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Mitchell-Innes & Nash, a long-standing gallery in New York’s Chelsea district, will close after 28 years in business. The gallery, which has represented works by Pat O’Neill, Pope.L, Gideon Appah, Jean Arp and Sarah Braman, will transform into a project-based consulting space. Until the business relocates, Chelsea will temporarily operate as a private art consulting agency rather than a public gallery space. “Moving forward, we will work under a new model that will advise select primary market artists and estates, provide art advisory services to individual collectors and foundations, and represent artworks in both the primary and secondary markets,” founders…

‣ By Kellie B. Gormly Smithsonian Magazine About Edythe Eyde — also known as “Lisa Ben” — who founded America’s first lesbian magazine in 1947, when homosexuality was criminalized under state sodomy laws: Eyde, a 26-year-old lesbian, recently moved to Los Angeles from Northern California to escape her oppressive family. She uses her free time from work to write about vice versaShe used carbon paper to copy the typed pages, printing only 12 copies of each issue in total. The free, rather plain publication had no byline, no photographs, no advertising, and no masthead. It had a blue cover and…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made clear to the public last week his decision to veto $32 million in arts and culture funding in next year’s state budget. According to the publication Tampa Bay TimesDeSantis said the cause was the Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival, which he said had obvious “sexual overtones” and was therefore inappropriate for state funding. While it’s unclear if the Orlando Film Festival will receive funding from these grants, the state of Florida provides funding for cultural projects based on the following criteria: Ranking ListThe Fringe Festival ranked last. DeSantis said the event should prompt Florida lawmakers…

s story The Cursed Artist It is often used to inject mystery and intrigue into the lives of great painters, the tortured souls who worked all day for a pittance, their fingers splattered to the bone, and eked out a living on a mind-destroying diet of absinthe and stale bread. Vincent van Gogh was one painter to be so called; Charm Soutine was another. David Hockney is definitely not—and the intoxicating, carefree photographs of his former dealer John Kasmin show why.Kasmin’s Camera At Lyndsay Ingram Gallery in Mayfair, London, Kasmin documents their enduring friendship and professional partnership with Hockney, which…

Marc Glimcher, president and CEO of Pace Gallery, is selling his Palm Beach home for $24.95 million with Sotheby’s International Realty. Built in the 1930s, this six-bedroom, waterfront Art Moderne residence, known as the “Boathouse,” was the first home designed by architect Belford Shoumate in Palm Beach, Florida. The 4,848-square-foot home features a unique nautical design with teak floors, porthole windows, and exposed railings. Located on Lake Way, the home has 65 feet of water frontage and access to the Intracoastal Waterway. Shumate’s design was his first commission in Palm Beach in 1937 and marked a departure from the Mediterranean…

American ArtThe Summer 2024 issue of ICON features a profile on Arlene Shechet, a sculptor known for her modest mixed-media work. As Glenn Adamson writes in his article, Shechet’s stunning exhibition of monumental sculptures, currently on view at Storm King Center for the Arts in upstate New York (through November 10), is “the latest evidence, and perhaps the greatest, of Shechet’s insatiable curiosity.” Dubbed “Girl Group,” the show features heavy metal sculptures made of aluminum and steel, redefined in bold colors like emerald green, chartreuse, and orange. in May, Aiya We caught up with Shechet at Storm King as she…

An independent report recently found that the EG Bührle Foundation’s provenance research into its collection was “inadequate” and that the foundation’s published findings omitted information about many of the works’ previous Jewish owners. The 165-page report was written by Raphael Gross, director of the German Historical Museum, and presented in Zurich on June 28. It was commissioned by the canton and city of Zurich and the board of the Swiss art museum Kunsthaus after critics accused the foundation of “whitewashing” the provenance of its collection. related articles The foundation is named after Emil Georg Bührle, who amassed his wealth through…

On Friday, performance artist Marina Abramović successfully led the audience in a seven-minute silence at Glastonbury, a British music festival that attracts more than 200,000 people each year, to commemorate “a dark moment in human history.” Later that evening, another artist also performed a surprise stunt: Banksy, who is known for his murals and graffiti works on city streets. At the Glastonbury Festival, Banksy threw an inflatable raft into the crowd during a performance by British band Idles. guardianWhen the raft incident was first reported, the band didn’t know about Banks’ stunt until after it happened. related articles Banksy’s latest…

On Friday, performance artist Marina Abramović successfully led the audience in a seven-minute silence at Glastonbury, a British music festival that attracts more than 200,000 people each year, to commemorate “a dark moment in human history.” Later that evening, another artist also performed a surprise stunt: Banksy, who is known for his murals and graffiti works on city streets. At the Glastonbury Festival, Banksy threw an inflatable raft into the crowd during a performance by British band Idles. guardianWhen the raft incident was first reported, the band didn’t know about Banks’ stunt until after it happened. related articles Banksy’s latest…

Updated: June 28, 2024 at 11:00 AM ET: On the evening of June 27, after this article was published, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Council Speaker Adrian Adams announced a comprehensive restoration of funding for libraries and cultural institutions, restoring $58.3 million in funding to the City’s three public library systems and $53 million in funding to the Cultural Institutions Group and Cultural Development Fund recipients. DCLA’s total budget has not yet been released. Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council will release the city’s adopted budget for fiscal year 2025 by July 1, following a year of…