The Hirshhorn Museum acquires works by 11 Japanese photographers
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which boasts an important collection of post-war Japanese art, has announced that its has acquired 11 new works by Japanese photographers, including Eikoh Hosoe, Minoru Hirata, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kōji Enokura and Takashi Arai.
Twenty-four photographs by Kawaguchi from the series Land and Sea, as well as Ishuichi’s series Apartment #9, (1977–78) or July 25, 2011. Radioactive Lilies, Iitate Village, Fukushima (2011) by Takashi Arai will thus be part of the collection. Read more here.
A new director for Para Site, Hong Kong
Chloe Chu.
The Hong Kong, non-for-profit institution Para Site has announced that Chloe Chu was appointed as associate director. She will work alongside Executive Director Costinas Cosmin.
Chu, who was formerly curatorial director for the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood, United Kingdom, will be responsible for developing “the independent arts center’s exhibition and education programs, as well as its publications.” Para-Site is currently hosting the exhibition “In Search of Miss Ruthless”. More information via ArtAsia Pacific.
Another Brazilian gallery in New York!
After Nara Roesler and Mendes Wood DM, it’s now the turn of Luciana Brito to open an outpost in New York. The São Paulo-based gallery will open a new project space in the Big Apple on September 6 with a group show by Brazilian artists called “Ruptura”. Among the exhibited artists are: Waldemar Cordeiro, Geraldo de Barros, Thomaz Farkas and Gaspar Gasparian.
The new space will open on 186 Franklin Street in Lower Manhattan. Following the inaugural show, the gallery will show works by younger Brazilian artists, including Héctor Zamora, Caio Reisewitz and Tiago Tebet, with the aim of visibility to artists who are not represented in New York. More via The Art Newspaper.
Courtesy Luciana Brito gallery.
