Lauri Firstenberg, founder of LAXART, sets up new production studio in LA
After stepping-down from her role as director of LAXART, Lauri Firstenberg has embarked upon a new art production studio, ‘there-there’, in partnership with Los Angeles–based artist Anthony James. The project will serve in an advisory capacity, funding artists and helping them produce work, whilst also exhibiting work in a gallery space built into its East Hollywood headquarters.
Speaking to ARTNEWS, Firstenberg revealed “we have tried to create a new model that’s hybridic… We’ll be sitting down with artists and seeing what their priorities are, seeing what is missing in terms of what they can do within the context of their own studios, and what is outside of traditional gallery priorities.”
Located next-door to the iconic Church of Scientology building, offices will be housed in an Art Deco build on Fountain Avenue — to open this spring, with fresh programming for September.
Lauri Firstenberg | Anthony James | there-there. Photos courtesy of there-there
Hiroshi Senju wins 2017 Isamu Noguchi Award
Tokyo based artist, Hiroshi Senju, has won the 2017 Isamu Noguchi Award. The award will be presented at The Noguchi Museum’s annual benefit on Tuesday, May 16. The British architect, John Pawson, will also share the award, for his innovative designs and global consciousness.
Commended for his “enduring commitment to Eastern and Western Cultural exchange,” Senju is renowned worldwide for his often monumental waterfall and cliff images. Public installations include seventy-seven murals at Jukoin, a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, and a large waterfall at Haneda Airport, Tokyo. His work is in numerous collections, including the Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; and Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo. The Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa was also opened in 2011, Japan.
Hiroshi Senju, Waterfall (2016) Image courtesy of Sundaram Tagore Gallery
American Academy in Rome announces 2017-18 winners
The American Academy in Rome has announced the recipients of its annual Rome prize: Sanford Biggers, Abigail Deville, Rochelle Feinstein, Allen Frame, and Beverly Mciver.
Awardees will participate in fellowships at its campus in Rome, Italy, and will receive a stipend, ranging from $16,000 to $28,000, depending on the length of their stay and studio space. Supporting innovative and cross-disciplinary practices in the arts and humanities, the American Academy Fellowship committee was this year chaired by Holly Block, executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. The jury comprised of artists Polly Apfelbaum, Josephine Meckseper, and Lorna Simpson.
Beverly Mciver, Dance (2002)
Claire Doherty appointed new director of Arnolfini
The British arts organisation based in Bristol, Arnolfini, have appointed Claire Doherty as the new director of their gallery and arts center. Currently the director of Situations, which she founded in 2002, Doherty received an MBE for services to the arts in the south west of England last year. Details via Bristol 24/7
