3 min read · 14 Aug 2024
Daniel Arsham's sculpture of Priscilla Chan, wife of Mark Zuckerberg. Photograph: Mark Zuckerberg via Instagram
Shows: Daniel Arsham has created a larger-than-life sculpture of Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, which the tech mogul has revealed via Instagram, The Guardian reports.
Cologne: Works by On Kawara and Richard Artschwager among others that belonged to the curator Kasper König, who died on Saturday, will still go on sale at Van Ham in the fall, Artnet News reports.
London: Damien Hirst’s “Dominion”, a show drawing on his collection now on view at the Newport Street Gallery he founded, is “as smart and savvy as the artist himself” writes Observer.
Museum: A Matisse-Bonnard show will mark the Fondation Maeght’s 60th anniversary. The private museum in the South of France has also completed a major expansion, The Art Newspaper reports.
New York: Frank Lloyd Wright's epic model of Broadacre City, which illustrates how four square miles of “typical” American countryside might be settled, is now on view in Gallery 519 at MoMA.
In other news
Paris: The Louvre saw a 22% drop in attendance during the Paris Olympics, due to a two-day closure and the security perimeter created ahead of the opening ceremony, Finestre sull’arte reports.
"‘Bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife.’ Mark Zuckerberg thanks Daniel Arsham for the seven-foot-tall statue commissioned by Meta’s CEO. "