3 min read · 30 Aug 2024
PST Art kicks off with a fireworks performance by Cai Guo-Qiang. The artist’s Mystery Circle: Explosion Event was at MOCA, LA. Photograph by Joshua White. Courtesy of MOCA via LA Times.
This was the week we learned Rashid Johnson plans to turn the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum green in his mid-career survey show next year, the Barnes & Noble billionaire Leonard Riggio, who bankrolled Dia: Beacon, died at 83 and the Brooklyn Museum announced the 200 artists with studios in the borough who made the cut in its epic group show.
New York: Rashid Johnson will fill the Guggenheim rotunda with living plants in his mid-career survey at the museum in spring 2025.
Los Angeles: Cai Guo-Qiang’s firework performance featuring drones in the LA Coliseum will formally launch PST Art with a bang, the Los Angeles Times reported alongside a guide to all of the shows taking place across Southern California.
New York: Glenn Ligon's Untitled (America/Me) will relaunch the High Line’s art on the 18th Street billboard. Starting in September, it will end a ten-year gap in Chelsea, ARTnews reported.
Vancouver: A charcoal installation by Teresita Fernández, first seen at the Armory Show, is among the more than 300 works recently acquired by the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Stockholm: Seven of Maurizio Cattelan's most famous works are on show at the Moderna Museet, including his sculpture of Pope John Paul II felled by a meteorite, reported Metal Magazine.
New York: Alison Elizabeth Taylor is among the 200 Brooklyn-based artists selected by an artist-jury for the Brooklyn Museum’s epic group show "The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition".
Copenhagen: Flora Yukhnovich's first solo museum show outside the UK will provide a fresh look at Impressionist works in the Ordrupgaard Museum, its director told Phillips.
In other news
New York: Leonard Riggio, the Barnes & Noble billionaire and art collector died at 83. Riggio donated millions to the Dia Art Foundation, as well as major works by artist including Richard Serra.
London: Victoria Siddall, the former director of Frieze art fair, will be the first female director of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
"‘[It is] very comical because of who he is and who I am.’ Andres Serrano sees the funny side of Donald Trump happily posing with a copy of the artist’s compendium of Trump paraphernalia."
- The Art Newspaper