Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, conducted the first news briefing of President Biden’s administration on Wednesday and vowed to bring “truth and transparency back to the briefing room.”
Gagosian Names a New Director and Curator
Antwaun Sargent, a critic and author, plans to work with artists who are thinking about contemporary issues around identity, desire and representation.
“I have always been interested in the ways in which we can reframe the conversation around some of the voices that have been left out,” Antwaun Sargent said.Credit.Darius Garvin, via Gagosian
Jan. 21, 2021
Gagosian, the global gallery known for ambitious exhibitions, has added a 32-year-old director and curator, Antwaun Sargent, whose first show will examine what he calls “notions of Black space.”
Sargent, who will be based in New York City, is joining the gallery after a decade as a writer and a critic whose work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times and other outlets.
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.
Avril Haines, who has been nominated to be director of national intelligence, told senators that she would assist with a public written assessment of the threat from QAnon.
A âNerve Centerâ for Climate in the Biden White House
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. brings with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Jill Biden leaving Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday for the inauguration.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Published Jan. 19, 2021Updated Jan. 21, 2021
WASHINGTON â Joseph R. Biden Jr. assumed the presidency on Wednesday, bringing an expansive team of climate change experts to staff a White House that is preparing to focus on global warming in a way no other administration has done before.