His partner, photographer Jack Shear, took a series of black and white photos during the year after Kelly’s death. “I asked Mr. Shear why he chose to photograph the space in black and white. ‘I think color belonged to Ellsworth.'”
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Here We Go: The Met Files A Request To Charge Non-New-Yorkers Required Admission To The Museum
And it’s all about the money, of course: “The Met’s current ‘suggested’ admissions fee, $25 for adults, generated about $39 million in the fiscal year 2016, or 13 percent of the museum’s overall revenue. A mandatory fee would be likely to generate tens of millions of dollars more a year.”
This Is The Most Powerful Woman In The New York Art World, Says The New York Times
“At 63, [she] has been running an art museum in New York longer than anyone except Glenn Lowry at the Museum of Modern Art. … She is one of only two directors in the city who has overseen the construction of a brand-new building. … And she is now in the midst of an $80 million capital campaign to double her museum’s size, a project notable at least so far for its sotto-voce nature, in sharp contrast to the expansion Mr. Lowry is overseeing.
Largest-Ever Cash Gift To A UK Museum – And It Comes From An American
Ukrainian-American businessman Len Blavatnik – who funded the $100,000 Warner Music Prize and gave a $25 million naming gift to Carnegie Hall last June after his nemesis stepped down as board chair there – has made a donation of more than £50 million to the Tate Modern, which will name its popular new extension after him.
British Museum Signals It’s Willing To Lend Out Parthenon Marbles – And Doesn’t Get Much Interest
“The British Museum has received only a single request to borrow one of the Parthenon Marbles since the sensational loan of a sculpture to [the Hermitage in] Russia in December 2014 … [which] was the first time that any of the Parthenon Marbles had left the British Museum since arriving in London in 1807.”
Modigliani Is More Popular Than Ever. Cue The Thriving Market For Fakes
“There have been lawsuits, charges of slander, death threats, hoaxes, and thefts. A Modigliani specialist has been convicted of falsely attributing works to Modigliani. A skyrocketing market for works by the artist has been plagued by fakes in Russia, Serbia, and Italy (where Modigliani was born). Perhaps appropriately for one of the world’s most faked artists, there have even been fake fakes. Experts, meanwhile, are jockeying to be recognized as the ultimate authority on what should and should not be accepted as authentic.”
Maybe Dropping The Turner Prize’s Age Limit Wasn’t Such A Good Idea
The Art Newspaper‘s Ben Luke argues that limiting the prize to artists under 50 was a crucial element in the Turner Prize’s success in drawing wide attention to emerging talent (the stated reason for the award’s existence), and that eliminating that limit will make jurors’ jobs much more difficult.
Turning A Moscow Subway Train Into A Rolling Museum
“From now through June, subway riders on the [Moscow Metro’s] popular Koltsevaya Line (Circle Line), which makes a loop around the city center, can expect to see a variety of [20th-century Russian] artwork on display from the Tretyakov State Gallery.”
Three Lessons From Artists’ Protests Of The Whitney Museum In The 1960s-70s
“Looking to the broader artist-activist events of this earlier era provides a number of potential strategies to adopt” – and to avoid.
Turner Prize Removes Its Age Limit, And Shortlist Is The Oldest Ever
“The four artists range in age from 43 to 62 and include two painters, after a decision was taken to drop the upper age limit of 50.” Three of the four are women, and only one is of all-European ancestry.