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NEWS POSTED JANUARY 28, 2016 links RECENT ARCHIVE Olafur Eliasson Will Be Next Guest Artist at the Palace of 0 2 .0 3 .1 6 Italy to Create Versailles Ten New Museums and Cultural Sites as Part of Danish­Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson will be the 2016 guest artist at Sweeping New Initiative the Palace of Versailles, exhibiting from June to November this year. 0 2 .0 3 .1 6 Pussy Riot “Very excited to announce upcoming exhibition at Versailles this Parodies Russian Law summer!” tweeted Eliasson. Enforcement in New Anti­ Corruption Music Video Previous artists who have exhibited here include Giuseppe Penone, 0 2 .0 3 .1 6 Winners of ICP Xavier Veilhan, Bernar Venet, Jeff Koons, Lee Ufan, Joana 2016 Infinity Awards Vasconcelos, and Anish Kapoor (whose sculpture was famously Announced defaced by vandals last summer). 0 2 .0 3 .1 6 Nude Statues Mysteriously Censored in President of the Château de Versailles, Catherine Pegard, said “With France Olafur Eliasson, stars collide, the horizon slips away, and our 0 2 .0 3 .1 6 Marrakech perception blurs. The man who plays with light will make the contours Biennial Announces Artist of the Sun­King’s palace dance.” List for 2016 Edition “I consider art to be a coproducer of reality, of our sense of now, society, and global togetherness. It is truly 0 2 .0 2 .1 6 Saudi Arabia Revokes Death Sentence inspiring to have the opportunity to co­produce through art today’s perception of Versailles,” Eliasson told for Ashraf Fayadh Nicholas Forrest in Artinfo. 0 2 .0 2 .1 6 Toby Kamps to Organize Spotlight PERMALINK COMMENTS Section of Frieze Masters and Frieze New York 0 2 .0 2 .1 6 RxArt Receives Record $1 Million Donation L A T E S T N E W S

FE B RUA RY 4 , 2 0 1 6 Benjamin Millepied to Step Down from Paris Opera Ballet

The director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, Benjamin Millepied, will be stepping down to return to his own choreography—and LA— according to Roslyn Sulcas in the New York Times. The French paper Paris Match first reported rumors of his departure yesterday. Millepied started his role in November 2014, bringing an cross­disciplinary spirit and level of visibility to the enterprise. The director of the Paris Opera, Stéphane Lissner, will be holding a press conference later today.

Calling his departure “a blow to the opera’s much­vaunted era of new collaboration between opera, ballet, and other artistic ventures,” Sulcas wrote that the choreographer had spoken “of his dislike for the rigid hierarchical system of grading and promotion at the Opera.”

“His discontent with various aspects of his role has been well documented over the past few months,” she DIARY PICKS FILM added.

Newest Entries PERMALINK COMMENTS Paige K. Bradley at the 7th Art Los Angeles Contemporary and 3rd Paramount Ranch Cristina Sanchez­ FE B RUA RY 4 , 2 0 1 6 Kozyreva at the 6th Art Stage Singapore National Museum in Yemen Destroyed by Civil War Michael Wilson at the 24th Outsider Art Fair The National Museum in the Yemeni city of Taiz was damaged on Kevin McGarry at the 2nd Sunday, as part of the fallout from the nation’s ongoing civil war, Este Arte according to the New York Times’ Shuaib Almosawa and Kareem Whitney Mallett on Fahim. A rebel movement from the north known as the Houthis were “XPRM/E/N/TAL” and the shelling the city, resulting in a fire that incinerated the museum and Spectrum at MoMA PS1 most of its rare manuscripts and other artifacts. Linda Yablonsky on the first New York openings of “Manuscripts, an ornate turban said to belong to an unknown but 2016 ancient king, old Qurans dating back more than one thousand years, and private pistols of Imam Ahmed Hamid Al­Deen­ the last Yemeni Imam (national religious leader) before Arab nationalists seized power in 1962­ have all been destroyed,” reports the Middle East Eye.

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FE B RUA RY 4 , 2 0 1 6 Emma Hart Wins Sixth Max Mara Art Prize for Women

Max Mara has awarded London­based artist Emma Hart its sixth annual prize for women, reports Artinfo. UK­based female visual artists who have not yet had a solo survey show are eligible for the prize, which has been awarded biennially since 2005. The winner receives a six­month residency in Italy to produce work that will then be featured in a major solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2017.