Meleko Mokgosi, Pax Kaffraria: Sikhuselo Sembumbulu, (detail), 2011-12, oil and charcoal on clear primed canvas, 96 x 627¼” (overall). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase. © 2012 Meleko Mokgosi.
Hammer Museum Online Collections
The Hammer Museum at University of California, Los Angeles recently launched the Hammer Online Collections. Comprising nearly 50,000 works from the museum’s collection, the digital platform allows people to explore an expansive range of art from the Renaissance to present day. Works come from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, the Grunwald Center Collection, the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collections, and the Armand Hammer Collection. Artists in the collection include John Singer Sargent, Amy Adler, Betye Saar, Eugène Delacroix and many more. View all of the artwork at collections.hammer.ucla.edu.
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John Akomfrah, Still from Vertigo Sea, 2015, three-channel HD color video installation, 7.1 sound, 48 minutes, 30 seconds. © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery.
Deep Waters
An upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston explores the works of four artists who capture oceanscapes, including historic artists John Singleton Copley and J.M.W. Turner, and contemporary artists John Akomfra and Ayana V. Jackson. “Generations of artists have explored the beauties and terrors of the ocean, reflecting on the experiences of those who have lived and died among the waves. Weaving together artworks by four artists made over centuries and across the Atlantic, this exhibition follows a genealogical thread united by the sea,” the museum notes. Deep Waters: Four Artists and the Sea runs from November 9, 2024 to November 9, 2025.
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A view of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue entrance. Courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago.
Art Institute of Chicago Receives Major Gift
A $75 million gift from Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed will give the Art Institute of Chicago the funds it needs to enact a major building renovation that expands the museum’s singular collection and maximizes its important location in downtown Chicago near Millennium Park. The gift also supports new galleries that will house the museum’s collection of late 19th-century, modern and contemporary art. Designed to offer views of the park, city and lake, the new space will be named the Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed Building. —
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