National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Fitch and Trecartin in Australia
The NGV is the first Australian institution to acquire a “sculptural theatre” by the US artists Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch. Available Sync (2011), an installation of Ikea furniture resembling a teenager’s lounge that includes the video The Re’Search (2009-10), is on view in the exhibition Ryan Trecartin: Re’Search Wait’S (until 13 September). The museum bought the work for an undisclosed price from the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York last August, with the support of the Loti and Victor Smorgon Fund.
Marcel Duchamp, Roue de bicyclette
(bicycle wheel) (1913/1960/1976)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Marcel Duchamp archive
The Moderna Museet has acquired the Marcel Duchamp archive of the Swedish art historian Ulf Linde, who worked closely with the artist, producing replicas of Duchamp’s major works in the 1960s. The collection of sketches, letters, photographs and books was partly donated from Linde’s estate and partly purchased with support from the bishop Ake Bonnier. Daniel Birnbaum, the director of the Moderna Museet, declined to reveal the sums involved, saying: “[They] cannot be measured in earthly terms”. The museum has dedicated a room to the permanent display of its Duchamp collection, including Linde’s 1961 replica of The Bridge Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23), the first that was authorised by Duchamp.
Jasper Johns, Target (1961)
The Art Institute of Chicago
Contemporary art comes with conditions
The Chicago-based collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson have donated 42 works to the Art Institute of Chicago. They include nine paintings by Andy Warhol, three by Jasper Johns, a Robert Rauschenberg Combine and six photographs from Cindy Sherman’s Centerfolds series, to be installed in the Modern wing for 50 years from early 2016. The institute was also given 105 drawings from the 1960s, by artists including Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and Mel Bochner, from the collection of the Chicago-based lawyer Irving Stenn.
Liam Gillick, The Two Hundred and Twenty Second Floor (2005)
Kunsthaus Zürich
Permanent loans
The Walter A. Bechtler Foundation has given 23 contemporary works by 17 artists on permanent loan to the Kunsthaus Zürich. Three sculptures by Rebecca Warren, along with the room-sized installations The Two Hundred and Twenty Second Floor (2005) by Liam Gillick and Untitled (Chamer Raum) (1991) by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, are currently on display. Further temporary installations are planned for 2016 and 2017.
