10.10.13
The curatorial panel for the 2013 Sobey Art Award has announced that Ontario-based artist Duane Linklater has won its annual prize. The $50,000 award, which is funded by Canada’s Sobey Art Foundation, is given to an artist below the age of forty who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within eighteen months of being nominated. This year’s nominees also included artists Tamara Henderson, Pascal Grandmaison, Mark Clintberg, and Isabelle Pauwels. Linklater received his BA from the University of Alberta and his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. His work includes video, film installation, performance, and sculpture, and has been exhibited in Vancouver, Alberta, Toronto, Chicago, and New York.
10.08.13
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has awarded sixteen arts organizations at the start-up level with its second round of SEED grants—unrestricted funds for operating that enable recipients to build programming to ensure growth. Each award winner has been selected through an anonymous nomination process in partnership with local cultural leaders, and each will receive thirty thousand dollars over three years. Winners range from Sugar City in Buffalo, New York—an organization seeking to promote an alternative arts community through regional events—to Cattle Track Arts and Preservation in Phoenix, Arizona—a desert-based community of artists who live and work together. Said executive director of the foundation Christy MacLear: “Young institutions have a whole host of hurdles to clear simply to begin the process of raising money. We hope to reach promising start-ups earlier than that, both to acknowledge their initial accomplishments and to ensure their longevity.” For a full list of winners, click here.
10.07.13
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, has announced that its 2013 Carnegie International prize has gone to Nicole Eisenman, according to Mary Thomas of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. At the Carnegie International, Eisenman presented a twenty-year survey of her paintings, alongside new figurative sculptures made from plaster. Eisenman will receive the award’s medal of honor and a $10,000 cash award. South African photographer Zanele Muholi was also recognized, winning the $10,000 Fine Prize for the forty-eight portraits she exhibited depicting African members of the LGBTI community.
10.07.13
The Toronto Star reports that Canadian filmmaker John Greyson has been released from the Egyptian jail, along with physician Tarek Loubani. The two were detained in Cairo, when they stopped in a police station to ask for directions. Accused of being members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Greyson and Loubani were allegedly jailed in crowded conditions detailed by Artforum.com here. Greyson’s family attributed their release in part to overwhelming support for their cause from around the world; petitions for their freedom had garnered over 150,000 signatures.
10.07.13
The San Diego Museum of Art has received $1.5 million from philanthropist Conrad Prebys and Debbie Turner. The amount will go toward exhibitions, education, and programming associated with the museum’s Balboa Park centennial celebration, which opens in 2015. Said museum director Roxana Velásquez, “The museum has played a significant role in the history of Balboa Park, and we take our leadership in the centennial celebration very seriously. It is particularly meaningful to have individuals with Conrad and Debbie’s dedication and vision to serve as champions of our efforts.”
10.07.13
Timothy McNulty reports in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that William Bodine, the director of the Frick Art and Historical Center in Point Breeze, Pennsylvania, will be retiring. Bodine, who’s worked at the institution since 2002, helmed the first phase of its recent $15 million expansion. Though he will step down next June, he will continue to oversee fundraising efforts to support the expansion; donations so far only cover half of the entire construction budget.
10.07.13
The Hammer Museum has announced that it will eliminate its admission fee, offering free entry to the public starting in 2014. The new policy was made possible by two gifts from museum benefactors Erika J. Glazer and Brenda R. Potter. Glazer has been one of the museum’s board of directors since 2009, and Potter is the fine art commissioner for the city of Beverly Hills. “We have been working towards free admission for years,” said Annie Philbin, the Hammer’s director. “Our public programs have always been free and now with Brenda and Erika’s support we are finally able to provide open access to all of the Hammer’s offerings.”
10.07.13
Barcelona-based artist Carlos Bunga has won the 2013 ArtPrize $100,000 juried award, according to Michael Hodges in the Detroit News. Bunga, who has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Miami Art Museum and the Hammer Museum, won the prize for his site-specific installation, Ecosystem. He was selected by a jury comprising Creative Time director Anne Pasternak, No Longer Empty president and chief curator Manon Sloane, and artist Mel Chin. The jury also recognized artists Kyle Staver, Cooley/Lewis, Shahzia Sikander, J.D. Urban, and Greg Bokor with prizes worth $20,000 each. Meanwhile, ArtPrize’s biggest cash award—the audience-favorite award—went to Michigan artist Anne Loveless for her large-scale landscape quilt titled Sleeping Bear Dune Lakeshore, 2013. Loveless will receive $200,000.
10.04.13
The city of Miami Beach has given the Bass Museum of Art $7.5 million to expand its educational and exhibition space, according to Hannah Sampson in the Miami Herald. The museum, which was founded in 1963, will use the money to erect a new wing next to the Lindemann Family Creative Center that will add two new classrooms and increase the museum's size by approximately twenty thousand square feet.
Source:
http://artforum.com/news/