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  • June 18, 2018 at 10:38am

    Guggenheim Appoints Corinne Godsall Director, Corporate, Institutional, and Global Partners

    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation announced that Corinne Godsall has joined the institution as director, corporate, institutional, and global partners. Godsall comes to the Guggenheim from Smithsonian Enterprises, where as director of media operations. In her new role, Godsall is responsible for developing and managing a strategic plan for the museum’s global fundraising program with corporations, foundations, and government agencies to build support for Guggenheim initiatives, programming, and general operations.

    “Corinne’s far-ranging and considerable experience working for

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  • June 18, 2018 at 9:57am

    Kris Lemsalu to Represent Estonia at 2019 Venice Biennale

    The Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia has announced that multidisciplinary artist Kris Lemsalu has been chosen to represent the country at the Fifty-Eighth Venice Biennale, which takes place from May 11, 2019 to November 24, 2019. The Estonian pavilion will be located on the island of Giudecca, south of Venice, where the pavilions of Iceland, Kenya, and Portugal were presented in 2017.

    Known for her sculptures, installations, and performances that merge reality and fiction, Lemsalu will create an immersive fairytale world that will include music and dance for the biennial. Titled “Funtain,”

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  • June 18, 2018 at 6:26am

    One Killed, Twenty-Two People Injured in Shooting at New Jersey Arts Festival

    A twenty-four hour arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey, was on the verge of being shut down on Sunday, June 17, when gunfire erupted. According to the New York Times, one suspect was killed, seventeen people were shot, and several others were injured as attendees attempted to run to safety.

    Angelo Onofri, a Mercer County prosecutor, said that it appears that the violence that broke out at 2:45 AM was the result of a dispute between gangs from the area. The suspect who was fatally shot was identified as Tahaij Wells, a thirty-two-year-old parole, who was released from prison, where he was serving

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  • June 16, 2018 at 3:17pm

    Fire Devastates Glasgow School of Art for the Second Time in Four Years

    The Glasgow School of Art in Scotland was gutted by a fire that ripped through its historic Mackintosh building during the night of Friday, June 15. More than 120 firefighters and twenty engines were called to the site to battle the blaze, which spread to nearby structures, including the campus’s nightclub and the O2 ABC music venue, before they could contain it. No casualties have been reported.

    This is the second time in four years that the school’s iconic Art Nouveau building—considered architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s architectural masterpiece—has been ravaged by

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  • June 15, 2018 at 2:40pm

    $45,000 Banksy Print Stolen from Toronto Exhibition

    A print by Banksy valued at $45,000 was snatched from an art exhibition in Toronto’s West End curated by Steve Lazarides, the artist’s former dealer. The theft occurred on Sunday, before the exhibition was open to the public. Surveillance footage released by authorities yesterday shows a person with a covered face gingerly entering the gallery and scuttling off with the work—titled Trolley Hunters, 2007—in tow. The stolen print, whose owner is at this point unknown, depicts Neanderthal-ish men crouched in the wilderness, hunting shopping carts. 

    Marketed as “the largest Banksy exhibit

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  • June 15, 2018 at 2:32pm

    Baltimore Museum of Art Announces New Appointments

    The Baltimore Museum of Art has promoted two staffers and hired two new employees who will join the institution’s senior leadership team. Christine Dietze, who served as interim codirector of the museum from 2015 to 2016 and previously worked as deputy director of finance and administration, was named chief operating officer. Gamynne Guillotte, who had been the interim co–deputy director of education and interpretation since 2015, is the new chief education officer.

    In addition, Heather Hueglin Marchese, the managing director of major and planned giving at Maryland Public Television, was appointed

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  • June 15, 2018 at 1:44pm

    LACMA Names 2018 Art+Technology Lab Awardees

    The Art+Technology Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced the recipients of its 2018 grants, which support projects that engage emerging technologies. The four recipients—Tahir Hemphill, Jen Liu, Sarah Rara, and Diana Thater—were chosen from more than 430 submissions and will receive up to $50,000.

    Titled “Implications of a Rap Neural Network,” Hemphill’s project will create a neural network to examine how cultural production is influenced by artificial intelligence by drawing upon the artist’s Hip Hop Word Count, a database of the lyrics of more than fifty thousand

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  • June 15, 2018 at 11:17am

    London’s the Showroom Names Elvira Dyangani Ose Director

    The Showroom, the London-based contemporary art practice that was established in 1983 to help artists stage their first solo shows in the city, has announced the appointment of its new director, Elvira Dyangani Ose. She will succeed Emily Pethick and will assume her responsibilities on September 3.

    Dyangani Ose joins the Showroom from New York’s Creative Time, where she works as senior curator. She is also a lecturer in visual cultures at Goldsmiths and is a member of the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada. Among Dyangani Ose’s recent curatorial projects is “Basilea”—Creative Time’s

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  • June 15, 2018 at 9:07am

    Manifesta Announces Artists Participating in Its Twelfth Edition

    Manifesta, the roving European biennial of contemporary art, revealed that fifty artists are participating in its twelfth edition, which kicks off in Palermo, Italy, this weekend. Titled “The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence,” the exhibition will focus on the history of the city as a hub for diversity, migration, and cross-pollination.

    Gardens will play a central role in the event, which takes on the botanical metaphor of the landscape designer and philosopher Gilles Clément, who sees the world we inhabit as a garden to be tended. The biennial also draws inspiration from the Sicilian

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  • June 14, 2018 at 4:31pm

    Court Orders the Getty to Return Iconic Greek Bronze to Italy

    The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was ordered to restitute its famous ancient Greek bronze known as Statue of a Victorious Youth to Italy, reports Deborah Vankin of the Los Angeles Times. Issued by an Italian court on Friday, June 8, the ruling states that the work was illegally exported. However, the institution claims that its acquisition of the work was legitimate.

    The piece, which some scholars have attributed to Lysippus—Alexander the Great’s personal sculptor—was originally found by an Italian fisherman in international waters in 1964. The mariner then sold the work, which

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  • June 14, 2018 at 1:00pm

    Judge Upholds $6.7 Million in Damages to Be Awarded to 5Pointz Artists

    Four months after Judge Frederic Block awarded twenty-one artists $6.7 million in damages after ruling that developer Gerald Wolkhoff had broken the law when he whitewashed New York’s famous 5Pointz graffiti mecca in the dead of night, the federal judge will not back down from his verdict. On Wednesday, June 13, Block issued a cutting decision rejecting Wolkhoff’s post-trial motion to void the judgment or grant a new trial, according to Artnet.

    In an eighty-nine-page assessment, Block says he was “appalled” at Wolkhoff’s decision to white out the graffiti on the factory’s walls, an action the

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  • June 14, 2018 at 12:57pm

    Former Museo Reina Sofía Director Appointed Spain’s New Culture Minister

    José Guirao, the former director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, was named Spain’s new minister of sports and culture. His predecessor, Màxim Huerta, stepped down after only a week in office, following allegations of tax fraud.

    Huerta, an author and former popular TV host, was pressured to resign after the Spanish press reported that he was fined nearly $420,000 after he tried to evade paying the government taxes last year. In response, Huerta criticized the press and said that he paid the full amount of the fine twice but still decided to resign.

    Currently the head of

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