Monday, March 9
NYU Latinx Project Gets $750,000 from Mellon Foundation
The Latinx Project, an interdisciplinary initiative founded by NYU professor Arlene Dávila in 2018 to support U.S. Latinx art and culture and the scholarship around it, has received a three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation for $750,000. The money will help fund the organization’s programming, which has so far included mounting four exhibitions in New York as well as numerous panels and talks. Additionally, the grant money will go toward supporting artists-in-residence, starting a new conference (titled the Future of Latinx Studies), a summer institute, and graduate student working groups. In a statement, Dávila said, “[The Mellon Foundation’s] trust in this initiative is politically important at this moment in time and I trust the news will inspire many other such projects to develop and thrive throughout U.S. universities, where Latinx studies has been historically invisible.” —Maximilíano Durón
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Kurimanzutto Closes for Women’s March
Kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City said that it would not require its employees to work Monday, March 9, in solidarity with a nationwide strike in protest of Mexico’s femicide crisis. (Though the gallery is generally closed to the public on Mondays, some of its staff works on Mondays.) A statement on the gallery’s website reads, “Responding to the gender violence and inequality that has prevailed in Mexico, we joined the national strike on Monday, March 9. Women are the 70% of the force of Kurimanzutto. Since they cannot function without us, the gallery will resume work on March 10.”
Luhring Augustine Now Represents Richard Rezac
The Chicago-based sculptor Richard Rezac has joined the roster of New York’s Luhring Augustine gallery. The artist, who is known for his geometric abstractions, will open a solo exhibition at the gallery’s Chelsea space on March 14. Rezac’s works can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, and other institutions.
After Fire, Workers Help Rescue Museum of Chinese in America Archives
Workers have been dispatched to salvage the archives of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America ahead of the planned demolition of the building that once held them. Around 80 percent of the archives, including photographs, textiles, rare books, and newspapers, still remain in the building at 70 Mulberry Street, which was devastated by a fire in January. Two previous efforts managed to salvage only 20 percent of the 85,000-item archive, according to the Art Newspaper.
Source: artnews.com