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CHAPTER 11. The College of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia has filed for chapter a couple of months after it abruptly closed this summer season. The transfer got here after the breakdown of talks to presumably merge with Temple College, experiences the Philly Voice. The varsity is $50 million in debt to bondholders, and a courtroom submitting exhibits that the shuttered college’s property and liabilities are valued as much as $100 million. The Temple Uni merger had raised the potential for preserving the varsity, however by the top of August, these hopes had been dashed. “After an exhaustive effort by our inner and exterior workforce, we had been unable to determine an answer that might be in the perfect curiosity of Temple’s group and mission,” reads a press release from Temple directors. Over 330 former UArts college students have enrolled at Temple for the reason that summer season, and in the identical assertion, the varsity mentioned they had been nonetheless exploring “alternatives with different non-profit organizations that may permit us to revitalize and activate the UArts’ amenities.”
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WURST OF TIMES. New York’s Deli Gallery, acclaimed for recognizing rising expertise, will shut, becoming a member of the likes of Denny Gallery, JTT Gallery, and Queer Ideas, who’ve additionally not too long ago shut down within the metropolis, experiences ARTnews. It’s present present, a sequence of work by Jose de Jesus Rodriguez titled “Lengthy-Winded,” is on view till September 28 and would be the gallery’s final. “Clearly, there are exterior market elements at play, however on the finish of the day this felt like the correct second,” gallery founder Max Marshall informed reporters. In different information of shut-downs, or extra exactly, a “pause” in operations, UTA Superb Arts, the division of the Hollywood expertise company that attempted to behave as an agent for artists, is winding down – for now. UTA Artist House additionally exhibited of their LA and Atlanta places. A spokesperson informed ARTnews the moratorium was prompted by the approaching departure of its director, Arthur Lewis. Some artists mentioned the UTA was however nonetheless representing them “in different components of the company.”
The Digest
A two-year-old program permitting refugees free entry to English cultural heritage websites is on the heart of a political debate within the UK, following right-wing criticism. Philip Kiszely, who was a visitor final week on GB Information, complained that the initiative fed an “agenda” to decolonize the previous and inspired refugees to “learn the way horrible we’re.” [The Art Newspaper]
German photographer Candida Höfer has gained the 2024 Käthe Kollwitz Prize in Berlin, value $13,400. Berlin’s Akademie der Künste is internet hosting an exhibition of her work till November 24. [Artforum]
Chicago’s Nationwide Public Housing Museum is partnering with the Smithsonian and different organizations to host the “Nationwide Dialog on Race” from September 20-28 in Chicago, as a part of a nationwide Smithsonian sequence inspecting the historical past of racism. [The Chicago Sun Times]
The artwork and tech platform VIV Arts – which goals to attach experiential artists with collectors –is formally launching on October 8, with a three-day immersive artwork expertise by artist Julian Charrière, titled Managed Burn, on the Welsh Chapel throughout Frieze London. [Press release]
The Kicker
THE HAACKE OF IT. Artist Hans Haacke, 88, has been profiled by The New York Instances about his “prophetic” artwork observe and life spent skewering the murky politics of high-profile museum backers, all of the whereas creating a brand new type of artwork within the course of. For instance, in 1970, he requested MoMA’s visitorsto vote on whether or not then-governor Nelson Rockefeller’s tacit help of the Vietnam Conflict and U S invasion of Cambodia would influence their choice to elect him. Rockefeller’s household helped discovered MoMA, and the governor’s brother was on the museum board. Calls to take away the piece had been resisted, however Haake wasn’t invited again to the museum for years. In the meantime, one other 1971 piece by Haake for the Guggenheim Museum, during which he held a NYC landlord to process for lease gouging, was famously canceled. Immediately, Haacke “continues to be making curators and collectors clutch their pearls,” writes M.H. Miller. “With persistent readability, he appeared to grasp, half a century earlier than anybody else, the stakes of the uncomfortable relationship between artwork and politics.” In November, a serious, touring retrospective of Haacke’s work will open on the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, and he has work presently on view at Paula Cooper Gallery, NY. [New York Times]