Posts Tagged ‘Benjamin Sutton’
May 24, 2013, 1:43 pm
Last night Elastic City — a non-profit that commissions artists to create participatory, conceptual walks through various spaces, from museums to parks, neighborhoods in far-flung cities, or the streets of Lower Manhattan — held its first-ever benefit at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) in Midtown. The exuberant party, which boasted cocktails mixed by Timothy Miner of Brooklyn’s revered bar The Jakewalk, was packed with attendees walking around in odd patterns, and not (only) because of the mixologist’s potent concoctions. (more…)
Tags: Benefit, Benjamin Sutton, Elastic City, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Luciana Achugar, News
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May 24, 2013, 7:39 am
It turns out the Whitney Museum wasn’t the only art world force rebranding this week. Unbeknown to seemingly everyone, Art Basel and its attendant franchises — Art Basel Miami Beach and the new Art Basel Hong Kong — have all added “in” to their names. Now they are called Art Basel in Hong Kong, Art Basel in Miami Beach, and, most hilariously, Art Basel in Basel. (more…)
Tags: Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami Beach, Benjamin Sutton, News, WTF
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May 23, 2013, 4:26 pm
Paul Schimmel, the former chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, whose abrupt departure last year after 22 years served as something of a tipping point for the museum’s ongoing woes, has become a partner in the gallery Hauser & Wirth, which has branches in London and New York, and plans to open a Los Angeles location under the name Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the Los Angeles Times’s Jori Finkel reports. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Hauser & Wirth, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, News, Paul Schimmel
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May 23, 2013, 3:52 pm
How fitting for an actor-turned-president’s museum to be hosting a show of presidential trinkets and movie props. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley, California, is about to open “The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln,” an exhibition featuring some 250 artifacts — although some of them are set pieces and costumes from the Steven Spielberg film “Lincoln.” (more…)
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Sutton, News, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library, Steven Spielberg
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May 23, 2013, 1:37 pm
In an interview with Bloomberg about her Studio in a School initiative, collector, philanthropist, Museum of Modern Art president emerita, and MoMA PS1 chairman Agnes Gund discusses her own aptitude for art-making, why she refuses to sell the art kids make in her program, and how incredibly happy most of her life is. (more…)
Tags: Agnes Gund, Benjamin Sutton, News, Studio in a School
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May 23, 2013, 10:44 am
After a strong showing by VIPs on Wednesday, Thursday saw more swift business in the aisles and booths of the inaugural Art Basel in Hong Kong fair (the best of which ARTINFO has highlighted in this video). During its first day of being open to the general public, fair heavyweights like Hauser & Wirth, Paul Kasmin, and Arndt made major sales, while a slew of Asian galleries also made big moves. (more…)
Tags: Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Fairs, Benjamin Sutton, Hauser & Wirth, News, Paul Kasmin Gallery
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May 23, 2013, 8:17 am
On Tuesday the Vatican Museums held a special seminar to mark the 41st anniversary of one of their darkest moments: The 1972 attack on Michelangelo’s Pieta in St. Peter’s Basilica by the hammer-wielding Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth, Reuters reports. After hopping over the alter railing, he struck the marble sculpture of the Madonna holding Jesus Christ 12 times, knocking off the female figure’s hand, arm, and parts of its nose, eyelids, hood, and other areas amounting to roughly 100 tiny fragments. (more…)
Tags: Art History, Benjamin Sutton, michelangelo, News, The Vatican, Vandalism, Vatican Museums
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May 22, 2013, 2:06 pm
In 1948 a decree signed by Joseph Stalin closed the State Museum of New Western Art, a Moscow institution housed in the former mansion of modern art collector Sergei Shchukin, for showing art that was deemed bourgeois and not in line with state-sanctioned Soviet Realism. The museum’s collection was eventually split between the State Hermitage Museum and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, but a recent plea from the director of the latter, Irina Antonova, asking Vladimir Putin to reopen the Museum of New Western Art ignited a feud with her colleague at the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, which has been diffused with news that the old institution will reopen strictly as a web-based entity, Russia Beyond the Headlines reports. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, News, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, Western Art Museum
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May 22, 2013, 1:12 pm
Celebrity chef, outspoken foodie, and Savannah resident Paula Deen will be the subject of a new museum in her hometown of Albany, Georgia, if a group led by her ex-husband Jimmy Deen and local aspiring politician B.J. Fletcher have their way. The future Paula Deen Museum would be housed in the greatly-loved gourmand’s childhood home, which was recently purchased by a group who support the museum project, the Albany Herald reports. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Jenny Drumgoole, News, Paula Deen, Paula Deen Museum, Videos
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May 22, 2013, 12:04 pm
On VIP day of the inaugural edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, the fair’s aisles were filled with some fittingly important collectors — including Guy Ullens, Roman Abramovic and Dasha Zhukova, Uli Sigg, and Budi Tek — as well as supermodel Kate Moss, L.A. MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, and West Kowloon Cultural District director Michael Lynch. In addition to the bold-faced names, the fair’s first hours — whose best booths we’ve selected here — saw a slew of major sales for European and American galleries, as well as a strong showing by local dealers and galleries from Latin America. (more…)
Tags: Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Fairs, Benjamin Sutton, Jeffrey Deitch, Kate Moss, News, Uli Sigg
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