Statue removals, museum diversity demands, and biennale postponements mark artworld news
Oriel College, Oxford, supports removing the Cecil Rhodes statue, installed in 1911, following the Rhodes Must Fall campaign since 2015. The Jewish Museum in New York faces staff calls for diversity reforms, addressed to director Claudia Gould. Athens Biennale 7, 'ECLIPSE', co-curated by Omsk Social Club and Larry Ossei-Mensah, postpones from September 2020 to spring 2021. Giuseppe Penone donates nearly 350 drawings to Centre Pompidou and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Elmgreen & Dragset's Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism in Berlin is vandalized. A Straits Times poll in Singapore deems artists the 'least essential profession' with 71% vote. Chris Burden's estate sues Rabbit Town in Indonesia for copying Urban Light. Not Cancelled digital art weeks expand to Barcelona on 19 June. Hank Willis Thomas projects inmate statements onto the U.S. Department of Justice building. Madeline Odent, a curator at Royston Museum, is visited by police over tweets on statue vandalism. Tennessee senator Jeremy Faison proposes replacing a Nathan Bedford Forrest statue with Dolly Parton's. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam opens for three days from 25–27 September before closing for collection transfer. Wayne Ngan, a studio potter from Canada, dies at 83. Sonsbeek20→24 in Arnhem announces artists including Leo Asemota and Ellen Gallagher for spring 2021.
Key facts
- Oriel College, Oxford, backs removal of Cecil Rhodes statue from 1911
- Jewish Museum New York staff demand diversity reforms in open letter to Claudia Gould
- Athens Biennale 7 postponed to spring 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions
- Giuseppe Penone donates 660 works to Centre Pompidou and Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Elmgreen & Dragset's Berlin memorial vandalized with smashed screen
- Singapore poll rates artists as least essential profession with 71% vote
- Chris Burden estate sues Indonesian theme park for copying Urban Light
- Not Cancelled digital platform adds Barcelona to its online art weeks
Entities
Artists
- Cecil Rhodes
- Giuseppe Penone
- Elmgreen & Dragset
- Hank Willis Thomas
- Chris Burden
- Yayoi Kusama
- Wayne Ngan
- Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
- Leo Asemota
- Sam Auinger
- Willem de Rooij
- Cheick Diallo
- Ndidi Dike
- Justine Gaga
- Ellen Gallagher
- Antonio Jose Guzman
- Louis Henderson
- João Polido
- Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
- Yinka Ilori
- Anne Duk-Hee Jordan
- Mae-Ling Lokko
- Ibrahim Mahama
- Oscar Murillo
- Hira Nabi
- Olu Oguibe
- Wendelien van Oldenborgh
- Laure Prouvost
- Nader Mohamed Saadallah
- Mithu Sen
- Farkhondeh Shahroudi
- Libita Sibungu
- Buhlebezwi Siwani
- Jennifer Tee
- Sunette L. Viljoen
- Omer Wasim
- Stanley Brouwn
- Sedje Hémon
- Imran Mir
- Abdias do Nascimento
- Carlos Amorales
- Abigail Collins
- Quinsy Gario
- Anneke Ingwersen
- Iheb Guermazi
- Amal Khalaf
- Susanne Khalil Yusef
- Robin D.G. Kelley
- Richard Kofi
- Thokozani Mhlambi
- Nastio Mosquito
- Alia Mossallam
- Farida Nabibaks
- Beya Othmani
- Marinella Senatore
- Ali Tnani
- Christopher Cox
- Ananya Jahanara Kabir
- Ulrich Krieger
- Cecile Malaspina
- Kamila Metwaly
- Warren Neidich
- Anri Sala
- Greg Tate
- Dolly Parton
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Madeline Odent
Institutions
- Oriel College, Oxford
- Jewish Museum
- Athens Biennale
- Centre Pompidou
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- The Straits Times
- Rabbit Town
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Not Cancelled
- Incarceration Nations Network
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Royston Museum
- Tennessee Capitol
- Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
- Gardiner Museum
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
- Canadian Museum of Civilization
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
- sonsbeek20→24
- Black Archives
- Raumlabor
- Werker Collective
- Family Connection
- The Saida Manoubia Musical Troupe of Najoua Balti
Locations
- Oxford
- United Kingdom
- New York
- United States
- Athens
- Greece
- Paris
- France
- Philadelphia
- Berlin
- Germany
- Singapore
- Bandung
- Indonesia
- Toronto
- Canada
- Tokyo
- Japan
- Brazil
- Barcelona
- Spain
- Washington, D.C.
- Hertfordshire
- Tennessee
- Rotterdam
- Netherlands
- Canton
- China
- Richmond
- British Columbia
- Hornby Island
- Arnhem