Art Movements
This week, NYC's $50M Culture Shed, Pussy Riot denied bail, Smithsonian and Trayvon Martin, JFK airport demolishing Pan Am Worldport, London's Independent cuts Sunday culture critics, and more.
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
As part of Mayor Bloomberg’s final capital budget, $50 million is going towards to the new Culture Shed arts and events center at Hudson Yards, making it the city’s largest capital grant for the year.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot were denied parole, and have until next year when the release from the penal colonies where they are imprisoned is set.
The Pan Am Worldport at JFK, a historic modernist structure, is set to be soon demolished into an airplane parking lot. Here’s Hyperallergic’s coverage of the effort to preserve the terminal.
The Smithsonian Institution has expressed interest in acquiring Trayvon Martin’s hoodie.
London’s Independent newspaper is cutting all of its culture critics from its Sunday edition staff, including seven journalists.
A Ukrainian museum director painted over a mural by artist Volodymyr Kuznetsov that she commissioned because she didn’t like it.
A paraphrased quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. that many criticized for distorting its original meaning was erased this week from the memorial to the Civil Rights leader in Washington, DC.
The finalists for the first Hugo Boss Asia Art were announced, with Birdhead, Hsu Chiawei, Hu Xiangqian, Kwan Sheungchi, Lee Kitt, Li Liao, and Li Wei.
After 16 years as the Museum of Arts and Design’s chief curator, David Revere McFadden is retiring.
After serving for six and a half years as MoMA’s chief curator of architecture and design, Barry Bergdoll is returning to Columbia University as the art history chair.
Curator Pablo León de la Barra was named as the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America, as part of the Guggenheim and UBS collaboration to network with artists and curators in South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa.
A staff member at the Rubin Museum of Art filed a lawsuit that claimed she was sexually harassed by the museum’s director.
Wikipedia and the Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum are collaborating to improve the Wikipedia entries and present the institution’s collections more thoroughly to the public.
This October, the 36-foot-tall “Two Small Skyscrapers (Quasi Legal Skyscrapers)” and the 30-foot-tall “Ghost Ship” by Chris Burden will be installed on the exterior of the New Museum as part of his exhibition.
Ground was broken for Sky City in China, which, despite being criticized as “insane,” is planned to be 202 floors of prefabricated material, making it the world’s tallest building.
The 2012 Kunsthal Rotterdam art theft that may have ended in flames is being made into a film by Romanian director Tudor Giugiu.
