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November 04, 2021 at 6:38pm

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen to Open to Public with 150k Works on View

Two decades in the making, the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen will open November 6 as the first publicly accessible art storage facility in the world. The recently completed Rotterdam museum, dubbed the “mirrored mixing bowl” in architectural circles for its curving, reflective form, is home to the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which is closed for renovation until 2028. On display within its glassy confines are 63,000 paintings, photographs, films, design objects, contemporary art installations and sculptures, as well as 88,000 prints and drawings. Visitors to the institution

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November 03, 2021 at 5:33pm

Nguyễn Trinh Thi Wins $100,000 Three-Institution Commission

Experimental Vietnamese filmmaker, documentarian, and video artist Nguyễn Trinh Thi has been named the winner of the inaugural Han Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+ and Singapore Art Museum – Moving Image Commission. Nguyễn will receive $100,000 and be given up to eighteen months to create a screen-based work of art to be exhibited in each of the three participating museums. The prize was created and is funded by the Barcelona-based Nefkens Foundation, whose Dutch-born founder, philanthropist Hans Nefkens, is committed to the promotion of film and video. It is awarded in partnership with

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November 03, 2021 at 4:37pm

Jaider Esbell (1979–2021)

Indigenous plastic artist Jaider Esbell, a rising star whose vibrant, energetic work skillfully wove together ecological, mystical, and sociopolitical themes, died November 2 at the age of forty-one. According to Brazilian news portal G1, he was found dead in his apartment in São Paulo. Esbell had recently participated in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo as both a curator and an artist, with his work there gaining acclaim as a highlight of the exhibition. The self-taught artist was additionally a tireless champion of his people, the Macuxi, on whose behalf he frequently wrote and campaigned.
Esbell

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November 02, 2021 at 1:45pm

Allie Card Named Senior Director at Lehmann Maupin

Allie Card has joined Lehmann Maupin as senior director. The gallery, which is headquartered in New York, announced Card’s appointment today. Card will focus on management and sales, and will work to advance relationships with curators, collectors, and institutions while aiding artists with museum placement and exhibition strategy. A twenty-year veteran of the industry, she worked since 2001 at storied New York gallery Metro Pictures, which will close its doors at the end of the year. While there, she boosted the careers of artists including Olaf Breuning, André Butzer, Louise Lawler, Trevor

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November 01, 2021 at 4:07pm

Simone Leigh Parts Ways with Hauser & Wirth as Venice Biennale Looms

Pathbreaking sculptor Simone Leigh, who at the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale opening next May is to become the first Black woman to represent the United States, has announced that she is leaving Hauser & Wirth after less than two years with the megagallery, as Artnews was the first to report.
“I love and respect the people I worked with at Hauser & Wirth,” said Leigh in a statement. “But I do not feel the gallery is the right fit for me in the wider sense. I’m still figuring out what I want from a primary gallery relationship.”
Leigh, whose large-scale ceramic-and-raffia works investigate Black

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November 01, 2021 at 3:43pm

Art Basel’s Parent Company Hit by Cyberattack

MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, was the target of a cyberattack on October 20. The company is working with police and Swiss authorities to discover the identity of those behind the attack, which was carried out via malware. In a statement released on the subject, fair organizers admitted that the personal information of employees, partners, and clients—who include some of the wealthiest individuals in the world—had been compromised.
The attack was discovered by MCH’s security systems. Based in Basel, the live marketing company hosts an array of art fairs including Art Basel, Miami

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October 29, 2021 at 4:08pm

Angolan Capital to Welcome Major Art Space, Residency Program

The Angolan capital of Luanda is to welcome a new art space and residency program, The Art Newspaper reports. Funded by Wissam and Hiba Nesr, whose family owns the agro-industrial food-production and distribution business Webcor Group—among the largest companies in Angola—the Nesr Art Foundation will display Nesr’s private collection of Angolan and African art, and will elevate the work of Angolan artists. Activist and collagist Pamina Sebastião and painter Osvaldo Ferreira, both of whom live and work in Luanda, have been announced as the first participants in the philanthropic organization’s

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October 29, 2021 at 4:00pm

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute Announces New Leadership

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute, the largest outdoor museum in Latin America, has announced the appointment of a new leadership team. Lucas Pessôa has been named president and director of the institute; Paula Azevedo will serve as vice president, deputy director, and head of development; and Julieta González will take over as artistic director. The leadership change is intended to expand the museum’s social outreach and reflects Inhotim’s stated intention to center its artistic and educational program around ecology. Antonio Grassi, under whose direction Inhotim expanded its cultural program, will

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October 28, 2021 at 2:56pm

Peter Doroshenko to Depart as Executive Director of Dallas Contemporary

Peter Doroshenko will vacate his position as executive director of Dallas Contemporary in May 2022, when his contract expires, Artnews reports. Doroshenko, previously the president and artistic director of the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev, served in the role for eleven years, having assumed the directorship in October 2010. His departure comes six months after the museum sparked controversy in firing an employee who had asked the institution to make a public statement regarding the Atlanta spa shootings of March 16, which were determined to be anti-Asian hate crimes. Though the museum ultimately

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October 28, 2021 at 12:19pm

Hong Kong Passes Hardened Film Censorship Law

Hong Kong on Wednesday passed a strict film censorship law allowing authorities to ban past films that they perceive as a threat to national security and to impose stiffer fines on those they deem to be breaching the law. The toughened rule reflects the fast-growing restriction of artistic freedom within the special administrative region in the wake of the 2019 demonstrations there, in which millions took to the streets to protest a proposed bill allowing the extradition of fugitives to Taiwan.
Films and documentaries have been among the targets of Hong Kong officials in recent months, during

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October 27, 2021 at 3:24pm

Lee Laa Ray Guillory Awarded Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists

New York–based nonprofit Queer|Art has announced Lee Laa Ray Guillory as the recipient of its second Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. Guillory, who lives and works in New Orleans, will receive a $10,000 cash grant, professional development support, and individual visits to her studio by members of the judges’ panel. The award is aimed at correcting the exclusion of Black trans women artists from the larger art canon while opening a path for others.
“Lee Laa Ray Guillory has shown exceptional insight into the interiority of Black mysticism and alternative photographic

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October 27, 2021 at 12:30pm

Whitney Gives Warhol Film Archive to MoMA

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has announced that it will transfer its massive research archive pertaining to the films of Andy Warhol to the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The announcement coincides with the Whitney’s publication this week of a second volume of a catalogue raisonné of Warhol’s films, spanning the years 1963–65. (The first volume, published by the Whitney in 2006 and authored by the late Callie Angell, focused on the artist’s Screen Tests, made between 1963 and 1968.)
The Warhol Film Archive, which includes manuscripts and archival media collected during the

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