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☆ A Pithy YouTube Celebrity’s Plea: Buy This Video Game
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Freewheeling assessments of the gaming industry have attracted millions of fans to the YouTube reviews of the personality nicknamed Dunkey, whose self-deprecating humor sweetens his critiques of popular video games. “Kirby is a lot like me,” he said while reviewing the pink puffball’s latest adventure. “He is a big fat guy that sucks up all the food.”“I’m just a referee on this one so you cannot get mad,” he explained in a middling review of Spider-Man 2, aware of the game’s rabid fan base. “This is an evil game made by an evil man,” he proclaimed about Elden Ring’s difficulty. “And whoever’s job it was to balance the damage-scaling on enemies did not show up for work.”

Persons: Dunkey, “ Kirby, ”, “

They used to call this waterlogged city the Most Serene Republic, but there is nothing serenissima about the opening days of the Venice Biennale. The world’s longest-running and most extravagant festival of contemporary art opens to the public on Saturday after a preview biathlon of fine art and financial profligacy that has grown more hectic than ever. You exchange tips on shows not to miss. You judge, you gossip, you wash it all down with Prosecco. Have you seen the Uzbekistan pavilion?

Organizations: Venice Biennale, Prosecco Locations: Serene, Venice, Uzbekistan

But the rattling shook buildings in New York City and drove startled residents into the streets. Image The command room of New York City Emergency Management. Today’s earthquake Magnitude 4.8 Conn. Pa. 1964 4.5 1994 4.6 250-mile radius from New York City Md. 250-mile radius from New York City Del. While earthquakes in New York City are surprises to most, seismologists say the ground is not as stable as New Yorkers might believe.

Persons: “, Kathy Hochul, ” Gov, Philip D, Murphy, Con Edison, Eric Adams, ”, Adams, Zach Iscol, Dave Sanders, Ron Hamburger, Valorie Brennan, Ada Carrasco, The New York Times “ I’ve, Kristina Feeley, Feeley, Folarin, “ There’s, Kolawole, Lazaro Gamio, Riyad H, Mansour, Janti, Hamburger, Michael Kemper, Clara Dossetter, David Dossetter, Dossetter, ’ ”, Lola Fadulu, Gaya Gupta, Hurubie Meko, Michael Wilson, William J . Broad, Kenneth Chang, Emma Fitzsimmons, Sarah Maslin Nir, Erin Nolan, Mihir Zaveri, Maria Cramer, Grace Ashford, Camille Baker, Liset Cruz, Michael Paulson, Patrick McGeehan, Troy Closson Organizations: ”, United States Geological Survey, Police Department, Fire Department, Con, Gracie Mansion, The New York Times, Whitehouse, New York City Emergency Management, Credit, Lamont, Columbia University, Maine CANADA, New York City Del, Lincoln Center, New York Philharmonic, United Nations, Children U.S, Security, New York Police, United Airlines, Newark Liberty International Airport Locations: Newark, New Jersey, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, New York, Rockland County, Murphy of New Jersey, Whitehouse, N.J, California, Japan, Zach Iscol , New York, New, Northridge, Los Angeles, Califon, Marble, Ramapo, New York , New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Palisades, N.Y, N.H, Pa, New York City Md, Del, Va, Maine, R.I, Md, Palestinian, Gaza, East Coast, “, York, San Francisco, Gaya

☆ Kim Kardashian Is Sued for Saying Her Tables Are Authentic Donald Judds
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In a video where Kim Kardashian tours the offices of her Skkn by Kim company, she points out the glam rooms, theater and kitchen of her sprawling 40,000-square-foot space, all drenched in several rosy hues of beige. It is sparsely furnished, in keeping with what Kardashian has described as her love for the calming influence of minimalist design. Even the furniture tends to be minimalist chic. “These Donald Judd tables are really amazing,” Kardashian says, speaking of an artist widely celebrated for his genius with simple forms, “and totally blend in with the seats.”Except that the dining set is not by Donald Judd, according to the nonprofit foundation that represents his legacy. It sued the celebrity on Wednesday, accusing her of making false claims.

Persons: Kim Kardashian, Kim, Kardashian, Donald Judd, ” Kardashian

☆ In Whitney Biennial Artwork, a Message Reveals Itself: ‘Free Palestine’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Officials at the museum, including the exhibition’s curators, said that they had not been aware of the message, which most viewers missed at first. They later said that they had not known about the message, which was added when the work was fabricated in the fall, but that the message would not have affected their decision to display the art. Annie Armstrong, a writer for the publication Artnet News, noted the “Free Palestine” message in an article about the exhibition yesterday. “The museum did not know of this subtle detail when the work was installed,” said Angela Montefinise, chief communications and content officer, who added that there were no plans to remove or change the artwork. And within the culture industry, there has been a wave of resignations, boycotts and firings that have come with addressing the war.

Persons: Annie Armstrong, ”, Angela Montefinise, Whitney Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Museum of Chinese in America Names New Leader
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Museum of Chinese in America in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan has experienced protests and resignations, a fire and legal problems. Now, the board has chosen a new leader who wants to move the institution forward and reconnect with the local community. In 2019, the city awarded the museum $35 million through a program for community projects as part of a deal for a local jail — money that allowed the museum to buy the main building. Museum officials said they have opposed the jail’s construction. But some residents have remained skeptical of the museum’s position, and maintain that in taking the money, officials betrayed the neighborhood.

Persons: Michael Lee, “, ” Organizations: of, Staff, . Artists Locations: America, Chinatown, Manhattan

☆ Jeffrey Gibson Will Bring Sculptures of Ancestral Spirits to Met Facade
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last summer, Jeffrey Gibson received an honor that most artists wait for their entire lives. It was the curator David Breslin, wondering if Gibson would become the sixth artist to alter the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s facade with newly commissioned sculptures. “He called me from the beach,” recalled Gibson, a Choctaw-Cherokee artist known for infusing abstract works with queer and native themes. For the commission, Gibson will return to the ancestral spirit figures he started assembling in 2015. The challenge will be translating these delicate structures of beadwork, textiles and paint into four weatherproof sculptures that will gaze upon museum visitors from their plinths above Fifth Avenue.

Persons: Jeffrey Gibson, David Breslin, Gibson, ” Organizations: Venice Biennale, Metropolitan Museum Locations: United States, Venice, Choctaw

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore County police officer is accused of using excessive force when he pepper sprayed a handcuffed man in the face and closed him inside a hot patrol car, even as the man repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. A 19-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, Small previously served in the Military Police, according to his attorney. “Like all citizens, Officer Small is entitled to the presumption of innocence,” attorney Brian Thompson said in an email. Small tried to slam the car door, but the man’s knee was in the way. It says the man started gasping, choking and calling for help while kicking the car door to get officers’ attention.

Persons: Zachary Small, Small, Brian Thompson, “, ” Small, yanking, Justin Graham, Moore, Jacob Roos, weren’t, didn’t, ” Organizations: BALTIMORE, Baltimore County Police Department, Military Police, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Officers, Baltimore, Baltimore City Locations: Baltimore

☆ Report Says 17 Percent of Gamers Identify as L.G.B.T.Q.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Less than 2 percent of console video games include L.G.B.T.Q. characters or story lines even though 17 percent of gamers are queer, according to GLAAD’s first survey on the industry. But it also found that many queer gamers saw virtual worlds as an escape in states where recent legislation has targeted L.G.B.T.Q. “The statistic is driven largely by young gamers. Its latest report found that 10.6 percent of series regulars in prime-time scripted shows identified as L.G.B.T.Q., which researchers said helped put their video game study in perspective.

Persons: GLAAD’s, ”, Blair Durkee Organizations: Nielsen

☆ Brazilian Police Seek Husband in Murder of Noted Art Dealer
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Brazilian police investigating the murder of Brent Sikkema, a prominent New York art dealer who was found stabbed to death last month in his Rio de Janeiro apartment, are now seeking the arrest of his husband, Daniel Sikkema. It was a shocking twist in a case that has captivated the art world. A lawyer for Daniel Sikkema, Fabiana Marques, said that he was innocent and that he remained in New York, where he was “shocked” by the latest development. When Brent Sikkema was found slain in Rio, investigators said that at least $40,000 had been stolen. (The police originally identified Mr. Prevez with the surname Trevez.)

Persons: Brent Sikkema, Daniel Sikkema, Jeffrey Gibson, Fabiana Marques, ”, Alejandro Triana Prevez, Prevez Organizations: Venice Biennale Locations: New York, Rio de Janeiro, United States, Venice, Rio

☆ Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan will shutter after two decades of championing its prized collection of art from Himalayan Asia, with leaders saying on Wednesday that they wanted to envision a modern museum without walls. But the museum, which will sell its building, was also facing financial challenges and had become a focal point in recent discussions about the history of religious objects being looted from Asian countries. Doors to the Rubin Museum will close Oct. 6, when its last exhibition ends, before the institution transitions to a skeleton crew that will process long-term loans and research inquiries and help with fund-raising. “The definition of what a museum is has evolved dramatically in recent years,” Noah Dorsky, the museum’s board president, said in a statement. “Historically, the Rubin’s culture embraces continual change and evolution, and in our new incarnation, we are redefining what a museum can be.”

Persons: Jorrit Britschgi, ” Noah Dorsky, ” Organizations: Rubin Museum of Art, Rubin Locations: Manhattan, Himalayan Asia

☆ Leading Museums Remove Native Displays Amid New Federal Rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Julia Jacobs | Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its leaders said on Friday, in a dramatic response to new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on cultural items. “The halls we are closing are artifacts of an era when museums such as ours did not respect the values, perspectives and indeed shared humanity of Indigenous peoples,” Sean Decatur, the museum’s president, wrote in a letter to the museum’s staff on Friday morning. That will leave nearly 10,000 square feet of exhibition space in the storied museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan off-limits to visitors; the museum said it could not provide an exact timeline for when the reconsidered exhibits would reopen. “Some objects may never come back on display as a result of the consultation process,” Decatur said in an interview. “But we are looking to create smaller-scale programs throughout the museum that can explain what kind of process is underway.”

Persons: Sean Decatur, ” Decatur, ” Organizations: American Museum of, Eastern Locations: Eastern Woodlands, Manhattan

☆ MoMA Sued by Artist Who Performed Nude in Marina Abramovic Work
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A performance artist has sued the Museum of Modern Art, saying that officials neglected to take corrective action after several visitors groped him during a nude performance for the 2010 retrospective “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.”The allegations were submitted this week in New York Supreme Court, with the artist, John Bonafede, seeking compensation for emotional distress, career disruption, humiliation and other damages. Mr. Bonafede had participated in one of Ms. Abramovic’s most famous works from the 1970s, “Imponderabilia,” which requires two nude performers to stand opposite each other in a slim doorway that visitors are encouraged to squeeze through to enter an adjoining gallery. According to his lawsuit, Mr. Bonafede was sexually assaulted seven times by five museum visitors. He reported four of the individuals to MoMA security, which ejected them from the galleries, the lawsuit said; the fifth assault was directly observed by security.

Persons: Marina, John Bonafede, Bonafede, Abramovic’s, “ Organizations: Museum of Modern, New York Supreme, MoMA Locations: New York

A man was arrested in Brazil on Thursday in connection with the killing of Brent Sikkema, a New York art dealer who was found with 18 stab wounds in his Rio de Janeiro apartment this week. The man, Alejandro Triana Trevez, knew Mr. Sikkema and was believed to have stolen cash from the scene before fleeing, said Detective Alexandre Herdy, head of the city’s police homicide unit. The police believe that Mr. Sikkema had brought over $40,000 to spend on furnishing a new apartment in Rio. “He staked out on the street,” Detective Herdy said. “He comes from São Paulo in the morning, goes straight to the place where the crime took place, to the victim’s street.

Persons: Brent Sikkema, Alejandro Triana Trevez, Sikkema, Alexandre Herdy, Herdy, “, São, Mr, Trevez Organizations: São Paulo Locations: Brazil, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Rio, Cuban, Uberaba

☆ Brent Sikkema, Influential Gallerist, Is Found Dead in His Rio Apartment
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Manhattan art dealer Brent Sikkema, who represented prominent artists like Kara Walker, Jeffrey Gibson and Vik Muniz, was found dead in his Rio de Janeiro apartment on Monday night. Brazilian publications reported that the gallerist, who helped found Sikkema Jenkins & Co., was discovered with stab wounds to his body after the local Fire Department was called to his apartment in the neighborhood of Jardim Botânico. “It is with great sadness that the gallery announces the passing of our beloved founder,” Meg Malloy and Michael Jenkins, his business partners, said in a statement. “The gallery grieves this tremendous loss and will continue on in his spirit.”The Brazilian police did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Officers will listen to witnesses, are looking for more information and are carrying out other inquiries to shed light on the case,” the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Persons: Brent Sikkema, Kara Walker, Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Sikkema Jenkins, ” Meg Malloy, Michael Jenkins, “ Organizations: Co, Fire Department, Civil Police, Associated Press Locations: Manhattan, Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Botânico

☆ Picasso Sells for $139.4 Million, Despite a Sagging Art Market
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A brilliant blue painting by Pablo Picasso of his young mistress was crowned the prized lot of the November auction season so far after it sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $139.4 million, with buyer’s fees, on Wednesday. But it was an anonymous bidder who named the winning price over the telephone. (The work nonetheless fell short of the $179.4 million auction high for the artist, established at Christie’s in 2015.) “When it’s hard to compel someone to sell something, you need to put money on the table,” said Benjamin Godsill, an art adviser watching the sale. There is still a market, even if there weren’t fireworks.”

Persons: Pablo Picasso, Picasso’s, Marie, Thérèse Walter, Emily Fisher Landau, Sotheby’s, Picasso, Auctioneers, ”, Benjamin Godsill Locations: New York, Christie’s, Long Island City, Queens

☆ Will the Art Market Need to Discount Its Masterpieces?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Major auction houses are hedging their bets in the fall season of sales that begins Monday, offering fat guarantees to sellers to secure their works — and pricing some of their top items more conservatively after the spring season demonstrated weakness in the blazing-hot $60 billion art market. And now, sellers are trying to anticipate how the uncertainty of a new war in the Middle East will affect them. Auctioneers at the three rival companies, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, have been digging deeper into private collections for one-off paintings that might spice up their modern and contemporary art sales, given the thinning availability of estates to draw from (typically driven by deaths and divorces). “We have built the sale in a very old-school way,” said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s departments overseeing 20th- and 21st-century art, who said that his team shopped around individual collectors to acquire works by Joan Mitchell ($25 million to 35 million), Claude Monet ($65 million) and Francis Bacon ($50 million). “We went for paintings that would create the most buzz.”

Persons: Auctioneers, Phillips, ”, Alex Rotter, Joan Mitchell, Claude Monet, Francis Bacon, “ Organizations: Sotheby’s

☆ To Star at the Venice Biennale, Artists Need Patrons’ Deep Pockets
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Organizers said that last year’s exhibition there by Simone Leigh cost about $7 million. But curators say financial support from the State Department has not kept pace with the increases. “We consider private-sector support a strength in our approach to this program, as it creates broad engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders,” a spokesman for the State Department said. “I think there is an understanding even before a selection is made that if you apply, then you have the ability to fundraise,” said Brooke Kamin Rapaport, artistic director and chief curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy and the commissioner of the $3.8 million Venice exhibition by the sculptor Martin Puryear in 2019. Robert Storr, who directed the 2007 Venice Biennale and is a former dean of the Yale School of Art, said the rising costs of shipping and other logistics make the system unsustainable.

Persons: William Adams Delano, Chester Holmes Aldrich, Robert Rauschenberg’s, Robert Gober’s, Simone Leigh, “, ”, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Martin Puryear, Robert Storr Organizations: State Department, Venice Biennale, Park Conservancy, “, Yale School of Art Locations: United States, Venice, Italy, Madison

☆ Mario Can’t Be Super Without Psychedelic Power-Ups
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Oct. 17, 2023Early into his newest adventure, Mario transforms into a large elephant. It’s not a costume like those in previous Super Mario video games, where acrobatics are imbued in the cat suits, penguin wings and frog legs worn by the Mushroom Kingdom’s savior. Zowie!”That peculiar power-up, which lets Mario use his trunk to swat enemies and water benevolent flowers, is just one spectacle in the eccentric Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which arrives Friday for the Nintendo Switch. But by turning its star into an elephant, Nintendo is also acknowledging a simple fact of its Goomba-stomping, Koopa-kicking empire: Mario himself is a little boring. The smorgasbord of power-ups is what keeps players excited.

Persons: Mario Organizations: Nintendo

☆ A.I. Excels at Making Bad Art. Can an Artist Teach It to Create Something Good?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

“Is It Good Enough to Fool My Gallerist?” David Salle, one of America’s most thoughtful painters, hoped an A.I. “We are sending the machine to art school,” Salle quipped, before expounding on the principles of light, shadow, depth and volume that good painting requires. Safe to say that nobody would mistake this image for a Salle painting. Salle’s style has changed over the years, which made capturing his essence a little more challenging for an algorithm. Put through the blender of a machine, Salle’s art becomes a remix: a pastiche of pastiches.

Persons: ” David Salle, David Salle, ” Salle, wisps, ”, —, Justin Kaneps, Danika Laszuk, Grant Davis, Ben Lerner, “, David Salle ”, Hillary Clinton doppelgänger, Edward Hopper … …, Giorgio de Chirico, Bernini, Salle, Salle’s, Sarah French, ” Davis, David, John Baldessari, Peter Arno, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Alex Katz, Katz, Jackson Pollock, Davis, … …, …, tutus, Barbara Gladstone, Arno, shrugged Organizations: The New York Times, New York Times, Whitney Museum of American Art, Betaworks, ” Salle, California Institute of, Arts, New Yorker, Salle Locations: ” Salle, ”, Seoul

☆ Spider-Man 2’s New York Is a Web of Skyscrapers and Brownstones
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Reality and fantasy were deeply intertwined in Marvel’s Spider-Man, where gamers swung from webs above Lincoln Center and leaped from the Empire State Building’s spire into the crowds leaving the subway station at Herald Square. The comic book icon also brought his own landmarks to that version of New York City, which hosted the Avengers headquarters a few blocks north of the United Nations and a supervillain prison in the East River. The designers at Insomniac Games are now expanding the superhero’s jurisdiction beyond Manhattan for the sequel, to be released for the PlayStation 5 on Oct. 20. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swells into Queens and Brooklyn (including Coney Island attractions), testing a design team responsible for nearly doubling the real estate of the 2018 original. The game’s design director, Josue Benavidez, said his research involved contacting organizations like the Center for Brooklyn History, posting on Reddit groups devoted to the borough and calling businesses near the buildings he was studying.

Persons: Josue Benavidez Organizations: Lincoln Center, Empire, Herald, Avengers, United Nations, Insomniac Games, PlayStation, Insomniac, for Brooklyn Locations: New York City, East, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Coney, United States, Burbank , Calif, Durham, N.C

☆ Museum Curators Evaluate A.I. Threat by Giving It the Reins
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Marshall Price was joking when he told employees at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art that artificial intelligence could organize their next exhibition. As its chief curator, he was short-staffed and facing a surprise gap in his fall programming schedule; the comment was supposed to cut the tension of a difficult meeting. But members of his curatorial staff, who organize the museum’s exhibitions, embraced the challenge to see if A.I. Professions of all kinds — military pilots, comedians, firefighters, advertisers — are confronting how artificial intelligence will change longstanding responsibilities, as well as assumptions they have about the technology. “We naïvely thought it would be as easy as plugging in a couple prompts,” Price recalled, explaining why curators at the North Carolina university have spent the past six months teaching ChatGPT how to do their jobs.

Persons: Marshall Price, ” Price Organizations: Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art, North Locations: North Carolina

☆ This Artist’s Next Project Has Her ‘Terrified.’ That’s the Point.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jade Kuriki-Olivo’s guided tour through her apartment on the Lower East Side ended in the bedroom, where the performance artist spends most of her time. Tropical vines crawled along the walls and into a giant lantern hanging opposite a tapestry of green synthetic fur. She burned incense and described her room above a busy Greek restaurant as a sanctuary. “I’m terrified,” Kuriki-Olivo said, “but I really can’t watch the trans community suffer and not make work about that. She withdrew from a series of exhibitions for her safety, passing the opportunities onto other artists.

Persons: Jade Kuriki, Olivo’s, “ I’m, ”, Olivo Organizations: New Museum, Art, Conservative Locations: Jan, Art Basel, Switzerland

☆ Christie’s Cancels Sale of Jewelry Connected to Nazi-Era Fortune
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Christie’s announced on Thursday that a second sale of jewelry from the collection of the Austrian heiress Heidi Horten had been canceled, citing the “intense scrutiny” that the auction house had faced from Jewish organizations and some collectors. Helmut Horten died in 1987 and Heidi Horten in 2022. The Heidi Horten Foundation said then that the proceeds would go toward medical research and to a Vienna museum dedicated to artwork the couple had owned. But some historians found the auction house’s decision to move forward with the sale distasteful, and employees had raised concerns internally about tarnishing its reputation. After the criticism, Christie’s added information to the auction materials saying that Helmut Horten had bought Jewish businesses that were “sold under duress,” and said the auction house would donate a portion of the proceeds to Holocaust research and education.

Persons: Christie’s, Heidi Horten, Helmut Horten, ” Organizations: New York Times Locations: Austrian, Vienna

☆ After the Sudden Heralding of Hilma af Klint, Questions and Court Fights
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In a lawsuit filed in April, Erik af Klint, the great-grandnephew of the artist and the Hilma af Klint Foundation’s chairman, said that business agreements have been struck without the approval of the foundation board and without his knowledge. The suit accuses board members of collaborating with its chief executive, Jessica Höglund, on deals to produce NFTs, books about af Klint and an immersive experience that would benefit them, not the foundation. The suit also asserts that publishing profits associated with af Klint have increased tenfold, from an estimated $350,000 in 2018 to $3.5 million in 2021, but that the revenue has gone to a foundation run by Almqvist, the scholar, rather than the Af Klint Foundation. “They are trying to gain a profit from people’s search for inner meaning,” Erik af Klint said about the board members in an interview. “As to my alleged dismissal,” Höglund said in a statement, “Erik af Klint has not been authorized to dismiss me.”Three board members have resigned in response to the infighting with the family.

Persons: Erik af Klint, Klint Foundation’s, Jessica Höglund, ” Erik af Klint, Höglund, ” Höglund, “ Erik af Klint, Almqvist, Hilma, Ax:son Johnson Organizations: Almqvist, Af Klint Foundation, Ax:son Johnson Foundation

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