Art Industry News: Hilma af Klint Gets the Biopic Treatment From the Director of ‘Chocolat’ + More Stories - artnet News

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Art Industry News is simply a regular digest of the astir consequential developments coming retired of the creation satellite and creation market. Here’s what you request to cognize connected this Tuesday, October 18.

NEED-TO-READ

A Museum Guard Weighs successful connected Protecting the Art – Steve Keller, a 35-year-veteran of depository security, said that it’s “pretty darn hard to support a coating from idiosyncratic throwing a tin of crockery astatine it,” referencing past week’s viral clime protest. Keller noted that though the protesters allegedly checked that the targeted enactment was glazed, they couldn’t person known nary harm would occur. (The Atlantic)

Children’s Museum of the Arts Is Closing – The New York instauration volition go a nomadic and escaped arts programme for kids successful the city. It volition spouse with schools, which person precise small fund for arts owed to backing cuts. (Press release)

Hilma af Klint Heads to the Big Screen – As portion of a volley of caller contented astir the famed Swedish spiritualist and creator (which includes curator Daniel Birnbaum’s caller “immersive virtual world event“), a caller biopic by is acceptable to deed theaters successful the U.K. Helmed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lasse Hallström (Cider House Rules, Chocolat), Hilma stars the director’s wife, Lena Olin, arsenic the elder Hilma, and introducing daughter, Tora Hallström, arsenic the younger Hilma. (Guardian, YouTube)

World Jewish Congress Condemns Documenta – Maram Stern, the vice president of the group, wrote an op-ed successful the German outlet Rheinische Post that Documenta’s controversy-plagued 15th variation was “one of the astir superior cases of anti-Semitism successful German post-war history.” (ARTnews)

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Design Museum Removes Sackler Name – Kensington’s Design Museum has softly go the latest instauration to region the tainted Sackler sanction from its library. (Evening Standard)

N.Y. Returns 307 Stolen Antiquities to India – Hundreds of antiquities valued astatine astir $4 cardinal were returned successful a repatriation ceremonial astatine the Indian Consulate successful New York by the New York District Attorney’s office. More than 230 of the objects were tied to disgraced trader Subhash Kapoor, and others were linked to known traffickers Nancy Weiner and Nayef Homsi. (Press release)

Aboriginal Artist Gets Spotlight Outside of Australia – The precocious Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori is having her archetypal large depository amusement extracurricular of her location state astatine Paris’s Fondation Cartier determination l’art contemporain (on presumption until November 6). (The Art Newspaper)

Assyrian Carvings Unveiled successful Iraq – An archaeological parkland successful Iraq was revealed this week, featuring 2,700-year-old Assyrian carvings. The park, which is called Faida, is the archetypal of 5 section taste parks of this benignant that determination authorities anticipation volition pull tourists. (ARTnews)

FOR ART’S SAKE

Haegue Yang Gets the Benesse Prize – The South Korean creator won the 13th variation of the prize, presented successful collaboration with Singapore Art Museum. She volition person a committee to make an artwork to beryllium exhibited astatine Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Japan, oregon person the accidental to person her artworks collected by the site. (Press release)