My Kingdom for a Title, a new solo exhibition featuring work by Pope.L, an acclaimed artist and scholar in the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts.
On display through May 16, this is the first exhibition to be organized at the Neubauer Collegium gallery since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis has unavoidably cast a shadow over the show’s conception and development; it contains allusions to the COVID crisis with a degree of directness that is unusual in Pope.L’s work, which is often elusive and ambiguous.
Although the Neubauer Collegium gallery is temporarily closed to the public in accordance with University guidelines, a virtual tour of the exhibition will be available in February.
Do Museums Need a Shopping Network for Art Donations?
A new venture suggests it will help art institutions find works of art that collectors have decided they want to give away as gifts.
“Landscape for an Absconded God,” a painting by Jonathan Lasker, is a work that an art collector is seeking to donate through a new venture. Credit.Jonathan Lasker and Greene Naftali
Jan. 21, 2021
For art collectors interested in donating a work, one worry has long been that their gift, a valuable, possibly beloved, painting would end up in a museum basement, where many items from permanent collections reside, unseen.
Art Industry News: Artist Specializing in ‘Modern Misconceptions of Reality’ Charged for Involvement in Capitol Riot + Other Stories
Plus, German museums and galleries will remain closed until at least mid-February and Pierre Le-Tan’s collection heads to Sotheby s Paris.
January 20, 2021
Left, Wrigley at the Capitol on January 6; Andrew Wrigley s drivers license picture. Courtesy of the US Justice Dept.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, January 20.
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Why Questioning the UK’s Public Monuments Is About Not Censorship – Writer Charlotte Higgins pens a retort to the government official who introduced legislation seeking to make it more difficult for authorities to bow to what he called “baying mobs” by removing monuments to controversial figures. Higgins writes: “In the UK, precisely one prominent public sculpture was to
Naomi Beckwith, who succeeds Nancy Spector, comes from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and will help the museum work toward a more equitable work environment.