Sculptor Kenneth Snelson, best known for his kinetic sculptures consisting of networks of stainless steel cables and aluminum tubes, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan at the age of eighty-nine, William Grimes of the New York Times reports.
The
Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced that it will
partner with the US Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies - a global
program that fosters public diplomacy through the visual arts. Together the
institutions will develop exhibitions, artist residencies, and programming.
The
first event organized by the two institutions will be a public discussion
featuring artists Nick Cave, Imran Qureshi, and Pat Steir at the Hirshhorn’s
Ring Auditorium on January 11, 2017. Further details about the partnership will
be announced in the spring.
Art Newspaper reports that
the vice president of one of Serbia’s leading political parties has spoken out
against the decision to build a monument to Andy Warhol in the capital of
Belgrade.
The
Democratic Party of Serbia’s Uros Jankovic issued his statement on December 19,
which declared that the planned tribute to Warhol represented “an inferiority
complex in relation to the West.” Furthermore, he said, “Even abroad, Andy
Warhol and Pop art are not recognized as great art but as a fad, and testifying
to this is the fact there are only two monuments to Warhol, while this would
make Belgrade only the third city in the world to recognize him in this way.”
He believes that the city should honor more local artists: “consider the
possibility of the Serbian capital paying its debt of gratitude […] to Johann
Wolfgang Goethe, Sava Sumanovic, Mica Popovic, and others.”
The
two monuments to Warhol which Jankovic references are a silver statue that was
installed in New York by Rob Pruitt, and another tribute to the artist in
Miková, Slovakia, where Warhol’s family hailed from.
6sqft had an article about Louise Bourgeois’s son is giving her West Village townhouse to a
nonprofit run by the Native American Lenape tribe. It may become a
patahmaniikan—prayer house. Click on pic for more.
In Athens: April 8-June 16. In Kassel, Germany - June 10-Sept 17, www.documenta.de
Dates for Art Brussels 2017: April 20-13, www.artbrussels.com/
Dates for the first Honolulu Biennial: March 8- May 8, www.honolulubiennial.org/
ArtNews lists "4 Art Events to Attend in NYC This Week."
Three of the 4 events are films. Two of them
are screenings of commercial films. The
other "is a poignant glimpse into the complexities of masculinity, the
Miami drug trade, family, race and sexuality." Must be art.
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