Guggenheim Members Met With Protests, Antwaun Sargent Interviews Awol Erizku, and More: Morning Links from October 2, 2020
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Guggenheim
Black Ghosts: Basquiat’s “Defacement” at the Guggenheim
There is no way the show would have been possible without Black Lives Matter, and the discussions around state violence and blackness that the movement mainstreamed.
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Guggenheim Foundation $750,000 Grant
The funds will support the preservation of Minimal, Post-Minimal, and Conceptual artworks.
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We Have Decided Not To Die
It was wrong to die, held Arakawa and Gins, and they knew how to avoid doing so.
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Revolution Under Review
Two Chicago exhibitions signal a post–Cold War shift in the way Western museums frame the visual culture of the Russian Revolution.
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Declining White House’s van Gogh Loan Request, Guggenheim’s Nancy Spector Offered Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Instead
"It's a very delicate subject," the artist said.
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Possible Views of the Art World
Together, Impossible Views and MacArthur Park suggest that art itself might be such a failed project.
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Farewell Our Globalism
Sampling China's post-Tiananmen avant-garde, the Guggenheim Museum evokes both fading one-world hopes and rising ethical divisiveness.
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Guggenheim Foundation Names Wendy Fisher Board President
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s board of trustees has elected Wendy Fisher as president. Fisher succeeds Jennifer Blei Stockman, who stepped down after…
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László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy was a young Constructivist in Berlin when, in 1923, he accepted the architect Walter Gropius’s invitation to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Moholy-Nagy’s democratic embrace of new…
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Newswire
RobbReport
The Wine Fixer: How Thatcher Baker-Briggs Became the Go-to Guy for Impossible-to-Get Vintages
WWD
Vintner’s Daughter Takes Botanicals to Tea
Rolling Stone
Jay Black, Jay and the Americans Singer, Dead at 82
Sportico
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Oct. 22
SPY