UNESCO Postpones Meeting in Russia, MoMA Plans Käthe Kollwitz Survey, and More: Morning Links for April 25, 2022
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The Headlines
THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE. After a whirlwind opening week, the Venice Biennale named the winners of its rewards. In a veryfirst, both of its greatest honors went to Black ladies, Alex Greenberger reports. Sonia Boyce, who was representing Great Britain with a video setup that channels and commemorates the work of Black female artists, took house the Golden Lion for finest nationwide structure, while Simone Leigh garnered the Golden Lion for the finest contribution to the occasion’s primary program, “The Milk of Dreams.” The jury applauded Leigh’s skyrocketing 2019 sculpture Brick House, which formerly enhanced the High Line in New York, as “rigorously investigated, virtuosically recognized, and strongly convincing.” The Silver Lion, for a “promising young artist” in the main program, went to Ali Cherri. For more on the rewards—including the unique discusses provided by the jury— head to ARTnews.
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ART AND POLITICS. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, aka UNESCO, stated that it is postponing a conference of its World Heritage Committee that hadactually been arranged for June in Kazan, Russia, the Art Newspaper reports. The proposition to holdoff came from Russia’s ambassador to the group, according to the AFP. Some worldwide authorities hadactually been calling for the conference to be moved due to the nation’s intrusion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, TAN reports, Russian artist Oleg Kulik was questioned by law enforcement authorities about his statue Big Mother (2015), after legislators declared that it buffooned a statue honoring the Battle of Stalingrad, a possible offense. Kulik, who is possibly best understood for acting incredibly like a canine in a series of efficiencies, stated that was not his objective in the piece, and that if he understood it would be seen that method “I would not even have began it.”
The Digest
With Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reducing the quantity of earnings that Saudi royals get, some are selling treasured properties, consistingof real-estate holdings, gems, and artwork. [The Wall Street Journal]
Iraq’s Ministry of Culture is presently hosting an exhibit of about 100 works of modern art by artists from the nation. A number of the pieces were recuperated abroad after the pillaging of museums throughout the 2003 U.S.-led intrusion of the nation. [AFP/France24]
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is preparation a significant study of the work of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz, and justrecently obtained a lithograph collectively with Manhattan’s Neue Galerie. The circa 1904 self-portrait it is now on view in a permanent-collection gallery at MoMA. [The Art Newspaper]
Speaking of prints, “unseen etchings that Lucian Freud rejected or revamped are to be released for the veryfirst time as part of a conclusive researchstudy that will file every print he ever produced,” Dalya Alberge reports. The brochure raisonné, from Modern Art Press, comes out next month. [The Guardian]
Artist Gary Simmons, who presently has a program at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, sat for an interview with Leigh-Ann Jackson. “The work forces you to go down specific parts of memory lane,” he stated of his partly removed blackboard illustrations. “It pushes you into reassessing how specific images came into your life.” [Los Angeles Times]
Here’s a appearance at the serene-looking Upstate New York substance that designers Jeannie and Thomas Phifer, of Thomas Phifer and Partners (Glenstone, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw), created for themselves. “What Jeannie and I were attempting to do was increase the experience with the land,” Thomas stated. [The Wall Street Journal]
The Kicker
A LIFE-CHANGING EDUCATION. At the New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball last week, artist Kenny Scharf was the visitor of honor, and was toasted by the school’s chairwoman, Eileen Guggenheim, as an “artist who developed his own scene,” John Ortved reports in the New York Times. It turns out that Guggenheim and Scharf go back a long method: She was one of his instructors at the University of California, Santa Barbara , priorto he chose to decamp to New York. Prior to taking her class, the artist stated, he desired just to researchstudy the “three B’s: bongs, beers, and babes.” [NYT]