Barson and Martínez will join MACBA in September 2016. The news comes a year after the scandal surrounding the museum’s exhibition “The Beat and the Sovereign” — and in particular Artist Ines Doujak’s work Haute couture 04 Transport — had led to the resignation of former director Bartomeu Mari and the dismissal of curators Valentin Roma and Paul B. Preciado.
Dyala Nusseibeh has resigned from her role as Art International director. The Istanbul-based fair’s fourth edition was postponed to 2017 earlier this week following the organizers’ concerns over a lower than expected attendance and the safety of the public.
Iris Müller-Westermann has been named the new director of Moderna Museet Malmö, the Swedish contemporary art museum. Curator since 1997, Westermann has previously served as director of the Stenersen Museum in Oslo. More details on Art Forum.
Shangai’s Liu Haisu Art Museum has reopened after three years of construction works. The museum — one of the first in Shanghai to feature contemporary Chinese artists — has moved to its new 12,000 square feet venue in the west part of Hongqiao Development Zone. The opening exhibition, titled ‘A New Generation of Internet Artists”, will showcase works by artists from the online platform Tencent. More via The Art Newspaper.
The 2016 finalists for the Prix Canson have been announced. Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, Bethany Collins, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, David Shrigley and Lucy Skaer will be competing for the €10,000 prize for works on paper awarded by the Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le Papier. The award ceremony will be held on June 21 at New York’s Drawing Center, where the finalists’ works will be on display from the next day. Read more on Art News.
At long last, it is official: billionaire François Pinault will finally realize his twenty-year long dream of opening a museum in Paris to welcome part of his collection. During a press conference held earlier this morning, Pinault announced that the museum will take over La Bourse de commerce de la Ville de Paris, as it had been speculated. The opening is scheduled for 2018, Vincent Noce reports for artnet News.
On occasion of its May 19 New York sale of American Art, auction house Christie’s will offer four large-scale paintings by modernist artist Georgia O'Keeffe, estimated at a total of $40-60 million. Christie’s May sale will also feature works by Max Weber and 19th century masters Frederic Edwin Church and James McNeill Whistler. Art Market Monitor has more information.
