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# Art Movements
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-102/
- Published: 2015-06-04T20:21:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:20.000Z
- Description: This week in art news: Art Spiegelman withdrew his cover for the New Statesman, the Frick Collection abandoned its expansion plans, and Glenn Lowry's $2.1 million salary was scrutinized in the wake of MoMA's staff protests.
- Author: Tiernan Morgan
- Tags: News, Art Movements, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

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Art Spiegelman withdrew his cover for the New Statesman after the magazine declined to reprint one of his cartoons (via journal.neilgaiman.com)

*Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.*

Art Spiegelman [pulled his cover](http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/03/art-spiegelman-pulls-new-statesman-cover?ref=hyperallergic.com) for the *New Stateman*‘s latest issue after the magazine declined to reprint a cartoon on free speech that he produced in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Ironically, the theme of the issue is “saying the unsayable.”

The Museum of Modern Art’s tax return [reveals](https://news.artnet.com/people/glenn-lowrys-2-1-million-package-revealed-304820?utm%5Fcampaign=artnetnews&utm%5Fsource=060415daily&utm%5Fmedium=email) that director Glenn Lowry earned $2.1 million in 2013\. MoMA staff protested earlier his week following the museum’s demand that its staff take on additional healthcare costs (read Hyperallergic’s coverage [here](https://hyperallergic.com/facing-healthcare-cuts-museum-of-modern-art-staff-protest-outside-fundraising-gala/)).

The Frick Collection [abandoned](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/nyregion/frick-museum-abandons-contested-renovation-plan.html?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com) its expansion plans. An anonymous museum official told the *New York Times* that “there was just a number of voices out there and we heard them.” Last month, [Unite to Save the Frick](http://unitetosavethefrick.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) [published a letter](https://hyperallergic.com/jeff-koons-cindy-sherman-and-dozens-more-artists-join-fight-to-stop-frick-expansion/) expressing opposition to the museum’s expansion proposals. Signatories included Jeff Koons, Chuck Close, and Cindy Sherman.

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) [published](http://icom.museum/programmes/fighting-illicit-traffic/?ref=hyperallergic.com) an “emergency red list” of Iraqi antiquities that are threatened by potential looting.

A construction worker [was killed](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/scaffolding-collapse-kills-worker-african-american-museum-article-1.2246068?ref=hyperallergic.com) by a scaffolding collapse at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.

Prints by Rembrandt and Dürer that were believed to have been stolen from the Boston Public Library, prompting its president’s resignation, have [been found](http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2015/06/04/missing-boston-public-library-artwork-found-at.html?ana=e%5Fbost%5Fbn%5Fbreakingnews&u=pyqD6L3HHIP+2e9GmQ9Xzz4kz9S&t=1433449894&ref=hyperallergic.com). They had been filed in the wrong folder.

Edouard Manet’s “Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere” (1881) is [expected to fetch](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32971919?ref=hyperallergic.com) up to £20 million (\~$30.7 million) at Sotheby’s later this month. The auction house’s upcoming Impressionist and modern art evening sale also includes Gustav Klimt’s 1902 portrait of Gertrud Loew. The painting was recently [restituted](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33004202?ref=hyperallergic.com) to its subject’s heirs.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/06/manet-le-bar-aux-folies-bergere.jpg)

Édouard Manet, “Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère” (1881), oil on canvas, 18½ x 22 inches (courtesy Sotheby’s)

The Russian bureau of Interpol [requested](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/05/30/uk-russia-painting-sothebys-idUKKBN0OF0IZ20150530?ref=hyperallergic.com) that British police block the sale of Ivan Aivazovsky’s “Evening in Cairo” (1870) at Sotheby’s. Russia’s Interior Ministry claims that the painting was stolen from a private collection in Moscow in 1997.

Some 35,000 people [attended](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/news/156520/?ref=hyperallergic.com) the inaugural [Off Biennale Budapest](http://offbiennale.hu/what-is-off/?ref=hyperallergic.com). According to its organizers, the biennale was intended as a response to “the rampant political interference in the current Hungarian cultural infrastructure as well as the strong dependence of the scene on state funding”.

The Canada Council for the Arts [plans to restructure](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/canada-council-restructures-arts-funding-to-non-disciplinary-model/article24771312/?ref=hyperallergic.com) its 147 grant-giving programs into just six, with fewer distinctions between media and disciplines. The cuts will be implemented in 2017, the year that marks the Council’s 60th anniversary.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art [was censured](http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/05/29/bicyclists-ima-locking-us/28152983/?ref=hyperallergic.com) for making most of its outdoor grounds inaccessible to cyclists, even to those who have paid for museum entry.

Miami’s Institute of Contemporary Art [received permission](http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article22963950.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) to demolish three historic homes in order to build a sculpture park.

The Ashmolean Museum [launched](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-32989452?ref=hyperallergic.com) a fundraising campaign to acquire J.M.W. Turner’s “The High Street, Oxford” (1810).

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Caravaggio, “Burial of Saint Lucy” (1608), oil on canvas, 161 x 120 inches (via Web Gallery of Art) (click image to enlarge)

An [argument](http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/caravaggio-row-two-sicilian-churches-at-war-over-ownership-of-the-burial-of-saint-lucy-masterpiece-10295715.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) over the ownership of Caravaggio’s “The Burial of Saint Lucy” (1608) erupted between two churches in Sicily.

The Clean Bay Area recycling center in San Francisco is looking for a woman who [unknowingly disposed](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19665632?ref=hyperallergic.com) of a rare Apple-1 computer. One of six known functioning Apple-1 computers sold at Bonhams [last October](https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-70/) for $905,000.

Eighty wooden dragons [will be built](http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/historic-buildings/art527937-multicoloured-chinese-dragons-to-return-to-kews-great-pagoda-in-major-restoration?ref=hyperallergic.com) for the Kew Pagoda as part of a major restoration project.

Japan’s Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact [demanded](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11650752/US-museum-must-call-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki-war-crimes-say-Japanese.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) that the US Energy Department and the National Park Service refer to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as war crimes. The Energy Department and Park Service are currently collaborating on plans for museums dedicated to the Manhattan Project.

Two protestors [were removed](http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/paris-auction-hopi-artifacts-decried-us-stirs-protest-31444433?ref=hyperallergic.com) from a sale of Hopi artifacts at the Drouot auction house in Paris.

New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [will discuss](http://www.metro.us/new-york/city-considers-historic-status-to-protect-stonewall-inn/zsJoeE---fMOkN4uch8AdM/?ref=hyperallergic.com) whether the Stonewall Inn — ground zero for the [riots of the same name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall%5Friots?ref=hyperallergic.com) and an icon of the LGBT rights movement — should be designated as an official historic site.

Jake and Dinos Chapman’s “Cyber Iconic Man” (1999), [will go on display](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/in-the-frame/156583/?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Sheffield Cathedral this fall. The work consists of a figure suspended above a bucket of fake blood. The Dean of the cathedral, the Very Reverend Peter Bradley, told the *Art Newspaper* that “the congregation is up for it.”

Sammy Olagbaju, a retired stockbroker, [plans to build](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/156469/?ref=hyperallergic.com) a museum in Lagos for his modern and contemporary art collection.

Qatar Museums [launched a competition](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/156522/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to select an architect to convert a former flour mill and its grain silos into an art venue named the Art Mill.

French street artist Invader has been [installing](http://www.esa.int/About%5FUs/Street%5Fart%5Finvading%5FESA?ref=hyperallergic.com) a number of his signature mosaic pieces on sites belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA). Back in March, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti [installed](http://www.space-invaders.com/post/space2iss/?ref=hyperallergic.com) one of Invader’s works on the International Space Station (ISS).

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A mosaic by Invader on the International Space Station (© ESA/NASA. Courtesy the European Space Agency)

## Transactions

Banksy’s 1998 work “Silent Majority” — a 33-foot painting produced on the side of a truck trailer — [was sold](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-32955713?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Paris for around $676,000.

The Tate Modern [will receive](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/156135/?ref=hyperallergic.com) an extra £6 million (\~$9.2 million) in government funding. According to the *Art Newspaper*, the agreement was reached ahead of the Conservative party’s re-election last month.

The British Museum [agreed](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/156253/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to loan 500 objects to the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi.

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston [acquired](https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/06/02/trove-john-singer-sargent-letters-memorabilia-gift-mfa/qrPs8czgMmBHAeHErRLGgJ/story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) a trove of letters, sketches, and ephemera belonging to John Singer Sargent.

A first edition of JRR Tolkien’s *The Hobbit* (1937), which includes an Elvish inscription by the author, [sold](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33013144?ref=hyperallergic.com) at auction for £137,000 (\~$210,500).

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — which is largely funded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton — has spent just under $150 million on art within the last year. Recent acquisitions [include](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/crystal-bridges-museum-buying-more-art-by-women/?ref=hyperallergic.com) Louise Bourgeois’s “Maman” (1999) and Jasper Johns’s “Flag” (1983).

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Louise Bourgeois, “Maman” (1999), bronze, stainless steel, and marble, 30ft. 5 inches × 29ft. 3 inches × 33ft. 7 inches. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Installation view at Tate Modern, London, 2007 (photo by Marcus Leith. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA. Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)

## Transitions

The Cincinnati Art Museum [opened](http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/images/PR%5FWolf%5FGallery.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) the Nancy and David Wolf Gallery, a permanent space showcasing contemporary ceramic, glass, and wood work.

Joshua David, the co-founder of Friends of the High Line, is to [become](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/high-line-founder-to-lead-world-monuments-fund/?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com) the third president of the World Monuments Fund.

Pierre Audi was [hired](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/arts/pierre-audi-is-set-to-become-artistic-director-of-park-avenue-armory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) to be the next artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory.

Rebecca R. Hart was [appointed](http://denverartmuseum.org/article/press-release/rebecca-r-hart-named-curator-modern-and-contemporary-art-denver-art-museum?ref=hyperallergic.com) as a curator of modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum.

Andrew Edlin Gallery [will relocate](http://www.edlingallery.com/news%5Fdetail/moving-to-the-bowery?ref=hyperallergic.com) to 212 Bowery during the Fall.

The Monya Rose Gallery is planning to [relocate](http://observer.com/2015/06/monya-rowe-gallery-to-move/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to St. Augustine, Florida.

## Accolades

*Serial* became the first podcast to [receive](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32959630?ref=hyperallergic.com) the Peabody Award for news.

Richard Serra was [awarded](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/news/156505/?ref=hyperallergic.com) the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor at the French Consulate in New York.

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A Richard Serra installation in Qatar (photo by Molly Waterman for Hyperallergic)

## Obituaries

[Rigby Graham](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/01/rigby-graham?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1931–2015), painter.

[Bruce Martin](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/27/bruce-martin?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1917–2015), architect and designer of the K8 red phone box.

[Dudley Williams](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/arts/dance/dudley-williams-eloquent-dancer-who-defied-age-dies-at-76.html?ref=arts&%5Fr=0) (1938–2015), dancer.

Hyper Al and Hyper Alex (2015–2015), the Hyperallergic office mice.

![Note: Mice depicted are not Hyperallergic's actual, dearly departed mice, Hyper Al and Hyper Alex. (photo by Rama/Wikimedia Commons)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/06/office-mice-art-movements.jpg)

Note: Mice depicted are not Hyperallergic’s actual, dearly departed mice, Hyper Al and Hyper Alex. (photo by Rama/Wikimedia Commons)