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 Friday, June 9.

NEED TO READ

Hurvin Dispatches from Anderson from the barbershop – The familiar scene of Anderson’s local establishment recurs in the artist’s stream exposure, “Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings”, at Hepworth Wakefield in the UK “Apart from home, it’s one of the places where black men and women can speak freely,” Anderson said of the location that inspired a range of canvases. which delve into the “socio-political context of stores”. (New York Times)

Artist Chinyee dies at 94 – The first-generation Chinese-American artist, whose birthplace of Nanjing, China, and her travels around the world with the United Nations influenced her colorful abstract paintings, has died. In 2007, his Alisan Fine Arts gallery held a 50-year retrospective at the Shanghai Art Museum and two of his works are currently on view at the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation in Arles, France, as part of the traveling collective exhibition “Action, Gesture, painting: women in abstraction, a global history (1940-1970). (E-mail)

Comedy Trove by Joan Rivers at the museum – A collection of more than 65,000 typewritten jokes written by the late comedian will soon be in the collection of the National Comedy Museum in Jamestown, New York. Hiding place is in good company, joining collections of works by George Carlin and Carl Reiner. (NYT)

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

British flag keeper appointed – Tarini Malik will be John’s curator from Akomfrah work on the next edition of the Venice Biennale, which is scheduled to open in April 2024. Malik was a curator at the Hayward Gallery in London and Whitechapthe galleryAnd said the exhibition “will build on the legacy of the work that John has done over the last 40 years” and “feel connected both to the city of Venice, but also to the institution of the British Pavilion “. (The arts journal)

Sukanya Rajaratnam joins the White Cube – The New York-based gallerist will join White Cube as global chief strategy officer market initiatives in September. Rajaratnam left his position at the Mnuchin Gallery after 15 years in January. (ART news)

Launch of AI-powered fundraising platform – Docent, billed as the “Spotify for art collecting,” is set to launch during Basel Art Week in Switzerland before going live in Paris, London and Miami later this fall. (Press release)

FOR THE ARTS

Tate and Museum of the Home Acquire Rebecca Solomon Work – The two institutions now jointly own the Pre-Raphaelite artist’s canvas, which reflects the gender, race and religious mores of his time. The central figure was modeled by Jamaican-born Fanny Eaton, who inspired many artists of the time. (Press release)

Rebecca Solomon, A young teacher (1861). Courtesy of Tate and House Museum.

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