Art Movements
Vanessa German was awarded the 2018 Don Tyson Prize, Heidi K. Brandow was awarded the third Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists, and more.
Art Movements is a weekly index of developments centering the people of the arts and culture sphere. Listen to our weekly podcast of the same name on iTunes.
Accolades:
Vanessa German was awarded the 2018 Don Tyson Prize by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. German will receive $200,000 for “pushing boundaries and taking risks in the field of American art.” [via email announcement]
Hashim Sarkis was announced curator of the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale. [ARTnews]
Director of Berlin’s ifa Gallery Alya Sebti, Spanish architect Marina Otero Verzier, the V-A-C Foundation’s chief curator Katerina Chuchalina, and the director of the ICA in London Stefan Kalmár were announced as the curators of Manifesta 2020. [via email announcement]
Multi-disciplinary artist Heidi K. Brandow was awarded the third Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists. [via email announcement]
Amale Andraos and WORKac were selected by the BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art to design the museum’s future building, set to open in 2023. [via email announcement]
The Fondazione Merz in Italy has announced the finalists for the 2019 edition of its Mario Merz Prize for art and music. The prizewinners will be commissioned for a new project at the Fondazione Merz, to go on view in 2020. [ARTnews]
The Bronx Museum of the Arts will honor Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, and For Freedoms, alongside Junko Kobayashi, President of the Stan Lee Foundation at its 2019 Benefit Gala and Art Auction. [via email announcement]
Opportunities:
The MacDowell Colony is accepting applications for its 2019 summer fellowships. MacDowell encourages artists from all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts. There are no residency fees, and travel grants and need-based stipends are available. The application deadline is January 15. [MacDowell Colony]
Haiti Cultural Exchange is accepting applications for its Lakou NOU (“Our Yard” in Haitian Creole) residency program for artists of Hatian descent based in greater New York City. Winners will receive $7,000 stipend “for creating new art; the development, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of projects; access to a network of other artists, community leaders, and local organizations; a platform to showcase their work to varied audiences; and the opportunity to develop leadership skills while becoming more acquainted with social issues affecting Brooklyn communities.” Applications are due January 14. [HCX]
Transitions:
Ralf Beil was terminated from his position as director of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany. [Monopol]
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has announced two new appointees to its Board of Directors, Jay Brown and Cindy Miscikowski, and two new appointees to its Board of Overseers, Bill Block and Darren Star. [Art Daily]
Abby Chen was named the first head of contemporary art at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. [via email announcement]
Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy was named chairman of the Universal Hip Hop Museum’s “celebrity board.” The Bronx museum is scheduled to open in 2022. [ARTnews]
Brian Faucette was named senior director of Night Gallery in Los Angeles. [ARTnews]
Anthea M. Hartig was appointed the first female director of the Smithsonian’s American History Museum. [NYT]
Kamiar Maleki will step down as director of Contemporary Istanbul. [via email announcement]
Dalton Paula is now represented by Alexander and Bonin gallery in New York. [Art Daily]
Heidi Reitmaier was appointed Deputy Director and Chief of Public Programming and Learning at the Art Gallery of Ontario. [via email announcement]
Blair Saxon-Hill is now represented by Nino Mier Gallery in Los Angeles and Cologne, Germany. [via email announcement]
David Voyles was named deputy director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. [ARTnews]
Obituaries:
John Ford Noonan (1941–2018), playwright who wrote off-Broadway hit A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking [NYT]
Andrew Frierson (1924–2018), bass-baritone opera singer who pioneered the genre as a Black performer [NYT]
Irwin Hollander (1927–2018), artist and a master lithographer who wooed Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and other Abstract Expressionist painters to try their hands at printmaking in his East Village workshop [NYT]
William J. Conklin (1923–2018), architect and urban planner who designed the Navy Memorial [Washington Post]
Meng Lang (1961–2018), Chinese poet and promoter of dissident writers [Poetry Foundation]
Sondra Locke (1944–2018), Oscar-nominated actress [Variety]
Galt MacDermot (1928–2018), Tony-winning composer of Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona [Washington Post]
Penny Marshall (1943–2018), star of Laverne & Shirley and director of big-screen comedies like Big and A League of Their Own [Boston Herald]
Michael Paul Smith (1950–2018), founder, chief architect and mayor of Elgin Park, a miniature town Smith crafted and photographed to appear real with vintage cameras and hand-built sets [NYT]
Nancy Wilson (1937–2018), singer who bridged jazz-pop of the 1950s and the pop-soul of the 1960s and ’70s [NYT]
Troels Wörsel (1950–2018), Danish experimental painter who represented Denmark at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 [Art Review]
