Mitrani Art Will Open During Miami Art Week, and Other News.

Mitrani Art will open in Miami’s Little River during Miami Art Week.

Sisters Dina and Rhonda Mitrani will open Mitrani Art, a multidisciplinary campus dedicated to photography, film, and video art, during Miami Art Week. Located at 7325 North Miami Avenue in Little River, the former mechanic shop has been redesigned by R&R Studios with galleries, artist studios, a screening room, an event space, and the Peggy Levison Nolan Library of photobooks, all connected by an outdoor courtyard. The campus unites Dina Mitrani Gallery, Rhonda’s video art space The Screening Room, and Mitrani Art Projects Inc., a new nonprofit for educational programs. It continues a story that began in 2002, when the sisters converted their parents’ clothing factory into the Mitrani Warehouse, an early cultural hub in Wynwood. The inaugural exhibition, “ReExposures: The Magic Within,” honors 20 artists the sisters have championed over the years. Highlights include a 12-foot photogram by Roberto Huarcaya, who represented Peru at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and Antonia Wright’s video Suddenly We Jumped.

Christie’s will auction a rediscovered O’Keeffe bought for $3,800 in 1963.

A long-lost Georgia O’Keeffe painting discovered in an East Village coat closet in 2022 will be offered at Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale in New York on November 17, with an estimate of $3 million. Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I (1930) is believed to be the first in a series of three depictions of the New Mexico hills near the artist’s longtime home. The second belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the third is in a private collection. Rendered in O’Keeffe’s signature flat style, the 10-by-24-inch canvas was previously known only through a 1931 photograph and a mention in the appendix of her catalogue raisonné. The work was bought from O’Keeffe’s dealer, the Downtown Gallery, in 1963 for $3,800 as a graduation gift. Its owner, a world-ranked bridge player and Foreign Service traveler, displayed it until the 1980s. After noticing a visitor eyeing it too closely, she packed it away in its original crate in her hall closet. Decades later, she mentioned it to her niece, who found it beneath a pile of fur coats.

The Whitney has named Meg Onli and Zack Winokur curators of its 2028 Biennial.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has named Meg Onli and Zack Winokur to curate its 2028 Biennial, opening in March 2028. It will be the 83rd edition of the influential survey of contemporary American art. Onli, a Whitney curator since 2023, co-organized the 2024 Biennial with Chrissie Iles and recently co-curated the museum’s acclaimed “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” with artist Alex Da Corte. She previously worked at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Winokur, a former dancer and founding artistic director of the American Modern Opera Company, led performing arts at Little Island until September. The Biennial has been curated almost exclusively by career art historians since 1932. No theme has been set, but Onli said the show will “probably be more experimental” than 2024’s, drawing inspiration from the collaborations between Isamu Noguchi and Martha Graham.

Ten skulls taken during Dutch colonial rule will return to Indonesia.

Museum Wiesbaden will repatriate ten human skulls to Indonesia in a formal ceremony on November 10, presenting them to representatives of the Indonesian government covered in black cloth to preserve the dignity of the dead. Hesse’s culture ministry has called it the first such return to Indonesia by a German institution. The remains are linked to Ernst Albert Fritze, a Hessian physician who served in the Dutch colonial medical service in present-day Indonesia in the early 19th century and began donating natural history objects to the Nassau Society for Natural History, the museum’s predecessor, in 1833. Curator Andy Reymann, who has spent several years researching the collection, said that little is known about Fritze or how he acquired the skulls, despite his prominence in his time. A 2023 forensic study traced probable regional origins, including Java and Ambon. In 2023, the museum returned another Fritze-acquired skull, a tattooed Māori head known as a Toi Moko, to New Zealand. At the time, it said eleven Indonesian remains were left, and it hasn’t explained the eleventh.

Stella McCartney and Yoshitomo Nara launch a limited-edition collection with a Tokyo pop-up.

Stella McCartney and artist Yoshitomo Nara have unveiled their third limited-edition collaboration, a “rock’n’roll forest”–themed collection launching globally on November 11 on the brand’s website and at boutiques and retailers worldwide, following an exclusive presale. The collection features Nara’s childlike figures and animal motifs on ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, and accessories, all made from what McCartney calls “100 percent responsible” materials. Highlights include responsibly sourced wool knitwear, organic cotton jersey, handcrafted vegan bags, and an adidas SPW64 sneaker that reworks the Tokyo 64 track shoe in recycled materials printed with Nara’s artwork.

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