Babacar M’Bow, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, has been fired following a paid administrative leave and reports of sexual harassment.
London’s Saatchi Gallery will celebrate its 30th anniversary with its first ever all-female exhibition, titled “Champagne Life,” opening January 13.
Hong Kong-based organization Bee Breeders, known for organizing architectural competitions, has announced it will hold a competition to design a portable pavilion for free speech. The competition launches on January 7, the one year anniversary of the shooting at Paris’ Charlie Hebdo magazine offices.
The College Art Association named critic Rosalind E. Krauss, and artists Carrie Mae Weems and Sabina Ott among the winners of its 2016 awards for distinction.
The first “slum museum” will open in Dharavi, outside Mumbai. The area is one of the largest slums in Asia and garnered public attention when it was the featured in Danny Boyle’s 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire. The new museum will open in February for two months and features exhibits of pottery, textiles, and examples of the area’s cultural creativity.
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From the The New York Times: Several museums in Paris report that attendance has been down significantly since the November terror attacks, including the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Musée de l’Orangerie, the Italian government announced that it will pour $300 euros into cultural projects such as restoring Nero’s Golden Palace in Rome over the next three years, and Cambridge-based polaroid photographer Elsa Dorfman plans to retire at 78.
