Nvidia's Jensen Huang Pledges $75M to Revive San Francisco Art School
Nvidia cofounder Jensen Huang is donating $75 million as a matching gift to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art at Vanderbilt University's planned San Francisco campus, replacing the closing California College of Arts. Huang previously gave CCA $22 million last year. The world's seventh-richest man stated, 'Technology expands what we can build. Art and design determine why we build it.' Meanwhile, Apollo magazine's digital archive has launched, featuring free articles by critics John Berger, Brian Sewell, and André Salmon's 1926 dispatch on the 'super-realist' movement (André Masson, Joan Miró). A New Yorker profile covers Florentina Holzinger's Austria pavilion at the Venice Biennale, noting her comments on 'grumpy' Austrian press and 'very dramatic' fainting audience members. In the UK, Prime Minister Andy Burnham's government takeover ends Starmer-era dawdling, with culture secretary Lisa Nandy remaining. London's Ginny on Frederick gallery hosts Zayd Menk's 'Scar Tissue' exhibition, a kinetic installation of discarded tech relics critiquing planned obsolescence.
Key facts
- Nvidia cofounder Jensen Huang is the world's seventh-richest man.
- He pledged $75 million as a matching gift for the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art.
- The college will replace the California College of Arts, which closes next year.
- Huang previously gave CCA $22 million last year.
- Apollo magazine's digital archive launched, featuring critics John Berger, Brian Sewell, and André Salmon.
- André Salmon's 1926 dispatch discussed the 'super-realist' movement with André Masson and Joan Miró.
- Florentina Holzinger's Austria pavilion at the Venice Biennale is profiled in The New Yorker.
- Zayd Menk's 'Scar Tissue' exhibition at Ginny on Frederick in London features kinetic tech relics.
Entities
Artists
- Jensen Huang
- Lori Huang
- John Berger
- Brian Sewell
- André Salmon
- André Masson
- Joan Miró
- Florentina Holzinger
- Zayd Menk
- Andy Burnham
- Lisa Nandy
- Jo Lawson-Tancred
- Andrew Russeth
Institutions
- Nvidia
- Vanderbilt University
- California College of Arts
- Apollo magazine
- Exact Editions
- The New Yorker
- Venice Biennale
- Ginny on Frederick
- Artnet
- The Art Newspaper
Locations
- San Francisco
- United States
- Paris
- France
- Austria
- Venice
- Italy
- London
- United Kingdom