A selfie damaged an artwork, New room for Scream, Hauser and Wirth to reopen

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE

While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends to socio-political issues to everything that affects the great aesthetic global consciousness. Or, let’s just travel the world and have some fun!

A selfie damages The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds

An Italian tourist at the Museo Reina Sofia tripped while taking a selfie that damaged an artwork last week in Madrid. Alberto Sanchez’s ballet set for La romeria de los cornudos (The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds), 1933 was reportedly torn in one part by the tourist who fell on the work. As she fell, she grabbed hold of the piece and ripped part of its wallpaper. The pilgrimage of Cuckolds was originally created as a set for the eponymous one-act ballet written by Federico Garcia Lorca and Cipriano Rivas Cherif. The museum said the damage was not serious, in a statement quoted in the artnews, a spokeperson said, “It is an accident, fortunately of few consequences.”  The damage to the work was small and without any intention. For more information refer to the Art news.

A new room for Scream in Norway’s National Museum

Oslo has been missing one of its defining spaces for over three years. The closure of the old National Gallery in 2019 meant saying goodbye to the room dedicated to the city’s most celebrated artistic son. The new Edvard Munch room evokes the old one. It will have 18 paintings, including The Girls on the Bridge (1901), Self-Portrait with Cigarette (1895), as well as probably the second most famous painting in the world, 1893’s The Scream. Further Munch works can be seen in the corridor outside as well as in the main hang. The National Museum has been created from the merger of five of Norway’s major art and design institutions, part of a larger consolidation of the country’s state-run galleries, reports the Art Newspaper.

Hauser and Wirth to reopen in Southampton

As mega-gallery Hauser and Wirth is coming up on its 30^th anniversary, “Make Hauser and Wirth” will open its doors on the Eastern End of Long Island in Southampton, near the gallery’s existing space there, which opened on Main Street in 2020, during the first summer of the pandemic. The space will open with a curated summer show, “Of Making and Material,” organized by Make director Jacqueline Moore, featuring the work of artists such as Helen Carnac, Alexander deVol, David Gates, Harry Morgan, Rosa Nguyen and Mark Reddy. In addition, the London-based ceramicist Florian Gatsby will have a two-week on-site residency in August. During that time, visitors will be able to observe his ceramic-making process first-hand. It’s yet another sign that the blue-chip art scene that cropped up—seemingly overnight—on Long Island’s East End to serve the many affluent city dwellers who fled Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs in the first months of lockdown is here to stay, reports the Artnet news.

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