— Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Names Venue: A former flour mill in downtown LA has been announced as the location of multidisciplinary arts center Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, a collaboration between the ever-expanding gallery and former LA MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel. A two-month show will debut at the building in January, after which the institution will close for renovations until 2016. “More of our artists live in LA than in any other city. They’re a diverse, multigenerational group whose work informs our international program and shapes contemporary dialogue,” said gallery president and owner Iwan Wirth. “It seems particularly fitting to launch our third decade by creating Hauser Wirth & Schimmel and pioneering a new gallery model in the city known around the world as a place for imagination, reinvention and new forms of cultural expression.” [LAT]
— Melissa Chiu Named Hirschhorn Director: The Asia Society’s director, Melissa Chiu, has been named the next leader of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The museum’s previous director, Richard Koshalek, along with several trustees, departed a year ago after the institution was unable to raise enough money to complete its proposed Seasonal Inflatable Structure to cover the inner courtyard. Chiu will oversee the museum’s 12,000 artworks, 60,000-square-feet of exhibition space, and $8 million budget. [NYT]
— Larry Clark’s Early Work Goes On View: Photographer Larry Clark’s controversial early works from his “Tulsa” and “Teenage Lust” series will go on view next week at Foam in Amsterdam, along with a previously lost film — considered a precursor to “Kids” and “Ken Park” — shot in 16mm in 1968 and rediscovered in 2010. With both series, Clark immerses himself in what he describes as “the outlaw life,” documenting the sex and drug habits of teenagers in his hometown of Tulsa and paving the way for artists like Nan Goldin, Corinne Day, and Antoine D’Agata. Clark told the Guardian that the photographs were “a record of his secret teenage life,” and explained, “I remember thinking, ‘I have either got to burn all the negatives and shoot myself, or go down to LA and try and get it published.’” [Guardian]
— Big Changes at Museo del Barrio: El Museo del Barrio’s new director, Jorge Daniel Veneciano, has a plan to help the stumbling museum get back on track. [NYT]
— Meet Lily Fierman: Here’s an interview with Mike Weiss’s new director, 25-year-old Lily Fierman. [Interview]
— Freed Slave Portrait Debuts: Artist William Hoare of Bath’s portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a freed slave from Senegal, is set to go on view at the Yorktown Victory Center in Virginia this summer. [NYT]
— Premier League soccer players in the UK are spending their continually rising salaries on art, buying Picasso paintings and sculptures, along with expensive real estate. [Businessweek]
— Word came from the Court of Cassation in Rome on Thursday that a ruling on the “Getty Bronze” would face a long delay. [LAT]
— Cornell DeWitt stepped down from his recent position as VP of development and marketing at Mana Contemporary, after only five weeks on the job. [artnet News]
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