The archive, founded in 1961 contains more than 100,000 volumes, 5,000 films, video and audio, 60,000 photos and over 1.4 million archive items related to the last 13 editions of Documenta exhibitions. Jooss will succeed Gerd Morsch who stepped down last year. More on Art News.
Former Chairman of the Americas at Sotheby’s, Jamie Niven, has joined the board of the New York-based company, Athena Art Finance, a specialty finance company launched in 2015 with $280 million of equity capital. More via PRnewswire.
The ongoing legal battle over Pablo Picasso’s Bust of a Woman, confusingly sold to billionaire Leon Black and also to a member of the royal family of Qatar, has finally been settled. The decision has fallen in favour of Black for whom Larry Gagosian had acquired the sculpture from Maya Widmaier Picasso for $106 million. More on Bloomberg.
After what seemed like a never-ending drain of top-level staff from Sotheby’s in recent months, the auction house has just announced a series of new hires. Peter Kloman, formerly of Christie’s will join Sotheby’s as Senior Specialist for the West Coast; Harrison Tenzer will take up the post of specialist in the Contemporary department, replacing Colin Smith, whilst Edouard Benveniste will join the auction house at the end of the year as senior international specialist in the Fine Art Division, Benveniste is also formerly of Christie’s. Art Market Monitor reports.
A new art-shipping startup has raised $1 million in investment, the company, Arta, founded by Adam Fields formerly of Artspace, counts among its investors David Zwirner gallery, Sotheby’s, Rachid Johnson and Alex Chung, the founder of Giphy. The Art Newspaper has more.
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June 16 | Birgit Jooss appointed director of Documenta archive of 20th and 21st Century art
Birgit Jooss has been named as director of the Documenta Archive of Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
