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News
After a lengthy renaming process, the former Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam will be called the Kunstinstituut Melly. [The Art Newspaper]
Local 30, the union representing workers at the Guggenheim, staged a protest outside the museum during its members-only reopening. [Hyperallergic]
The next edition of the Whitney Biennial has been postponed to 2022. [ARTnews]
The charity auction of major works from the Keith Haring Foundation ended Thursday, netting more than three times its pre-sale high estimate of $1.4 million. [Art Market Monitor]
Perspective
“What, after all, is the point of restoring a museum or an art center when what people really need is an end to the political order?” Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Beirut after the explosion. [Artforum]
A writer’s visit to the Dorothea Tanning archive in Manhattan becomes a dive into the famed painter’s late, lesser-known works. [The Paris Review]
Roxana Robinson recounts her encounter with the famously reclusive Georgia O’Keeffe. [The New Yorker]
Art & Artists
Conceptual artist Jill Magid is paying New York’s bodegas with 120,000 pennies inscribed with messages about the pandemic. [The New York Times]
Antwaun Sargent in conversation with photographer and artist Awol Erizku. [GQ]
Christopher Knight reviews a new book on the legacy of Louise and Walter Arensberg, the influential 20th-century collectors whose storied collection became a thing of Los Angeles legend. [The Los Angeles Times]