Hyde Park Art Center Receives $625,000 MacArthur Grant – artforum.com / newsPOSTED February 18, 2016Hyde Park Art Center Receives $625,000 MacArthur Grant
Fourteen Chicago arts organizations have been named by the MacArthur Foundation as recipients of the foundation’s award for creative and effective institutions. “They refused, and while we were still deliberating on what to do, a group entered the two residences on our upper campus, removed artwork from the walls, and set it alight in a fire.”
Police armed with stun grenades then showed up, dispersing the crowd and making arrests on the spot.
February 18, 2016Metropolitan Museum of Art’s New Logo Revealed
The Metropolitan Museum of Art allegedly has a new logo: two short words “THE MET” in red lettering. The Met’s new logo has already received harsh criticism, even while it hasn’t yet officially been unveiled: Davidson himself calls it a “typographic bus crash,” and one Twitter user, responding to his article, deemed it “abominable.”
February 18, 2016Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery Tentatively Reopens After Being Shut Down by Authorities
Townhouse Gallery, the nonprofit contemporary art space in downtown Cairo, has reopened after officials shut it down in December, reports Mada Masr. “And as one of the most LA houses, because of its connection to the view, that long view toward the ocean.”
February 17, 2016Seattle Art Fair Appoints Laura Fried Artistic Director
The Seattle Art Fair has announced that the newly created role of artistic director will be filled by Laura Fried, an LA-based curator who formerly worked at the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis.
