The performer Holly Woodlawn, best known for her starring roles in Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey films such as Trash (1970) and Women in Revolt (1972), died today in Los Angeles at the age of sixty-nine according to a report from the AP in US News.
Famously associated with Warhols coterie of superstars, including Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling, she was also name-checked in the first line of Lou Reeds 1972 song Walk on the Wild Side. Woodlawn also appeared as the character Aunt Holly in Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernsts 2012 short film She Gone Rogue, which was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Most recently she played Vivian on the TV show Transparent.
For more on Holly Woodlawn, see Artforum.coms 500 Words with her from May 2013, where she memorably mused: You know the song from Cabaret, Money Makes the World Go Round? Well, no, just two things make the world go roundart and music. Without that, were dead.
December 9, 2015Marc Porter, the chairman of Christies Americas division at the auction house where he has worked for twenty-five years, is leaving for a new position at their competitor Sothebys, according to a report by Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times based on an account by Marion Maneker of Art Market Monitor. Porter will join Sothebys in a high-ranking business position, after a noncompete period of about a year, and will be involved in developing international clients. Christies global president, Jussi Pylkkanen, said in a statement that Porters job at Christies would be taken over by Brook Hazelton.
This announcement comes just after Sothebys offer of voluntary buyouts to staff in order to help cut costs, which were successful enough that the company will not have to resort to layoffs, according to a statement by a spokeswoman. Porter first joined Christies in 1990, was international head of private sales from 2012 to 2015, and widely expected to continue his career there but had been frustrated over Christies decision to dissolve his section into individual departments.
December 9, 2015Kerry James Marshall, Great America, 1994
The NEA, in celebration of its fifty-year anniversary, is awarding $27.7 million to support 1,126 projects in forty-nine states. Within that amount, the Art Works program will give over twenty-six million dollars in awards.
Among the awardees of the recent Arts Works grant cycle, the MCA Chicago will get fifty thousand dollars to support a survey exhibition of the artist Kerry James Marshall; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will receive seventy thousand dollars to underwrite Megacities Asia, which will feature artists like Choi Jeong Hwa, Subodh Gupta, and Ai Weiwei.
MASS MoCA, meanwhile, will receive fifty-five thousand dollars to commission new work by artists Richard Nonas and Nick Cave, while the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit will receive forty thousand dollars for a multidisciplinary project by the artist Sanford Biggers.
Museums arent the only arts groups being awarded grants. LAXART is being given twenty-five thousand dollars for a residency program accompanied by commissions, and BOMB magazine will get thirty thousand dollars for new publications.
We know from experience as well as through hard evidence that the arts matter and these projects will provide more opportunities for people to learn, create, and experience the value of the arts in so many different ways, said NEA chair Jane Chu.
December 9, 2015According to a report by Gareth Harris in the Art Newspaper, a campaign called petition4art led by Korean artists, curators, and cultural figures has launched several petitions protesting the appointment of Bartomeu Mar, the former director of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona, or MACBA, as the new director of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. Their concerns about Mars appointment stem from his role in the censorship of an exhibition at the MACBA last spring called The Beast and the Sovereign, a debacle that led to his resignation and the resignation of several high profile museum curators and directors from the International Museum Committees Board.
The first petition was created last month and gained more than 830 signatures, including from the Seoul-based filmmaker Park Chan-kyong and the Berlin-based artist Haegue Yang, opposing Mars candidacy. After Mars official appointment in Seoul earlier this month, replacing the museums acting director Kim Jeongbae, a second petition was launched on December 3 and has amassed 450 signatures so far. A spokesperson for petition4art said that the ministry of culture in South Korea must not attempt any kind of censorship We also ask the new director for a public declaration of ethics where he states clearly his will to stand against any kind of censorship and control or pressure from the authorities.
Mar has personally written to the petition4art group, saying he opposes all sorts of censorshipI believe that the only way art can play a role in society is by being produced, presented and received in freedom, without impositions or restrictions, and defended his initial decision to cancel the exhibition at MACBA by reasoning that exhibiting artist Ines Doujaks workdepicting the former Spanish King Juan Carlos I being sodomized by the late Bolivian labor leader Domitila Chngaraopened the museums board to legal action from the Spanish government for insulting the former monarch, whose image is protected by law.
December 9, 2015The contested photos of artworks hosted on Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Sutton reports in Hyperallergic that the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany has filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco for hosting and making available for download high-resolution images of public domain artworks from the museums collection. These include photos of works by Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Alexander Coosemans, Jacob Ochtervelt, Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, and Csar Willich.
While many photos of works from the museums collection are available on Wikimedia Commons, the institution is specifically asking the foundation to remove seventeen images of artworks that it commissioned from its in-house photographer, Jean Christen, claiming it has copyright to photos commissioned from a professional photographer who used a tripod and a special lighting rig.
In response to the suit, the Wikimedia Foundations legal director, Michelle Paulson, and general counsel, Geoff Brigham, said in a blog post: Copyright law should not be misused to attempt to control the dissemination of works of art that have long been in the public domain, such as the paintings housed in the Reiss Engelhorn Museum. The museum has also filed an additional lawsuit against Wikimedia Deutschland.
December 9, 2015Stophomophobie.coms images of the vandalized photographs
Le Monde confirms that an outdoor photography exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of French LGBT association LAutre Cercle will be reinstalled in Toulouse.
Since opening on November 30, the show, Les Couples de la Rpublique (Couples of the Republic,) had been vandalized three times. It features forty photographs of gay couples by Olivier Ciappa installed on the gate of a city park. Stophomoophobie.com captured the vandalism in a recent post.
Addressing the situation on Sunday evening Toulouses mayor, Jean-Luc Moudenc, tweeted, Attacking a photographic work to defend ones personal opinion is highly condemnable.
December 9, 2015According to La Voix du Nord, Frances Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, has raised concerns about what is at stake for artists, writers, and freedom of expression as the powerful, and conservative, National Front political party rises.
Criticizing Marine Le Pen (the National Fronts presidential candidate), Pellerin said, She says will defend the creative freedoms, but at the same time she wants to control regional cultural institutions and their choices. This is called official art. When [Le Pen] says, do not be afraid of losing creative freedom, we should be afraid.
Referencing a law passed by the French government earlier this year protecting artistic freedom, Pellerin said, I defend the freedom of artists. Im not the minister of good taste or my own taste. I am the minister of culture and, in this capacity, I support all forms of expression, in compliance with the law. [The National Front] wants to decide what is beautiful and what is not, what people have the right to read in the media. It is a complete grip on peoples brains.
Pellerin isnt the only one issuing dire warnings about Le Pens party. Last week, over 650 artistsincluding Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, and Cleste Boursier-Mougenotsigned a letter denouncing Le Pens politics, as Artforum.com reported here. They wrote, We work and create in France as well as elsewhere, the liberty of creation is first of all an openness towards othersthose who are not me, but who are equal to me, no matter what the color of their skin, their nationality, or their religion.
December 9, 2015Jacob Waben, Vanity, 1622: one of the stolen artworks.
According to the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, outside Amsterdam, pieces from a group of twenty-four works that went missing in a burglary in 2005 are going up for sale, and the museum alleges that the ultra-nationalist militia in Ukraine alongside the far-right Svoboda (Freedom) partyare behind the offer. The Guardians Jon Henley reports that the works were central to the museums collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art, according to the museums director, Ad Geerdink.
Dutch officials were approached by two members of the organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in Kievs Dutch embassy, who brought a photograph of a missing painting next to a copy of a recent Ukrainian newspaper as proof of their goods, and demanded around fifty-five million dollars in exchange for their return.
The group is one of over fifty militia organizations fighting against Russias invasion of the country. Museum officials suspect that pieces have already been sold: First they offered us twenty-four works, said Geerdink. Then it was a few less. And now they only want to sell us twelve.
The paintings actual value is estimated at around $570,000, according to the museum. We have offered the militiamen a small sum to cover their expenses, but have yet to hear back.
December 8, 2015Artist Joan Jonas, choreographer Ohad Naharin, and architect David Chipperfield have been announced as new mentors in the 201617 Rolex Mentor and Protg Arts Initiative, according to the New York Times Roslyn Sulcas. Writer Mia Couto, filmmaker Alfonso Cuarn, theater director Robert Lepage, and composer Philip Glass have been chosen as well. Founded by Rolex in 2002, the initiative has mentors spend at least thirty days in 2016 working with their protgs, who each receive twenty-five thousand dollars at the programs outset, plus a possible additional twenty-five thousand dollars at the end of the mentorship, to produce new work. Previous mentor alumni include William Kentridge, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, and Olafur Eliasson.
December 8, 2015Barcelona has plans to convert Pablo Picassos former art school into a museum dedicated to director Woody Allen, but local trade unions are protesting the plans, according to The Guardians Stephen Burgen. The Escola dArts i Oficis de Barcelona, in the Gothic quarter of the city, appears in Picassos Les Demoiselles dAvignon, 1907.
A friend of Allen, Jaume Roures, who leads Spanish TV and film company Mediapro, suggested the idea, but the Comisiones Obreras trade union movement has launched a campaign to preserve the building as an educational establishment. According to Burgen, the museum dedicated to Allen would be geared towards tourists and not citizens, union leaders said.
Vicky, Cristina Barcelona, 2008, was filmed by Allen in Barcelona, costing the city council about one million dollars. Though the quantity raised eyebrows among locals, officials claimed it was worth the publicity generated by the film.
Source: http://artforum.com/news/id%3D56564
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