Art Industry News: MoMA Chair Leon Black Leaves CEO Job Amid Revelations He Paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 Million for Art and Tax Services + Other Stories
Plus, president Joe Biden hopes to put the abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill and slugger Lou Gehrig s bat is up for auction.
January 26, 2021
Leon Black speaks onstage at the Museum Of Modern Art Film Benefit on November 19, 2018, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, January 26.
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Art Industry News: Artist Specializing in ‘Modern Misconceptions of Reality’ Charged for Involvement in Capitol Riot + Other Stories
Plus, German museums and galleries will remain closed until at least mid-February and Pierre Le-Tan’s collection heads to Sotheby s Paris.
January 20, 2021
Left, Wrigley at the Capitol on January 6; Andrew Wrigley s drivers license picture. Courtesy of the US Justice Dept.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, January 20.
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Why Questioning the UK’s Public Monuments Is About Not Censorship – Writer Charlotte Higgins pens a retort to the government official who introduced legislation seeking to make it more difficult for authorities to bow to what he called “baying mobs” by removing monuments to controversial figures. Higgins writes: “In the UK, precisely one prominent public sculpture was to
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Just two years ago Zoma Museum founder, Meskerem Assegued, hosted a gathering of several well-regarded US gallerists, curators, institute directors and more. Amongst the group was African American Naomi Beckwith, Senior Curator for Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MOCA); now New York Guggenheim’s fresh pick as Deputy Director and Chief Curator. By the way she was the only Black person in the prestigious delegation of visiting participants at Zoma. For the record, connections between the Guggenheim and Ethiopian artists include the multi-million USD exhibition of Ethiopian born American, Julie Meheretu, and Zoma’s co-founder and ingenious artist, Elias Sime, recently nominated for the Guggenheim’s $100K 2020 Hugo Boss Prize. The Guggenheim is as big as it gets in the art world, thus Naomi’s appointment is an immense win and Black folks in the arts are proud, hopeful and tickled brown. Beckwith stated, “One cannot overstate the iconicity an
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