The Syracuse University Art Museum today announced a major gift from artists and Syracuse University alumni Luise '46, G'51 and Morton '49 Kaish. The gift establishes the Luise and Morton .
A rare Black-owned art gallery lands in Chelsea
The entrance to Nicola Vassells new gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, May 17, 2021. After working with artists like Kehinde Wiley and advising collectors like Swizz Beatz, Vassell bucks the online trend with a brick-and-mortar space. Donavon Smallwood/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- At a moment when equity and diversity have become paramount in the art world, Nicola Vassell, a former director of both Pace and Deitch Projects galleries in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on Thursday will open her own exhibition space on 10th Avenue, planting her flag as a rare contemporary-art gallery owned by a Black woman in the heart of Chelsea.
Workers at the Whitney Museum move to form a union
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019. Whitney Museum of American Art. Photograph by Sean Sime.
by Colin Moynihan
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Employees of the Whitney Museum of American Art are the latest group of museum workers in the city to take steps toward forming a union.
They are also the most recent example of museum employees who have chosen to organize under the wing of a union not everyone would associate with the art world: the United Automobile Workers.
A petition asking for a union vote was filed Monday with the National Labor Relations Board by the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, Local 2110 UAW.
In his series
Pictures of Cars, Vik Muniz pays homage to Ed Ruscha by re-imagining some of Rusha s iconic artworks, and then photographing the result. Known for his use of unconventional materials, here Muniz has re-created Ruscha’s painting of the 20th Century Fox logo using steel and rusted car metal. By photographing the resulting reconstruction close up, the Brazilian artist creates the illusion of a simple, two-dimensional pastiche. Only close examination reveals the material transformation of Rusha’s original, now with additional texture and depth.
20th Century Fox (After Ed Ruscha) is a testament to the ongoing influence of American pop master Ed Ruscha, and a nod to the cultural clout of Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood. Frame dimensions are approximate.