Unesco Condemns Russian Missile Strikes That Collapsed Odessa Cathedral + Other Stories

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 on Tuesday, July 25.

NEED TO READ

Samsung Collection Museum Plans Approved – The South Korean government has given the go-ahead for the construction of a new art museum in the heart of Seoul to showcase the extensive collection of late Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee. Lee’s family donated the collection of some 23,000 works of art, including Korean and Western masterpieces by Kim Whan-ki, Claude Monet and Salvador Dali after Lee’s death in October 2020. museum to be built in Songhyeong-dong is slated to open in 2027, and the project has a budget of $93.5 million through 2028. (Yonhap)

Court rejects collector’s offer to remove WWII painting from list Request from a collector to remove the painting by German artist Andreas Achenbach calabrian coast of the Lost Art Database, which documents works of art that were dispossessed due to Nazi persecution, has been thrown out by a German federal court. The collector who acquired the work at an auction in London in 1999. (PA)

Russian missiles hit Odessa Cathedral – One person has died and 14 people have been hospitalized following a series of Russian airstrikes on the southern Ukrainian port city on Sunday. Odessa became a target from Moscow got out of a grain agreement with Ukraine. The Transfiguration Cathedral in the historic center of Odessa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was hit by a missile strike, and its altar and several walls also collapsed. In a statement, Unesco said it “strongly condemns” Russia’s repeated attacks on cultural heritage sites. (Guardian) (Press release)

House panel urges government to leverage G20 to return antiquities to India – A panel in India’s House of Parliament has urged authorities to leverage the country’s G20 membership to recover India’s stolen antiquities, including the Kohinoor diamond, which is currently in the hands of the British royal family. (Trade standard)

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Picasso makes an appearance in Oppenheimer – Against the backdrop of Christopher Nolan’s new biopic, Picasso’s 1937 painting Woman sitting with her arms crossed makes a lasting impression. The titular character, whose parents owned a collection of works by Rembrandt, Édouard Vuillard, Van Gogh and Renoir, was apparently affected by Picasso’s canvas, and he functions in the film as an allegory for the abstract way in which the scientist conceived his masterful and monstrous creation. (ART news)

Ali Cherri’s first solo exhibition in the United States – The Lebanese artist will have his first personal exhibition in the United States in September at the Swiss Institute in New York. “Humble and calm and soothing as mud” returns to the theme of “mud as the primordial material of civilization” according to the institution. (Press release)

Jesse Krimes joins Jack Shainman – THE formerly incarcerated artist who founded the Center for Art & Advocacy dedicated to creatives impacted by justice has joined the list of artists at the Jack Shainman Gallery. Krimes’ work has been presented at MoMA PS1 and Palais de Tokyo among many other institutions. (Press release)

FOR ART

See Eva Fabregas’ Gutsy outing in Berlin – The London-based Barcelona artist’s eerie, organ-like sculptures have taken over Hamburger Bahnhof’s historic lobby in the site-specific exhibition ‘Devoring Lovers’. Curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, the exhibition is the artist’s largest solo exhibition to date and runs until January 14. (design boom)