William T. Williams (b.1942), Harlem Hearts (111 1/2 Series), 1999, acrylic on canvas, 57″ x 36″, signed; © William T. Williams; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
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Accolades
Meriem Bennani was awarded the Eye Art & Film Prize by Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum. [Artdaily]
Emmet Cohen was awarded the 2019 Cole Porter Fellowship by the American Pianists Association. [NYT]
Jimmie Durham will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2019 Venice Biennale. [ANSA]
Charles Gaines will be awarded the 60th Edward MacDowell Medal from the MacDowell Colony. [via email announcement]
Julie Henson was named the 2019 National Artist in Residence of the Neon Museum. [via email announcement]
The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs has announced Taja Lindley, Laura Nova, Julia Weist, and Janet Zweig as its new Public Artists in Residence. [via email announcement]
Roberta Smith was bestowed the inaugural lifetime achievement award by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. [ARTnews]
UrbanGlass has awarded its visual artist fellowships to Dean Erdmann, Carly Mandel, and Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin. Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves will receive visiting designer fellowships. [Artforum]
Olga Viso, Stephen Pitti, Cathy Davidson have been named fellows in residence of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. [ARTnews]
William T. Williams was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th Annual James A. Porter Colloquium. [via email announcement]
Lily Zhang was awarded the 2018-19 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture by the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
The first group of artists participating in the 2020 Biennale of Sydney have been announced. [Broadsheet]
Opportunities
We want to put your idea into space! We have no idea what you’ll do with this opportunity, but we can’t wait to see it. Apply today: https://t.co/iO7jGUry5X #ArtInSpace #blueorigin
— OK Go (@okgo) March 25, 2019
OK Go is inviting student artists to submit proposals for art proposals to ship into space. [OK Go]
Transitions
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, “Miss Chairs” (2014), Black charcoal, gouache, oil-pastel, and oil-paint on Coventry Vellum paper, 50 x 43 1/2 in, 127 x 110.5 cm, © Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
AWHRHWAR, a Los Angeles gallery, will close this weekend. [via email announcement]
Polina Berlin was appointed director of Ortuzar Projects in Tribeca, Manhattan. [ARTnews]
Jacqueline de Jong is now represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. [Pippy Houldsworth]
Maurin Dietrich was appointed director of the Kunstverein München. [Artforum]
Gagosian is opening a new space in Los Angeles in collaboration with Chef Evan Funke. [Eater]
Hauser & Wirth will open a new global headquarters and bookstore in Zürich this June. [ARTnews]
Johan Holten will be director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim. [Monopol]
Deborah Horowitz has left her position overseeing the curatorial team of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. [Variety]
Glenn Ligon is now represented by Hauser & Wirth. [via email announcement]
Courtney J. Martin was named director of the Yale Center for British Art. [via email announcement]
Lari Pittman is now represented by Lehmann Maupin. [ARTnews]
Nathaniel Mary Quinn is now represented by Gagosian. [ARTnews]
Gabriela Rangel was appointed artistic director of the Malba Collection. [Buenos Aires Times]
Kirra Steel has been promoted to the position of chief development officer of the International Center of Photography. [via email announcement]
Graeme Thompson was appointed worldwide head of jewelry at Phillips. [Phillips]
Carlos Urroz has been named director of TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary). [via email announcement]
Various Small Fires gallery opened a second location in the Hannam-dong area of Seoul, South Korea. [Artforum]
Obituaries
Antonio Asis (1932–2019), Op artist known for his geometric compositions [ARTnews]
Jonathan Baumbach (1933–2019), experimental novelist [NYT]
Bill Culbert (1935–2019), artist known as the “Master of Light,” working with painting, photography, and sculpture [RNZ]
Kim English (1970–2019), musician who blended gospel and dance music [NYT]
Claude Lalanne (1924–2019), sculpture with a surrealist touch [TAN]
Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019), science-fiction author [Guardian]
Dan Robbins (1925–2019), originator of the paint-by-numbers phenomenon [Smithsonian]
Sydel Silverman (1933–2019), anthropologist, scholar, teacher, historian, and preservationist [NYT]
Bob Slade (1948–2019), veteran radio host who discussed social issues affecting the Black Community on the weekly show Open Line [The Source]
Lyle Tuttle (1931–2019), tattoo artist and historian [SF Chronicle]
Matthew Underwood (1983–2019), electronic musician and one of the founding editors of Headmaster Magazine [Boy Culture]
Ed Westcott (1922–2019), government photographer who documented life in Oak Ridge, a secret city in Tennessee where uranium was enriched to develop the atom bomb during World War II [NYT]
