— Crystal Bridges Reveals American Art Show Roster: Walmart heiress Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has finalized the artist list for its upcoming fall exhibition of 21st-century American Art, which includes more than 200 paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, and performances. To choose the 102 selected artists for “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now,” which is scheduled to open in Bentonville, Arkansas, September 13, the museum’s president, Don Bacigalupi, and assistant curator Chad Alligood traveled over 10,000 miles across the U.S. and visited nearly 1,000 relatively unknown artists. The chosen artists range from 24 to 87 years old, and include 54 men and 48 women. [NYT]
— Hong Kong and Uruguay Pick Venice Reps: Hong Kong has chosen Tsang Kin-Wah as its representative at the 2015 Venice Biennale and Marco Maggi has been selected to represent Uruguay. Tsang was tapped by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the West Kowloon Cultural District museum M+, which will present a series of concurrent supplemental public programs. Maggi, who is known for his drawings and installations made from found materials, is included in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, São Paulo, and MOCA Los Angeles. [Artforum, Artforum]
— Art Everywhere UK Reveals Artworks: Sir Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry gathered at Waterloo station in London this morning to reveal the artworks chosen by more than 38,000 members of the British public through Facebook for this year’s Art Everywhere exhibition, which runs July 21-August 31. Topping the list was David Hockney and Dora Carrington, whose work, along with Gillian Wearning, Gilbert & George, and Marc Quinn, among others, will be displayed on 30,000 billboards across the UK. Gormley produced a special digital artwork for the exhibition, titled “Feeling Material,” that the public can download for free. [BBC]
— How to Sell the Artist Pension Trust Works: The Artist Pension Trust, likely the largest private collection of contemporary art in the world, has brought together an impressive list of artists, but selling the artwork may be complicated. [Bloomberg]
— Italian Cultural Sites Turn to Corporate Support: Italy’s struggling economy is forcing politicians to seek corporate financial support in order to preserve cultural heritage sites. [NYT]
— Ceramicists Stand Out at the Hammer: The surprise stars of the Hammer Museum’s “Made in L.A.” biennial have turned out to be husband-and-wife ceramics artists Michael Frimkiss and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, 77 and 84 years old respectively. [NYT]
— The Orange County Museum of Art has begun negotiating with developer Related California about the possible purchase of the museum’s property, as it looks towards an eventual relocation closer to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Cosa Mesa. [Daily Pilot]
— New York City councilwoman Laurie Cumbo will designate $1.4 million to the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MoCADA), which she helped found in 1999. [Capital]
— Musical group Air has composed music to play inside the galleries of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille as part of its Open Museum series. [TAN]
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