Online exhibition proposes an about-turn in economic thinking: Not growth, but balance in nature
De Afbreekeconomie. Photo: Roel van Tour.
ROTTERDAM
.- Bringing the maelstrom of plastic pollution to a halt requires us to think outside the box: How do you eventually break down what you are producing right now? On April 8, Dutch art Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen launched The Breakdown Economy, a bio-based response to the pollution of the fossil-based economy. This online exhibition proposes an about-turn in economic thinking: Not growth, but balance in nature.
You can now make a virtual visit to the online exhibition The Breakdown Economy till December 31st 2021. At the invitation of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Studio Klarenbeek & Dros and the artists collective Atelier Van Lieshout present a vision for an alternative production chain. One is realistic; the other is provocative. In addition, designers Koehorst in t Veld have created a graphic installation that reve
Hindman s Spring Fine Art sales to feature important works by Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and others
Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992), Untitled, 1989. Estimate: $500,000-700,000.
CHICAGO, IL
.- This May, Hindman will present three days of fine art sales featuring nearly 500 works of art. The auctions will kick-off with American and European Art on May 3, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art on May 4, and conclude with Prints and Multiples on May 5. Outstanding collections and artworks will be featured including important works by Joan Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Alexander Calder, and others. Mitchells extraordinary Untitled, 1989 (lot 32) will headline the three sales and will be offered at $500,000-700,000. Untitled, 1989 is from a Private Collection (Atlanta, Georgia) and was purchased from Cheim & Read in New York in 2012.
Jaynie Miller Studenmund joins Getty Board of Trustees
Jaynie Miller Studenmund. Photo: Nick Boswell.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-The J. Paul Getty Trust Board of Trustees has elected business executive and independent board member Jaynie Miller Studenmund to its Board.
Jaynies extensive leadership experience across many different fields will serve the Getty well, said Dr. David L. Lee, chair of the Getty Board of Trustees. She has deep knowledge from service on both non-profit and corporate Boards. We welcome her to the Board, where she will help us guide one of the worlds leading cultural organizations into a new, post-pandemic era.
Daisy Desrosiers named director of Kenyon s Gund Gallery
Desrosiers currently serves as director of artist programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art.
GAMBIER, OH
.-Kenyon Colleges Gund Gallery announced today that Daisy Desrosiers, an interdisciplinary art historian and curator, will join its community as director and chief curator, effective June 1, 2021.
Desrosiers currently serves as director of artist programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art, an incubator of research and artistic practice within the Colby College Museum of Art. In that role, she oversees the institutes collaborations with artists and, with others at the institute and the museum, generates structure for its community initiatives, publications, exhibitions and public programming. She also leads outreach efforts among local and global audiences and creates opportunities for engagement with diverse communities.
Exhibition documents Christopher Wilton-Steer s four-month journey along the world s oldest trade route
Agra, India. Photo: Christopher Wilton-Steer and AKDN.
LONDON
.-The Aga Khan Foundation announced The Silk Road: A Living History, an open-air photography exhibition by travel photographer Christopher Wilton-Steer. The exhibition documents Wilton-Steers journey along the historic trade route undertaken in 2019. Over a period of four months, he travelled 40,000 km overland by car, bus, train, ferry, horse and camel from London to Beijing traversing sixteen countries. He began his journey from Londons Kings Cross where the show is being staged from 8th April 2021 and runs until 16th June. The exhibition has been arranged around Granary Square and is presented in partnership with Kings Cross.