Renowned Australian curator Alexie Glass-Kantor will step down from her role as executive director of Sydney’s Artspace as well as curator of Art Basel Hong Kong’s Encounters, marking the end of an era in the Asia-Pacific art world. Her leadership in these two roles has played an instrumental part in shaping the region’s art scene….
Two miles of HVAC piping, two miles of plumbing, three tuning chambers, five miles of lifting cable, 300 cable pulleys, 85,000 pounds of rigging equipment, up to 150 workers a day, … – The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN) Source link
Brat summer has officially been extended into fall. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host a special performance by Charli xcx at its annual Art+Film Gala, which each year honors an artist and a filmmaker. This year’s honorees are Simone Leigh and Baz Luhrmann. As with the past several iterations of the gala,…
Artist Khaleb Brooks will design London’s first memorial to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, acknowledging the city’s pivotal role in it. His design The Wake, a 23-foot-tall bronze cowrie shell, was chosen from a shortlist of six proposals for the £500,000 ($660,000) monument. The public sculpture will unveiled in 2026 in West India…
One of Claude Monet‘s famous water lily paintings is slated to lead Christie’s first evening sale of 20th- and 21st-century art at its new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong on September 26. The work is expected to fetch between HK$200 million and HK$280 million ($25 million and $35 million), and if it sells for within…