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Jack Shainman Gallery opens an exhibition featuring a new body of work by Jackie Nickerson
Jackie Nickerson, Underground Farm I, 2019. Digital c-print, 48 x 60 inches (print) Ed.1,1AP. Images courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Field Test, a new body of work by Jackie Nickerson. With photographic compositions that are almost sculptural in nature, there is a stunning materiality to these anonymous portrait-like photographs, in which faces are shrouded, shielded, perhaps suffocated both literally, by the vibrant, textured plastics that wrap each figure, and metaphorically, by the consumerism of the modern world.
Museums can now shop a network to extend their collections
At last, there is a matching service for art galleries and philanthropists who want to donate their collected works.
While it is not a problem for major museums, such as New York’s Metropolitan, to secure art collections, it is not always so easy for smaller galleries worldwide.
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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.
For museums that depend on the generosity of donors, the concern has been that it’s difficult to compete for works against the most prestigious and popular of their kind.
SWFI Daily Layoffs Briefing, January 26, 2021
Posted on 01/26/2021
1. Alpha Media Holdings is a Portland, Oregon media company that owns radio stations KXL, KINK and KUPL, along with more than 200 other stations around the U.S. The company recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Alpha Media Holdings owes more than US$ 103 million to a single lender, ICG North America Holdings (Intermediate Capital Group). Portland-based PE firm Endeavour Capital invested in Alpha Media in a bid to help fuel growth for the company.
2. FedEx plans to chop up to 6,300 jobs in Europe as it eliminates staff redundancy following the 2016 takeover of Dutch delivery service TNT. This will occur over an 18-month period.