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 Monday, October 18. NEED-TO-READ Law Firm Stops Representing HKU Over Sculpture Row – The U.S. law firm Mayer Brown says it will no longer represent the University of Hong Kong following its push to remove ...
Monday, October 11 König Galerie Opens Vienna SpaceThe Berlin-based König Galerie, which also maintains galleries in London and Seoul, has opened a new outpost in Vienna. The space’s inaugural exhibition, titled “One Decade of Female Sculptors,” is a survey of contemporary women sculptors including Alicja Kwade, Helen Marten, Camille Henrot, and Sarah Morris. The show is on view now through December 5. Andy Warhol Foundation Appoints ...
To mark the 10th anniversary of its founding, London’s Tiwani Contemporary, which has established itself as one of the most influential enterprises showcasing the work of African and African diaspora artists, will open a new location in Lagos, Nigeria, in February 2022. Tiwani’s Lagos expansion will open in a custom-built 2,000-square-foot space on the city’s Victoria Island, near galleries like Art Twenty One and ...
One of Los Angeles’s top galleries will soon open an outpost in New York. Next spring, David Kordansky Gallery will inaugurate a new location on West 20th Street in Chelsea with a solo exhibition by one of the gallery’s most closely watched artists, Lauren Halsey. Marking Kordansky’s first expansion outside L.A., the ground-floor gallery measures just over 5,000 square feet with 13-foot-high ceilings. It ...
Olafur Eliasson is recognized around the world for his breathtaking artistic installations that reawaken a sense of self and the living world around us. The Icelandic–Danish artist has unveiled a new exhibition that continues on this trajectory, entitled “The Living Observatory” at The Art Space 193 in Daejeon, South Korea. The multi-room artwork tinkers with the viewers’ sense of perspective through a tour of ...
Canton space bridges artists and art lovers Canton's Menagerie on Main is an art gallery, creative space to make art, and a boutique to shop for handcrafted jewelry, pottery, paintings, and more. CANTON, Ga. - It’s a bit of a challenge to accurately describe Menagerie on Main. Is it an art gallery? Yes. Is it a creative space in which to make art? Yes. And is it a boutique ...
The bustling Seoul art world will soon be home to another powerhouse international gallery. Gladstone Gallery—which has a trio of spaces in New York, one in Brussels, and an office in Los Angeles—has secured a location in the tony Gangnam district. An opening date has not yet been set. “We are very happy to share the news that Gladstone will officially begin to expand ...
Last Wednesday, three portraits painted by the Vienna-based Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo were launched from Texas into space. They floated in the void before coming back down to Earth just eleven minutes later. The launch of the “Suborbital Triptych” (2021) was a collaboration between the Jeff Bezos-owned aerospace company Blue Origin and the aerospace technology company Uplift AeroSpace. The three portraits were painted directly ...
The Lego Sculpture Contest brought a wide variety of works at ArtSpace / Lima. ArtSpace / Lima and Lima Building and Construction Trades have partnered to host a Lego contest among local youth. The goal of the contest was to help participants be inspired by what they see around them in the Lima community. The entries included Lego sculptures inspired by Lima architecture, including ...
