3 min read · 22 Aug 2024
Venus Williams Recording the Podcast “Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape”. Photograph by Stefano Ceccarelli. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, via AnOther magazine
Shows: Ugo Rondinone's desert installation, Seven Magic Mountains, could be on the move to make way for the expansion of Las Vegas’ international airport, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
New York: Ron Gorchov’s estate will be represented by Vito Schnabel Gallery, which will present a solo show in September of the artist’s paintings organized by Robert Storr. Instagram
San Francisco: William Scott, a self-taught artist, is painting an uplifting mural at SFMOMA. Praise Frisco: Peace and Love in the City reimagines the city with a Disney World downtown and hate crimes a thing of the past, Bomb Magazine reports.
Bern: Eva Hesse’s early abstract, Untitled (1960), heads to auction with a $117,000 estimate at Galerie Kornfeld. HENI News
New York: Simone Fattal and Olafur Eliasson are among the artists taking part in “Future Ours”, a public art project on JCDecaux ad spaces on view during the General Assembly meeting of the United Nations, Ocula reports.
In other news
Hong Kong: A $25m water lily painting by Monet is the top lot at the inaugural sale at Christie's new Zaha Hadid-designed HQ, The Art Newspaper reports.
"‘Tennis was chosen for me, but art was something that I chose for myself.’ Venus Williams on her collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art on a podcast linked to its latest photographic exhibition."
- AnOther