Tag: Ends

  • Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA, Ends Tenure Early Amid Conflict over Abu Dhabi Biennial

    Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, will step down at the beginning of April, ahead of her contract’s original expiration date in late July. The move concludes a tense dialogue with the MACBA Consortium, which had ruled that her appointment as director of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial conflicted with her duties at read more

    Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director of MACBA, Ends Tenure Early Amid Conflict over Abu Dhabi Biennial
  • Turner Prize–Winning Artist Tai Shani Ends Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black’s Relationship to Jeffrey Epstein

    Tai Shani, a London-based artist who won the Turner Prize in 2019, said this week that she was terminating a book contract with Phaidon, the arts book publisher that has been owned by billionaire art collector Leon Black since 2012. Shani cited Black’s connections to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including “numerous read more

    Turner Prize–Winning Artist Tai Shani Ends Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black’s Relationship to Jeffrey Epstein