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THE HEADLINES
ACCUSATION. British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko has accused star artist and presidential portraitist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault, which the latter denied, studies Harrison Jacobs for ARTnews. “It virtually destroyed me,” wrote Awuah-Darko in an Instagram submit on Sunday. He instructed ARTnews he was looking for authorized motion and hopes “talking about my abuse will empower different victims to do the identical.” The artist mentioned in 2021 Wiley “inappropriately groped” him first, after which alluded to a later, “rather more sever and violent” assault, and believes “different artists, curators and collectors have quietly expressed witnessing this sample of predatory conduct.” Wiley as an alternative described his interplay with Awuah-Darko a “consensual relationship,” and claimed the artist was “making false, disturbing, and defamatory accusations about our time collectively,” in his personal submit. In an extended message to ARTnews, Wiley added that Awuah-Darko “has been attempting to be a part of my life ever since we met,” flying to his birthday in Nigeria, and “trying to go to” his dwelling in New York.
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RECOVERED LOOT. The British Museum introduced on Friday it has recovered 268 objects that went lacking or had been stolen from its assortment. The museum introduced in February that some 350 objects had been recovered, from the over 1,500 recognized as misplaced or stolen final summer season. That brings the overall determine to 626 recovered. Plus, the museum mentioned it has leads for about 100 extra lacking items. The lack of poorly cataloged gadgets, lots of which had been allegedly offered for a fraction of their value on eBay, occurred over 30 years, and has been tied to the previous museum curator Peter Higgs, in a scandal that has shaken the establishment’s repute and led to a management reshuffle.
THE DIGEST
Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCDA), dwelling to the M+ museum, the Palace Museum, and the Xiqu Centre, is in a funding disaster, with recorded web losses of HKD 1.56 billion ($199 million) in 2022, virtually double the earlier 12 months. On Saturday, Henry Tang, the district’s chairman, instructed native media that if the federal government doesn’t reply shortly to the looming menace of chapter, “we now have an pressing have to take comparatively giant motion,” corresponding to lowering working hours. [ArtAsiaPacific]
Supplier Nino Mier is “strongly contemplating closing some” of his gallery house in Los Angeles, following allegations of underpaying artists, first reported in The Artwork Newspaper. On Friday, Artnet Information reported all 4 of Mier’s Los Angeles galleries are on account of shutter. [ARTnews]
Greater than a dozen exhibitors have dropped out of Toronto’s Contact Pictures Competition, in protest over opposition to its sponsor, Scotiabank, which reportedly has ties to the Israel-based navy tech firm, Elbit Methods. The protest was organized by No Arms within the Arts (NAITA) and Artists In opposition to Artwashing (AAA), and earlier this week, Scotiabank introduced it halved its stake in Elbit. [The Art Newspaper]
The Danish artist Jens Haaning goes to completely exhibit his cheeky paintings, Take the Cash and Run, on the Kunsten Museum of Trendy Artwork in Aalborg, Denmark, in keeping with a museum assertion. Haaning reportedly complied with a court docket order and paid the museum again a $76,000 money fee it gave him for the works, which the unamused establishment was stunned to find consisted of nothing greater than a pair of clean canvases. [Le Figaro]
A delegated individual liable for monitoring remedy of youngsters on movie units can be required to acquire public funding in France, mentioned the nation’s minister of tradition, Rachida Dati, whereas on the Cannes Movie Competition. The announcement is available in response to a #MeToo reckoning in France’s movie trade, and a selected request by actress Judith Godrèche, who has spoken out about being sexual assaulted as a baby actor. [AFP and Le Monde]
The art-world commentator behind the Jerry Gogosian Instagram account, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, apologized for mocking the title of Sotheby’s New York-based head of latest artwork day gross sales within the Center East, Ashkan Baghestani. [ARTnews]
A uncommon, little-seen 1995 portray by Yayoi Kusama will head to public sale at Bonhams in Hong Kong. Titled Infinity, the 6.5 feet-tall portray is estimated to be value some $5.1 million. [Hypebeast]
South African artist Lebohang Kganye was awarded the Deutsche Börse Pictures Basis Prize for 2024. Her photographic montages, together with efficiency and movie animation are on view in a bunch present at The Photographers’ Gallery in London till June 2. [Artforum]
Author Tim Jonze shares a descriptive encounter with the filmmaker, flower-delivering, and fat-cigar-smoking artist Concord Korine on the event of an exhibition in London. Requested if he had a message behind his retina-burning work of stills from his latest online game aesthetics impressed movie Aggro Dr1ft, the artist might solely guffaw. “A message? No. That’s disgusting!” He mentioned. [The Guardian]
The Dublin-New York “Portal” set up is again up, after it was closed on account of “inappropriate conduct.” This time, the live-stream artwork venture that lets folks in each cities see one another in actual time, has restricted working hours and measures have been taking to stop folks from holding telephones as much as the digicam lens, or touching it. [BBC]
THE KICKER
LET THEM EAT BAGUETTE. The French baguette may be regarded as a type of artwork, and definitely a stamp of French heritage. Actually. The baguette, on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Listing, is now gracing French stamps issued in celebration of the Olympics. They’re additionally scratch-and-sniff. In brief, letters from France could very nicely begin smelling like a heat (or stale?) baguette. The brand new stamps that includes a graphic drawing of a baguette tied with a pink, white, and blue ribbon, had been revealed on the feast day of Saint Honoré, in celebration of “our cultural treasure,” mentioned the postage printer Philaposte de Boulazac at an unveiling ceremony, studies Le Parisien. After giving one stamp a scratch and sniff, a person named Lionel mentioned, “It smells like a baguette was simply taken out of the oven.” In the meantime, others are getting hungry for a croissant model.