BBC
A Legend
The storied art critic, novelist, and essayist John Berger has died at the age of 90. [ARTnews]
Here is Berger’s thoroughly enjoyable BBC mini-series, Ways of Seeing. [Ubuweb]
Big Money
Gareth Harris reports, “The Polish government has paid more than 500 million Polish zloty ($118 million) for the Czartoryski collection, which includes Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Lady With an Ermine (around 1489–90) and Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638).” Not everyone is happy about the purchase, however. [The Art Newspaper]
The Talent
Meriç Öner has been promoted to be director of the SALT space in Istanbul. She had been associate director since 2011. [Artforum]
MoMA PS1 curator Jenny Schlenzka has been tapped to become artistic director of Performance Space 122 in New York. [The New York Times]
Artist Doron Rabina has been appointed chief curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. [Haaretz]
As the World Turns
Vajiko Chachkhiani will represent Georgia at this year’s Venice Biennale. [Artforum]
Curator June Yap has dropped out of organizing Singapore’s Biennale pavilion, citing “differences in operational approaches” with the team involved. [Artforum]
Bonus Section
Art collector and Artsy investor Wendi Deng, who was previously married to Rupert Murdoch, is dating the Hungarian model Bertold Zahoran. [Daily Mail]
Cosima von Bonin at SculptureCenter in New York. [Contemporary Art Daily]