April 2020 – ARTDEALS

Anne Geddes Was Once the Queen of Baby Photography. Now, She’s Hit Hard Times—and Is Asking for Your Help

April 30, 2020

Like many famous artists, Anne Geddes both is and isn’t what you think she is, but I never could have imagined that an interview with the self-described queen of “spreading joy” would result in anything less than a walk down the yellow brick road of her memory lane, punctuated only occasionally by minor hardships, but

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MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach Is So Addicted to Visiting Artists’ Studios That He’s Doing It on Zoom (and Letting the Public Ride Along)

April 30, 2020

When Klaus Biesenbach took the corner office as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, he gave up most of the trappings of his former life as a curator, swapping checklists for checkbooks. But there was one part of the job he couldn’t let go: studio visits. Now, even as the museum

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MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach Is So Addicted to Studio Visits That He’s Doing Them on Zoom—and the Public Can Ride Along

April 30, 2020

When Klaus Biesenbach took the corner office as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, he gave up most of the trappings of his former life as a curator, swapping checklists for checkbooks. But there was one part of the job he couldn’t let go: studio visits. Now, even as the museum

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‘Success Seems Based on Sheer Luck’: Galleries and Museums Scramble for Government Relief Funds—Before They Dry Up Again

April 30, 2020

Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, a partner in Lower East Side gallery Klaus Von Nichtssagend, recently checked the gallery’s bank account—and was surprised by what she found. Roughly a week after filing for financial relief under the new US CARES Act, and without any notice of approval or even a response from the government or her bank,

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‘It’s Great Until It Becomes Disgusting’: Watch Artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg Create a Weirdo Puppet Show About Shame

April 30, 2020

“Where does the work end, and I begin?” Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg asks in an exclusive new interview as part of Art21’s Extended Play series. “It’s so hard to differentiate,” she says, laughing, and a beat later, she groans: “that sounded so cheesy… even though it’s true!” Although the fair-haired artist, who appears in the

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The White House Gift Shop Is Now Selling This Absurd Commemorative Coin Honoring President Trump’s Fight Against the Coronavirus

April 30, 2020

The United States is still very much in the thick of the pandemic, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the latest product on offer at the White House Gift Shop: a commemorative coin celebrating the Trump Administration’s heroic, victorious efforts to fight coronavirus. The coin shows an artist’s rendering of the coronavirus overlaid on a

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For $100, You Can Now Buy This Absurd Commemorative Coronavirus Coin Honoring President Trump From the White House Gift Shop

April 30, 2020

The United States is still very much in the thick of the pandemic, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the latest product on offer at the White House Gift Shop: a commemorative coin celebrating the Trump Administration’s heroic, victorious efforts to fight coronavirus. The coin shows an artist’s rendering of the coronavirus overlaid on a

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The Pérez Art Museum Miami Has Cut Over Half Its Staff and Won’t Reopen Until September

April 30, 2020

The Pérez Art Museum Miami is planning to stay closed until September and, as a result, will take a substantial financial hit. The museum forecasts that it will lose between $3 million and $5 million in revenue this year (about 20 to 30 percent of its annual total). To curtail the financial hemorrhaging it has made

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‘She Wears Her Wisdom Lightly’: How American Curator Zoé Whitley Became One of the UK’s Most Influential Arts Leaders

April 30, 2020

Zoé Whitley’s beaming face was exactly the warmth I needed on a freezing winter’s day in February, when the curator took me to see a Cameron Rowland exhibition at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. After we wound our way through the show—a conceptually dense presentation linking the history of the transatlantic slave trade to present-day systems of incarceration—we made a

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Art Industry News: Beijing’s Forbidden City Reopens Tomorrow—But Only for Those With Proof They’re Healthy + Other Stories

April 30, 2020

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, April 30. NEED-TO-READ How Do You Close a Museum? – A recent survey of European museums found that one in 10 may close as a result

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