3 min read · 26 Jul 2024
Helen Marden in her studio in Tivoli, New York. Credit Helen Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times
This was the week the Fondation Louis Vuitton greeted the Olympic tourch ahead of the opening of the Paris Games. It had prepared for the great event hanging working from its collection with a sporting theme. A mural-sized riff by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat of the Six Rings steels the show. Also in Paris on a sporting theme, Damien Hirst designed a pair of cycling shoes worn by the sprinter Mark Cavendish as he crossed the finish line of his final Tour de France.
Paris: Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat's mural-sized collaboration, Olympic Rings (1985), is one of the sport related works on show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, which is celebrating Paris hosting the Games in style, Hypebeast reported.
Paris: Damien Hirst designed a pair of “butterfly” cycling shoes for the champion sprinter Mark Cavendish, who wore them on the, and his, final stage of the Tour de France. Instagram
New York: Helen Marden's show of her “Grief Paintings” at Gagosian is the chance for his widow to be seen on her own terms, wrote The Times.
London: Damien Hirst will unveil his new series “The Civilisation Paintings” at Phillips. The 32 colourful landscapes and streetscapes are due to go on show on August 5. HENI Primary
Museums: A portrait by Modigliani has been lent by the Israel Museum to a show in Berlin anonymously, due to concerns about pro-Palestine protests, Artnet News reported.
New York: Andy Warhol’s Empire will be screened by MoMA in the Empire State Building to mark the epic movie’s 60th birthday.
New York: Works by Mary Heilmann and Rashid Johnson among others will feature in a new restaurant in Soho called Manula, Eater reported. The founders of Hauser & Wirth's latest expansion into hospitality is due to open in the fall.
In other news
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art attracted more US visitors last year than it did before the pandemic but international visitors Fifth Avenue and the Cloisters halved, as attendance reached 5.5 million.
Venice: Qatar is on course to get a Venice pavilion in the heart of the Biennale as the Municipality of Venice and Qatar Museums agree to increase cultural co-operation.
London: Two anti-oil protesters who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery were found guilty of criminal damage.
"‘I feel like an emerging artist.’ Damián Ortega reflects on the positive reactions to his first major museum show in his home town of Mexico City at the prestigious Palacio De Bellas Artes."
- Observer