Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here’s what you need to know this Wednesday, May 10.
NEED TO READ
Paris + By Art Basel announces exhibitors – The art fair to be held in the French capital from October 20-22 has named all 154 exhibiting galleries this year, including top international outfits like Gagosian, Pace and White Cube as well as sixteen galleries making their debut at the fair. including Gianni Manhattan, PPOW and Kurimanzutto. (Press release)
The Getty gives $17 million to museums for Pacific Standard Time – The Getty has increased its funding for research and program development related to the major arts event, and has also pledged to present it every five years, renaming it “PST Art”. The next iteration of the initiative is called “PST Art: Art & Science Collide”. Funding is expected to reach $19-20 million in the fall as it adds participants and distributes programming grants. (Los Angeles Time)
Hannah Gadsby speaks out on the ‘problematic’ art world – The comedian who recently ventured into curating the ‘It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby’ exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, says he was assured that the museum’s Sackler benefactress, Elizabeth Sackler, claims not to have benefited financially from the invention of oxycontin. But they don’t ignore the elephant in the room. “There is a money problem in the art world, in general,” they said. “No matter what cultural institution you work with in America, you’re going to work with billionaires and there isn’t a billionaire on this planet who isn’t screwed,” they said. (Variety)
Native arts center designed by Adjaye is planned for Vermont – A new nearly 10,000 square foot extension designed by architect David Adjaye is in the works for the Shelburne Museum of Art. The $12.6 million project will feature Native art from across North America and will be called the Perry Center for Native American Art in honor of a local collector who donated a treasure trove of Indigenous artwork at the museum, upsetting some community members who believe it shouldn’t be named after a man of European descent, which ‘is what the settlers did from the beginning’ . (VT Excavator)
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
New exhibition director at Bozar – Zoë Gray has been appointed as the new Exhibitions Director of the Palais des Beaux-Arts Bozar in Brussels. Gray has been senior curator at WIELS since 2015, and was artistic director of the Biennale de Rennes as project manager at the LUMA Foundation in Arles. (Press release)
Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of the next Gwangju Biennale – The French writer and curator who co-founded the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and launched a platform called Radicals last year will helm the South Korean event which is expected to back for the 15th edition in September 2024, coinciding with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the biennale, which is one of the most important in Asia. (Press release)
Flatiron Owners Sue Over Missing Down Payment – The deed holders of the emblematic new york building are suing Abraham Trust, alleging its managing partner Jacob Garlick failed to pay the deposit despite winning the bid for the building at auction. (New York Post)
FOR ART
Sundaram Tagore opens in London – The New York and Singapore-based gallery yesterday opened its new permanent space at Cromwell Place in South Kensington with ‘There’s Still a Light’, a solo exhibition of the artist’s new series of waterfall paintings. New Yorker Hiroshi Senju. The exhibition will continue until May 21. (instagram)
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