Abu Dhabi: The 24,000 sq m Guggenheim Museum planned for Saadiyat Island has been put on hold after the emirate cancelled the construction contracts for the Frank Gehry-designed building.
The emirate’s Tourism Development and Investment Company has returned bids to the 11 contractors that took part in the tender process. The museum is now scheduled to open in 2015.
Australia: Hetti Perkins, an indigenous art curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, has resigned from her post, saying that her exhibition proposals “are not progressed beyond successive presentations”, and that the gallery’s plans for a Yiribana gallery for indigenous art had stalled. Perkins hopes to establish a national indigenous cultural centre in Sydney.
Israel: An 18,000 sq m wing opened at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art last month. The Herta and Paul Amir Building includes a temporary exhibition gallery that is hosting an opening show dedicated to works by Anselm Kiefer.
US: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has purchased its first impressionist nude, Gustave Caillebotte’s Man at his Bath (1884). The acquisition will be part funded by deaccessioning eight works including Camille Pissarro’s View from the Artist’s Window, Eragny. The Caillebotte work was bought from a private collection for an undisclosed sum.
US: A 2,700 sq m museum dedicated to Clyfford Still opened last month in Denver. The Still Museum collection includes about 2,400 works created between 1920 and 1980. A work by the abstract expressionist, 1949-A-No 1, sold for $61.7m at Sotheby’s New York last month – a record for Still.
The city of Denver consigned four Stills to the auction to help fund the museum. Meanwhile, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, funded by heir to the Wal-Mart retail empire Alice Walton, was also inaugurated last month.
US: More than 130 works by Maurizio Cattelan went on show last month at the Guggenheim New York in the Italian artist’s largest ever show (until 22 January 2012).
The works, including We Are the Revolution and the headline-hitting sculpture of Pope John Paul II felled by a meteor, dangle from the ceiling of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. The museum launched its first mobile app based on the exhibition.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, artinfo.com and BBC
The emirate’s Tourism Development and Investment Company has returned bids to the 11 contractors that took part in the tender process. The museum is now scheduled to open in 2015.
Australia: Hetti Perkins, an indigenous art curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, has resigned from her post, saying that her exhibition proposals “are not progressed beyond successive presentations”, and that the gallery’s plans for a Yiribana gallery for indigenous art had stalled. Perkins hopes to establish a national indigenous cultural centre in Sydney.
Israel: An 18,000 sq m wing opened at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art last month. The Herta and Paul Amir Building includes a temporary exhibition gallery that is hosting an opening show dedicated to works by Anselm Kiefer.
US: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has purchased its first impressionist nude, Gustave Caillebotte’s Man at his Bath (1884). The acquisition will be part funded by deaccessioning eight works including Camille Pissarro’s View from the Artist’s Window, Eragny. The Caillebotte work was bought from a private collection for an undisclosed sum.
US: A 2,700 sq m museum dedicated to Clyfford Still opened last month in Denver. The Still Museum collection includes about 2,400 works created between 1920 and 1980. A work by the abstract expressionist, 1949-A-No 1, sold for $61.7m at Sotheby’s New York last month – a record for Still.
The city of Denver consigned four Stills to the auction to help fund the museum. Meanwhile, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, funded by heir to the Wal-Mart retail empire Alice Walton, was also inaugurated last month.
US: More than 130 works by Maurizio Cattelan went on show last month at the Guggenheim New York in the Italian artist’s largest ever show (until 22 January 2012).
The works, including We Are the Revolution and the headline-hitting sculpture of Pope John Paul II felled by a meteor, dangle from the ceiling of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. The museum launched its first mobile app based on the exhibition.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, artinfo.com and BBC
