Author: Juddy Miller

Before the pandemic, Munich’s Lenbachhaus approached Tate with an idea: why not share the crown jewels from each other’s collections in some special exhibitions? As such, Germany gets its first major JMW Turner debut in 70 years and Tate Modern is about to open Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), the artist’s first show since the 1960s. “It’s an incredibly sustainable way of working,” says curator Natalia Sidlina. Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and Blue Rider. “Both in terms of collaboration, which allows us to work with specialists from both sides at a deep level of curation and research, and also in terms…

The Broad, the Los Angeles museum founded in 2015 by the late collector Eli Broad and his wife Edyth, is marking its first decade by embarking on a $100 million expansion that will add 55,000 square feet to the institution. The museum has engaged architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), which designed the existing building—with its distinctively designed exterior, dramatic interior spaces, and exposed warehouse—to create the new structure. The new building will increase the museum’s gallery space by 70% and create new amenities such as space for live events and public programming, two elevated outdoor patios and a…

French artist Pierre Huyghe uses site-specific works to explore the boundaries between humanity, nature and synthetics. For the past decade, Huygh has created outdoor sculptures that include active bee colonies and has “scanned” a Norwegian forest to create an ongoing cinematic narrative about a real place. Huygh planted a garden with hallucinogenic and carnivorous plants and transformed a skating rink into a watery earthen environment. Now, for his biggest exhibition to date, the artist returns to the institutional setting. It respects its limitations while rethinking the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine sentience. The liminal It spreads over…

Wine labels often display information mandated by legislation or regional requirements. However, that space above a bottle has infinite possibilities for design and semiotics. There are as many labels as there are wines and producers. Just as we know not to judge a book by its cover, scholars have also learned not to judge a wine by its label. The exceptions to this rule are the First Growth wine labels of Château Mouton Rothschild, which not only introduced important changes in the production of fine wine, but also created the standard for the way these wines are presented to the…

Swiss art dealer, auctioneer and collector Eberhard Kornfeld bequeathed five paintings to the Kunstmuseum Bern, including a 1919 work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Junkerboden and Alberto Giacometti’s 1965 portrait, Carolina. The other paintings in the legacy, which will be on display at the Kunstmuseum from Friday, are from 1893 by Alfred Sisley. The church of Moret Sur Loingby Sam Francis Blue, Red and Yellow (1958), and Giovanni Giacometti’s self-portrait from 1909. Kornfeld was a longtime patron of the Kunstmuseum and had previously donated graphic works by Maurice de Vlaminck and Alfred Kubin and a mobile by Alexander Calder. Museum director Nina Zimmer said the bequeathed paintings…

For the businessman and museum creator named among the world’s top 200 collectors ARTnews last year, Nanjing-based Wu Tiejun is remarkably cautious. He never gave an interview about his collection and refused to give a picture of it Art Newspaper along with this questionnaire. Wu prefers to focus on the Nanjing museum, which he founded in 2017 through his real estate development company Deji Group. The Deji Art Museum is located on the eighth floor of the group’s large office and luxury shopping complex, Deji Plaza II. A second location, designed by architect Kengo Kuma, is planned for 2026 near the base of Mount…

Forget Bubbles: Is Jeff Koons a Swiftie? Jeff Koons is making a splash in Hong Kong this week with an exhibition of his first works at the Art Intelligence Global space in Wong Chuk Hang (until April 26). Called Jeff Koons: 1979-1999the show includes its title porcelain sculpture Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988), a high-kitsch representation of the late Thriller the pop star and her favorite chimpanzee. The work is making its debut on these shores, Koons said Prestige magazine: “I think this is the first time that Michael Jackson and Bubbles will come to China, so it’s exciting,” he said. The art world prankster always seems…

Hong Kong politicians first mooted the idea of ​​developing a world-class arts center on reclaimed land on the Kowloon peninsula in 1998, shortly after the former British colony was handed over to China. Advocates hailed Hong Kong as a “golden opportunity” that would put it on a par with other major cities, silencing criticism that it was a “cultural desert”. In 2008, the Hong Kong government provided the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority with an advance grant of HK$21.6 billion (US$2.8 billion) for the realization of the art center. The megaproject is now one of the largest cultural districts in…

Hong Kong’s art season kicks off this week with the city’s first international cultural summit, bringing together influential figures from art, architecture, life sciences, gaming and technology. Organized by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) on March 24-26, a series of panel discussions are taking place at three venues: M+, Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and Xiqu Center. The summit – aimed at cementing Hong Kong’s reputation as an art hub for East and West – also shone a spotlight on M+, which opened in 2021 when the city was essentially shut off from the world during the Covid-19…

West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD)—the arts district at the southern tip of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Peninsula, on the shores of Victoria Harbor—is making its mark on the world’s cultural scene. This week, the WKCD is hosting a major summit that brings together more than 20 directors and commissioners from 12 countries, along with 1,000 delegates (Linking cultures/High bridgesMarch 24-25). At the summit, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, the organization behind Hong Kong’s art hub, signed a number of memorandums of understanding with more than 20 cultural institutions from around the world to foster relationships with other institutions and cultural…