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Jeffrey Gibson’s Free Lecture, Free Admission at MCA Denver, and More

Jeffrey Gibson’s Free Lecture, Free Admission at MCA Denver, and More

Published by José Betancourt

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Industry Moves Coco Fusco and Jeffrey Gibson Named Speakers for Johns Hopkins’s Sam Gilliam Lecture Series: The artists will each deliver a free talk at the university’s Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.—Fusco on June 8, Gibson on November 12—as part of a series supported by the Sam Gilliam Foundation. Related Articles Hamptons Black Arts Council Announces Plans for Sag Harbor Artist Residency: Founded in 2023 by artist and curator Storm Ascher, the nonprofit is raising funds to establish a permanent artist residency on Black-owned land in one of America’s oldest free Black settlements. MCA Denver Receives $1 Million Gift for Free Youth Admission: The donation from philanthropist Amanda Precourt, of the Precourt Foundation, will make entry free for all visitors 18 and under through June 30, 2031. Xavier Hufkens Takes on Richard Aldrich: The New York–based painter will show with the Brussels gallery …

MCA Chicago Head Madeleine Grynsztejn Offers Consummate Windy City Guide

MCA Chicago Head Madeleine Grynsztejn Offers Consummate Windy City Guide

Published by José Betancourt

At year’s end, Madeleine Grynsztejn will leave her post after 18 years as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which bills itself as one of the world’s largest museums devoted to the art of today. The museum, which launched in 1967 with a Fluxus happening by John Cage, Dick Higgins, and Allison Knowles, soon expanded its mission to collecting, and its holdings have now grown to include over 2,000 pieces. One early claim to fame: It was the first US building to be wrapped by legendary artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, in 1969. Grynsztejn looks back on a tenure in which she oversaw a doubling of the museum’s operating budget. Major gifts included one from Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who gave the MCA about 100 works (most are kept jointly with the Guggenheim Museum in New York), including pieces by Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Pfeiffer, and many others. Another coup was a $2 million gift from Chicago collectors Marilyn and Larry Fields, along with 79 artworks.  Related Articles As the art …

MCA Chicago Director Madeleine Grynsztejn to Depart After 18 Years

MCA Chicago Director Madeleine Grynsztejn to Depart After 18 Years

Published by José Betancourt

Madeleine Grynsztejn, one of the key figures of Chicago’s art scene, will leave her post as director of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art at the end of the year, bringing to an end an 18-year-long tenure that has seen a range of celebrated retrospectives and a dramatic expansion of the institution’s collection and operating budget. In a phone interview, Grynsztejn pointed out that next year will mark the MCA’s 60th anniversary, and said that she felt it was time to step aside and allow someone else to take up her mantle. Related Articles “I asked myself, who should be on the dais in January 2027? Should it be the person who brought the museum to this moment for the last 20 years, or should it be the person who will take the museum forward for the next 20 years?” Grynsztejn said. “The answer was easy for me.” She declined to specify what she might do next, but she said that her next project would see her “replicate my support for artists more directly on …