Art Gallery of Ontario Taps Architects for Expansion—and More Art News – RisePEI

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The Headlines

NEWS FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH. The Artwork Gallery of Ontario in Toronto has hired a trio of structure companies—Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt, and Two Row Architect—to create a design for a brand new 50,000-square-foot constructing that might be dedicated to international fashionable and up to date artwork. Selldorf has been on a tear of late. Its growth of the Museum of Up to date Artwork San Diego , which was simply unveiled, has earned strong reviews, and development is underway on its growth of the Frick Assortment in New York. In the meantime, the Portrait Gallery of Canada in Ottawa tapped Robert Steven, former head of the Artwork Gallery of Burlington, to be its subsequent director.

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. Artwork depicting animals is having a moment, Francesca Gavin argues within the Monetary Instances, noting that Sotheby’s lately had a sale dedicated to the theme, amongst different information factors. It has “change into a manner of addressing concepts round dominance and oppression, environmental change or, merely, intimacy,” Gavin writes. Because it occurs, a group of sculptures by the late animal-loving artists Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne (fowl candlesticks, a bronze sheep) are being sold by Daniel Marchesseau to assist fund an extension of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Guardian studies. And in June, at New York’s American Museum of Pure Historical past, Levon Biss will present close-up photos he makes of insects. Bliss advised the New York Instances , “I need to elevate consciousness of the insect decline disaster and have conversations to assist the general public perceive that we’d like biodiversity within the insect world.”

The Digest

The Museum of Up to date Artwork Detroit stated that it has “parted methods” with its new director, Cara Braveness, who was named to the put up solely in February, after an 18-month search. Braveness had been at Tate Trendy in London, main its Tate Change program. She has not commented. [Detroit Metro Times]

The Polish authorities changed Jarosław Suchan because the chief of the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź with Andrzej Biernacki, who stated that he intends to “diversify” its choices past the “pro-environmental, gender or queer artwork that’s promoted by the Western cultural establishments.” Many within the native artwork world condemned the shock transfer. [Artforum]

By way of his Museum of Artwork & Pictures, the businessman and collector Abhishek Poddar has created an open-source encyclopedia for artwork historical past in India that presently has 2,000 entries. Its crew of researchers plans so as to add about 1,000 extra every year. [CNN]

The Freud Museum in London, which is the onetime dwelling of Sigmund Freud, will for the primary time host a present of labor by artist Lucian Freud, a grandson of the psychoanalysis founder. Opening in July, it should embody work, letters, household pictures, and extra. This 12 months marks the centennial of Lucian Freud’s start. [The Guardian]

A brand new report has been set for a bit of armor at public sale: A ca. 1560 gilded helmet went for €690,000 (about $726,000) with charges at Thierry de Maigret in Paris this month, greater than 10 occasions its excessive estimate estimate. The piece was a part of 4 armor units commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. [Financial Times]

Artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz, who helped discovered El Museo del Barrio in New York in 1969, is now the topic of a retrospective on the museum. He bought the profile remedy from Mark A. Stein. [The New York Times]

The Kicker

‘THE GRAND DAME OF LAS VEGAS.’ Billionaire businesswoman and collector Elaine Wynn (a veteran of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list) is the topic of an in depth profile in WSJ. Journal that touches on her divorce from Steve Wynn, her prowess within the company boardroom, and the “mini Oval Workplace” that she had at a former residence for President George H.W. Bush to make use of when he visited. (Considerate!) One nice second: She remembers that, after anonymously snapping up a Francis Bacon triptych for $142.4 million at a 2013 Christie’s public sale, most individuals proposed {that a} man had made the acquisition. “I keep in mind being offended that hypothesis centered on males, and no one thought {that a} girl would both have the cash or the balls,” she stated. [WSJ]