— Picasso Museum Opening Delayed Again: France’s culture minister Aurelle Filippetti delivered more bad news for Paris’s Picasso Museum, announcing that its opening has been pushed back another month to October 25. The new date will coincide with what would have been Picasso’s 133rd birthday, and Filippetti stated the delay was to make sure there were “good secure conditions” in place for the artworks on display. The final cost of renovations to the museum’s 17th-century baroque mansion has also increased to €52 million. [Art Daily]
— Brazil’s Open-Air Art Park: The Guardian takes a look at Brazil’s Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, a 500,000-acre, open-air art gallery located in the botanical gardens in the southeast, just two hours from the World Cup city Belo Horizonte. Designed by landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and opened in 2006, the collection features works by Olafur Eliasson, Doug Aitken, Vik Muniz, Anish Kapoor, and Adriana Varejão spread throughout the grounds on pavilions. Long-term plans for interactive art park include an 80-room luxury hotel and spa, and eventually even more art pavilions. [Guardian]
— National Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens: The National Center for Civil and Human Rights finally opened in Atlanta. The 42,000-square-foot, $68 million facility is located near the city’s Centennial Olympic Park. The center houses a special display space for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s manuscripts and artifacts, on rotation from Morehouse College’s collection. Along with the National Civil Rights Museum (which opened in April), the center is another landmark institution on the region’s growing list of important museums dedicated to the civil rights movement’s history. [NYT]
— American Art Museum Gifted $5.4M: The Smithsonian American Art Museum received a $5.4 million gift from David M. Rubenstein for renovations that include an overhaul to the Grand Salon, which will be named in his honor. [Washington City Paper]
— Jersey City to Build Artist-Friendly Apartments: New renderings of Jersey City’s Art House, a residential development that will include creative and gallery spaces for local artists, have been released. [The Real Deal]
— Kunsthall Stavanger to Auction Hepworth: The Kunsthall Stavanger’s art association is testing fate (not long after the Delaware Art Museum lost its accreditation for a similar stunt) by putting “Figure for Landscape” by Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE up for sale at Christie’s. [The Foreigner]
— “We all have gone a little bit insane,” reported one of the troubadours who has been playing the same song — every single day — at Ragnar Kjartansson’s solo exhibition at the New Museum. [WSJ]
— Albuquerque will invest $300,000 to bring an iconic piece of art to its downtown area. [Albuquerque Business First]
— The new “Art Illumination Cruise” will take passengers on a seven-night trip down the Seine to see some of France’s most renowned art sites and world famous artworks. [LAT]
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