Mitchell-Innes & Nash, a gallery that represents artists such as Pope.L, Martha Rosler, and Jacolby Satterwhite, will close its Chelsea space and transition away from its current business model. The gallery will now be “a project-based advisory space,” founders Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash wrote in a letter sent on Friday evening that was obtained…
Artist Maria Kreyn dwells in the eye of the storm. For the past year, she’s spent her days painting monumental seascapes in her Williamsburg, Brooklyn, studio. The subject matter is an unlikely choice for a contemporary artist, but Kreyn’s aqueous scenes are mesmerizing. “This series of work is new for me. I’ve been developing the works…
BalletMet, the Columbus-based professional dance company founded in 1974 by Daryl Kramer, has hired a new artistic director in the wake of Edwaard Liang’s departure. Joining the ranks to steer the ship alongside executive director Sue Porter is Australian-born dancer, designer, sculptor and choreographer Remi Wörtmeyer. Porter explained that Liang made huge changes and brought…
When the German Army finally broke through in central Ukraine in September 1941, pasting up ordinances around Kyiv to announce a new occupying authority, they had only a few days’ calm. Less than a week after the occupation began, bombs started exploding right in the city center. The Soviets were dynamiting Kyiv, reducing their own…
Pablo Picasso’s 1904 painting Woman Ironing, which has been at the center of a restitution lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, will remain with the Guggenheim Foundation. The lawsuit was dismissed by the court on the grounds that it failed to establish “actionable duress,” according to a report in Law.com. The lawsuit against the Guggenheim was filed…