Art Industry News: The E.U. Paid $407,000 for a Metaverse Center. About Six People Came to Its Grand Debut + Other Stories - artnet News

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, December 6.

NEED-TO-READ

Storm King Won’t Recognize Union – Staff astatine the Hudson Valley creation halfway sent a petition to signifier a national successful October, which was rejected by management. Management says it is not refusing to admit the national but is alternatively putting the substance to ballot for each eligible staff. (Times Union)

Activists Stage “Die In” astatine the Met – On Sunday, December 4, activists with the radical Woman Life Freedom NYC staged a “die in” wrong the Assyrian Sculpture Court astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art arsenic portion of ongoing protests sparked by the decease of Mahsa Amini successful September. (Hyperallergic)

No One Came to the E.U.’s Metaverse Party – The E.U. forked retired €387,000 ($407,000) to nutrient its metaverse venue with the purpose of engaging young Europeans. However, its motorboat enactment was a flop, according to 1 reporter, who was among astir six radical who “attended.” Rough. (Business Insider)

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation’s Sweeping Reforms – The idiosyncratic institutions of the Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which includes the museums similar the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Hamburger Bahnhof, among galore others, are to beryllium fixed much autonomy and work implicit their ain budgets and planning. The volition to disband the instauration has been 2 years successful the making. (SPK)

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Artnet News’s Katya Kazakina Wins Two Prizes – Artnet News’s elder newsman won the 2022 Front Page Award for specialized arts reporting from the Newswomen’s Club successful New York for her Art Detective column for Artnet News Pro. She won 2nd spot successful the columnist class for the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards. (First spot went to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.) Congratulations to Katya! (Press release)

Pace Gallery Restructures – Samanthe Rubell has been named president of the mega-gallery and volition pb a recently formed “Round Table” of the 10 astir elder directors. Rubell, who started astatine the gallery’s beforehand table successful 2008, volition seat the radical alongside Joe Baptista, who has been promoted to partner. (ARTnews)

Adriano Pedrosa Wins Curator Prize – The creator manager of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo has won the $25,000 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. Pedrosa was recognized for creating the “Histórias” series, which spotlights under-recognized histories of art. (ARTnews)

Diplo Is No Longer Art Basel’s Richest Man – Before the fair’s end, the euphony producer, who has implicit $3 cardinal successful his account, slipped to 3rd spot connected MSCHF’s ATM Leaderboard (2022) astatine Perrotin’s booth. He was bushed retired by 1 idiosyncratic with a $5 cardinal slope connection and different with $9.5 million. (ARTnews)

FOR ART’S SAKE

New York Magazine Highlights Local Artists – We—along with everyone other connected the internet, it seems—have a insignificant obsession with the magazine’s caller screen story, “39 Reasons to Love New York Right Now,” which features galore icons of the city. Can you spot artists Alex Katz, Anna Weyant, Marilyn Minter, Laurie Simmons, Andres Serrano, and curator Ebony Haynes? (New York Magazine)

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