January 8, 2015: Charlie Hebdo Attack Provokes Response from Artists; Pérez Museum Director to Lead Barnes Foundation; and Political Pressure Affects Russian Arts Scene
Opening
In New York …
“Mamma Andersson: Behind the Curtain” and “Diana Thater: Science, Fiction” open at David Zwirner
“Dion Johnson: Chromatic Momentum” opens at De Buck Gallery
“KATSU: Remember the Future” opens at The Hole
“Ethan Greenbaum: Leave” opens at 55 Gansevoort
“Debra Smith: Shifting Territory” and “Stephen Pentak: Here Nor There” opens at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
“Interruptions by Luis Mallo” opens at Praxis
“Waiting: Selections from Erwin Olaf” opens at Hasted Kraeutler
“Jiří Georg Dokoupil: New Paintings” and “William N. Copley: Drawings (1962-1973)” open at Paul Kasmin Gallery
“Anne Tabachnick: Object as Muse” and “Eric Holzman: Small Paintings” open at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
“FACES,” featuring works by Micha Patiniott, Bradley Hart, Hans Scheib, and Alexander Kaletski opens at Anna Zorina Gallery
“Adam Ekberg: Orchestrating the Ordinary” and “Pacifico Silano: Against Nature” open at ClampArt
Humanity in Pixels and Stone: Gary Kaleda and Lillian Engel opens at Susan Eley Fine Art
“Ryan McNamara: Gently Used” opens at Mary Boone Gallery
“Rough Cut” and Cordy Ryman open at Morgan Lehman Gallery
“Mark Klett: Camino del Diablo” opens at Pace/MacGill Gallery
“Some Like It Hot: Paintings of Summer” opens at Fischbach Gallery
“Denise Green: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs” opens at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Victoria Gitman opens at Garth Greenan Gallery
“Donna Sharrett: Love Songs” opens at Pavel Zoubok Gallery
“Siri Berg: Color and Space” opens at Hionas Gallery
“Peter Gallo, Ellen Lesperance, Aaron Spangler: Take Back Vermont” opens at ZieherSmith & Horton
Helmut Lang opens at Sperone Westwater
“Robert Kushner: baroque” opens at DC Moore Gallery
“Manuel Ocampo: The Corrections” opens at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
“Parra: Yer So Bad” opens at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Kishio Suga opens at Blum & Poe
Yael Bartana opens at Petzel Gallery
“Saira McLaren: a day and the night” opens at Sargent’s Daughters
“Schandra Singh: God Don’t Like Ugly” opens at Thomas Erben Gallery
Cheryl Donegan opens at Sgorbati Projects
Closing
In New York … “John Messinger: We Dream Alone” closes at Unix Gallery.
Today’s Notable News
Artists all over the world have posted illustrations in support for the victims of yesterday’s attack on Charlie Hebdo, the Paris-based satirical magazine. (via Dezeen)
The Barnes Foundation has named Pérez Art Museum Miami director Thomas “Thom” Collins as its new executive director and president. (via Artfix Daily)
Ambra Medda, co-founder of Design Miami/, will join Christie’s as the auction house’s global creative director for 20th- and 21st-century design. (via Dezeen)
Graham Beal, the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, will retire in June, after serving over 15 years as the museum’s director, president, and CEO, and recently helping to save its collection during the city’s bankruptcy. (via The Huffington Post)
Marat Guelman, longtime Moscow arts figure and former director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, has decided to leave Russia to open a new cultural center in Montenegro, counting the Ukraine conflict and political pressure in Russia among his reasons for emigrating. (via The Art Newspaper)
Sotheby’s will sell a rare work by Monet at an auction next month, expecting to garner £20-30 million for the 1908 painting. (via Art Market Monitor)
Best of Instagram
Via @wmag: “‘To play Turner, I had to learn to paint,’ explains #MrTurner star #TimothySpall. Read more on wmag.com. Photo by #TimWalker, styled by @Kjeldgaard1. #BestPerformances”
Good Reads
“The Men Behind the Cartoons at Charlie Hebdo” (via the New York Times)
“Clampdown Sends Russian Artists into Exile” (via The Art Newspaper)
“Sotheby’s and Christie’s Return to Guaranteeing Art Prices” (via the New York Times)
Artist of the Day
Born on this day in 1964, Young British Artist Marc Quinn is acclaimed for his use of unusual materials in his sculptural works. The artist’s most sensational project is an ongoing series of self-portraits, in which he casts his head—once every five years—in his own frozen blood.
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