According to the museum, this stands out as one of the largest audiences for first year attendance at a new art institution in the US. The museum’s founders, Eli and Edythe Broad, gifted the $140 million museum, along with its 2,000-work art collection, to the public. More via artnet.
Berlin’s Jewish Museum has named Léontine Meijer-van Mensch as its new Director of Programming. Currently the vice president of of Berlin’s Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Museum of European Culture), she will succeed Cilly Kugelmann on February 1, 2017. She will continue to act as a consultant for the institution. More on Artforum.
The Franco-Swiss street-artist Thoma Vuille has been accused of “intentionally damaging property belonging to someone else.” The artist, better-known by the pseudonym Monsieur Chat, was prosecuted for painting his famous emblem on “a temporary plasterboard partition outside Gare du Nord.” On September 15, at a hearing before the 29th Criminal Chamber of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris, the prosecutor called for a sentence of three months in prison for the artist, taking into account the other “damages” he had committed in the French capital from 2001 onwards. The verdict will be give on October 15. Le Parisien has further details.
Phillip’s contemporary art sale “New Now,” held yesterday in New York, pulled in a grand total of $2.8 million, an amount in excess of its low estimate, with a sell through rate of 74% per each of the 202 lots. Eight records were established, which included among others Michael Heizer and Matt Connors. Among the most important sales, including fees, were: Infinity Nets (TWWP) (2006) by Yayoi Kusama, which went for $225,000; HARD AS A ROCK OR (ASSUMING THE POSITION) by Lawrence Weiner for $175,000; and a sculpture by Giuseppe Penone, Fingernail and Marble (Unghia e marmo) for $150,000. Artnews has more.
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September 21 | Broad Museum has record visitor numbers
The Broad Museum in Los Angeles, which opened on September 20 2015 in a dynamic building designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, has received an impressive total of over 820,000 visitors in its first year of operation.
