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IT\u2019S ME, NOT YOU<\/strong>. Uncertainty still reigns a week after\u00a0Pace<\/strong>\u00a0galleryannounced\u00a0<\/strong>it was cutting roughly 50 jobs and 50 artists. Layoffs have hit nearly every department and are \u201can ongoing process,\u201d a gallery spokesperson told\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>, and which artists are being dropped remains unclear. On Wednesday, the\u00a0Financial Times<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0reported that Pace is also looking to downsize its 8,600-square-foot London space into something \u201cless corporate.\u201d CEO\u00a0Marc Glimcher<\/strong>\u00a0would not confirm rumors of further London layoffs, but he praised the \u201ctight teams\u201d model at the gallery\u2019s other three locations. At a town hall last week, sources told\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>\u2018 Daniel Cassady, Glimcher largely blamed himself for the gallery\u2019s mismanagement \u2014 a notable shift from earlier interviews, in which he framed the trouble as a broader, systemic problem. He reiterated that wider diagnosis to the\u00a0FT<\/em>\u00a0this week, calling the current gallery model \u201cnot just broken\u201d but \u201cunfixable.\u201d Pace became one of the defining mega-galleries of the last decade, and it plans to keep all seven of its locations worldwide while \u201cretuning\u201d them, per the\u00a0FT<\/em>. To some, that sprawling footprint undercuts the message. One of the dropped artists told\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to square the oft-quoted \u2018artists first\u2019 rhetoric of the gallery with Marc Glimcher\u2019s decision to drop artists rather than to downsize by reducing the footprint of Pace worldwide. He\u2019s helped create the very landscape that he\u2019s now purporting to criticize.\u201d<\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>.\u00a0Valentine Francis Willie<\/strong>, the Malaysian gallerist and curator who played a pivotal role in advancing Southeast Asian art on the international stage, has died in Kuala Lumpur at 71,\u00a0The Star<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0reports. Willie co-founded\u00a0Valentine Willie Fine Art\u00a0<\/strong>(VWFA) with Mee Seen Loong<\/strong>, a former Sotheby\u2019s director in Hong Kong. At its peak, the gallery operated spaces in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Yogyakarta, and Manila, becoming one of the region\u2019s most influential commercial platforms for contemporary Asian art. Beyond dealing, Willie curated several landmark exhibitions in the 1990s and early 2000s, including ASEAN Masterworks, which traveled to Malaysia\u2019s\u00a0National Art Gallery\u00a0<\/strong>in 1998, and \u201cIdentities \u2013 Who We Are?\u201d at the same institution in 2002.<\/p>\n \n\tA 14th-century Italian\u00a0Madonna and Child<\/em>\u00a0was nearly lost to a clerical error after experts in Italy mistakenly dated it to 1850 rather than 1350, undervaluing the work and clearing it for export to Switzerland\u2014where it has now been authenticated, valued at close to $700,000, and consigned to auction. [Corriere della Sera<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Esther Kim Varet<\/strong>, founder of the Los Angeles gallery\u00a0Various Small Fires<\/strong>, lost her bid for California\u2019s 40th Congressional District despite finishing as the top Democratic vote-getter with roughly 194,900 votes[Artnet News<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA contemporary art exhibition inside Berlin\u2019s\u00a0Bellevue Palace<\/strong>, the German president\u2019s official residence, is drawing fire from conservative politicians over the inclusion of a sex-doll sculpture by\u00a0Alexandra Bircken<\/strong>. [Times of London<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Francesca Casadio<\/strong>, currently vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art Institute of Chicago, has been named the next director of the\u00a0Getty Conservation Institute<\/strong>, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced. [My News LA<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA survey by Artnet and the\u00a0Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA)<\/strong>\u00a0found that nearly half of Gen Z and millennial-aged women are questioning whether they can afford to stay in the art industry. [Artnet News<\/strong>]<\/p>\n A CHURCH\u2019S LONG SHADOW<\/strong>. Today,\u00a0Pope Leo XIV<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0inaugurating<\/strong>\u00a0the newly completed and tallest part of\u00a0Antoni Gaud\u00ed\u2019s Sagrada Familia Basilica<\/strong> in Barcelona, called the Tower of Jesus Christ. The ceremony also marks 100 years since Gaud\u00ed\u2019s death. But as\u00a0El Pa\u00eds<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0reports, the basilica\u2019s construction, which began 144 years ago, is famously unfinished, and for years controversy has stirred over an unrealized aspect of the design. According to some early architectural plans, a staircase and plaza were supposed to extend outward from the church\u2019s southeast side. But since 1860, two city blocks and many homes now occupy the space that had been earmarked for the staircase, a grand avenue, and a plaza. Residents numbering in the hundreds have fought against plans to demolish their homes and argue Gaud\u00ed never intended the avenue and staircase to reach beyond the basilica\u2019s current footprint. Nevertheless, existing city plans backed by the basilica\u2019s Construction Board still call for the building of the avenue that cuts through existing homes. In recent months, progress seems to have been made on the long-stalled negotiations, and all sides have reportedly promised news towards a resolution by September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/sagrada-familia-inauguration-day-morning-links-1234788742\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-948921290.jpg?w=1024″] Good Day! Pace CEO Marc Glimcher announces plan to downsize its London branch. Influential South-East Asian dealer and curator Valentine Francis Willie has died at 71. Experts in Italy accidentally mistook a three for an eight, and misdated an important, 14th-century\u00a0Madonna and Child\u00a0painting, now up for auction. 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