Mirrors, wind and a television.
Two early works by Joan Jonas have been jointly acquired by the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn (@hirshhorn) and The Gund at Kenyon College, with funds from Agnes Gund and the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund. Wind (1968), a silent black-and-white film and one of her first collaborations with dancers, shows performers battling strong winds on a snowy beach, two of them in mirrored costumes. Mirror Pieces Installation II (1969/2014) sets mirrors around a television playing her Nudes with Mirrors (1969). In the same roundup, The Art Newspaper reports the Detroit Institute of Arts (@DIADetroit) has received more than 2,000 works from the estate of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman, with a focus on Fluxus artists such as Joseph Beuys, George Maciunas and Yoko Ono.
A point of no return, for Porto.
Ryoji Ikeda's (@ryojiikeda) video installation point of no return (2018), built from a DLP projector, a computer, a speaker and an HMI lamp, has entered the permanent collection of the Fundação de Serralves in Porto, his gallery Almine Rech (@AlmineRech) announced. It is an edition of three.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: the monuments are rising.
Berlin-based Archan Nair (@ArchanNair) has been building Echoes Within Mūori, "a living mythology" of beings and cosmic landscapes on Ethereum, more than 100 works since January 2025. Its first chapter, Āvorn :: The Ascendants, came with quests and a hunt for "something small and shy" hidden in one artwork, found the day the hunt opened. On Oct 21 he announced the second, Dōrvath :: The Monuments, and on Oct 24 he posted a towering many-armed figure with two tiny travelers at its feet: "The monuments are rising." No date yet, only "soon."
Ahead: on Thursday bitforms gallery (@bitforms) in New York opens To See for Oneself by LaJuné McMillian, through Jan 9, 2027.
At its center is The Portal's Keeper, an Unreal Engine avatar of the artist's future self, powered by a locally hosted language model built from McMillian's own prayers and essays and more than 1,300 prayers collected from visitors at the Frist Art Museum (@fristartmuseum) in 2024. It runs with no cloud connection, so conversations stay in the room, next to a living hydroponic sculpture.
And a history: in September 2014 the New Museum (@newmuseum) opened NEW INC (@NEWINC) at 231 Bowery, the first museum-led incubator for art, design and technology, with Julia Kaganskiy as its first director and Rhizome (@rhizome) as an anchor tenant.
Its first class included Adam Harvey, Tristan Perich (@tristanperich), Lisa Park and Sougwen Chung (@sougwen), who began drawing with a robot there in 2015, her hand and the machine's arm sharing a single sheet. "We're building an ecosystem," Kaganskiy said. NEW INC is now in its 13th year.