Amanda Hunt, a star of the L.A. scene, will leave her post at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a forthcoming institution founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hodson. She is set to depart as that museum’s director of public programs and creative practice after less than two years for the Walker Art Center, a Minneapolis museum that ranks among the country’s top contemporary art ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines AS THE WAR IN UKRAINE ENTERS ITS SECOND MONTH, more than 20 French museums sent material—like crates and fire extinguishers—to institutions in the country to aid them in protecting their collections, the Art Newspaper reports. Bloomberg took a look at those extensive efforts to save culture from destruction. In Poland, Bloomberg also reports, volunteers are using a paper partition system developed by Shigeru Ban to ...
A $32 million Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that sold at Christie’s in 2020 will become the centerpiece of a new museum in Abu Dhabi set to be completed in 2025. The 67-million-year-old skeleton is nicknamed “Stan,” and it set a record price for a fossil when an anonymous bidder on the phone with a Christie’s London specialist bought it for a hammer price of $27.5 ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BUDI TEK, THE TRAILBLAZING MUSEUM FOUNDER and contemporary art collector, died on March 18 in Hong Kong of pancreatic cancer, ARTnews Editor-in-Chief Sarah Douglas reports. He was 65. Tek, who was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents in 1957, began acquiring art less than two decades ago, in 2004, but quickly became a leader in the ...
A SALMON sculpture which represents climate change will become the first contemporary art exhibited at Balmoral Castle.Salmon School will go on show at BalmoralThe artwork by artist Joseph Rossano is called The Salmon School, and is made up from 250 mirrored fish hung from the ceiling.Artist Joseph Rossano said, “The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a ...
Trupa Trupa are heading to Brighton It just might be a decent plan to head on out this coming Monday (21st February) to check out Trupa Trupa who are playing live at the Green Door Store in Brighton. Psychedelic post-punk art-rock band Trupa Trupa released their new album ‘B FLAT A’ last week. With ‘B FLAT A’, this acclaimed quartet from Gdańsk, Poland, have produced ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines AUCTION LOTS. A Peter Paul Rubens painting, Portrait of a Lady (1620–25), will hit the block at DESA Unicum in Warsaw, Poland, next month, with a high estimate of 24 million zlotys (about $6.04 million), the Associated Press reports. The house says it could sell for one of the top art prices ever achieved at auction in Central or Eastern European. Over ...
A $27 million Picasso painting that landed collector Jaime Botín in legal trouble is now on view at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. Titled Head of a Young Woman (1906), the painting became the subject of scrutiny when Botín, the scion of the family that founded the Santander bank, attempted to smuggle it out of Spain. In a statement, Botín, a member of ...
First it was van Gogh, then it was Monet. Now, it’s Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa that will have its own immersive installation. An experience themed around the iconic painting is headed to the Palais de la Bourse in Marseille, France. The immersive installation is co-organized by the Louvre and Grand Palais Immersif, a new initiative by the Grand Palais. The show will open ...
A foundation established in Buffalo, New York, by the late American sports magnate Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. will put $200 million toward funding Upstate New York and Detroit. As part of the commitment, the foundation is allocating $60 million over a 10-year period to a new endowment. That endowment will provide annual funding in amounts between $100,000 and $500,000 for 13 of the largest ...
