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April 21, 2019 at 10:40am

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922–2019)

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, whose lucent works ally modernist abstraction with Islamic ornament, has died at age ninety-seven. Renowned internationally for her dazzling, painstaking mirrorwork, in later life Farmanfarmaian rose to prominence as one of Iran’s foremost contemporary artists as well as one of its most prolific collectors. The first artist to make secular cut-glass mosaics, Farmanfarmaian, whose career spanned six decades, was also celebrated for her paintings, drawings, textile designs, and monotypes.
Born in 1922 to Ottoman aristocrats in Qazvin, Iran, and taking up art early

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April 19, 2019 at 4:47pm

Franklin Sirmans to Curate Frieze Section Paying Tribute to New York’s Just Above Midtown Gallery

For the upcoming edition of Frieze New York, Franklin Sirmans, the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), will curate a special section of fair that will highlight artists from Just Above Midtown (JAM). The historic space served as a platform for contemporary African American artists at a time when they were struggling to find representation. Linda Goode Bryant, the then director of education at the Studio Museum in Harlem, founded the gallery in 1974, when she was just twenty-three years old.
In a 1975 interview with Mimi Poser, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s then head development

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April 19, 2019 at 2:27pm

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Launches Endowment Fund

The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow has set up an endowment fund to ensure its long-term financial sustainability and is seeking donations. Endowment funds are a means by which nonprofit organizations can accumulate capital. With the help of a management company, the money donated to the fund will be invested, and its earnings will be used to fund its exhibitions, grant programs, and other initiatives. Museum director Anton Belov called the move a priority for the institution.
“The establishing of Garage Endowment Fund is an important stage in the museum’s transition from private art

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April 19, 2019 at 1:30pm

Benon Lutaaya (1985–2019)

Benon Lutaaya—a Ugandan-born, South Africa–based artist, activist, and arts patron—died on Saturday from cancer at the age of thirty-four. After earning a BFA in education from Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda, he moved to Johannesburg for a residency at the Bag Factory in 2011. Lutaaya often sourced found and recycled paper materials from the street to create collaged portraits, which were collected by South Africa’s Absa Museum, Ellerman’s Contemporary Art Collection, the Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art, and other institutions.
In 2016, Lutaaya founded the

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April 19, 2019 at 11:39am

Guggenheim Museum’s Hilma af Klint Exhibition Draws Record Number of Visitors

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has announced that “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future”—the United States’ first major solo show of work by the Swedish artist—is the most popular exhibition in its history. The show has attracted more than 600,000 visitors since its opening in October 2018.
The museum also reported that membership has increased by 34 percent since the exhibition opened and that more than 30,000 copies of the catalogue have been sold, surpassing the previous record set by the 2009 catalogue Kandinsky. Hilma af Klint–inspired merchandise has also been flying off

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April 19, 2019 at 11:24am

Canadian Museums Association Receives $1 Million to Promote and Preserve Indigenous Culture

On Tuesday, the Canadian Museums Association (CMA) announced that more than $1 million will go toward an initiative aimed at amplifying the voices of First Nations communities in 2,600 museums and cultural institutions across the country. Funding is being provided by the government’s Museums Assistance Program (MAP), which supports Canadian museums and cultural professionals in the preservation of heritage collections.
The CMA Reconciliation Project will receive $680,948 to conduct a national review of museum policies in collaboration with indigenous peoples across Canada and an additional $

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April 19, 2019 at 11:03am

MoMA Names Beverly Adams Curator of Latin American Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York announced today that it has appointed Beverly Adams as its new curator of Latin American art. Adams comes to the institution from the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. In her new role, she will work closely with curator Inés Katzenstein, the director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America.
“Beverly Adams brings to MoMA a distinguished record as a scholar and curator of Latin American art,” said chief curator of painting and sculpture Ann Temkin. “She also brings an enthusiastic

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April 19, 2019 at 9:30am

Biennale de Lyon Reveals Artist List for 2019 Edition

The fifteenth edition of the Biennale de Lyon, which will take place from September 18 to January 5, 2020, has named the artists participating in the event. Titled “Là où les eaux se mêlent,” which translates to “Where the Waters Mix”—a reference to a Raymond Carver poem—the exhibition will be led by artistic director Isabelle Bertolotti and curated by Jean de Loisy, the director of the Palais de Tokyo, and the museum’s curatorial team.
For the first time, the biennial will be staged at the former factory Usines Fagor, as well as at its usual location, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de

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April 19, 2019 at 8:05am

Gagosian Launches Advisory Firm, New York’s Lubov Gallery Relocates, and More

Veteran gallerist Rebecca Camacho is opening a new San Francisco gallery called Rebecca Camacho Presents. An exhibition of work by the Oakland-based artist Sahar Khoury will inaugurate the 928-square-foot space on May 16. Previously, Camacho worked at the Bay Area’s Anthony Meier Fine Arts for nearly two decades. In 2018, she left to launch the consulting firm Rebecca Camacho Fine Art Projects & Commissions.
Commenting on the new space, Camacho said: “Founding my own gallery gives me the ability to create a multi-faceted platform for the artists in my program. I see the space as expansive and

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April 18, 2019 at 12:07pm

The Met, Freer|Sackler, and Portland Art Museum to Receive 550 Japanese Artworks

Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle-based collectors who have amassed one of the largest private collections of Japanese paintings and calligraphy in the West, announced they are donating more than 550 works to three institutions: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Freer|Sackler, the Smithsonian Institution’s museums of Asian art, in Washington, DC; and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.
“The Met is deeply grateful to Mary and Cheney Cowles for this remarkable gift,” said museum director Max Hollein. “These works add great strength to our collection by filling gaps or complementing our

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April 18, 2019 at 10:44am

Hadi Fallahpisheh and Devin N. Morris Win New York Artadia Awards

Artadia announced today that Hadi Fallahpisheh and Devin N. Morris have been selected as the winners of the 2019 New York Artadia Awards, which recognize artists who have lived or worked in the city for a period of at least two years. The artists will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds as well as access to the nonprofit’s resources and network.
Born in Tehran in 1987, Fallahpisheh works primarily with photography, in addition to with performance and installation. A Bard College graduate, he often comments on conditions of displacement and the difference between personal experience and public

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April 17, 2019 at 6:13pm

Kazue Kobata (1946–2019)

Kazue Kobata—a Japanese curator, professor, translator, and former Artforum contributing editor, whose interests spanned film, architecture, avant-garde music, and dance improvisation—has died. She was seventy-three years old.
Kobata was a longtime adjunct curator and producer at Amsterdam’s De Appel and New York’s MoMA PS1, where she produced exhibitions including “Buzz Club: News from Japan” (2001). Among her many collaborators in a far-flung career were musicians Laurie Anderson and Derek Bailey; art director Eiko Ishioka; and writer Susan Sontag, whose essays she translated into

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