Roundup: Pop artist Marisol dies, museums show mostly men, parsing the Pershing Square redesign proposals
A key pop artist passes away. Museums lean towards the dudes when it comes to granting solo shows. And proposals for the redo of Pershing Square are down to a final four. Plus: Where Eli Broad does his shopping, Zaha Hadid’s first posthumous commission and the real-life crime that inspired Ana Mendieta. Here’s the Roundup:
— Marisol, the Venezuelan-American artist known for fusing pop with folk art and installation, has passed away.
— Less than a third of solo major museum exhibitions in the U.S. and the U.K. go to women.
— Wolfgang Tillmans, a German-born artist who lives in London, is actively campaigning against England’s proposed exit from the European Union by distributing a series of downloadable posters encouraging people to get out and vote against the measure. The artist spoke with the New Yorker about his efforts.
— Rose Art Museum director Christopher Bedford, who is helping organize Mark Bradford’s exhibition for the Venice Biennale (and who was once a curator at LACMA), will take the reins at the Baltimore Museum of Art in August.
— Eli Broad estimates that he has acquired nearly 40% of his 2,000-piece art collection from Larry Gagosian. That and so many other fascinating nuggets in the Wall Street Journal’s juicy profile of the famed art dealer.
— Studio programs that don’t grant degrees (some of which can be cheaper than a degree granting university program) are growing in popularity.
— A woman has sued the Getty Foundation for denying her application to a multicultural internship program because she is white.
— In happier news: The Getty Conservation Institute’s new show, about the Mogao Grottoes, near Dunhuang, in China, highlights a place where Roman, Persian, Indian and Chinese cultures intersected.
— Photographer Thom Pierce has a hauntingly beautiful photo essay on the men whose lives and lungs have been devoured by the South African gold mining industry. This is the labor that goes into your bling.
— “I sometimes spend more time in my lawyer’s office than in my studio.” New York magazine has a darn entertaining profile of appropriation artist Richard Prince.
— The murder that inspired the work of Ana Mendieta. Must-read story.
— Director Kahlil Joseph is in the news for serving as lead director on Beyonce’s “Lemonade.” Last year, I interviewed him on the occasion of his installation, “Double Conscience” at the Museum of Contemporary Art — some helpful insight into the work of a director who doesn’t often grant interviews.
— Definitely related: Is the window-smashing scene in “Lemonade” inspired by a 1997 work of video art by Pipilotti Rist?
— No eternal flame? No sweat. We’ve got a cardboard painting.
— After taking all of our water from the Owens Valley, L.A.’s great offering in return is … an architectural installation. Now, time to get back to watering those lawns.
— Curbed has been parsing the four submissions to redesign the “much-hated” Pershing Square. This includes submissions by wHY + Civitas, SWA/Morphosis, James Corner Field Operations (who did the High Line) and Agence Ter and Team. So far I’m feeling the wHY Architecture and James Corner proposals the most.
— Zaha Hadid’s first posthumous project is inaugurated in Italy.
— Emily King paid a visit to one of Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s early projects: A utopian housing project, named Walden 7, a Barcelona high-rise that takes inspiration from the rock forms of the desert. Wild.
— California: Where dudes named “Nuge” hill bomb the city’s streets. Righteous.
— And last but not least: A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley. (Ann Friedman Weekly)
Find me on Twitter @cmonstah.
The biggest entertainment stories
Get our big stories about Hollywood, film, television, music, arts, culture and more right in your inbox as soon as they publish.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
