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December 18, 2020 at 4:19pm

Storm King Commissions Sarah Sze to Make First New Work to Enter Collection in 13 Years

Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley is commissioning Sarah Sze to create a new site-specific sculpture to be installed on its grounds in 2021—the first new work to enter Storm King’s permanent collection since Maya Lin’s 2008 Storm King Wave Field. <em>Sze’s Fallen Sky</em> will occupy what the institution describes as a “deliberately incomplete and increasingly delicate 36-foot-diameter spherical cavity, sheathed in mirrored stainless steel.”
The work explores themes running throughout Storm King’s collection, including the use of scale to engage with the landscape as well as the

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December 17, 2020 at 5:55pm

Roland Reiss (1929–2020)

Roland Reiss, whose practice spanned Abstract Expressionism, the plastic arts, and representational painting, died on December 13 in Los Angeles at the age of ninety-one. Best known for his dioramas of the 1970s and ’80s, Plexiglas-encased miniature sculpture assemblages examining the human condition and modern American culture, Reiss investigated various modes of making as he became enchanted by them, and remained a prolific artist on the cutting edge to the end of his life, for the last twenty years almost exclusively painting large, stylized flowers in works that critic James Scarborough

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December 16, 2020 at 4:36pm

Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museums Staff Vote to Unionize

Staff at the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh voted 278 to 75 yesterday to unionize, joining the Steelworkers’ Union (USW), also based in Pittsburgh. Full- and part-time workers at the Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Science Center, and Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History—including scientists, educators, curatorial assistants, administrative staff and front-desk staff, gift shop clerks, and ushers—will become part of USW’s new 500-member United Museum Workers unit.
The vote arrived roughly six months after staff at the institutions officially launched a unionization campaign, in June, following

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December 16, 2020 at 4:10pm

Art Dubai Unwavering in Commitment to Physical 2021 Event

Art Dubai may be the first international art fair to take place in 2021, according to The Art Newspaper. The fourteenth iteration of the annual event is scheduled to run March 17–21 and additionally takes place in the year marking the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Arab Emirates. The fair, whose 2020 edition was abruptly canceled owing to the Covid-19 pandemic just two weeks before opening, expects to host eighty-six galleries from thirty-six countries, with roughly 90 percent of participants returning.
Pablo del Val, the fair’s artistic director, said that the strong

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December 15, 2020 at 5:16pm

German Museum Chiefs Condemn BDS Ruling, Arts Community Calls for Repeal

More than a thousand artists, educators, and academics who live in Germany or have ties to cultural institutions there on Monday signed an open letter demanding the German parliament, or Bundestag, reverse a 2019 advisory resolution condemning the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) as “anti-Semitic.” The missive came on the heels of another open letter, noting that thanks to the resolution, “accusations of antisemitism are being misused to push aside important voices and to distort critical positions.” Released on December 10, it was signed by thirty-two directors of

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December 15, 2020 at 3:18pm

Alyssa Nitchun Named Director of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

The board of trustees of New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art has announced Alyssa Nitchun as the institution’s new new director. Nitchun is the first female-identifying person to hold the position at the museum, the only one in the world dedicated to LGBTQ+ art.
Nitchun, who will replace interim director Laura Raicovich, comes to Leslie-Lohman from Creative Time, where she served as acting director following a stint as deputy director and director of external affairs of the public art institution. Prior to joining Creative Time, she was director of development at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ

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December 14, 2020 at 1:20pm

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Distributes $12 Million in Relief Aid

The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture in November announced that it would distribute $12 million in CARES Act relief money among 337 local arts nonprofits, each of which received a grant of between $1,000 and $45,000; of these, 217 received the maximum amount. The awards, meant to tide over arts nonprofits struggling amid the Covid-19 pandemic, are to be made by December 30.
Sheila Kuehl, supervisor for LA County’s Third District, noted that many of the qualifying recipients, many of which rely on galas, benefits, or other now-impossible in-person events to provide the bulk of

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December 11, 2020 at 6:10pm

French Museums to Remain Closed Through January 7

French arts institutions, already enduring their second pandemic-related shutdown since spring, will remain dark through January 7 of next year, in accordance with new measures introduced by the country’s prime minister, Jean Castex. The new date is three weeks beyond the originally projected reopening date of December 15 and represents a crushing financial blow, as the holidays are typically a time when museums see a surge in visitors.
Instead France, like many regions around the world, is seeing a surge in Covid-19, with new daily cases reaching 13,750 on December 10, a markedly higher number

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December 11, 2020 at 5:30pm

Philip Tinari to Curate Inaugural Saudi Arabian Biennial

Philip Tinari, director and curator of Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, has been named as the curator of the inaugural Ad-Diriyah Biennale, to take place in 2021. The event is Saudi Arabia’s first international contemporary art biennial, and is expected to be divided into six sections featuring a total of more than seventy Saudi and international artists.
Established by Saudi Arabia’s newly formed Ministry of Culture and organized by its subsidiear Thunaiyat Ad-Diriyah Foundation, which is charged with establishing two recurring art festivals. The second of these which will occur

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December 10, 2020 at 12:11pm

Louise Nevelson’s Chapel Launches $6 Million Refurbishment Fundraising Campaign

Louise Nevelson’s chapel, a small structure tucked away in Lutheran St. Peter’s Church in New York’s Midtown district, has launched a campaign aimed at raising $6 million to repair and conserve the interior of the 1977 installation, Artnet News reports. The effort is anchored by a gift, of an undisclosed amount, from Pace, which represents the artist’s estate.
Nevelson Chapel, also known as the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, is relatively unheralded compared to such artist chapels as Rothko Chapel in Houston or Matisse’s La Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence in France. Able to seat just twenty-four

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December 10, 2020 at 11:43am

Istanbul Biennial Announces Curators for 2021 Edition

The Istanbul Biennial, perhaps Turkey’s most prestigious art event, has announced that curator Ute Meta Bauer, artist Amar Kanwar, and art historian David Teh will helm the seventeenth iteration of the biennial, which will take place September 11–November 14, 2021.
The German-born Bauer is the founding director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, and a professor at the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University. A co-organizer of Documenta 11, she curated the 2004 Berlin Biennale. Kanwar, who is based in New Delhi, addresses social issues and themes of

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December 09, 2020 at 2:31pm

Mitchell-Innes & Nash Promotes Courtney Willis Blair to Partner

Mitchell-Innes & Nash has promoted Courtney Willis Blair, a director at the New York gallery, to partner, The Art Newspaper reports. According to the gallery, Willis Blair, who joined the organization as an artist liaison in 2016, is one of the first of just a handful of Black partners at white-run galleries across the country and likely one of the few to ever hold a stake in a white-owned blue-chip Chelsea gallery.
“I feel really excited for this step in my career,” said Willis Blair, a founder of the Black art dealers’ and advisers’ collective Entre Nous, who previously worked at Mary Ryan

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