Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Hyundai sponsorship
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) has acquired Robert Irwin’s site-specific installation Miracle Mile (2013) and James Turrell’s Light Reignfall (2011), as part of its ten-year sponsorship deal with Hyundai. The Korean car manufacturer will finance acquisitions, exhibitions and publications at the museum until 2024, with a special focus on Korean art and technology-based art. Miracle Mile is on view until 7 September, while Light Reignfall is tentatively scheduled to be reinstalled in 2016.
Minneapolis Institute of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mary Griggs Burke collection
The Met and the Minneapolis Institute of Art are the joint recipients of a collection of East Asian art bequeathed by Mary Griggs Burke. The New York museum is receiving more than 300 works of Japanese and Korean art, while nearly 700 objects are going to Minneapolis. Both institutions are planning major shows for the autumn. The gift, which was pledged in 2006 and finalised by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation earlier this year, includes a cash endowment of $12.5m for each museum to fund future shows and research. The foundation also donated around 65 Chinese works to the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven and contemporary works to the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida.
Museo del Novecento, Milan
Bertolini gift
During the Milan Expo, the Museo del Novecento (Museum of the 20th Century) pays tribute to one of the most significant gifts to the city’s art collection. The exhibition New Arrivals: Works from the Bianca and Mario Bertolini Gift (15 May-1 November) presents 120 highlights from the collection of more than 600 works from the 1960s to 1990s, by artists including Richard Hamilton, Warhol, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Kiefer and Maria Lassnig.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
William Pope.L’s The Black Factory
The multimedia archive from William Pope.L’s 2004-06 performance tour, The Black Factory, is the third work by the artist to enter the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The props, documents, films and recycled The Black Factory products created by the artist and his team includes more than 700 objects they gathered from local communities to represent “blackness”. The museum bought the archive from the New York gallery Mitchell-Innes & Nash for an undisclosed price.