In Brief
Hilma af Klint Breaks Records at the Guggenheim Museum
The survey of the late Swedish abstract painter has drawn 600,000 visitors, increased museum memberships, and broke another record in catalogue sales.
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Hilma af Klint Inspires an Artist to Take a Closer Look
She was an artist who believed in progress, in the evolution of humanity.
In Brief
In a Satirical Segment About the Opioid Epidemic, John Oliver Calls Out the Sackler Family
“The Sacklers love putting their names on things. Although until very recently they have been miraculously good at keeping their name off the opioid crisis," Oliver quipped in the segment, making note of Nan Goldin's art world protests against the family.
Art
Pulled into Robert Mapplethorpe's Vortex of Voyeurism
"What's S&M?" I overhear a woman asking her husband in the exhibition. "The artist says here that it stands for sex and magic, but this set up doesn't look very magical."
News
Guggenheim Museum "Does Not Plan to Accept Any Gifts" from the Sackler Family
The announcement follows a similar decision by Tate, announced yesterday, that the institution will no longer accept funds from the Sacklers, owners of Purdue Pharma.
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Can an Outsider Artist Win His $100 Million Lawsuit Against NYC's Five Major Museums? [UPDATED]
On Monday, artist Robert Cenedella's lawyers appeared before a Manhattan judge to argue that a conspiracy exists between New York's top museums and galleries to celebrate the Warhols of the world at the expense of the "Anti-Warhols." [UPDATE: Cenedella's case has been dismissed by a judge for insuff
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Hilma af Klint, Outlier for the Ages
Hilma af Klint reminds us that institutionally approved narratives generally function as touchstones for conformists and the weak-kneed.
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Hilma af Klint, the Spiritualist Painter Who Pioneered Abstract Art
Witchy and prescient, Hilma af Klint's paintings from the early 1900s curiously combine spiritualism with an interest in evolutionary biology.
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Major Art Institutions Navigate Ties to Saudi Arabia After Disappearance of Journalist [UPDATED]
The Smithsonian, Sotheby's, and landmark institutions across NYC are under pressure to address their financial connections to the Saudi Arabian government in the wake of the suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
In Brief
Guggenheim Museum Returns Looted Painting to a German Art Dealer’s Heirs
When Alfred Flechtheim fled Germany, an Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting of his ended up in the hands of a Nazi, and eventually at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim.
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Fixating on Giacometti’s Doomed Woman
Who is this nameless woman whose first (and last) breaths were drawn nearly 90 years ago?
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Giacometti and Fears of Emasculation
A retrospective at the Guggenheim presents Giacometti as one of art history's great vanishers of women.