3 min read · 15 Oct 2024
Lillian Schwartz, Pixillation (Still) (1970). Copyright the artist. Henry Ford Museum, Gift Of The Lillian F. Schwartz & Laurens R. Schwartz Collection
Paris: Gaelle Choisne has won France's most prestigious contemporary art prize, the Prix Marcel Duchamp.
Profile: Lillian Schwartz, who blazed a trail using computers to create art, has died at 97. In the 1960s she was the first female artist in residence at Bell Labs, writes ARTnews.
Paris: Carsten Höller’s Giant Triple Mushroom, a new, large-scale sculpture, is now on show at Place Vendôme, part of Art Basel Paris’s public program.
Moves: Donald Locke is now represented by Alison Jacques gallery. The late British-Guyanese artist’s museum survey show is due to tour three institutions in the UK in 2025, reports FAD magazine.
Legal: Danielle SeeWalker and the American Civil Liberties Union is suing Vail claiming the town violated the artist’s rights to free speech by revoking a summer art residency. The cancellation followed her comments on social media about Gaza, Colorado Public Radio reports.
In other news
Chicago: Rhona Hoffman Gallery will shutter its space in West Chicago. The veteran dealer says she will continue to work with artists and present their work at EXPO Chicago among other fairs, Chicago Gallery Network reports.
Miami: ICA Miami is expanding to a second site after its acquisition of the former home of the de la Cruz Collection, a $25m deal.
"‘New York loves sensationalism in a way that’s kind of refreshing,’ says Ambera Wellmann as she works on her double-venue solo show at Hauser and Wirth and Company Gallery next year. "
- The New York Times