In the wake of a chronic lack of funding the aforementioned group have signed a petition calling for greater transparency regarding the Ministry’s decision making.
Tensions have been running high since the appointment of Regev last year with her calling artists “tight-asses” and “instigators” and members of the cultural sector branding her a “fascist.” The Art Newspaper reports.
Artist Anselm Kiefer has had his studio burgled again. According to Le Monde a security guard found thieves dismantling a sculpture composed of 10 tons of lead and 12 tons of marble in Kiefer’s studio in Croissy-Beaubourg on August 27. The security guard was unable to stop the thieves and they made away with a considerable amount of raw material. The sculpture in question was valued by local police at €1.3 million, however its value in material form is much less. Read more on artnet.
French Photographer and humanist Marc Riboud has died. Best known for a 1967 image of Vietnam War protester, Jan Rose Kasmir holding a single flower upto the National Guard at the Pentagon — his photo became an iconic representation of pacifism and the flower power movement. An early member of Magnum Photos, Riboud travelled the globe, documenting an ever-changing world. He was age 93 when he passed away. Read more on Time.
NADA Miami Beach is heading back to the Deauville Beach Resort after just one edition at the Fontainebleau hotel. The reason for the change of location has not been explained by organisers but Art News speculates that the general image and atmosphere that the Fontainebleau emulates is not quite in line with NADA’s image, which is definitively “not typical of the “art establishment.”
A retrospective at the K21 contemporary art museum in Düsseldorf dedicated to conceptual artist Christoph Büchel has been axed by the museums after plans reportedly became too complicated. “Büchel's ideas became more and more complicated and complex,” a spokesman for the museum told The Art Newspaper, and the show was cancelled in mutual agreement with the artist. Büchel’s work was similarly shut down in Venice last year after he transformed a 16th century church into the city’s first mosque for Iceland’s national presentation. Read the full story here.
Artist Anselm Kiefer has had his studio burgled again. According to Le Monde a security guard found thieves dismantling a sculpture composed of 10 tons of lead and 12 tons of marble in Kiefer’s studio in Croissy-Beaubourg on August 27. The security guard was unable to stop the thieves and they made away with a considerable amount of raw material. The sculpture in question was valued by local police at €1.3 million, however its value in material form is much less. Read more on artnet.
French Photographer and humanist Marc Riboud has died. Best known for a 1967 image of Vietnam War protester, Jan Rose Kasmir holding a single flower upto the National Guard at the Pentagon — his photo became an iconic representation of pacifism and the flower power movement. An early member of Magnum Photos, Riboud travelled the globe, documenting an ever-changing world. He was age 93 when he passed away. Read more on Time.
NADA Miami Beach is heading back to the Deauville Beach Resort after just one edition at the Fontainebleau hotel. The reason for the change of location has not been explained by organisers but Art News speculates that the general image and atmosphere that the Fontainebleau emulates is not quite in line with NADA’s image, which is definitively “not typical of the “art establishment.”
A retrospective at the K21 contemporary art museum in Düsseldorf dedicated to conceptual artist Christoph Büchel has been axed by the museums after plans reportedly became too complicated. “Büchel's ideas became more and more complicated and complex,” a spokesman for the museum told The Art Newspaper, and the show was cancelled in mutual agreement with the artist. Büchel’s work was similarly shut down in Venice last year after he transformed a 16th century church into the city’s first mosque for Iceland’s national presentation. Read the full story here.
