STUDIO BOSCO SODI
Coming Up
There will be many exciting exhibitions this fall, but nothing on the horizon fascinates Roberta Smith more than the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ongoing search for a new director. [The New York Times]
New York’s Washington Square Park will play host to not one but two works about borders this fall. Not too far from an Ai Weiwei fence sculpture will be a 26-foot-long wall by Bosco Sodi. [The Art Newspaper]
A Dakota elders committee has decided to bury, not burn, the wood from Sam Durant’s Scaffold later this month. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
Remembrances
On the occasion of England’s first Jean-Michel Basquiat show in two decades, at the Barbican Centre in London, the painter’s closest friends recall who he really was. [The Guardian]
Susan Vreeland, the author of such novels about art as The Passion of Artemisia, died at age 71 this past August. [The New York Times]
John Ashbery, who died this past weekend, may be known best as a poet, but he was an art critic, too. (For over a decade, Ashbery contributed regularly to ARTnews.) Here are snippets from some of his writings about artists, including reviews of shows by John Cage, Edvard Munch, Surrealist photographers, and more. [Vulture]
To the “Infinity Rooms” (and Beyond)
Getting tickets for the Yayoi Kusama show at the Broad in Los Angeles is not easy. One LA Weekly reporter gave it a shot and wound up in a virtual waiting room with 100,000 other users. [LA Weekly]
Oh, and by the way, the pop star Ciara has visited the show and posted a selfie in an “Infinity Room.” [Twitter]
Money
That controversy over the Berkshire Museum deaccessioning 40 works from its collection? It could’ve been avoided if the museum increased its endowment by $4.5 million, one expert said. The museum’s director denied this. [Berkshire Eagle]
According to one bank, the market value of photographs has gone up, while classic cars and “works of fine art” are worth less than they used to be. [The Guardian]
“How a new generation of Chinese art collectors are taking on the world.” [South China Morning Post]
Crime
Robert Gentile, a Boston mobster who is believed to be connected to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, will be sentenced to up to six years in prison for illegally selling guns. [Reuters]
Miscellaneous
Haegue Yang is the winner of the Museum Ludwig’s Wolfgang Hahn Prize. [Artforum]
A look around Arthur Jafa’s show at the Serpentine Galleries in London. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Eike Schmidt has stepped down as director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. He will become director of the Kunsthisthorisches Museum in Viennia in 2019. [The Florentine]