Leonora Carrington Smashes Record at Sotheby’s, Lawsuit Launched Over Lost Star Trek Ship, Spain Unveils Submerged Roman Treasures, and More: Morning Links for May 16, 2024 - Arts news - NewsLocker (2024)

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter.THE HEADLINESCARRINGTON’S SURREAL NIGHT. The Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington is the talk of last night’s otherwise mostly mixed auction at Sotheby’s in New York. Her 1945 painting Les Distractions de Dagobertsurpassed previous records with $28.5 million paid with fees, reports Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews. Surrealism is getting a lot of love

Livestream Portal Reopens in Dublin and New York Following LewdBehavior

On Tuesday, May 14 a large portal that livestreams between Dublin’s city center and New York’s Flatiron district was shut down due to lewd behavior. The art installation returned again on Sunday, reported the New York Times.Visitors on both sides are to blame for the video’s removal. Videos on social media captured an OnlyFans model lifting her shirt in New York, while people in Dublin displayed swastikas and images of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.The porta

Thailand Celebrates Return of 11th Century Sculptures Repatriated by the MetMuseum

The government of Thailand recently held an official repatriation ceremony for two 11th century sculptures previously held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for three decades and connected to art dealer Douglas Latchford.The repatriation ceremony at the National Museum in Bangkok on Tuesday was centered around Kneeling Female Figure and Standing Shiva, both of which returned to the country as the result of an agreement between the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York

Julie Mehretu Designed BMW Art Car Unveiled at CentrePompidou

The 20thBMW Art Car, designed by contemporary art luminary Julie Mehretu, was unveiled Tuesday at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Following tradition, the BMW M Hybrid V8 race car will take part in the famous 24-hour endurance-focused race Le Mans, the oldest such race in the world.Mehretu’s collaboration with BMW marks the first time the artist’s characteristic abstractions, which are made from digitally altered photographs superimposed onto several layers of dot grids, have bee

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Woman Sues Walker Art Center, Claiming She Was Told She Could Not Breastfeed in aGallery

A Minneapolis woman is suing the Walker Art Center after an employee, apparently ill-informed on the museum’s policies, allegedly told her she could not breastfeed her infant in a gallery.Megan Mzenga visited the institution with her family in early March. “My daughter got hungry, and she started rooting,” she told the Minneapolis TV news station KARE11. “We were actually in a gallery with two large couches. I decided to sit down on a couch and started nursing

Sable Elyse Smith Wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art FoundationPrize

Artist Sable Elyse Smith has won the Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, which is awarded every two years and administered by the Contemporary Austin. The award comes with $200,000, a solo exhibition at the Texas art space that will then travel to the FLAG Art Foundation in New York, and an accompanying catalogue.Smith, who was born in Los Angeles and is now based in New York, is a closely watched artist known for working in a variety of mediums, from video to sculpture to photograph

Artist Ophelia Arc Welcomes You Into a Psychological Web of Her OwnMaking

Somewhere between Faith Wilding’s 1972 crocheted “Womb Room” installation and the sculptural works of Eve Hesse exists the work of emerging artist Ophelia Arc. Her corporeal crochet sculptures and collaged drawings invite viewers into a psychological web of her own making. Prompted by the concept of “wound dwelling,” coined by author Leslie Jamison, Arc unpacks the trauma of her lived experience, revealing snippets of her life sourced from childhood diaries and fami

Native American Curator Sues Chicago Blackhawks, Walker Art Center in Legal Trouble Over Breastfeeding Visitor, and More: Morning Links for May 21,2024

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter.THE HEADLINESBLACKHAWK CONTROVERSY. Apsáalooke curator Nina Sanders is suing the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team foundation and CEO Danny Wirtz, for fraud, breach of contract, and violating the Gender Violence Act, reported CBS News. The Chicago Blackhawks had hired Sanders, a specialist in Native American art, as a cultural consultant and mediator amid growing o

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Facing Enrollment Crisis, Vermont College of Fine Arts Strikes Deal with CalArts to ShareCampus

Citing an enrollment crisis that threatens to shutter its doors forever, the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier has forged a partnership with the California Institute of the Arts(CalArts) in Los Angeles that will allow its students to fulfill short-term residencies on the CalArts campus. The collaboration will begin this fall for the next academic year.VCFA is a low-residency, graduate-only program, and offers MFAs in writing, visual art, graphic design, and music comp

Christie’s Website and App is Back Online After Ten-DayOutage

Christie’s website and app are now up and running again, the auction house confirmed. This comes following a ten-day outage that sparked concern among art advisors and collectors amid a busy season of sales.The website reportedly went down on the evening of Thursday, May 9 due to a “technology security issue” that was impacting some of its systems. Christie’s website was still offline on Friday afternoon, with a single webpage containing the message: “We apologise t

A $5 M. Yayoi Kusama Painting That Has Never Been Exhibited Leads Bonhams Hong KongSale

Infinity, a never publicly seen painting by Yayoi Kusama is coming to auction at Bonhams’Modern and Contemporary ArtsaleinHong Kong next week. The red-and-black painting from 1995 comes with an estimate of over $5 million.The painting is a rare example of Kusama combining two of her most well-known motifs, dots and the infinity nets. Compositionally the workis split in two, with black dots on a red background on the right side and a black and red net on

The Viral Billie Eilish Louvre Promotion Video Appears to Be aHoax

A videothat appeared to be promoting the the pop star Billie Eilish’s new record Hit Me Hard and Soft that went viral over the week was appears have been a fake.The video shows the I. M. Pei-designed glass-and-metal pyramid outside of the Louvre suddenly flooded with deep blue water. A white door appears near the apex of the structure and Eilish, dressed in a fashionable baggy black outfit and sporting dark hair, falls into the depths of the pyramid-cum-pool. Then the words Billie E

In Radiant Paintings and Beaded Extravaganzas, Jeffrey GibsonRemixesNative AmericanHistories

A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson had garnered attention with a couple small solo shows in New York and a pair of notable group exhibitions that followed. But his status was a matter of perspective. “I felt very emerging at that point,” Gibson recalled. “But because the Native art world and the larger art world were so separate at the time, I think most of my peers who were non-Native were unaware. It was like I was at different

British Museum Recovers Missing Objects, Artist Accuses Kehinde Wiley of Sexual Assault, Nino Mier Weighs Shuttering Spaces, and More: Morning Links for May 17,2024

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter.THE HEADLINESACCUSATION. British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko has accused star artist and presidential portraitistKehinde Wiley of sexual assault, which the latter denied, reports Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews. “It almost destroyed me,” wrote Awuah-Darko in an Instagram post on Sunday. He told ARTnewshe was seeking legal action and

New Museum Leadership Shake-Up: Isolde Brielmaier to Depart, as Karen WongReturns

With the New Museum closed to the public until its expansion opens early next year, there has been a musical-chairs-style reshuffle among the institution’s top brass. Next month, Isolde Brielmaier, the institution’s current deputy director, will depart. Meanwhile, Karen Wong, the former deputy director who launched its NEW INC art-tech incubator, will return to the museum in the newly created role of Chief Brand Officer.Brielmaier is leaving on June 7 to spearhead the launchof

New Museum Leadership Changes: Isolde Brielmaier to Depart, as Karen WongReturns

With the New Museum closed to the public until its expansion opens early next year, there has been a musical-chairs-style reshuffle among the institution’s top brass. Next month, Isolde Brielmaier, the institution’s current deputy director, will depart. Meanwhile, Karen Wong, the former deputy director who launched its NEW INC art-tech incubator, will return to the museum in the newly created role of Chief Brand Officer.Brielmaier is leaving on June 7 to spearhead the launchof

Jeffrey Gibson Details His Painting onArt in America’sLatestCover

Jeffrey Gibson, whose beaded painting Born to Be Alive (2023) appears on the cover of Art in America’s Summer 2024 “Icons” issue, is the subject of a profile in the magazine. From his studio in Hudson, New York, Gibson told A.i.A. the backstory of the cover image, a detail of a larger work shown here in full.As told toA.i.A.I was listening to music hunting for words to use in my work and came across this disco song, “Born to Be Alive,” by Patrick Hernand

Jeffrey Gibson Details His Beaded Painting onA.i.A.’sLatestCover

Jeffrey Gibson, whose beaded painting Born to Be Alive (2023) appears on the cover of Art in America’s Summer 2024 “Icons” issue, is the subject of a profile in the magazine. From his studio in Hudson, New York, Gibson told A.i.A. the backstory of the cover image, a detail of a larger work shown here in full.As told toA.i.A.I was listening to music hunting for words to use in my work and came across this disco song, “Born to Be Alive,” by Patrick Hernand

Art in America’s Summer “Icons” Issue Features Jeffrey Gibson, A Crash Course in Impressionism, andMore

Early in this issue’s profile of Jeffrey Gibson by Art in America executive editor Andy Battaglia, the artist remembers being in Venice in 2007 to see the work of fellow Native American artist Edgar Heap of Birds, who had a project organized by curator Kathleen Ash-Milby on view there. The exhibition was a collateral event around the Venice Biennale, and it was unusual then for the work of a Native artist to show on such a global scale. Recalling a conversation with Ash-Milby at the time,

ArtistJoseph Awuah-Darko Accuses Kehinde Wiley of SexualAssault

British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko accused star artist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault in an Instagram post published Sunday and said that he is seeking “legal action.” On his own Instagram, Wiley denied the allegations.In the post, Awuah-Darko claimed that, on June 9, 2021, Wiley sexually assaulted him twice during a dinner held in his honor by Ghana’s Creative Art Council at the Noldor Artist Residency.“On 9th June 2021 – I was sexually assaulted

Jerry Gogosian Apologizes After Mocking Sotheby’s Auctioneer’sName

As the May auctions drew to a close this week, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the person behind the popular Instagram account Jerry Gogoisan, issued an apology for having mispronounced and made fun of a Sotheby’s auctioneer’s name, a move that some at the house decried as inappropriate.Helphenstein, who regularly critiques the art market, received criticism this week for a video she made as she was live-streaming Sotheby’s “Now” evening sale on Monday. In a clip that has

Dealer Nino Mier Weighs Closing Los Angeles Galleries After Being Accused of UnderpayingArtists

Dealer Nino Mier may close four of his gallery’s eight locations after an Art Newspaper report revealed an alleged pattern of underpayments to artists.Artnet News reporter Annie Armstrong first published news of the LA galleries’ impending closure Friday afternoon. The four venues that will shutter, according to Artnet, are all located in Los Angeles, the city where the gallery first opened in 2015.“As Nino Mier Gallery increasingly focuses on its operations in New York and Bru

Chilean Authorities Return 117 Fossils toMorocco

Chilean authorities returned 117 fossils dating back 400 million years to Morocco in a repatriation ceremony at the National Library of Chile in Santiago on Monday. The artifacts had been seized from smugglers by Chilean customs officials.During the handover ceremony, Nelida Pozo Kudo, director of the Chilean National Heritage Service, praised the cooperation between Morocco and Chile.“Chilean customs’ seizure of these Moroccan-origin fossils and their return to the kingdom is a cle

Saint Martins College Students Take Control of the School’s Reception Area in Pro-PalestineProtest

Students at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, a top art school in the U.K.,took over the school’s reception area earlier this week in protest of the institution’s failure to take a stance on Israel’s war in Gaza.The students said they were protesting against the school’s “financial complicity in genocide” and “affiliations with Zionist institutions” and claimed that “there is no action left other than to occupy a spac

British Museum Announces It Has Recovered 268 More Missing Objects Following TheftScandal

The British Museum announced in a statement Friday that it had located 268 objects that were either missing or stolen from its collection.The museum announced in February an initial number of around 350 objects recovered, from the over 1,500 identified as lost or stolen last summer. That brings the total figure to 626 recovered.On Friday, the museum said it was currently pursuing new leads for around 100 other objects, and that pieces had been found in Europe and North America.The British Museu

DJ Sets and a Nightclub Screening Can’t Hide How Boring Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ftIs

Context is everything, and filmmaker Harmony Korine is certainly building a lot of it around Aggro Dr1ft, the film he first premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, Korine took the film on tour, screening it in Los Angeles at a strip club, in London at Evolutionary Arts Hackney, and in New York at Bushwick standard Elsewhere. At each stop of the tour, the screening was followed by DJ sets by Korine and producer AraabMuzik, who scored the film. All of this coincided with a Hau

In Five New Shows, Matthew Barney Turns His Abstract Football Film Into Sculptures andPaintings

Making his way through his new studio a few weeks back, Matthew Barney stopped to inspect a strange set of alchemical dumbbells and tried to describe the elements of stress, vulnerability, and frailty he saw embodied in them. “These are some tests for the transition from ceramic to plastic,” he said, while holding up castings of 8-pound weights that showed signs of a metamorphosis in the middle. “I’m always looking for a way to create a kind of conflict between materials,

X’s Latest Viral Sensation Is a Venice Biennale Artwork About a NonbinaryGod

There have been many talked-about works at the current Venice Biennale, from a Golden Lion–winning Mataaho Collective installation formed from tie-downs to an assortment of abstractions by under-recognized artists. But just one piece in the show has gone viral on X, becoming the subject of a number of memes, ranging from the hilarious (about RuPaul) and to the lewd (about Venom).That work is Joshua Serafin’s VOID (2022– ), a video in the Arsenale portion of the main exhibition

Man Ray’s Experimental Short Films Still Captivate a CenturyLater

Swirling coils, dancing legs, twitching starfish, and thrown dice are a few of the beguiling visuals in Man Ray: Return to Reason, a recently released collection of four experimental shorts in the oeuvre of the seminal Dada and Surrealist artist.Last May, the Cannes Film Festival debuted the newly restored 4K versions of the films to honor the centennial of Man Ray’s entry into filmmaking. Following the North American premiere at the New York Film Festival last fall, a wider release by dis

O’Keeffe Among Highlights of Christie’s Auction, Dublin-NY Portal Shut Down, Artist Katherine Porter Dies, and More: Morning Links for May 17,2024

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter.THE HEADLINESSTEADY GROUND. Christie’s evening sales on Thursday fell firmly within estimates, bringing in $413 million, reports Daniel Cassady for ARTnews. While bidding was not as fast and furious as a few years ago, the event suggests the art market is holding steady amid legitimate questions about its health for most of the last year. “The posture of al