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June 11, 2019 at 12:29pm

Phillips Collection Acquires Major Collection of Nabi Art

The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, has acquired two print portfolios and more than forty paintings and works on paper of European Post-Impressionist art through a gift from Roger Sant and his late wife Vicki, a collector and donor who was the museum’s first non-family board chairwoman. Including works by Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, and Félix Vallotton, the Sants’ collection of work by the Nabi group (whose name comes from the Hebrew word navi, meaning “prophet”) will be exhibited at the museum in October.
“Embracing a new, liberating approach to art that valued the

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June 11, 2019 at 12:09pm

Workers at the Guggenheim Museum in New York Move to Unionize

Around ninety art handlers, maintenance workers, light installers, and other staffers who are involved with the production of exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York are taking steps to unionize. Citing low wages and raise rates as a reason for the move, workers intend to join IUOE Local 30, which also represents staffers at the Museum of Modern Art, and filed a petition with the institution last week.
“We want a voice at the museum because working conditions have deteriorated,” a Guggenheim worker requesting anonymity told Artnews. “We want to be able to have our concerns

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June 11, 2019 at 6:12am

Chazen Museum of Art Appoints James R. Wehn Curator of Works on Paper

The Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin, has named James R. Wehn curator of works on paper. A scholar of early modern printmaking in Northern Europe and Italy, Wehn will begin his tenure at the institution on June 24.
With a background in the performing arts, theater, and business, Wehn worked for American Express for more than twelve years before pursuing a career in the museum industry. He previously served as the Margaret R. Mainwaring curatorial fellow of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he curated the exhibition “Starting from Scratch: The

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June 11, 2019 at 5:45am

Seattle Art Museum Names Amada Cruz Director and CEO

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Amada Cruz, who has led the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona since February 2015, as its next director and CEO. She will be responsible for overseeing the exhibition and education program at the institution, which comprises the downtown museum, the Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the city’s waterfront, and will manage a staff of more than three hundred people. Cruz succeeds Kimerly Rorschach, who is retiring, and will take up the post in September.
“After an exhaustive search with an impressive array of candidates, it’s

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June 11, 2019 at 5:30am

New Museum Curator at Large, Director of Special Projects Richard Flood Steps Down

Richard Flood, the curator at large and director of special projects at the New Museum in New York, has retired, Artnews reports. In an internal email that museum director Lisa Phillips sent to staff last week, she wrote: “Richard has my heartfelt admiration and appreciation for all he has done for the New Museum over the years, for being our poet in residence, and for mentoring so many young people. We look forward to a continued relationship in his next chapter.”
Flood first joined the institution in 2005. During his tenure, he curated numerous exhibitions, including “Rivane Neuenschwander: A

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June 07, 2019 at 3:20pm

Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Closes Its Lower Manhattan Space, South Africa’s Goodman Gallery Expands to London, and More

Gavin Brown’s Enterprise has closed its gallery in downtown Manhattan. Located on the third floor of 291 Grand Street, the gallery occupied the same building as 47 Canal, Nathalie Karg, and James Cohan, and presented exhibitions of work by artists such as Alex Katz, Danny Lyon, Bjarne Melgaard & Bjørg, Steven Pippin, and Jacolby Satterwhite. It also participated in the inaugural edition of the alternative art fair Condo New York, opening its space to Labor gallery from Mexico City in 2017.
“We will miss the space and our neighbors,” the gallery said in an email announcing the closure. The last

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June 07, 2019 at 2:40pm

Triumph of the Will Pulled from YouTube as Platform Cracks Down on Extremism

On Wednesday, YouTube announced it was tightening its regulations on hate speech and discriminatory content by “prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.” The policy change has resulted in the removal of content that promotes or glorifies Nazi ideology and videos that deny the occurence of “well-documented violent events,” such as the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school.
Among the videos that were removed

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June 07, 2019 at 1:25pm

Staffers at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum Unionize and Demand Recognition

The security staff of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, has announced the formation of the Art Workers Union (AWU). Working with a local branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), they hope to bargain for benefits such as health care, public transit passes, equitable wages, and other changes in working conditions.
Matthew Finnell, a labor organizer with the Seattle DSA, told the Seattle Times that more than 90 percent of Frye security guards agreed to participate in a formal election process monitored by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is scheduled for later

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June 07, 2019 at 11:31am

Asian Cultural Council’s China and Hong Kong Fellows Announced

On Wednesday, the nonprofit Asian Cultural Council (ACC) announced the recipients of this year’s China and Hong Kong Fellowships, which provide financial support to artists, curators, and scholars in the arts and humanities for professional development and cultural exchange.
Chief curator of Guangzhou’s Times Museum Nikita Cai; Beijing-based independent curator Chen Li; Shanghai-based sculptor and installation artist Yu Ji; artist duo Birdhead; Bejing-based independent choreographer Gu Jiani; and professor and assistant researcher from Tsinghua University Sun Shimeng are the 2019 China fellows.

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June 07, 2019 at 9:04am

Rein Wolfs to Lead Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum

The supervisory board of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam announced today that Rein Wolfs has been named its next director. Wolfs comes to the institution from the Bundeskunsthalle, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, Germany, which he joined in 2013. He succeeds Beatrix Ruf, who stepped down amid controversy over alleged conflicts of interest in October 2017—a subsequent investigation found that the allegations were unsubstantiated—and will assume his responsibilities in December.
“We are delighted that Rein will be joining the Stedelijk,” said

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June 06, 2019 at 5:20pm

Camille Billops (1933–2019)

Printmaker, sculptor, and documentary filmmaker Camille Billops, whose momentous films Suzanne Suzanne (1982) and Finding Christa (1991) took up some of society’s deepest-running taboos concerning motherhood and black trauma, died on Monday, June 1. She was eighty-five years old.
Finding Christa grapples with Billops’s decision to place her four-year-old daughter Christa for adoption and the lingering implications revealed by the adult Christa, who reached out to Billops and appears in the film. “Why did you leave me?” she asks. “It’s been so long since I felt complete.” Though the narrative

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June 06, 2019 at 3:30pm

Sharjah Art Foundation Appoints Omar Kholeif Director of Collections and Senior Curator

The Sharjah Art Foundation announced today that Omar Kholeif has been named director of collections and senior curator. He will be charged with overseeing the foundation’s acquisition strategy, developing exhibitions and other programming, and securing international partnerships. He will also work closely with Hoor Al Qasimi, the president and director of the foundation, to help the organization open its new building, the Jurainah Art Space, which will house its collection of over one thousand works of twentieth-century and contemporary art.
The arts space aims to serve as a gathering place where

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