Details are thin on the ground, but Koons is notoriously quick to fire unsuitable staff and it is rumoured that anyone taken on over the last month has been asked to leave. artnet News has more.
In the lead up to a retrospective of Crimean-born painter Ivan Aivazovsky at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery, Ukraine’s ministry for culture has called for a boycott of the exhibition of Crimean art in Russian institutions. Last year, Russia passed a law appropriating Crimean art collections as Russian ‘cultural holdings’, which the Ukraine claims is illegal. More via artnet News.
Gallerist Leslie Waddington’s personal art collection is to hit the auction block this October at Christie’s London. The 200-lot sale will feature works by Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder and Agnes Martin and is expected to realize over £20 million. Read more on The Telegraph.
Trailblazing Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović has passed away age 69. One of Croatia’s most prominent artists, Stilinović is best known for his conceptual practice and was one of the founders of the New Art Practice group. Born in Belgrade in 1947 to the son of the Croatian minister for culture, Stilinović was a socially engaged artist, appropriating and subverting the language of politics and the symbols of communism throughout his practice. More via the Calvert Journal.
