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With a $500,000 investment, the Quantum Foundation, a Florida-based nonprofit, is advancing Palm Beach County’s plan to build a Black History Museum and Research Center at a former high school with historic ties to segregation. The project aims to transform the area, which has been plagued by disinvestment for decades. Danita DeHaney, president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, which is overseeing planning for the project, announced that the funding is key to moving the massive project forward. Related articles The Quantum Foundation focuses on health care in underserved areas of the state. “This…
A week after workers began a work stoppage, the union at the Seattle Art Museum is still on strike. The union claimed in a statement that the agency had been engaging in “bad faith bargaining” during contract negotiations. The union, formally known as SAM VSO (short for Visitor Services Officers), is demanding retirement benefits, a seniority-based pay system and career development opportunities. art news The Seattle Art Museum has been contacted for comment. SAM’s unionization efforts became public in January 2022, but organizing began as early as May 2021. More than two years later, the union and museum leadership remain…
ArtArt Editor”Artists We Follow” is a monthly series highlighting five artists we follow. Leveraging our art expertise and Artsy data, we identify which artists have made an impact in the past month through new gallery showings, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh work on Artsy.Born in Belgium in 1990. Lives and works in Genk, Belgium. For her current solo exhibition with Kalil | Belgian artist Stevie Dix focuses on classic Surrealist themes of the body and cosmic landscapes in minimalist multi-panel works, which often feature unusual Rectangular forms are connected together. The silhouettes of faces and otherworldly landscapes recur throughout…
MIAMI — I’ve made it to Friday without forgetting my Uber Press Pass or in Develop coffeeRelevant heart palpitations, by Miami Art Week standards I consider this a win. Yesterday we discussed serious issues like the financial sustainability of the art fair ecosystem, but today we are tired and sadly on our third margarita at Baccarat, so we will focus on the arts. I saw a dazzling array of great work at Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA Miami, and Untitled Art Show, but the most underrated ticket this week was The Open Invitational, a new fair for nonprofits and galleries,…
Art MarketOsman Can YerebakanInterior view of Art Basel 2024. Courtesy of Art Basel.Long lines, bustling aisles, and fast-emptying champagne flutes—these are among the common fixtures of art fair VIP days around the world. These VIP previews, as they’re also known, usually take place before the fair’s public opening, and are invitation-only affairs where the cream of the art world queues up to get a first foot onto the land of the art banquet. At most fairs, the VIP day is reserved for top target clients, artists, industry players, critics, celebrities, and their plus-ones to ensure potential buyers are given the…
As the year 2024 draws to a close, it’s a perfect time to celebrate artists like Stuart Beck, whose work has producing great works this year. Born in 1967 in Lancashire, UK, Beck’s lifelong passion for painting has evolved into a creative artistic career. His abstract landscapes, rooted in his observations of nature, architecture, and global cultures, tell a story of exploration and growth. Encouraged by his father during his formative years, Beck’s early love for art set the stage for a fulfilling journey that bridges personal expression and professional success. Beck’s work is characterized by its dynamic interplay of…
Koyo Kouoh has been announced as curator of the 61st Venice Biennale, to be held in 2026. Kouoh will be the first African woman to hold the prestigious position of curator of an international art exhibition, regarded as one of the most important exhibitions of its kind in the world. Kouoh is a curator and scholar born in Cameroon and raised in Switzerland who has served as executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town since 2019. She served as the museum’s founding artistic director at the RAW Material…
Untitled isn’t the only art fair taking place in Miami Beach this week, but it’s easily the busiest on the beach. The market is set up in tents on the beach, and from the aisles you can see bathers milling around. This may explain the free spirit of Untitled. Don’t expect too much from the concept art—you’ll have to wait until Art Basel opens in Miami Beach tomorrow to see this one. It’s mainly a large collection of paintings, both figurative and abstract, and there are a lot of great people watching. The chilly atmosphere seems to conflict with the…
“Edge of the Sun,” Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles February 24 to June 1, 2024 Related articles Nearly half of Los Angeles’ population identified as Hispanic or Latinx in the 2020 U.S. Census, but the city’s blue-chip galleries rarely exhibit, let alone formally represent, Latinx artists — a trend that Reflects the American art market more broadly. At his Los Angeles gallery space, Jeffrey Deitch set out to remedy this shortcoming with his project “Edge of the Sun,” an exhibition that brought together 12 Los Angeles-based artists. Crucially, “Edge of the Sun” was not billed as a show of Latino art,…
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