MCASD ACQUIRES SIX WORKS BY ROBERT IRWIN; NEW GUCCI TRIBECA DOCUMENTARY FUND

Last week, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego announced the acquisition of six works by renowned Light and Space artist Robert Irwin. The works include Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue³, 2006–2007; Primaries and Secondaries, 2007; Light and Space, 2007; Square the Room, 2007; Five x Five, 2007; and 1° 2° 3° 4°, 1992. Five of these works are included in “Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries,” a large exhibition of the artist’s work now on view at the museum.

In other news, the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci announced today the launch of the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund. The fund will offer finishing funds and postproduction guidance to independent filmmakers in need of finances to complete documentaries that promote social change and illuminate issues in need of comprehensive coverage currently missing from mainstream media. The fund will provide grants totaling eighty thousand dollars to a minimum of three filmmakers in 2008 and will be administered by the Tribeca Film Institute. Recipients will be selected by the Tribeca Film Institute along with Gucci and a selection committee of documentary filmmakers, to be announced at a later date. This is the second completion fund for documentary film projects established by Gucci. In February 2007, Gucci announced its first documentary film grant in partnership with Ambulante Film Festival to support the work of three Mexican filmmakers.