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NEED TO READ
Ken Griffin donates $300 million to Harvard – The billionaire mega-collector has donated $300 million to the Ivy League School of Arts and Sciences, which will rename the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in his honor. The funder spent $43 million to buy the US Constitution of a DAO in 2022 and more recently, moved his mega-watt art collection in Palm Beach. (crimson)
Monica Lewinsky talks about sitting for Marilyn Minter’s portrait – The American activist and writer discussed her pose for her first portrait by an artist. “I felt like I was pushing myself, testing my own limits of confidence and comfort,” Lewinsky wrote. “And isn’t that the point of art?” The work will be presented at the LGDR gallery this week in New York, alongside those of Roxane Gay and Lady Gaga. (vanity lounge)
Hannah Gadsby will curate an exhibition on Picasso – Five years after coming to terms with Pablo Picasso’s complicated legacy in a comedy special, the Australian comedian is hosting an exhibition about the artist for the Brooklyn Museum, which opens this summer. Titled “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” the exhibition will feature nearly 100 works by mostly female artists, viewing Picasso through a feminist lens. Some scoffed at the idea: art critic Dean Kissick tweeted that “commemorating the death anniversaries of our greatest artists by having comedians who don’t tell jokes host museum shows on their asshole is, I guess, pretty funny. “The exhibition is one of many around the world commemorating the artist’s death 50 years ago. (ART news)
Australian artist John Olsen dies at 95 The famous painter known for his innovative style who captured the Australian landscape has died. In May, Olsen’s work will be screened at the Sydney Opera House for Vivid 2023. (Sydney Morning Herald)
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Met appoints Façade Commission artists – Berlin-based artist Nairy Baghramian and Brooklyn-based artist Jacolby Satterwhite have been tapped to create works for the facade and great hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art throughout 2023. Baghramian’s sculptures will be installed in the facade niches on Fifth Avenue as part of the “Scratching the Back” installation from September 7 to May 19; Satterwhite’s multimedia works will take over the walls of the Great Hall from October 2 to November 23. (New York Times)
A hip-hop producer makes his gallery debut – Brandon Denner, a music producer who has worked with Missy Elliott, Lil Wayne and Timbaland, is making his gallery debut at Adam Cohen’s Manhattan-based gallery A Hug From the Art World. A self-proclaimed Afrofuturist artist, Denner says of his work, “It means manifesting and seeing what you bring to fruition, realizing that higher power…and as a creator unbound by time, I want to look at us as a people of every times – past, present and future.Guardian)
Chinati Foundation Appoints Board Members – The Marfa, Texas-based organization, founded by the late artist Donald Judd, has named Miguel Fernandez and Franck Giraud as new board trustees. Last month, Caitlin Murray had been named as the new CEO. (glass tire)
FOR ART
Picasso’s sketchbooks Go On View in New York – As part of the international celebration of 50 years after the death of Pablo Picasso, the Pace Gallery is organizing an exhibition of the Spanish artist’s personal sketchbooks. “Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks, 1900-1959” will be presented at the gallery West 25e Outpost of the street gallery from November 10 to December 23, 2023. Almost four decades ago, the gallery staged “Je Follow the Notebook: Picasso’s Sketchbooks » debut the sketches to the world. (The arts journal)
Pablo Picasso, Self-portrait from Notebook 214Paris-Biarritz, summer-autumn 1918 @ FABA Photo: Marc Domage / 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso-ARS New York.
Pablo Picasso, Woman seated in an armchair (two variants) Excerpt from “Carnet 1046”, Cannes, March 17-June 28, 1956 @ FABA Photo: Marc Domage / 2023 Succession Pablo Picasso-ARS.
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