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Tuesday, March 10
Inaugural Helsinki Biennial Names Artist List
The inaugural edition of the Helsinki Biennial, which is set to run from June 12 to September 27, will bring together the work of 40 artists and collectives—more than half of which hail from Finland—on the Baltic Sea island of Vallisaari. Organized by Pirkko Siitari and Taru Tappola, head curators of the Helsinki Art Museum, and featuring 31 new commissions, the exhibition will take the theme “The Same Sea.” Among the artists presenting new work will be Paweł Althamer, Kyungwoo Chun, Katharina Grosse, Tadashi Kawamata, Alicja Kwade, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Antto Melasniemi. In a statement Helsinki mayor Jan Vapaavuori said that the Biennial “will both provoke and inspire audiences by confronting significant global issues.” —Maximilíano Durón
Museum of Nebraska Art Names New Executive Director
Nicole Herden, who most recently served as curator at the Boise Art Museum in Idaho, will join the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney as executive director, beginning March 30. Herden previously managed curatorial and museum facilities and worked as registrar at the Boise Art Museum, where she grew the permanent collection by some 500 works. She has also held curatorial roles at the Phoenix Art Museum and the Arizona State University Art Museum.
Max Mara Art Prize for Women Reveals 2020 Recipient
Artist Emma Talbot, whose practice spans painting, drawing, installation, and sculpture, has won the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women, given out by the fashion label Max Mara, London’s Whitechapel Gallery, and the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy. As the winner of the prize, Talbot will spend six months on residency in Italy creating a new body of work to be shown at Whitechapel Gallery and the Collezione Maramotti in 2021. She was selected from a shortlist that included Allison Katz, Katie Schwab, Tai Shani, and Hanna Tuulikki.
Monday, March 9
NYU Latinx Project Gets $750,000 from Mellon Foundation
The Latinx Project, an interdisciplinary initiative founded by NYU professor Arlene Dávila in 2018 to support U.S. Latinx art and culture and the scholarship around it, has received a three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation for $750,000. The award will help fund the organization’s programming, which has so far included four exhibitions in New York as well as numerous panels and talks. Additionally, the grant money will go toward supporting artists-in-residence, starting a new conference (titled the Future of Latinx Studies), a summer institute, and graduate student working groups. In a statement, Dávila said, “[The Mellon Foundation’s] trust in this initiative is politically important at this moment in time and I trust the news will inspire many other such projects to develop and thrive throughout U.S. universities, where Latinx studies has been historically invisible.” —Maximilíano Durón
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Kurimanzutto Closes for Women’s March
Kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City said that it would not require its employees to work Monday, March 9, in solidarity with a nationwide strike in protest of Mexico’s femicide crisis. (Though the gallery is generally closed to the public on Mondays, some staff does work then.) A statement on the gallery’s website reads, “Responding to the gender violence and inequality that has prevailed in Mexico, we joined the national strike on Monday, March 9. Women are the 70% of the force of Kurimanzutto. Since they cannot function without us, the gallery will resume work on March 10.”
Luhring Augustine Now Represents Richard Rezac
Chicago-based sculptor Richard Rezac, who is known for his geometric abstractions, has joined the roster of New York’s Luhring Augustine gallery, which will open a solo exhibition of his new and recent work at the gallery’s Chelsea space on March 14. Rezac’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and other institutions.
After Fire, Workers Help Rescue Museum of Chinese in America Archives
Following a devastating fire in January, workers have been dispatched to salvage the archives of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America ahead of the planned demolition of the building. Some 80 percent of the archives, including photographs, textiles, rare books, and newspapers, still remain in the building at 70 Mulberry Street. Two previous efforts managed to salvage only 20 percent of the 85,000-item archive, according to the Art Newspaper.
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