Belinda Tate Departs Indianapolis Museum of Art and More Art News

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The Headlines

MUSICAL CHAIRS. After three years, Belinda Tate is leaving her post as executive director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, reports the Mirror Indy. During her time at the museum, she built a reputation for prioritizing women and artists of color in exhibitions like “Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks” and “The Message is the Medium.” Perhaps most famously, she led efforts to invite Alicia Keys to showcase her collection at the museum, in an exhibition called “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Kasseem ‘Swizz Beatz’ Dean and Alicia Keys.” “I am proud of the role I have played in advancing the Indianapolis Museum of Art and helping position it for its next chapter,” said Tate in a statement released by the museum.

SAVING GLASGOW’S ART SCENE. Glasgow’s arts community is “in uproar” since a series of crises, including two fires at the Glasgow School of Art and the shuttering of the city’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)announced earlier this year, reports The Art Newspaper. Now, many are getting organized and have launched a “Save Our CCA” campaign, along with a second push to save Trongate 103: Centre for the Arts and Creativity, which encompasses seven arts organizations. The latter are all being threatened with a 400 percent rent increase to their building. “To lose the CCA is to lose part of that core, that heart, from which everything else can be sustained,” said local artist Mark Leckey, referring to Glasgow’s former “ideal for artists with an ecology and economy that worked.” However, it remains unclear whether their efforts will succeed in saving either institution, even as the CCA’s archive is being put up for sale, a prospect that a spokesperson for the Save Our CCA campaign found “sickening.”

The Digest

On Thursday, the elected board in Arlington County, Virginia, has filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s planned triumphal arch because they claim it failed to review the impact of the project, in violation of federal laws. [The Washington Post]

Why is Vienna experiencing a “gallery exodus”? Four dealers offer varying reasons, but it’s clear to them all that for an art market to thrive, it needs healthy back-up support across an art ecosystem, whether from institutions, private collectors, or government support. [Monopol Magazine]

Thieves disconnected video cameras and an alarm system before stealing the Salvador Dalí-designed, giant bronze “Livre de l’Apocalypse” book cover from a private museum in France, according to its owner. [BFM TV-RMC]

Microsoft is debuting a new, free digital typeface that mimics Michelangelo’s handwriting, fittingly dubbed “Michelangelus.” [dpa]

Christie’s is offering a rare 24-carat emerald-cut “Bulgari Pink” diamond for sale, which could fetch $18 million at its Geneva auction on November 10. [Forbes]

The Kicker

CAPS (AND MORE) FOR SALE. The phrase, “Caps for sale! 50 cents a cap!” from the 1938 children’s book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina, is a familiar classic. But Slobidkina’s other artworks, in the form of abstract paintings, mixed-media collages with fabrics she designed, and sculpture made of found objects, are not nearly as well known. That is one more reason why a new show at Rosenberg & Co gallery in New York City offers an exciting opportunity to change that, reports the New York Times. Their exhibition, titled “Esphyr Slobodkina: An Unbound Creativity,” explores Slobodkina’s artistic expression and her singular sense of freedom across genres and mediums. “She didn’t shy away from new development,” says gallery director Kadie Ross.