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Neue Galerie Returns Nazi-Seized Artwork and Then Buys It Back
New York Times / September 28th, 2016
The Neue Galerie in Manhattan, co-founded in 2001 by cosmetics scion and art restitution advocate Ronald S. Lauder, announced an unusual settlement on Tuesday. A painting from the Neue Galerie collection, Nude, 1914, by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, was found to be Nazi loot from a Jewish family ...
Looking Back at Warhol's Trump Tower
PHAIDON / September 18th, 2016
PHAIDON (publisher of the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne Collection) provides a timely art anecdote among its books on artist Andy Warhol: Presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Warhol’s factory in April 1981, with the idea to commission an image of his Trump Tower, then under ...
National Gallery of Australia to Get $11 Million in Compensation for Stolen Statue
ABC / September 26th, 2016
The Supreme Court of New York has granted a motion in favour of a $11 million payment to the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), as compensation for its purchase of a stolen Indian antiquity from disgraced New York art dealer Subhash Kapoor that was later returned to India. The court has ...
Wildenstein Family Denied Second Delay in Tax Fraud Trial
Bloomberg / September 26th, 2016
Bloomberg reports that a French judge has denied the wealthy art-dealing Wildenstein family a second delay in their fiscal fraud trial. Two members of the Wildenstein clan had sought a stay on the trial in criminal court while a civil case was completed first. Guy Wildenstein is accused of ...
Jared Leto to Play Andy Warhol in New Biopic
ArtfixDaily / September 20th, 2016
Actor Jared Leto, who recently portrayed the Joker in Suicide Squad and won best supporting actor in 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, will star in a new biopic on Andy Warhol. Leto will also produce Warhol, and has acquired rights to Victor Bockris’s 1989 book Warhol: The Biography, ...
EXPO CHICAGO Expands Art Program Inside Navy Pier and Around the City
ArtfixDaily / September 19th, 2016
EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Modern & Contemporary Art, has an expanded program of artists this year selected for IN/SITU, EXPO Projects, IN/SITU Outside and OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project. IN/SITU, curated by Pérez Art Museum Miami Associate Curator Diana Nawi, features ...
Artist Collaborates With NASA to Create Impactful Images of Dying Glaciers
New York Times / September 18th, 2016
At the Global Exchange summit at New York's Lincoln Center last Friday a new art-science collaboration was announced between photojournalist Justin Guariglia and NASA. Guariglia will work with geoscientists at NASA to “figure out fresh ways to present the effects of climate ...
TripAdvisor Ranks Top U.S. Museums
ArtfixDaily / September 15th, 2016
Travelers have ranked their favorite museums on TripAdvisor for 2016 and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art topped the list for museums in the U.S. The Met had a record number of visitors—6.7 million—during the fiscal year that ended on June 30 (FY16). There were some big draws, ...
Heatherwick's The Vessel to Rise Up in New York's Hudson Yards
ArtfixDaily / September 14th, 2016
It boasts 154 interconnecting stairways, 2,400 steps, and 80 landings comprising a mile's worth of walkways. And all of it will lead to nowhere on the Far West Side of Manhattan. New York Times reports that The Vessel is the much-debated, $150-million public landmark set to center the main ...
A New Private Museum to Open in Hudson Valley
Bloomberg / September 14th, 2016
Collectors Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu could be planning to open a 20,000-square-foot private exhibition space in Cold Spring, N.Y., where their 400-piece collection of postwar Italian art will be on view, first reported Bloomberg. The couple also owns 500 pieces of Murano glass. Their ...
4 Ways Technology Has Altered the Museum Visit
The Atlantic / September 13th, 2016
The Atlantic breaks down four ways museums will be, and already are, adapting to the digital age. 1. Cellphones are no longer shunned at museums and are used for social media sharing, "selfies," navigating galleries, and more... Atlantic: Embracing cellphones also means that more art ...
Alec Baldwin Sues Manhattan Art Dealer Over Alleged 'Copy'
ArtfixDaily / September 13th, 2016
Actor Alec Baldwin sued Manhattan art dealer Mary Boone in New York Surpreme Court on Monday, alleging that she sold him a later version of a painting for $190,000 that was not the original he thought he was buying. Baldwin says he wanted to buy Ross Bleckner’s 1996 painting 'Sea and ...
Museum Voorlinden Debuts With Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra Works
ArtfixDaily / September 12th, 2016
The new Museum Voorlinden near the Dutch North Sea coast opened on Sept. 11 to showcase the impressive collection of modern and contemporary art assembled by wealthy Dutch industrialist Joop van Caldenborgh. Among the highlights is Richard Serra’s 216-ton steel sculpture Open Ended ...
Finnish State Funding For Helsinki Guggenheim Gets Nixed
Reuters / September 11th, 2016
Finnish politics have sunk plans for 40 million euros in government funding to go towards a new Guggenheim branch. Reuters: A plan to build a Guggenheim museum on the Helsinki waterfront - joining the likes of those that grace New York, Bilbao and Venice - appears close to collapse because of a ...
After a Near-Derailment, Exhibition of Masterworks from Tehran's Hidden Art Collection Heads to Berlin
DW / September 8th, 2016
Berlin's Gemäldegalerie will be the first-ever foreign venue for sixty 20th-century European and American masterworks, along with key works by Iranian artists, recently unveiled from the hidden collection of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA). From December 4, 2016, to February 26, 2017, ...
Manhattan Developer Indicted For Felony Tax Fraud on Art Purchases
ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2016
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has cracked down again in pursuit of taxes allegedly evaded on art and antiques purchases. Real estate developer Michael Shvo, 43, was arrested and released on $500,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty at a hearing in Manhattan State Supreme Court. Two ...
Prison Time For Paris Auction House Staff Who Stole Tons of Objects
Guardian / September 6th, 2016
Porters who operated a lucrative crime ring at Paris’s most prestigious auction house have been jailed for the theft of 275 tons of objects worth millions. A judge sentenced 30 people to between 18 months and three years in prison. They were members of a traditional 110-strong union known as ...
Victoria and Albert Museum Director Reportedly to Resign Over Brexit Concerns
Guardian / September 4th, 2016
The director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, Martin Roth, is expected to resign this week and return to his native Germany in a decision fuelled by his disillusionment at the Brexit vote. Roth was appointed in 2011, becoming the first foreign director of the V&A since it was founded ...
Museum Exhibition Explores Work of Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Sisters
Wisconsin State Journal / September 4th, 2016
Georgia O’Keeffe was not the only one in her family with artistic talent. Two of her sisters, Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe and Catherine O’Keeffe Klenert, had their own achievements in the art community as well. Their hometown, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is honoring them with an exhibit, “The Three Sisters ...
Whaling Museum Gets Grant to Restore 1,275-Foot Painting
Patriot Ledger / August 31st, 2016
It's a quarter-mile long - a fitting size for a painting of sea-faring ventures - and now this rare panoramic artwork will return to its former glory. From the Patriot Ledger: The New Bedford Whaling Museum [Mass.] has been awarded $180,000 to restore one of its largest and rarest artifacts, ...