Author: Ann Williams
Swiss art dealer, auctioneer and collector Eberhard Kornfeld bequeathed five paintings to the Kunstmuseum Bern, including a 1919 work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Junkerboden and Alberto Giacometti’s 1965 portrait, Carolina.The other paintings in the legacy, which will be on display at the Kunstmuseum from Friday, are from 1893 by Alfred Sisley. The church of Moret Sur Loingby Sam Francis Blue, Red and Yellow (1958), and Giovanni Giacometti’s self-portrait from 1909.Kornfeld was a longtime patron of the Kunstmuseum and had previously donated graphic works by Maurice de Vlaminck and Alfred Kubin and a mobile by Alexander Calder.Giovanni Giacometti, Self portrait (1909)Museum…
It’s like trying to get into a club with a fake ID… (Screenshot by Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic through @seanieviola Xn) Kim Kardashian allegedly turned down the Judd Foundation’s offer of authentic Donald Judd furniture in exchange for deleting a video. The Judd Foundation filed a lawsuit against Kardashian and her Los Angeles-based interior design firm Clements Design after the celebrity claimed she had “Donald Judd desks” that were found to be inauthentic. According to the suit, Clements Design manufactured the table and chairs “in the style of Donald Judd,” according to an invoice that included photographs of Judd’s original designs. The…
The Gwangju Biennale, Asia’s most prestigious recurring arts festival, has announced the artists participating in its 2024 show, which opens on September 7 in the South Korean city. The exhibition is this time curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French curator known for theorizing the relational aesthetic style of the 1990s. As is typical of Bourriaud’s exhibitions, his Gwangju Biennale comes with an ambitious framework that sees sound as a means of structuring life as we know it. Its title is “Pansori, the soundscape of the 21st century”, the 17th century. which refers to a 20th century Korean music genre. “In…
Brazilian dealers Jaqueline Martins and Maria Montero are merging their galleries to create a new joint venture, Martins&Montero. Both Martins, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, and Montero, who founded Sé Galeria, will close their individual spaces in São Paulo and jointly open another in the city next month. Martins&Montero will also take over the second location of Galeria Jaqueline Martins in Brussels. All employees of both galleries will be retained in the merger, and each artist previously represented by Jaqueline Martins or Sé will transfer to the Martins&Montero roster. Founded in 2011, Galeria Jaqueline Martins has grown to represent 30 artists, including…
Wine labels often display information mandated by legislation or regional requirements. However, that space above a bottle has infinite possibilities for design and semiotics. There are as many labels as there are wines and producers. Just as we know not to judge a book by its cover, scholars have also learned not to judge a wine by its label. The exceptions to this rule are the First Growth wine labels of Château Mouton Rothschild, which not only introduced important changes in the production of fine wine, but also created the standard for the way these wines are presented to the…
On Thursday, April 18, at Palazzo delle Prigioni, “Public Forum: Thinking Like an Island” presents public programs on “island thinking” during the opening week of the 60th Venice International Biennale. This schedule is linked Yuan Goang-Ming: The Daily WarTaiwan Collateral Event, organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The opening day evening, “Public Forum: Thinking Like an Island” will highlight island thinking as a survival methodology and touch on what it means to be an island in a time when rising tides are a reality. Artist Yuan Goang-Ming, curator Abby Chen and three curators from the Asian Art Museum (San…
Inigo Philbrick, the New York dealer who was later sentenced to seven years in prison for an $86 million wire fraud, has been released. He was sentenced in May 2022, serving a little less than four years in prison—more than three years less than originally expected. He initially announced his release on March 1 Daily Mail, who cited a source at the Federal Bureau of Prisons; a Vanity Fair The article published that month reported that he had been placed under house arrest and would be released on supervised release for two years. Philbrick’s attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, confirmed his release…
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has been awarded the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, a new honor presented by the Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation. The prize, which includes a $75,000 gift and a public Dia program in the fall of 2024, was established in 2023 to support artists who have made a significant contribution in any medium. This collaboration was presented by Dia with Sam Gilliam’s work from 2019 to 2022. Born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana, Mahama is known for his large-scale textile and found object installations, repurposing materials to encourage reflection on the social implications of…
The 20th edition of São Paulo’s SP-Arte—Brazil’s main art fair—will open a few weeks before the 60th Venice Biennale (April 20 to November 24), a historic moment for the country’s art world, with Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa. curator of the exhibition. Fernanda Feitosa, founder of SP-Arte, says that the nation’s commercial sector is ready to “capitalize on the moment”. The fair will gather this month 180 exhibitors, including from more than 15 Brazilian cities.”There are 30 Brazilian artists at the Venice Biennale, our largest representation ever,” says Feitosa. “Almost all of these artists have been exhibited at the fair and are…
French artist Pierre Huyghe uses site-specific works to explore the boundaries between humanity, nature and synthetics. For the past decade, Huygh has created outdoor sculptures that include active bee colonies and has “scanned” a Norwegian forest to create an ongoing cinematic narrative about a real place. Huygh planted a garden with hallucinogenic and carnivorous plants and transformed a skating rink into a watery earthen environment. Now, for his biggest exhibition to date, the artist returns to the institutional setting. It respects its limitations while rethinking the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine sentience.The liminal It spreads over…