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Nicelle Beauchene and Jack Hanley to Share LES Building
The Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, currently located in a 500-square foot facility at 21 Orchard St., is moving to 327 Broome St., between Chrystie and Bowery (both locations on Manhattan's Lower East Side). It is set to reopen in its new location in early December. The new location's inaugural exhibition will be the third Louise Despont solo show at the gallery.
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The Getty Gets its First Twomblys
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired 29 color photographs by the late American artist Cy Twombly (1928–2011). The photographs span over 57 years and are the first of Twombly's works bought by the Getty. The collection includes photographs from Lexington, Va. (where the artist was born and eventually maintained a studio), New York (where he trained) and Italy (where he lived for a long period). Subjects range from still life and floral studies to landscapes and images of unfinished works in the studio.
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MFA Boston Hires New Curator of Chinese Art
Nancy Berliner has been appointed curator of Chinese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Currently serving the World Monuments Fund as an advisor on the Forbidden City Qianlong Garden project, she assumes her new position at the MFA in October.
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Zabludowicz Foundation Officially Announces Residency
The Zabludowicz Collection announced its international residency program on the island of Sarvisalo, Finland. The program has been active since 2010, when the collection began inviting to its private grounds artists including Sarah Braman, Matthew Day Jackson and Richard Woods, the first commissioned artist for the residency, who redecorated and furnished the exterior and interior of a small holiday cottage on the island. The program is now fully launched and available to visit.
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Artist and Teacher Karl Benjamin Has Died
Karl Benjamin, the painter known for his brilliantly colored geometric works, died July 26. He was 86.
In the exhibition catalog from Louis Stern Fine Arts's 2007 survey of Benjamin's work, art critic Dave Hickey wrote, "I can think of no other artist whose paintings exude the joy and pleasure of being an artist with more intensity than Karl Benjamin's, nor any other artist whose long teaching careers has left no blemish of cynicism on his practice."
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Two slide carousels, 80 slides each, approx. 9-minute loop. Courtesy Callicoon Fine Arts, New York.
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