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– THE BIG STORY –
Saying “we are hoping to challenge our Western-centric view of art history,” Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong has announced a sweeping new program to broaden the museum’s engagement with the art of other cultures around the world. Sponsored by UBS, the new Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative will be a five-year undertaking in which the museum will import curators from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa to advise on how its programming could better embrace non-Western art, and to help the Guggenheim build out its collection in those areas with new acquisitions. To begin, the museum has engaged Singapore-based curator June Yap to bring in art from South and Southeast Asia, further cementing the Guggenheim’s interest in the region as seen by its recent Lee Ufan and Cai Guo-Qiang surveys and it’s 2009 show The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989. The initiative also signals Armstrong’s soft-power approach to international engament, as opposed to former Guggenheim director Thomas Krens‘s satellite-driven expansionist worldview, best epitomized by the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi now underway.
– QUOTE OF THE DAY –
“I think you’d have to live in the forest not to have been influenced by Hollywood. I think the entertainment and advertising industries shape everybody these days. It’s like the Catholic Church; Hollywood is like the Vatican. It shapes how you imagine the world to be, who you want to be, what’s good, what’s bad.” – The artist Urs Fischer in a punchy interview about his art that’s about to be surveyed in a retrospective at François Pinault’s Palazzo Grassi
– MUST READ –
Roberta Smith on the Google Art Project – The eminent New York Times critic says that the vast virtual undertaking may one day become one of the “wonders of the world,” but for the time being there are still annoying bugs and glaring lacunae, including “nothing by Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Kazimir Malevich, or Max Beckmann and only a single painting by Matisse.” (NYT)
Cats Are Conceptual Sculptures These Days – Andrew Russeth takes a lively and fascinating look at the work of artists like Darren Bader (whose MoMA PS1 show memorably has a room of art felines) and Adriana Lara (whose New Museum outing involved a fresh banana peel dropped on the floor every day) who are following the footsteps of Duchamp—with an added Internet-age twist of celebrating the actual — by making readymades out of “living, decomposing, collapsing” materials. (Gallerist NY)
Stolen $108 Million Cezanne Recovered – Serbian police say they have seized the great artist’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat, which was stolen from Zürich’s Emil Georg Bührle art gallery in 2008 along with works by Monet, van Gogh, and Degas. (Reuters)
Provocative Paris Show Surveys the Arab Nude – The Arab World Institute has opened a new exhibition called The Body Uncovered that explores the way that artists from the Middle East—many of them expats—tackle issues like the nude figure, homosexuality, and eroticism, which are themes considered largely taboo in the Arab world. (AFP)
Art Thief Accidentally Set Free in England – A professional art burglar was inadvertently released on bail after being arrested for his involvement in a heist that involved tunneling into Durham University’s Oriental Museum to steal a jade bowl and Dehua porcelain figure. (NYP)
They Are the Robots – Melena Ryzik surveys the crowd that came to last night’s Autobahn concert at MoMA, the first of the museum’s eight sold-out Kraftwerk concerts, and found out how they got their tickets (a combination of begging and feng shui, in seems). (NYT)
– ART MARKET –
Russian Contemporary Art Market Dries Up – Three major Moscow galleries—Marat Guelman, Aidan, and XL—are shutting down their sales operation due to a cratered art economy in the country, which has seen many of its wealthy collectors leave the country in recent years and no generation of buyers spring up to replace them. (Gallerist NY)
Dealers Talk Frieze NYC – Shane Ferro and Julia Halperin canvassed an array of dealers to find out what they think about the highly-regarded British fair’s debut on Randall’s Island next month, and the consensus is that “no one is quite ready yet to bet on how it is going to play out.” (Artinfo)
– IN & OUT –
Barcelona’s Picasso museum has hired Bernardo Laniado-Romero, a former curator at the Frick and the Met as well as the onetime head of Malaga’s Picasso museum, to be its new director. (Conaissance des Arts)
Turkey has selected the curator Emre Baykal, the former director of the Istanbul Biennial, to organize its pavilion for the 2013 Venice Biennale. (Hurriyet)
Australia has commissioned architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall to design a new pavilion to replace its temporary space in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini. (Brisbane Times)
