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September 07, 2023 at 5:58pm

Lorraine O’Grady, Carol Bove, Sonia Boyce Switch Galleries

Within days of the unofficial end of summer, marked in the US by Labor Day and in the UK by the passing of the August bank holiday, three closely watched artists affiliated with major galleries in these countries announced that they were switching allegiances. In the United States, conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady revealed that she would be leaving her longtime New York gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, for Chicago’s Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, while sculptor Carol Bove departed David Zwirner for Gagosian. Across the pond, Golden Lion winner Sonia Boyce, who earlier severed ties with London's

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September 07, 2023 at 1:58pm

Cape Town’s Southern Guild to Launch First US Gallery in LA

Cape Town gallery Southern Guild has announced that it will open a branch in Los Angeles, becoming the first South African gallery to establish a permanent US outpost (Goodman Gallery, which has branches in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and London, revealed last month that it would open an office and viewing room in New York). The gallery, which specializes in African art and design, will occupy a former Hollywood laundromat. Southern Guild cofounders Trevyn and Julian McGowan have hired Evan Raabe Architecture, who previously designed Hauser & Wirth’s Los Angeles outpost and Christie’s Beverly Hills,

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September 06, 2023 at 5:41pm

Worcester Art Museum Loses $5 Million Roman Bust to Manhattan DA

Officials from the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan district attorney’s office on September 1 seized an ancient Roman bust from the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in Massachusetts. Thought to depict a daughter of either Marcus Aurelius or Septimius Severus, both Roman emperors, and dating to between 160 and 180 CE, the life-size bronze sculpture is estimated to be worth $5 million. WAM purchased the work in 1966 and at the time conducted research into its provenance, but admitted that they received little information other than that it had been found in southwest Anatolia (now Turkey)

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September 06, 2023 at 3:00pm

Four-Dollar Thrift-Store Find Revealed to Be $250,000 N. C. Wyeth Painting

A painting purchased for a pittance at a New Hampshire thrift store has been identified as a work by renowned illustrator N. C. Wyeth worth up to a quarter of a million dollars at auction. The work was bought for just four dollars in 2017 by a woman browsing the home goods section at a Savers. Believed to be intended as a frontispiece for a 1939 edition of Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 Ramona, the painting garnered its current owner’s attention not for its stunning detail, rich hues, or emotional weight, but for the frame in which it was ensconced. Curious as to the work’s provenance, its new

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September 06, 2023 at 1:21pm

Ingrid Schaffner Joins Hauser & Wirth as Curatorial Senior Director

Hauser & Wirth has announced art critic and curator Ingrid Schaffner as its curatorial senior director. Formerly curator of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, Schaffner will be based at the megagallery’s Los Angeles outpost, where she will organize exhibitions featuring its roster of West Coast artists and serve as a writer and editor for its in-house publication, Ursula.
Schaffner, whose curatorial practice engages issues of feminism, representation, and alternate modernisms, joins Hauser & Wirth following fifteen years directing curatorial programs at the University of Pennsylvania’s

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September 05, 2023 at 1:44pm

Pace Expands into Tokyo

International megagallery Pace has announced that it will open a branch in the new Azabudai Hills development in central Tokyo in the spring of 2024. The 5,500-square-foot outpost will occupy three lower floors of a building designed by British architect Thomas Heatherwick. Sou Fujimoto will have charge of the gallery’s interior design. The Japanese architect is known for his design of Tokyo’s Musashino Art University Museum and Library; in 2013, London’s Serpentine Galleries tapped him for its prestigious Pavilion commission. Some 3,000 square feet of Pace Tokyo will be devoted to gallery space;

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August 31, 2023 at 3:07pm

Dia Art Foundation Names Matilde Guidelli-Guidi Curator and Department Co-Head

The Dia Art Foundation announced today that Matilde Guidelli-Guidi has been named curator and department co-head, alongside Jordan Carter. Guidelli-Guidi, who was previously an associate curator at the New York–based foundation, succeeds Alexis Lowry, who will depart in October after eight years in the role. While at Dia, Guidelli-Guidi restarted the organization’s long-running lecture series “Artists on Artists,” which had been put on hold during the pandemic, and curated long-term installations at Dia Beacon by Mario Merz and Senga Nengudi. Alongside Donna De Salvo, she cocurated the 2022–23

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August 31, 2023 at 12:41pm

Getty Acquires Maren Hassinger’s Archive

Los Angeles’s Getty Research Institute will acquire the archive of Maren Hassinger, the Art Newspaper reports. Hassinger, best known for her wire-rope installations and collaborative performances, has only recently gained wide acclaim, despite being active from the 1960s onward. Her work in the past few years has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other institutions; in 2021, her 1971 work Untitled (Sea Anemone) greeted visitors at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s modern wing, where it was displayed across from a sculpture by Brancusi.

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August 30, 2023 at 12:53pm

Gagosian Taps Jiyoung Lee to Lead South Korean Operations

Gagosian has named veteran Seoul gallerist Jiyoung Lee as its first full-time director in South Korea, signaling its intentions to expand into the superheated market there. Though the megagallery does not yet have a presence in the country, “all options are on the table,” according to Nick Simunovic, the Hong Kong–based senior director of Gagosian in Asia. Of Lee’s appointment, he noted, “We have been able to service Korean institutions and collectors from our base in Hong Kong for a long time, but we feel that the time is right to have somebody who is from Korea, speaks Korean, and is deeply

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August 29, 2023 at 1:56pm

New Mexico Museum of Art to Inaugurate Contemporary Art Space

The New Mexico Museum of Art on September 23 will open Vladem Contemporary, a $20 million contemporary art outpost located in a renovated 1930s warehouse in Santa Fe’s Railyard District. Designed by DNCA Architects and StudioGP Architects, the Vladem will exclusively feature art from the 1980s onward, much of it by living artists, with its expansive home allowing for a focus on large-scale installations, multimedia projects, and performance-based works. The new institution will launch with the exhibition “Shadow and Light,” which will feature loans as well as works from the New Mexico Museum of

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August 28, 2023 at 5:27pm

Tadaaki Kuwayama (1932–2023)

Japanese Minimalist Tadaaki Kuwayama, known for his metallic monochrome works that at once evoke the racket of industry and the enduring calm of eternity, has died. Kuwayama was ninety-one years old. News of his death was announced by Alison Bradley Projects, which represents the artist. Like many Japanese of his generation, Kuwayama moved to the United States in the late 1950s. Arriving in the twilight of Abstract Expressionism and at the dawn of Pop and Minimalism, and amid a cohort of amid friends and contemporaries including Dan Flavin, Sam Francis, Donald Judd, Kenzо̄ Okada, and Frank

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August 28, 2023 at 4:51pm

Barbara Rossi (1940–2023)

Barbara Rossi, a former Catholic nun whose passion for painting led her to join the amorphous, irreverent group of artists who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and ’70s as the Chicago Imagists, has died at eighty-three. Rossi is best known for painstaking compositions whose sensual, interpenetrating forms whimsically straddle figuration and abstraction, grotesquerie and grace. Her work was as inspired by her religious background as it was by the commercial and street culture that stimulated her fellow Imagists. As critic James Yood once wrote in these pages, “Of all the Chicago Imagists,

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