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          May 20, 2022

                                    Dispatch: This Week in the Art World

                          The Parthenon marbles have resided in the British Museum for over two hundred years. Photo: Michael Paraskevas/Wikipedia Commons.

                Greece and UK Agree to Discuss Repatriation of Parthenon Marbles

                Unesco on May 17 announced that the UK had agreed to formal talks with Greece in regard to the repatriation of the so-called Elgin marbles, which Greece has actively sought since 1983. The ancient sculptures were stolen from the Acropolis in 1801 by Lord Elgin and have been held in the collection of London’s British Museum for more than two hundred years. Created between 447 and 432 BCE, the contested objects comprise fifteen metopes, seventeen pedimental figures, and a nearly 250-foot section of a frieze depicting a festival procession celebrating the birthday of the Greek goddess Athena.

 Also:  The Warhol Foundation came to the aid of Ukrainian artists, and  Colette Pierce Burnette  will be the first Black woman to lead the Indianapolis Museum of Art .

                                     Kinder Album, Ukraine Will Resist, 2022. Photo: Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund.

                            Warhol Foundation Commits $350,000 to Ukrainian Emergency Relief

                        The funding, to be divided among four agencies, comes as Russia continues its unprovoked attack on Ukraine, launched in February and resulting in tremendous devastation nationwide. Among the efforts the money will sustain are those intended to bring artists to safety; protect artworks and institutions; and provide culture workers with food, shelter, and medical care.

                                     Colette Pierce Burnette. Photo: Newfields.

                            Colette Pierce Burnette Chosen to Lead Indianapolis Museum of Art

                        Burnette has been named as the next president and CEO of Newfields, the campus housing the museum. She will be the first Black woman to helm the institution since its founding in 1883. Burnette replaces Charles Venable, who stepped down last year following a job posting by the museum seeking a director who could maintain its “traditional, core, white art audience.”

                          Sandra Benites. Photo: Marcos Brailko/MASP.

                Sandra Benites, MASP’s First Indigenous Curator, Quits Amid Censorship Kerfuffle

                Benites, a member of the Guaraní Ñandeva people who in 2019 became the first Indigenous curator hired by the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, resigned from the institution after officials there declined to show a half dozen works depicting the left-leaning Landless Workers Movement (MST) in an exhibition she was co-organizing.

                         Independent’s new fair will take place in Lower Manhattan’s Battery Maritime Building. Photo: Etienne Frossard/Independent.

                Independent to Launch Fair Devoted to Diversifying the Canon of Twentieth-Century Art

                Slated to run concurrently with the Armory Show, the inaugural edition of Independent 20th Century will take place September 8–11 at the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan. The fair will seek to broaden the twentieth-century canon to include artists who have historically been overlooked owing to racism, sexism, and other discriminatory beliefs and practices.

                                     Stephanie Rosenthal. Photo: Robert Rieger.

                            Stephanie Rosenthal Named Project Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

                        Rosenthal will depart Berlin’s Gropius Bau, where, the gallery’s first female director, she has served since arriving in 2018, diversifying the museum’s exhibition roster and inaugurating its artist-in-residence program. In her new role at Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, she will take charge of the Frank Gehry–designed institution’s long-delayed opening, now forecast for 2025.

                                     Gilane Tawadros. Photo: Brian Benson.

                            Gilane Tawadros to Lead London’s Whitechapel Gallery

                        Tawadros has been appointed director of the institution, where she will take up her new post this October. A founding director of London nonprofit INIVA, she has since 2009 served as chief executive of the London-based DACA, a nonprofit specializing in artists’-rights management. She succeeds lwona Blazwick, who helmed the Whitechapel for two decades.

                         A rendering of the planned Bët-bi museum in Senegal. Photo: atelier masōmī.

                Albers Foundation to Establish New Museum in Senegal

                Bët-bi (the name means “the eye” in Wolof, the local language) will exhibit both contemporary and historical art and function as a waystation for repatriated objects from museums around the world as they make their way back to their rightful homes. Situated near the city of Kaolack, known for its stone megaliths, the museum is expected to open in 2025.

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