Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet get the nod, Tate names a new director, and the Immigrant Artist Biennial is back for another edition.
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According to the Hammer Museum, that'll be Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet. The Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum — now in its eighth edition, though modeled after the now-defunct biennial Hammer Invitational — exhibits new and recent work by artists living or working in Los Angeles, as well as commissions new ones. It's slated to open in fall 2027.
Each edition pairs two curators, usually one from the Hammer and the other from outside. Wellen joined the museum this past April as its chief curator; he was previously senior curator of International Art at Tate Modern. Blondet, meanwhile, is senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; before that, he spent 13 years at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Made in LA, indeed.
Meanwhile, a stateside curator goes back to Tate. Jessica Morgan will direct Tate and its four gallery sites starting in 2027. She joins the British institution after more than 10 years directing the Dia Art Foundation, overseeing a major renovation of its Chelsea location and expanding its collection of work by women and Black artists during her tenure. Morgan succeeds Maria Balshaw, who directed Tate for nine years and stepped down this past spring.
If you've ever wanted to ask Mary Magdalene or Saint Augustine some questions— like "hey Augustine, who hurt you?" — today's your lucky day. In collaboration with the tech company Ask Mona, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched an initiative in which visitors can scan QR codes and converse with statues of saints through an AI model trained on conversations with curators, conservators, and more. You can ask them who they are, what they're made of, why they're talking in that accent, and where the bathrooms are. But you can't ask them to wake you up from the surreal technological nightmare that is life in the 21st century.
A Mountain West residency for artists, writers, and composers.
The gallery-sized installation at the Institute for Contemporary Art combines Greek mythology with Civil War history to examine white supremacy and hegemonic power.
Work by the Bay Area artist is on view in Menlo Park, California, through August 29.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SFABF returns this July, welcoming 160 independent publishers from around the world.
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