Ryan McNamara, Devin Troy Strother, Artist Moves, and a lot of museum news

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ONLINE NOW  AAMD Art Museums Got Over 61 Million Visitors Last Year, and Are Stable, New Survey Shows Over 61 million people visited art museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico last year, according to a new survey released today by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) that it plans to conduct annually. The survey (which is embedded at the end of this article) indicates that the association's members' institutions are, on the whole, stable in the wake of the global financial meltdown of 2008, according to AAMD Executive Director Chris Anagnos. "It reaffirms to me that museums are stable," Anagnos told ARTnews in an interview. "I say this in a macro sense because each institution has challenges, but as a whole museums have weathered that storm."  ALSO ONLINE  Whitney Museum Massively Expands Online Collection Database For the longest time, one visited the Whitney Museum's online collection database with a certain amount of sadness, since images of only 700 works were available. A search for even a well-collected luminary like Mike Kelley, for instance, returned only one piece. But now the museum announced today that it has vastly expanded its online database, by a factor of 300, to some 21,000 works. Devin Troy Strother Will Transform Marlborough Chelsea Into a Basketball Court This Saturday On Saturday Marlborough Chelsea will open "Space Jam," a show of new work by Devin Troy Strother that includes painting, sculpture, and a pretty ambitious basketball court installation. Ryan McNamara Wants You To Be Surprised By His New Show at Mary Boone On a recent phone call, Ryan McNamara wasn't giving much away about what to expect from his new show at Mary Boone's uptown location, which was curated by Piper Marshall and opens tonight. Collector's Corner: Ryan Kortman Collector's Corner is a recurring interview feature on the ARTnews website that checks in with art collectors around the world. Ryan Kortman, started collecting art at the ripe age of 25, after he finished school at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. Since then, Kortman has moved to Los Angeles and back to Chicago, where he currently resides with his wife Jessica and a collection of over 80 works by 44 different artists, including Brian Belott, Gina Beavers, Sayre Gomez, and Adam Scott. Glenn Horowitz to Open New Manhattan Gallery Across From MoMA Next week, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller will open a new gallery in Manhattan, called Rare, which will showcase "editions, manuscripts, letters, archival material, fine art, photography, and decorative art from the 19th century to the present," according to an announcement from the gallery. Horowitz runs an office out of Midtown and has a space in East Hampton, but this is their first serious gallery in Manhattan since shuttering John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Booksellers on 64th Street, after McWhinnie's death in 2012.  True Confessions of a Justified Art Dealer, Part Two: Forget It, Joel. It's Chinatown. A selection from the January 2015 issue of ARTnews, on newsstands now. @artnewsmag We invite you to join us on Instagram. Fresh art, every day.    AROUND THE ART WORLD    The Detroit Institute of Arts' director is retiring. — Detroit Free Press Christie's and Sotheby's are bullish on guarantees. — The New York Times Collector Leonard Lauder, 81, got married. — Page Six Here's a profile of Sean Scully — The Guardian And here's one of Luc Tuymans. — Financial Times Anicka Yi at the Cleveland Museum of Art. — Contemporary Art Daily Lisa Oppenheim Joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York New York's Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced that it now represents New York–based artist Lisa Oppenheim. Born in 1974, Oppenheim is a leader within a generation of artists who approach photography and video with an expansive sense of their boundaries, and their possibilities, experimenting with a wide variety of materials and sources for her images, from dark-room alchemy to online appropriation.  Half a Million People Have Seen MoMA's Matisse Cut-Outs Show The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced today that it would be extending its "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs" exhibition to February 10 (that's two days later than originally planned). The museum will also stay open until 8 p.m. on the weekends of January 17–18 and January 24–25. Pérez Art Museum Miami Director Thom Collins to Lead Barnes Foundation Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation announced today that it has hired Thomas Collins, who has served as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami for the past five years, to replace its outgoing director Derek Gillman, who was recently named the new chairman of the Impressionist and Modern art department at Christie's auction house and stepped down at the Barnes in 2013.  Hugo McCloud Joins Sean Kelly Gallery Sean Kelly Gallery said today that it now represents Brooklyn-based artist Hugo McCloud, whose first solo show there opens on January 29. McCloud was included in a summer group show at Sean Kelly, and the gallery brought his work to Art Basel Miami Beach in December.

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