In 2022, Dark Horse Comics and Dark Horse Direct will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart’s seminal Eisner Award-winning comic The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects with a brand-new fine art print, featuring all-new art by Mignola and Stewart. This limited-edition print measures 18” x 24”. It will be limited to 300 prints and will retail for $49.99. Fans ...
Megan Lykins Reich has been named the new executive director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, whose leadership role has been vacant for a year and a half. Reich had been interim executive director since mid-2020. The museum’s last director, Jill Snyder, left following a controversy over a canceled Shaun Leonardo exhibition. (She is now a consultant and advising on a program for museum ...
After a tumultuous two years at the helm, MOCA Los Angeles artistic director Klaus Biesenbach is set to return to Berlin, where he will direct Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie and the hotly anticipated Museum of the 20th Century. In February, MOCA restructured its leadership, and Biesenbach was named artistic director. The announcement of his departure by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which manages Berlin’s state-run ...
The Kitchen, a New York alternative space with a reputation for showing cutting-edge performance, video, and sound art over the past 50 years, has picked Legacy Russell as its next executive director and chief curator. Russell, who is currently associate curator of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, joins the Kitchen in September. Since starting as an associate curator at the Studio Museum ...
For the first time in its 228-year history, the Louvre will be directed by a woman. Laurence des Cars, the current leader of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, has been picked by French president Emmanuel Macron as the next leader of the Louvre. Des Cars succeeds Jean-Luc Martinez, who has been the museum’s president since 2013, and she begins ...
Sarah Meister, a photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art who has been at the New York institution for more than a decade, will depart her post to lead the Aperture Foundation, which is known for its closely watched exhibitions, books, and magazine dedicated to the medium. Aperture’s current director, Chris Boot, who has led the organization since 2011, was headed back to ...
Angelina Jolie has been tapped to direct a biopic about celebrated British war photographer Don McCullin. The film is titled Unreasonable Behaviour, after McCullin’s acclaimed autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his exploits covering international conflict. BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Gregory Burk has adapted the book into a screenplay, while Hardy Son & Baker, which is run by actor Tom Hardy and Dean Baker, will ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, November 20. NEED-TO-READ Inside the Art Collections of Big Banks – Bloomberg takes a look at the art collections of major financial institutions, which have become big-time players in the art industry. Many of the ...
The Smithsonian Institution has announced that Kevin Young will be the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Young, who is currently poetry editor at the New Yorker as well as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, will take up his new role in January 2021. He will take ...
