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– QUOTE OF THE DAY -
“This art competition is a way to involve and embrace the young artists in our community. Children are the next generation of Americans, and it is important that we encourage and laud their patriotism. I look forward to reviewing the submissions for the competition personally.” – Republican National Convention CEO William Harris explaining his creepy new “Elephants on Parade” high-school art contest, in which work by the winning artists will be displayed during the convention when it comes to Tampa this August. (Evidently Republicans have no problem supporting the arts so long as it’s “patriotic.”)
– MUST READ –
The World of Rineke Dijkstra – Hillary M. Sheets profiles the Dutch photographer, whose pellucid portraits of adolescents on the beach and other touchingly exposed subjects are now featured in an SFMOMA survey that will come to the Guggenheim in June. (NYT)
Warhol Invades Asia – Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum has organized a landmark exhibition that will tour the East over two years, beginning in Singapore and traveling through mainland China to end in Tokyo, and certain Western Warhol mega-collectors (cough, Mugrabis, cough) must be praying that the craze for the Pop artist will catch on in Asia. (WSJ)
The Curator at Home – David Colman has a nice object-driven profile of the Whitney Biennial co-curator Jay Sanders, sifting through the collectables at Sanders’s home—from Beanie Babies to a Mauricio Kagel “thing”—in search of a key to his eclectic aesthetic. (NYT)
The Chinese government has sentenced 27-year-old Shi Baikui to 13 years in jail for his “spur-of-the-moment” theft of $2,100 in gold and jewels from the Forbidden City, a crime that brought increased scrutiny of the ancient site’s lax security measures. (AP)
Epic Crazy Horse Monument Rides On – Late sculptor Korczak Ziolowski‘s plan for a Mount Rushmore-dwarfing sculpture celebrating the Sioux chieftain was begun in 1947, has required the work of multiple generations of tribal leaders, and has now received $10 million from a donor who says, “I don’t care if it takes another 100 years.” (NYT)
Didn’t Mickey Rourke Play This Guy in Iron Man 2? – Meet Chris Hackett, the battle-scarred, dreadlocked mad scientist who builds post-apocalyptic weaponry from scrap and helps out the occasional art project, for instance by building Mark Read‘s famed “Occupy Bat Signal” truck. (NYT)
Art-World It Couple Profiled — If you want to know all about Half Gallery co-owner Bill Powers and fashion designer Cynthia Rowley‘s star-studded life, read this sweet if extraordinarily name-droppy piece. (NYT)
– ART MARKET –
Asia Week Auction Explosion – Reuters marvels at the over $100 million in artworks, furniture, and other objects that are heading to auction in New York for Asia Week, starting today. (Reuters)
It’s Beginning… Hirstapalooza 2012 – Hari Kunzru has a long piece in the Guardian on Damien Hirst‘s art-market deviltry that will probably set the tone for the press blizzard over the artist’s coming Tate Modern retrospective, mixing rehashed facts (didn’t Jonathan Jones write about this just last week?) with over-the-top vitriol (Hirst “shits on us from on top of his pile of cash”). (Guardian)
$3.9 Million Rubens Leads TEFAF Sales – An early oil-on-panel crucifixion by Peter Paul Rubens that was snatched up during the early hours of the Maastricht fair suggested that big buyers were on the move at the event, which drew the Qatar royal family, Calvin Klein, new Getty director Timothy Potts, and Whitney director Adam Weinberg (his first visit). (NYT)
James Murdoch Departs Sotheby’s Board – The onetime News Corporation heir apparent whose star has been perhaps irredeemably tarnished by the phone-hacking scandals at his London tabloid operation has stepped down at the auction house due to popular demand. (Bloomberg)
– IN & OUT –
The Andy Warhol Museum has hired Nicolas Chambers as its new Milton Fin curator of art, poaching him from Brisbane’s Queensland Art Gallery. (Post-Gazette)
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art director Wassan Al-Khudhairi is stepping down from the Qatar institution to pursue a Ph.D. in Arab art, leaving the rich museum under the interim directorship of Michelle Dezember. (Artinfo)
On March 25 the artist Dan Colen will be hosting an “avant-garde preschool” at Partners & Spade for kids aged 5 to 12, with the $40 “tuition” for the event—billed as “an artful afternoon creating abstract works using flowers and M&Ms”—going to benefit the charity RX Art. (Press Release)
