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The Headlines




ARTIST MIRA LEHR ,  whose multifarious art tackled environmental issues, and who was involved in founding  Continuum , a cooperative gallery in Miami Beach, Florida, for women artists in 1966,  has died  at the age of 88,  Neil Genzlinger  reports in the  New York Times . Powerfully influenced by her participation in a 1969 experiment by inventor  R. Buckminster Fuller  that looked at how to allocate natural resources, Lehr made work in a variety of mediums—paint, video, gunpowder, and more—that addresses ecosystems, animal life, and other topics. While being  profiled by the  Times  in 2020, Lehr said, “We have to think of the loss and destruction and that there is more of this to come.”




SHOWTIME.  One of the most anticipated exhibitions of the season in New York has to be  Sarah Sze ’s outing at the  Guggenheim , which will open in March. In  WSJ Magazine , the wily installation artist spoke about  what she has on tap —video projections on the outside of the building, for one thing—with journalist  Ted Loos . “I wanted to make pieces you could only do at the Guggenheim,” Sze said. “The building became a tool for making the work.” Meanwhile, painter and musician  Mike Henderson  spoke with  David Smith  in the  Guardian  about  his just-opened show  at the  University of California, Davis ’s art museum. It includes his “protest paintings” from the 1960s to ‘80s, which look at racist violence in the United States. He knew they “weren’t going to hang in anybody’s living room but the paintings were coming through me,” he said. “There was a deeper calling.”




The Digest




Billionaire collector  Ken Griffin  wants to relocate a historic home off his Miami estate that was built for three-time presidential candidate  William Jennings Bryan  (of  “Cross of Gold” fame ). Griffin said the move could open the house to the public; some preservationists oppose the plan.  [The Wall Street Journal]




In 2021, a massive solar project proposed for rural Nevada was scrapped after opposition from advocates for  Michael Heizer ’s  Double Negative , which is nearby the proposed site, as well as environmental and tribal groups; the Land art touchstone “crystallizes the difficulties we’re going to face as a nation confronting the climate crisis,” environmental reporter  Sammy Roth  writes.  [Los Angeles Times]




Workers repairing sewers in Rome made a startling discovery when a bulldozer tore through some old pipes: a statue that appears to depict the third-century emperor  Decius  posing as  Hercules . The artwork had broken apart, and is now being restored.  [Reuters]




The French auction house  Osenat  postponed a sale of modernist furniture from Chandigarh, India, that was designed by  Le Corbusier  and  Pierre Jeanneret  amid press stories of an investigation by Indian police that may concern export licenses. There have been cases of material being stolen from historic sites in the city.  [The Art Newspaper]




The band  Body/Head —comprised of  Sonic Youth  bassist, artist, and writer  Kim Gordon  and guitarist  Bill Nace — will perform  at  Gagosian  in Los Angeles on February 15, in conjunction with  Jim Shaw ’s show there. It is a homecoming, of sorts, for Gordon, who was  Larry Gagosian ’s  assistant  before becoming a music legend.  [Vanity Fair]




The Kicker




ON THE HOME FRONT. Evan Mock —the surfer, skateboarder, and  Gossip Girl  actor—is promoting  Hotels.com  (why not?), and  chatted with Architectural Digest  about his Manhattan abode. Mock has chairs by artist “ Tom Sachs  around my dining table, and they are really nice,” he said. “I probably shouldn’t be sitting on them, because they’re art pieces, but they are such a big part of the living room/dining table/kitchen area.” Speaking of Sachs, he just  unveiled a public  artwork in New Milford, Connecticut,  HypeArt  notes, and  Nike  is about to release his General Purpose Shoe  in a new color ,  Sneaker News  reports.  [AD]