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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has hired Diana Nawi as curator of contemporary art, starting this month. Nawi has worked independently for many years and has organized several acclaimed U.S. biennials in the past five years, including Made in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum in 2023 (with Pablo José Ramirez) and Prospect.5 in New Orleans in 2022 (with Naima J. Keith). She has also curated solo exhibitions for artists such as Mark Bradford, Michael Rakowitz, Adler Greer, Haroon Mirza, John Akinfara, and Shana Luckett. related articles Nawi has served as a curator at the Perez Art Museum…

Chilean-Swiss artist Francisco Sierra wins Art Basel’s inaugural People’s Choice Award for his installation Gubi (2024). The winning work consists of 48 wooden panels, each featuring a life-size guppy carved in concave relief. Exhibited by Basel-based gallery von Bartha in the “Infinity” section of Art Basel, the work reflects the aesthetic of the home aquarium and aims to critique recreational animal farming.Serra was born in Santiago in 1977 and currently lives in Cote d’Azur, Switzerland. His work is characterized by subverting everyday perceptions with a conceptual or surrealist approach. His photorealistic paintings use humor and satire to question contemporary life.…

Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, known for her contributions to figuration in painting and her role in the European avant-garde Situationist movement, died in Amsterdam on Saturday, June 29 at the age of 85. The cause of death was metastatic liver cancer, the artist’s New York-based gallery Ortuzar Projects confirmed. De Jong was born in 1939 into a Jewish artistic family in Hengelo, the Netherlands, just months before the outbreak of World War II. Fearing the consequences of the German invasion of the Netherlands, the family went into hiding, and Jacqueline and her mother soon fled to Zurich, where they…

Norwegian former football player and notorious art thief Pål Enger has died at the age of 57. Enger was famous for stealing an Edvard Munch painting in 1994. The ScreamEngel, who played for the club as a teenager, died Saturday night, a press officer for the club told The Associated Press. The cause of Engel’s death was not immediately clear, but the Norwegian newspaper Daily newspaper He reportedly died in Oslo. Obsessed with the Mafia, Engel was first jailed when he was 19, having just made his professional football debut for Valerenga. In 1988, he embarked on a series of…

The Guggenheim Rotunda is bathed in the glow of these familiar single-line phrases in all caps: “Taste the good, for the cruel will always be there,” “Money makes the taste,” and “I will think before I can’t think anymore.” These phrases, boldly typographic and deadpan, are unmistakably Jenny Holzer’s word art. Over a career spanning five decades, the artist has effectively trademarked the concept of language floating in space, aiming to disrupt our tendency to passively receive information. While her practice has evolved with changes in technology and society, her core concerns—language and power—have remained constant.Holzer’s seamless integration of blunt…

The Marciano Art Foundation, founded by mega-collectors and Guess founders Paul and Maurice Marciano, has appointed Hanneke Skerath to a newly created director position. She began working for the Los Angeles-based foundation last month. The Marciano Art Foundation was founded in 2013 when the Marciano brothers purchased a former Masonic temple on Wilshire Boulevard, not far from Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile. The foundation opened to the public in 2017 and features blue-chip works by the brothers, including works by Sterling Ruby, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, and Mike Kelley. related articles But the foundation suddenly closed in November 2019, saying at…

This month’s exhibitions celebrate veteran breakthroughs as well as contemporary artists forging their own paths. Pace Gallery pays tribute to iconic African American photographer Gordon Parks, while Eastern Projects pays homage to Chicano collective Los Four, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their groundbreaking Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition. Rusha & Co. presents the first in a series of exhibitions highlighting Parallel Magazinewhile Sade showcased collages by reclusive Denver artist John Lupe. FOCA presented a group show of young artists exploring how the internet mediates our world, Wendy Red Star excavated historical artifacts to recover their indigenous origins, and…

The Jung-Luke Museum in Seattle announced in a statement on Friday, June 28 that an exhibition at the museum, which sparked a staff walkout in protest of the exhibition for equating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism, will be moved to a new location that has yet to be determined. Twenty-six staff members, about half the museum’s staff, walked out of the institution, which is centered on Asian Pacific American art history, in response to “Together Against Hate,” an exhibit co-hosted with the Washington State Black Heritage Society and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. The exhibit focuses on violence against local black,…

On June 12, Jean Simeon Chardin’s Sliced ​​melon (1760) sold for €26.73 million (US$28.76 million) at Christie’s Old Masters sale in Paris. The sale shattered the painting’s estimate of €8 million to €12 million (US$8.57 million to 12.8 million). The sale set a new auction record for Chardin’s work and for 18th-century French Old Masters, according to the auction house.A master of still life, Chardin captured intimate scenes and interiors in vivid paintings. Characterized by impasto techniques and soft lighting, these genre paintings were influenced by 17th-century Dutch still life paintings—even though Chardin himself was French and lived in Paris…

As part of the United States As a scorching heat wave gripped the United States over the weekend, sending temperatures to record levels, a six-foot-tall wax statue of Abraham Lincoln went viral for its demise, sparking humorous quips and memes on social media, some innocent, some outrageous. Titled “40 Acres: Buck’s Camp” (2024), the wax sculpture consists of 10 candle wicks that visitors are encouraged to light and then extinguish after one to two minutes. The sculpture was installed on February 15 outside Garrison Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on the site of Buck’s Camp, a Civil War-era contraband camp…