COURTESY STAATLICHE KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN
The British Museum has appointed its first foreign director with Hartwig Fischer, an art historian who hails from Germany. [The Guardian]
The Estate of Philip Guston is now represented by Hauser & Wirth. [Art Market Monitor]
And Vija Celmins is now represented by Matthew Marks Gallery. [Art Market Monitor]
In Philadelphia, Doreen Lehman has made an installation featuring 100,000 ribbons with prayers written on them in honor of Pope Francis’s visit. [The Columbus Dispatch]
Taos Plaza, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is going to be animated by art this weekend. One installation will be a large tarantula, which seems like more than an homage to Louis Bourgeois’s spider sculpture. [Albuquerque Journal]
How Chicago’s art scene got big with Expo Chicago and what the fair means for the Illinois city. [The Economist]
This weekend, Richard Prince will debut a new cowboy sculpture at Gladstone Gallery, his dealer before he left for Gagosian Gallery in 2008. [The New York Times]
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is looking for artists who make “ambitious projects addressing racial justice through the lens of mass incarceration.” [The Art Newspaper]
