LGBTQ Monument Commissioned by New York State
- Julia Joern Leaves David Zwirner Gallery
- Hans Breder (1935–2017)
- Marco Scotini Named Curator of Second Yinchuan Biennale
6/23/17
Richard Benson (1943–2017)- Paulus Berensohn (1933–2017)
- Art Gallery of Ontario Acquires 522 Diane Arbus Photographs
- UK to Digitize All of Its Public Sculptures by 2020
- Julia Peyton-Jones Joins Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac as Senior Global Director
- OMA Reveals Design for Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery Expansion
- Benjamin Sullivan Wins 2017 BP Portrait Award
- London’s White Rainbow Gallery Closes Its Doors
6/22/17
Congresswoman Wants to Forgive Arts Professionals’ Student Debt- World Monuments Fund Launches Initiative to Train Refugees in Conservation
- Sunday Painter Gallery Relocates to London’s Vauxhall District
- Detroit’s 2017 Kresge Artist Fellows Announced
- New York’s Envoy Enterprises to Close in August
- CalArts Names Dimitri Chamblas as Dean of Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance
- Artist Sheba Chhachhi Wins 2017 Prix Thun for Art and Ethics Award
- Kassel City Council Approves Plan to Build Documenta Institute
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