Climate Activists Call For MoMA’s Board Chair with Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry to Step Down
USA_New York
As the climate crisis calls for changes in museum operations, climate activists have recently become more vocal about the sources of museum funding. On June 6, during the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) annual fundraising ‘Party in the Garden,’ New York environmental activists protested outside the museum, demanding the removal of board chair Marie-Josée Kravis.
Kravis’s husband, Henry Kravis, co-founded Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), which has invested billions of dollars in oil and gas companies, and protesters objected to Kravis’s close ties to the fossil fuel industry until the police dispersed them.
There was a similar civil protest in the UK recently. British oil giant BP became a patron of the British Museum in 1996 and until recently, funded the operations of the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Scottish Ballet, and the Royal Opera House. However, in the past few years, there have been protests against museums accepting funding from fossil fuel companies, and the British Museum announced in early June that it would end its BP sponsorship deal.
Climate Activists Call For MoMA’s Board Chair with Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry to Step Down.. and More
USA_New York
Climate Activists Call For MoMA’s Board Chair with Ties to Fossil Fuel Industry to Step Down
As the climate crisis calls for changes in museum operations, climate activists have recently become more vocal about the sources of museum funding. On June 6, during the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) annual fundraising ‘Party in the Garden,’ New York environmental activists protested outside the museum, demanding the removal of board chair Marie-Josée Kravis.
Kravis’s husband, Henry Kravis, co-founded Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), which has invested billions of dollars in oil and gas companies, and protesters objected to Kravis’s close ties to the fossil fuel industry until the police dispersed them.
There was a similar civil protest in the UK recently. British oil giant BP became a patron of the British Museum in 1996 and until recently, funded the operations of the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Scottish Ballet, and the Royal Opera House. However, in the past few years, there have been protests against museums accepting funding from fossil fuel companies, and the British Museum announced in early June that it would end its BP sponsorship deal.
USA_Pittsburgh
Joan Brown’s Private Paintings at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presents a retrospective of Joan Brown (1938-1990) through September 24. Joan Brown, an artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, is best known for her large-scale portraits of her family and herself.
Characterized by autobiographical subject matter and a playful, fantastical imagination, her works were once dismissed by critics as insincere but have recently been gaining reevaluation. The exhibition was first shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA) until March and arrived at the Carnegie Museum of Art last May.
The exhibition chronologically traces Brown’s progression from abstract paintings from her art school period in San Francisco in the 1950s to figurative paintings in later years. It delivers Brown’s unique approach to painting, in which she sought to portray her private life without caring for art world recognition.
USA_Riverside
“Xican–a.o.x. Body” in Riverside talks about people of Mexican Descents in USA
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry in Southern California, USA, presents “Xican-a.o.x. Body” beginning June 17. The exhibition runs through January of next year.
‘Xican-‘ is a prefix that refers to people of Mexican descent in the United States, while ‘-a,’ ‘-o,’ and ‘-x’ are masculine, feminine, and gender-neutral suffixes, respectively. The title of the exhibition, “Xican-a.o.x. Body,” reflects the curatorial intention to address issues of cultural identity for people of Mexican descent in the United States, while also encompassing the diversity of bodies and sexual identities.
The exhibition presents Latin American artists of diverse ethnic, cultural, racial, and sexual identities, drawing attention to the decolonized and creative aspects of their art. Bringing together various genres of Mexican-American culture and art from the late 1960s to the present, the exhibition features 125 works by more than 70 artists and collectives, and the works on display move between popular and traditional high art, including automobiles, poetry, ceramics, painting, photography, sculpture, and film.
