POSTED February 10, 2016
Rotterdam Museum Will Begin Renting Public Space to Private Collectors
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A rendering of the Public Art Depot's interior space.
Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans van Beuningen will rent out 10 percent of its new Public Art Depot—an open art storage facility—to private collectors. The Rotterdam City Council voted in favor of constructing the reflective, bowl-shaped depot in the fall of 2015. Designed by architecture firm MVRDV, the almost $60 million facility is expected to open in 2018.
According to the Art Newspaper’s Gareth Harris, the director of the museum, Sjarel Ex, said he has already spoken to more than sixty European collectors, and six are on board. To be considered, all collectors must be approved by the museum staff and commit to storing their work in the space for a minimum of five years.
Storage space at the depot will be priced between $400 and $450 per square meter, but the museum is offering more amenities. At an extra cost, the museum will provide collection management services including the facilitation of loans and generation of condition reports. Upon the individual collector’s approval, visitors to the storage facility will be allowed to view their works.
Besides viewing private collections, Ex said “for the first time, anywhere in the world, a museum’s entire collection will be accessible to the public.” Currently, the museum’s galleries are only capable of displaying 7 percent of its collection at one time. The new depot will also possibly feature a freeport.
Twenty-two million dollars of funding for the project is coming from the social investment fund Stichting De Verre Bergen while another almost $3 million will be provided by the city and the rest will come from admission and the collector’s rental fees.
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February 10, 2016
Elena Ochoa Foster Wins Ibero-American Prize for Art Patronage
Elena Ochoa Foster
Each year the jury recognizes individuals from Spain or Ibero-America for their patronage and promotion of art. This year’s jury included curator Patrick Charpenel, Carmen Iglesias (the president of Spain’s Royal Academy of History), and Prado Museum director Miguel Zugaza.
Founded in 1996 by Elena Ochoa Foster (the wife of architect Sir Norman Foster) as a private initiative, Ivorypress is a Madrid-based gallery space, publisher of artists books, and bookstore specializing in photography, architecture, and contemporary art. It has created audiovisual projects on commission for venues including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Somerset House, and the tenth Venice Biennale of Architecture.
POSTED February 3, 2016
Pussy Riot Parodies Russian Law Enforcement in New Anti-Corruption Music Video
Still from Pussy Riot’s CHAIKA, 2016.
A primary target of the video is prosecutor general Yuri Chaika, for whom the song is named, and who has faced controversy and ridicule in the past few months after Russia’s anti-corruption campaigner, Alexei Navalny, published an investigation accusing Chaika and his two sons of financially benefiting through personal ties with a notorious Russsian criminal gang. Tolokonnikova, addressing Chaika, says in the song “Be humble, learn to obey… You wanna get away with murder? Be loyal to your boss,” as a large portrait of Putin hangs behind her and the golden loaf sits on a desk in front of her.
Music video for Pussy Riot’s Chaika, 2016
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