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, April 14.
NEED TO READ
A new twist from Simone Leigh – The artist, whose critically acclaimed work took over the American pavilion in Venice last year, has opened a major investigation at ICA Boston. A profile in the FinancialTimes describes her illustrious career, from humble beginnings making pinch pots as a young mother and still finishing her BA. Leigh has spoken of her abandoning explorations of colonial history to focus instead on the aftermath of colonization, and how she has worked to broaden her view of art worlds beyond the United States (FinancialTimes)
Sotheby’s relaunches Glitch sale following backlash – After coming under fire for the lack of female representation in its latest planned sale, “Glitch-ism,” the auction house has relaunched the sale as “Glitch: Beyond Binary.” The new, more inclusive sale, which begins April 19, will feature 34 NFTs from artists from the “glitch art” movement, a movement that embraces and explores errors in art. (CoinDesk)
TIME100 names the most influential people of 2023 – Artists Wolfgang Tillmans, Simone Leigh and El Anatsui are among those selected last year as the magazine’s “most influential people”. Visual artists are in good company, among other cultural luminaries like Jennifer Coolidge, Beyoncé and Neil Gaiman. (TIME)
Roberta Smith re-evaluates Cecily Brown – After panning the New York artist’s exhibition 23 years earlier, art critics have had a change of heart thanks, in part, to their new investigation, “Cecily Brown: Death and Maidat the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to Smith, the new opinion of Brown, who exhibited 20 paintings and 25 drawings and prints, was not due to the development of the artist but to the expansion of Smith’s own taste. (New York Times)
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Cy Gavin joins Gagosian – The Hudson Valley artist whose large-scale landscapes is inspired from his paternal homeland of Bermuda, joined the mega-gallery roster months after hosting a solo exhibition of his work at a New York outpost. Curator Antwaun Sargent said the work “questions that arises from a reflection on nature, its own relationship and historical relationship to the land…and people’s connection to a land”. His next exhibition with the gallery will take place in Rome this fall. (ART news)
Santa Fe art space is closing for good – The Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art has closed for good after more than four decades. The organization cited fundraising issues stemming from closures in recent years as the reason for its closure. (art forum)
The National Portrait Gallery opens a bar – When it reopens in June, the National Portrait Gallery in London will unveil a new bar called Audrey Green, offering cocktails and small bites. The new watering hole is part of an initiative to place the museum at the hub of activity, day and night, in the city’s West End. (Guardian)
FOR ART
Phillips will offer flexible sculptures by Yayoi Kusama in New York – Two first emblematic and significant works from 1965 will be marketed: the bulbous, tubular red stripes And Blue The spots will go on sale from the collection of Agnès and Frits Becht and are expected to cost between $2.5 and $3.5 million. They will be auctioned on May 17 during the house’s 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York. (Press release)
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