Independent has announced the 30 exhibitors showing at its 20th Century edition in September.
Independent 20th Century has announced the 30 galleries participating in its September edition at Casa Cipriani in New York. The fair will focus on solo presentations of 20th-century artists, including works by Gertrude Greene, Georges Rouault, Elda Cerrato, and Leonor Fini. This year’s lineup highlights both lesser-known and canonical figures, with an emphasis on regional and self-taught artists.
The union at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Museum has authorized a strike.
Unionized staff at the Penn Museum have unanimously voted to authorize a strike, citing low wages and stalled contract negotiations with the University of Pennsylvania. The workers, represented by AFSCME Local 397, say that starting pay for many roles remains below the city’s living wage benchmark and that the university’s latest offer falls short. An informational picket is planned to pressure the university to raise salaries and improve conditions.
A baguette installation starts conversations around food waste at a Montpellier’s architecture festival.
For the Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, MERO Studios built a walkable installation from discarded baguettes to spotlight food waste. The project, created in collaboration with nonprofit Pain Espoir, not only repurposes unsold bread into a sculptural structure but invites visitors to rethink waste as a material resource. It responds to data showing that a significant portion of bakery bread in France is destroyed rather than reused.
After 13 years, Adam Lindemann will close his gallery Venus Over Manhattan.
Venus Over Manhattan, the much-loved New York gallery Adam Lindemann launched in 2012, will close when its Susumu Kamijo exhibition ends on July 18. Lindemann cited the persistent collector-dealer divide, disillusionment with art‐fair politics, and his own sense that “Venus was never about winning” as reasons for stepping away from gallery ownership.
The tech industry is abuzz with theories of who could succeed Tim Cook.
Following Jeff Williams’ retirement announcement, speculation around Tim Cook’s successor at Apple has intensified. Internal candidates now in focus include hardware lead John Ternus, operations chief Sabih Khan, software head Craig Federighi, services executive Eddy Cue, and marketing veteran Greg Joswiak—though age may limit some tenures. With Cook still in place, investors appear to favor a leader with long-standing ties to Apple, making Ternus a standout possibility.
Today’s attractive distractions:
After The Bear’s Tyler Mitchell photography cameo, Frank Lloyd Wright is next.
Did you know that you have budget airlines to thank for gateside bag sizers?
OnThe Gilded Age, Bobby Steggert plays a dashing John Singer Sargent.
That much-talked-about original Birkin fetched $10.1 million at auction.
