{"id":2057906,"date":"2026-07-23T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2057906"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:30:00","slug":"lauren-oyler-on-florentina-holzinger-watermills-new-councils-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2057906","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Oyler on Florentina Holzinger, Watermill’s New Councils, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tHappy Thursday! Here\u2019s who\u2019s moving and shaking in the art world this week.<\/p>\n

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  • Jessica Morgan Appointed Director of Tate:<\/strong>The British curator, currently director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York,\u00a0will succeed<\/strong>\u00a0Maria Balshaw at the helm of the Tate network, which oversees Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives.<\/li>\n
  • Watermill Center Announces New Creative and Advisory Councils:<\/strong>\u00a0The Long Island institution established the bodies to guide its next chapter following founder Robert Wilson\u2019s 2025 passing. Members include Marina Abramovi\u0107, Laurie Anderson, Isabelle Huppert, Shirin Neshat, and Carrie Mae Weems.<\/li>\n
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Appoints New Head of Costume and Textiles:<\/strong>\u00a0Ann Marguerite Tartsinis has been named the Jack M. and Annette Y. Friedland Curator and Head of Costume and Textiles, succeeding Dilys E. Blum, who led the department for four decades before her death in December 2025.<\/li>\n
  • FEMME Art Fair to Debut in Washington, D.C.:<\/strong>\u00a0Produced by USAN USAN and Our Daughters\u2019 Futures Fund, the inaugural fair runs Aug. 26\u201330 at International Square, spotlighting more than 100 women artists, including the Guerrilla Girls, across 35,000 square feet. The fair takes no commission, with all sales going directly to artists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    \n\t\tThe Big Number: $75 M.\t<\/h2>\n

    \n\tThat\u2019s how much Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun \u201cJensen\u201d Huang and his wife, Lori Huang gave to Nashville\u2019s Vanderbilt University. In January, Vanderbilt announced that it was purchasing the campuses of the Bay Area\u2019s California College of the Arts. Now, the university\u00a0has revealed<\/strong>t hat the campuses will open next year as\u00a0 the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design.<\/p>\n

    \n\t\tRead This\t<\/h2>\n

    \n\tDid you, dear reader, like me, not get into Florentina Holzinger\u2019s buzzy Venice Biennale pavilion? Well, novelist and critic Lauren Oyler\u2019s\u00a0new essay<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0will make you feel like you\u2019ve attended the show\u2014or, at minimum, been splashed by a errant hose of brown water. The Austrian performance artist behind\u00a0Seaworld Venice<\/em>\u00a0is having a moment, after a career spent staging productions that involve herself and which provoke strong reactions. Oyler proves an ideal guide to Holzinger: she\u2019s on the floor when a cleaning lady gets a faceful of sewage, reads an upturned production notebook, and gets the full download on how a urine filtration tank actually works. For anyone who has been trying to figure out why Holzinger is suddenly everywhere\u2014and why the answer requires words like \u201cGesamtkunstwerk\u201d\u2014this is the piece.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2275857869.jpg?w=1024″] Happy Thursday! Here\u2019s who\u2019s moving and shaking in the art world this week. Jessica Morgan Appointed Director of Tate:The British curator, currently director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York,\u00a0will succeed\u00a0Maria Balshaw at the helm of the Tate network, which oversees Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2057906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2057906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}