Macel, who is the chief curator of contemporary art at the Pompidou in Paris, has announced that the exhibition she will organize in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and Corderie in the Arsenale will be elusively entitled Viva Arte Viva (May 13 — November 26, 2017). She has also suggested that the next biennale will include more women artists and artists on the geographical margins of the art world. More via The Art Newspaper.
Two hundred minimal and conceptual artworks from the collection of Dorothee and Konrad Fischer have been acquired by Dusseldorf's state museums, half as a purchase and half as a donation. The collection, amassed by the Fishers over a 50-year period, includes works by Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman, Sol LeWitt and Gilbert & George. Negotiations between Dusseldorf’s art museums and Dorothee Fischer began in 2009, and her children carried out the final handover after her death last year. The collection will be exhibited in a show called Cloud and Crystal (Wolke & Kristall) at the K20 art museum in Düsseldorf from September 24 through January 8. More info on The Art Newspaper.
A newly introduced IRS Revenue Procedure has opened up an avenue through which art collectors can alleviate their tax costs. The new IRS rule makes the use of certain charitable remainder trusts (CRTs) as vehicles for tax deferral more viable for art and collectibles. Currently in the US, art and collectibles are subject to a 28% long-term federal capital gains rate. If a collector sells appreciated art through a CRT, rather than selling it outright, the gain is taxed over time as distributions are made from the CRT. Forbeshas more.
Bill Ruprecht’s period of relative absence from the art world since he stepped down as chief executive of Sotheby’s has now come to an end. Ruprecht will become chairman of the advisory board of Invaluable, a privately held online organisation based in Boston that for the past seven years has used a modified electronic-trading platform to facilitate online bids in auctions. More via the Wall Street Journal.
This Friday, the film workers association of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) demanded that all Pakistani artists and actors return immediately to their country, as well as calling for a boycott of all films featuring Pakistani actors. Following a dramatic event in Kashmir in July, where a young Kashmiri military officer of 23 was assassinated, the violence has been escalating. Nationalist Hindus are capitalising on the event by demanding measures which are likely to inflame a situation that is already fragile after a large number of Indian soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack a few days ago. More on The Indian Express.
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September 23 | 2017 Venice Biennale to be centered around… artists
Christine Macel, the director of the next Venice Biennale, says she will create an exhibition “designed with the artists, by the artists and for the artists.”
