Wadsworth Atheneum Names Matthew Hargraves Director—and More Art News – RisePEI

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The Headlines

THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Artwork in Hartford, Connecticut, has tapped Matthew Hargraves to be its director. Hargraves has been with the Wadsworth since June 2021, when he joined as interim chief curator, after being chief curator of artwork collections on the Yale Heart for British Artwork in New Haven. Tom Loughman stepped down as director and CEO in April of 2021, and in November, the Hartford Courant reviews, the museum split the position into two jobs. (Jeffrey N. Brown took on the CEO function.) “With an awfully dedicated {and professional} employees and an distinctive senior management workforce, we are able to reaffirm the Wadsworth’s rightful place because the main arts establishment in our area,” Hargraves stated in an announcement, “and reassert its worldwide fame as North America’s most pioneering artwork museum.”

ART AND LABOR. Staff on the Baltimore Museum of Artwork voted to unionize on Thursday, the Baltimore Enterprise Journal reviews. The vote was 89 to 29 to affix the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers. Over in Pennsylvania, staffers on the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork held a rally on Wednesday amid contract negotiations, the Artwork Newspaper reviews. Workers have been and not using a contract since unionizing in 2020. And Artforum reviews that the Maryland Institute School of Artwork announced layoffs within the wake of a latest profitable union vote. Round 10 % of the union’s bargaining workforce is anticipated to be let go within the transfer. In an announcement, MICA stated that the restructuring is “a response to the short-term affect of the pandemic on enrollment in addition to long-range strategic issues.”

The Digest

Perrotin is taking a second area in Seoul, with plans to open within the metropolis’s luxe Gangnam neighborhood in early September. Gallery companion Alice Lung stated {that a} Los Angeles outpost may very well be a “pure subsequent step” for the worldwide agency. [Financial Times]

Nightlife king Mark Fleischman, who owned the storied Studio 54 membership in New York within the Nineteen Eighties, died by assisted suicide in Switzerland on Wednesday. He was 82, and had a degenerative situation. “I’ve accomplished every part and been all over the place and met everybody I need to meet,” he told the New York Submit final month.
[BBC News and The Washington Submit]

A court docket in Jap Russian cleared artist and activist Yulia Tsvetkova of pornography fees for posting artworks on social media that her supporters say are efforts to advertise physique positivity. She had confronted six yr in jail. Prosecutors can enchantment. [The Moscow Times]

A piece by artist Yu Buck on the Jeonnam Museum of Artwork in Gwangyang, South Korea, that includes goldfish slowly dying in IV luggage drew animal-cruelty accusations, and the fish have been eliminated. Yu has framed the work as a commentary on the violence of human nature. [The Korea Times]

An exhibition on the Nevada Museum of Artwork in Reno options images that Janna Eire has taken of buildings by the pioneering Black architect Paul Revere Williams. [The New York Times]

David Zwirner toasted the one-anniversary of its on-line platform, Platform, with a celebration on the Bowery Resort in New York. [Vogue]

The Kicker

TOUGH TALK. In a profile in Wallpaper, artist Cecilia Vicuña shared a harrowing story about suggestions she acquired after pitching a present of her work on the Institute of Modern Arts within the Seventies. She stated that ICA cofounder Roland Penrose advised her, “You’re a nice artist, however my board is totally adamant that you shouldn’t have an exhibition right here. They assume that you’re nugatory. However make certain, you’ll encounter this all through your life, however you must know inside your self that that’s not true.” He ended up giving her a present in a hallway, and Vicuña is, after all, now some of the broadly exhibited artists on the planet. [Wallpaper]