Painter Harvey Dinnerstein Dead at 94—and More Art News – RisePEI

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ARTIST HARVEY DINNERSTEIN, whose carefully noticed work portrayed members of the civil rights motion and supplied glimpses of on a regular basis life in  his native New York, has died at 94, the New York Occasions studies. As an artist in his 20s, Dinnerstein went along with his good friend Burt Silverman to memorialize the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, “capturing church rallies and companies and the lives of individuals surviving with out metropolis buses,” Richard Sandomir writes within the Occasions. He additionally documented the Poor Folks’s Marketing campaign in Washington, D.C., in 1968, for Esquire. Dinnerstein taught on the Artwork College students League for 4 many years, till the pandemic in 2020. He “was nonetheless working up till the day earlier than he died,” Harrison Smith studies within the Washington Submit; the artist’s niece told the Post that he was sketching “on the backs of envelopes, something he might get his fingers.”

RESORT COLLECTION. For a few years now, casinos have been gathering and exhibiting artwork. The MGM in Las Vegas unloaded a few of its Picasso work final yr to diversify its assortment, and the Related Press notes that the Exhausting Rock in Atlantic Metropolis just opened an immersive van Gogh present. An artwork historian concerned with the challenge informed the wire service: “The entire level of an expertise like that is to carry folks in.” Right here’s hoping that some venturesome playing den considers doing a show of labor by Duchamp, who claimed to have devised a system for profiting at roulette on the Monte Carlo On line casino, a technique he termed “delicious monotony without the least emotion.” In different hospitality information, Frieze cofounder Matthew Slotover is a partner within the forthcoming Fort Highway Resort in Margate, England, the Artwork Newspaper studies.

The Digest

Tan Boon Hui, a veteran museum chief on reverse sides of the world, died final week from problems of a stroke, at 53. Tan served as director of the Asia Society Museum in New York and the Singapore Artwork Museum, and arranged two Singapore Biennales. Most just lately, he had been main Arts Home Restricted, an arts nonprofit in Singapore. [CNA, South China Morning Post, The Straits Occasions]

Canadian artist Lucinda Turner, who was a vocal advocate for stopping the sale of pretend Indigenous artwork, has died at 63. Turner’s actions included lobbying for laws to guard Indigenous artists and establishing a Fb group, Fraudulent Native Artwork Uncovered, to attract consideration to the difficulty. [Vancouver Sun]

A French court docket rejected a swimsuit introduced by the wax sculptor who fabricated a lot of Maurizio Cattelan’s sculptures. It argued that the wax knowledgeable needs to be named the “sole creator” of the works, and obtain some €6 million (about $6.08 million) in compensation. Legal professionals for Cattelan and his gallery named within the swimsuit, Perrotin, had maintained that the artist had supplied the mental property—and detailed directions—for creating the items. [The Art Newspaper]

Author Franz Lidz has a deep dive on a renegade plan to make 3-D–machined copies of the so-called Elgin Marbles. Not everyone seems to be completely satisfied concerning the effort. [The New York Times]

A bounty of artist profiles at this time: Paul Mpagi Sepuya is in Cultured, Marco Fusinato is within the Financial Times, and Christine Solar Kim is within the New York Times.

Kris Jenner took a personal tour of the Louvre. [Page Six]

The Kicker

IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT. The ultra-limited, 99-car run of the BMW that Jeff Koons designed bought out immediately, however in Top Gear magazine, Jason Barlow was fortunate sufficient to take a experience in a single—with Koons himself. Naturally, the extremely quotable artist had fairly a couple of issues to say concerning the challenge. “I see no distinction between creating the automobile and creating a brand new piece of labor,” Koons mentioned. “It’s a possibility to have a dialog about emotions, sensations, concerning the permanency of sure issues and the fragility of others. I’m wanting ahead to driving mine, but when one particular person out of the 99 preserves it, that will be good. If that’s what excites them.” [Top Gear]