Daniel Harrison This Week’s News Stories
The New York Times reports that on Friday, the legendary Spanish fashion designer PACO RABANNE passed away at the age of 88. RABANNE first gained notoriety in the 1960s for creating garments out of metal and plastic, and later he used his success in the perfume industry to amass a fortune. Rabanne’s many accomplishments include dressing Jane Fonda in the PVC and chainmail outfit that became instantly recognisable from the 1968 film Barbarella and working as a costume designer for Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967). Although Coco Chanel famously joked that Paco Rabanne was “a metalworker not a couturier,” the Guardian reports that the artist Salvador Dal called Rabanne “the second genius of Spain.” The designer has been out of work since 1999, and his former assistant is now the head designer at the company.
DO NOT GO TO WORK, and DO NOT FORGET TO TELL YOUR BOSS. Too many encyclopaedic articles on artists have been written. William Kentridge, a master of multiple mediums, has a retrospective at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles and recently spoke with CBC Radio. Cultured spoke with Zeng Fanzhi, a painter whose work is currently on view at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles. Reuters profiled Eugene Komboye, who fashions sandals into portraits, and Masataka Shishido, whose work (rather disturbingly) evokes human flesh. An emotional guest essay by Wendy Red Star was published in the New York Times in memory of Kimowan Metchewais. Also, Ming Smith, whose exhibition just opened at MoMA, spoke with T: The New York Times Style Magazine. She made history in 1979 when her work was accepted into the museum’s collection as the first by a Black female photographer. But she knew she was doing the right thing long before her success. I didn’t give a damn,” Smith told T. “My camera was my church,” I confessed.
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A metal detectorist strolling through the English countryside uncovered a heart-shaped pendant dating back 500 years and referencing Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. It was the greatest Renaissance-era discovery in a century, according to Rachel King, a curator at the British Museum. A New York Times Article
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A Ukrainian man was found guilty and given a five-year prison sentence for the theft of a Paul Signac canvas and four other works of art from the Musée de Beaux-Arts in Nancy, France. In other words, [L’Est Républicain/UPI]
Fred Terna, the artist whose time spent in Nazi concentration camps inspired his abstract work, has passed away at the age of 99. Suzy Snyder, a curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, told journalist Richard Sandomir, “I’d call his work representing the Holocaust beautiful even if the imagery is not beautiful.” A New York Times Article
South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale, set to open in April 2023, has unveiled its full lineup of participating artists. Sky Hopinka, Minjung Kim, and Christine Sun Kim are just a few of the about 80 artists featured. [14gwangjubiennale.com]
Artist and world traveller Kehinde Wiley gave a tour of the Lagos, Nigeria, home he and fellow artist Billy Omabegho recently renovated. Wiley has artwork by Mickalene Thomas and Amoako Boafo hanging on her walls, and Lola Ogunnaike describes “a lyrical, glass-enclosed interior garden and pond” as “the focal point of the house.” Reference: [AD]
The Grammy Awards show on Sunday night featured digital backdrops by artist Refik Anadol that were extremely trippy. The Museum of Modern Art in New York is showing an installation by Anadol right now. [@refikanadol/Twitter]
