CRG Gallery closes in New York
After 25 years, New York’s CRG Gallery will close “as of summer 2017.” In a statement issued yesterday, by the gallery’s owners — Carla Chammas, Richard Desroche, and Glenn McMillan — there was no mention of a final show or an exact date of closure.
The gallery’s roster includes a number of established artists, such as Eva Berendes, O Zhang, and Ori Gersht, who was the last artist to be featured at the gallery space on Chrystie Street in Lower Manhattan, with his solo show “Sleepness Nights”, closed May 21.
Ori Gersht. Floating World, Floating Sky 01 (2016)
New York’s Foundation for Contemporary Arts launches Roy Lichtenstein Award
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts as announced it will be launching an unrestricted annual award of $40,000, the result of a $1 million endowment grant gifted by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. The recipient will be selected by a panel of board members, including Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, Robert Gober and Cecily Brown.
New York’s FCA was set up in 1963 as a grant-giving organization by John Cage and Jasper Johns. Since its inception, more than 2,800 grants have been awarded — totaling over $12 million. The new award will be one of several grant programs including those named after John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Dorothea Tanning, and Ellsworth Kelly. The next round of FCA grants will be announced in 2018.
Roy Lichtenstein
The Deutsche Bank to open a new arts space in central Berlin
The Deutsche Bank has announced it will open a new arts center in central Berlin, in the city’s Prinzessinnenpalais on the Unter den Linden, a short ride from the Brandenburg Gate. The 3,000 square meter space will host part of the bank’s art collection, established in the 1970s and boasting some 50.000 works. A third of the space will be dedicated to art — including temporary exhibitions — with the rest of building hosting concerts, readings, talks, workshops, sporting events and a café. The Deutsche Bank’s corporate collection focuses on works on paper and photographs. In addition, the new space will incorporate the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, also located on the Unter den Linden. Read more on The Art Newspaper.
Prinzessinnenpalais (Image: courtesy of Deutsche Bank)
Details revealed for fourth edition of Prospect New Orleans triennial
Prospect New Orleans has announced a list of participating artists for Prospect.4, the upcoming triennial exhibition, titled “The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp.”
Across seventeen venues in New Orleans, 73 artists from “North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, [will] address issues of identity, displacement, and cultural hybridity.” The exhibition will open on November 18, 2017 and run through February 25, 2018.
The list includes the likes of Abbas Akhavan, John Akomfrah, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Michael Armitage, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Boyce, Katherine Bradford, Mark Dion, Yoko Ono and Xaviera Simmons.
The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Prospect 4 © Prospect New Orleans
Reem Fadda awarded 8th Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement
The Menil Collection has awarded the eighth Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement to Reem Fadda, who lives and works between Palestine and Jordan. Receiving a $20,000 stipend, Fadda will deliver a public lecture at the institution this fall to celebrate her award.
Fadda is currently serving as an associate curator of Middle Eastern Art for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, to launch next year. This year, Fadda will also curate the inaugural exhibition of the Palestinian Museum, in Ramallah, opening September 1.
