RIO DE JANEIRO ART FESTIVAL CANCELED
Silas Martí reports in the Art Newspaper that the “Semana de Arte,” an art festival due to open this month in Rio de Janeiro has been canceled, and organizer Vik Muniz has quit. Plans for the festival deteriorated after its two private corporate sponsors ended their partnership. “We had guaranteed sponsors, everything was up and running until there began to be disagreements and the companies involved decided to cancel the show,” said Muniz. “I had to apologize to all the artists, first saying it would be postponed and later giving up on the idea. This put me in a very difficult position; many people worked hard on this and wanted it to happen as planned.” The festival was set to feature works by artists including Olafur Eliasson and William Kentridge.
