Art Industry News: Chloë Sevigny, Who Basically Invented the Art Boy, Is Having a Baby With Her Gallerist Boyfriend + Other Stories

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most
consequential developments coming out of the art world and art
market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, January
9.

NEED-TO-READ

Cindy Sherman Gets a Huge Show at the Fondation Louis
Vuitton – The artist
Cindy Sherman is
getting her largest European solo show to date at the Fondation
Louis Vuitton in Paris. The exhibition, which will run from April 1
to August 21, will include around 300 of her works alongside her
own selection from the museum’s permanent collection for an
accompanying exhibition titled “Crossing Views.” The legendary
photographer has chosen works by artists including Marina
Abramović,
Louise Bourgeois, Rineke
Dijkstra,
Rosemarie
Trockel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Wolfgang Tillmans for the
display. (Press release)

The Battle Over Purvis Young’s
Estate – The outsider artist
Purvis Young’s legacy
has been complicated by a Byzantine legal drama that is only now
coming to light. When the prolific Florida painter—whose works are
in the collection of the Met and the Smithsonian—died in 2010, he
left 99 percent of his estate (some $6,000 and 1,884 artworks) to a
longtime friend, Eddie Mae Lovest, and 12 of her daughters and
grandchildren. But Lovest and her family never saw a penny because
the work was taken by lawyers and court-appointed guardians to
settle some $500,000 in bills after the manager of his estate
listed the value of his works at just $1 apiece, and a judge
determined there was no market for them. A lengthy legal battle
ensued—and in the process, a trove of little-seen works were sold
to a Miami warehouse owner. One thing is for certain: the saga of
Purvis Young’s legacy is not over yet. (Washington Post
Magazine)

Chloë Sevigny Is Having a Baby With Her Gallerist
Boyfriend – Long before Jennifer Lawrence married gallerist Cooke
Maroney and Jenny Slate got engaged to her curator
boyfriend Ben Shattuck, Chloë Sevigny was pioneering the
Hollywood-art world crossover—and fully aware of the allure of the art
boy, before the figure even had that cringe-worthy label. Now,
she has announced that she is expecting her first child with
boyfriend Sinisa Mackovic, the director of the (unsurprisingly
hip) Karma gallery in the East Village. As
the Observer correctly notes, “There’s a 100
percent chance that their baby is going to be cool.” (Observer)

Shed Staff Plan to Unionize –
Front-of-house staff at the Shed in
New York have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations
Board in an effort to unionize on the grounds that “working
conditions were not up to par.” They are the latest example
in a growing trend of
museum workers taking steps to unionize, following in the footsteps of workers at the
New Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of
Tolerance in Los Angeles, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle,
and MOCA in Los
Angeles. A spokesperson
for the Shed told Hyperallergic: “We respect workers’ rights and,
above all else, we value our incredibly talented and hard-working
staff. Whatever the outcome, we will support our employees in their
decision on this matter.” (Hyperallergic)

ART MARKET

Kenny Schachter Voted Baer Faxt’s Favorite Art
Writer – The readers of the Baer Faxt have spoken:
our own columnist Kenny Schacter is their favorite art writer of
2019. The industry newsletter announced the winners of its
annual readers’ poll today, and Schacter won twice, not only as
favorite writer, but also as readers’ favorite Instagram account.
Kerry James Marshall won for favorite established artist, and
KAWS’s show at Skarstedt earned the dubious distinction as worst
gallery show in the US. (Baer Faxt)

Outsider Art Fair Presents Work by
Children From the 1930s – Art
made by children during the 1930s will be on view at the Outsider
Art Fair in New York, giving new meaning to the oft-heard complaint
that “my kid could do that.” The fair, which runs January 16
through 19, is showing 12 works created at community centers in New
York in the wake of the Great Depression, on loan from the
Children’s Museum of Art. (ARTnews)

Paul McCarthy Decries the
Corporatization of the Art World – In the latest edition of mega-gallery Hauser &
Wirth’s Ursula magazine, the artist Paul McCarthy
slams how corporate the art world has become. Linking the trend to
the “spread of global capitalism,” McCarthy says he now feels
artists are on the outside of an industry controlled by collectors.
(ARTnews)

COMINGS & GOINGS

Robert Caro’s Papers Head to the
New-York Historical Society – The New York museum and library has acquired
the archive of the prolific and obsessive political biographer,
making the trove of papers one of the largest dedicated to a single
individual in its collection. The museum will establish a permanent
display dedicated to Caro’s work, which includes an epic unfinished
biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson and a 1,300-page tome
about the New York urban planner Robert Moses. (New York
Times)

Artadia Names Houston Award Winners
for 2019 – Texas-based
artists Adriana Corral and Vincent Valdez are
the winners of this year’s Houston Artadia Award, which honors
artists who “probe the difficult issues of our time.” They will
each receive $10,000. The nonprofit also named the recipients of
its fellowships for immigrant artists, including Betirri Bengtson​
and ​Gao Hang​. (Artforum)

VIA Art Fund Names Award Recipients
– The nonprofit dedicated to
funding visionary art initiatives released its list of 2019 awards,
which total around $1 million. Funds will go
to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
for his Border
Tuner on the US-Mexico border in
El Paso, Sarah Sze for the construction of a
permanent new work at Storm
King, and the Dia Art Foundation for the acquisition of works by
Charlotte Posenenske. (Artforum)

FOR ART’S SAKE

A “Byzantine Pompeii” Will Be Moved to Make Way for a Greek
Metro – Work to build a subway
in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, revealed a street dating
back to the Roman era. But despite support from opposition
politicians and a popular protest, archaeologists have failed in
their battle to stop the
Greek government from moving the antiquities that form the
Byzantine road to make way for the metro station.
(Global
Voices)

A Valentino Show May Come to the Brooklyn Museum – As
more museums boost their fashion exhibitions in an effort to expand
their audiences, the Brooklyn
Museum is said to be preparing an ambitious retrospective of the
Italian fashion designer. (The museum and reps for Valentino
declined to confirm.) In other Brooklyn Museum news, Target has
confirmed that after 20 years, it will no longer be sponsoring the
museum’s free admissions program, which takes place once a month on
Saturdays. (WWD)

Oxford Museums Close for Marvel Film Shoot –
A film shoot for
Marvel’s The Eternals, starring Angelina
Jolie, Salma Hayek, and
Richard Madden, caused Oxford University’s Museum of Natural
History and Pitt Rivers Museum to close yesterday and today.
Members of the public arrived to find film trucks outside the
Victorian-era Natural History Museum, which is full of stuffed
animals and dinosaur bones. The Eternals features
a group of superheroes who defend
the Earth against the evil Deviants. Check out the dramatic set below.
(Oxford
Mail)

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