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# Art Movements
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-145/
- Published: 2016-04-01T20:39:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:42:28.000Z
- Description: This week in art news: Florentijn Hofman accused Brazilian protesters of plagiarizing his giant duck sculpture, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was criticized for a planned display devoted to Bill Cosby, and the Denver Art Museum returned a stolen sandstone sculpture to C
- Author: Tiernan Morgan
- Tags: News, Art Movements, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

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E. Simms Campbell, “A Night-Club Map of Harlem” (1932) (courtesy Swann Auction Galleries) (click to enlarge)

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

[Florentijn Hofman](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35931668?ref=hyperallergic.com), the artist best known for his giant inflatable duck sculpture, claimed that a large duck used by Brazilian protestors amounts to plagiarism. Brazilian industrial group FIESP commissioned the duck — which was produced by the same factory that created one of Hofman’s ducks — to be used in the ongoing protests against Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff.

Several women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault criticized the [National Museum of African American History and Culture](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/arts/design/museums-plan-to-include-cosby-material-draws-criticism-from-accusers.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s decision not to mention their accusations in written material that will accompany an exhibit dedicated to the entertainer when the museum opens in September. In response, the museum [pledged](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/31/bill-cosby-scandal-smithsonian-exhibition?ref=hyperallergic.com) to incorporate information about the allegations into its Cosby display.

The Denver Art Museum returned the [Torso of Rama](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35909798?ref=hyperallergic.com) to Cambodia. The sandstone sculpture, which was acquired by the museum in 1986, was stolen from the Koh Ker temple during Cambodia’s civil war (1967–75).

[E.S. Campbell’](http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2408+++++415+&refno=++716216&saletype=&ref=hyperallergic.com)s “A Night-Club Map of Harlem” (1932) sold at Swann Auction Galleries for $100,000 (with buyer’s premium), a price well over the high estimate of $60,000 and a record for the artist. Campbell drew the map, which features musicians such as Cab Calloway and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, for the centerfold of Volume 1, Number 1 of the 1932 *Manhattan Magazine*. It was reproduced in *Esquire* (where Campbell became a regular contributor) nine months later.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/03/26109442465_697e280c4d_o.jpg)

Veronese, “Venice Triumphant” (ca. 1581) (courtesy Department for Culture, Media, and Sport) (click to enlarge)

The UK’s culture minister Ed Vaizey placed an export bar on [Veronese](http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/uk-places-export-bar-on-15m-veronese-drawing-/?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s “Venice Triumphant” (ca. 1581), a preparatory sketch Veronese made for “The Apotheosis of Venice.” The drawing was sold by the Earl of Harewood to a foreign buyer for £15.4 million (\~$21.9 million), making it the third most expensive European drawing ever sold at auction.

Russian investigators altered the charges against artist [Pyotr Pavlensky](http://www.artforum.com/news/id=59057?ref=hyperallergic.com) for a performance in which he torched the front door of the Federal Security Service’s Moscow headquarters. Pavlensky is now being charged with “damaging a cultural heritage site,” a crime that carries the same maximum sentence as the previous charge of vandalism.

The [University of New South Wales](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35922858?ref=hyperallergic.com) published an [Indigenous Terminology Guide](https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/indigenous-terminology?ref=hyperallergic.com) encouraging students to state that Australia was “invaded, occupied, and colonised,” as opposed to “settled” or “discovered.” “Language cannot be regarded as a neutral or unproblematic medium,” the guide states,” and can cause or reflect discrimination due to its intricate links with society and culture.”

The [Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/arts/design/crystal-bridges-museum-to-open-new-space-for-contemporary-art.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) announced plans to transform a defunct Kraft cheese plant in Bentonville into a contemporary art space.

Elizabeth Murdoch launched the [Freelands Artist Award](http://freelandsfoundation.co.uk/award/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a $100,000 annual prize for a mid-career female artist based in the UK.

[Andy Warhol](http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1366580/andy-warhols-first-new-york-studio-hits-the-real-estate?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s first New York studio space went on sale for an asking price of $9.975 million.

The artist-run exhibition space [FJORD](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fjord-gallery-relaunch-new-year-new-space--6?ref=hyperallergic.com#/story) is looking to raise $10,000 on Indiegogo in order to secure a new space in the Crane Arts Building in central Philadelphia.

[Joseph Wright](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-35923483?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump” (1768) went on display at Tate Britain. The painting is presented alongside the only known sketch of the painting.

[Le Corbusier](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/29/le-corbusier-tapestry-finally-finds-its-home-on-sydney-opera-house-wall?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s tapestry “Les Dés Sont Jetés” (“The Dice Are Cast,” 1959) went back on display at the Sydney Opera House, 57 years after Jørn Utzon commissioned the work.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/03/2tapestry-unveiling_sydney-opera-house_002-edit.jpg)

Le Courbusier, “Les Dés Sont Jetés” (“The Dice Are Cast,” 1959) (photo by Dan Boud, courtesy Sydney Opera House) (click to enlarge)

## Transactions

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery acquired [Allan Ramsay](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/aboutus/blog/a-new-portrait-of-bonnie-prince-charlie/?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720–88).

[Isaac Julien](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/22/film-isaac-julien-morecambe-cockle-picker-disaster-uk-public-art?ref=hyperallergic.com)‘s “Ten Thousand Waves” (2010), an installation film inspired by the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster, was jointly purchased by the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne and the Whitworth in Manchester.

The [Getty Foundation](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cam-getty-pst-lala-20160330-story.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) announced $8.45 million in exhibition grants to 43 southern California organizations scheduled to participate in *Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles/Latin America*.

Microsoft donated $1 million to the Smithsonian’s [National Museum of African American History and Culture](http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/microsoft-donates-1-million-smithsonian-s-national-museum-african-american-history-and-cult?ref=hyperallergic.com).

[Michael Douglas](https://www.eastman.org/michael-douglas-donates-personal-film-collection-george-eastman-museum?ref=hyperallergic.com) donated his personal film collection of 35mm and 16mm prints to the George Eastman Museum.

[M+](http://www.westkowloon.hk/en/newsroom/news/m-of-west-kowloon-cultural-district-acquires-new-work-by-tiffany-chung-with-the-brown-family-annual-acquisition-fund/?ref=hyperallergic.com) acquired two works by multimedia artist Tiffany Chung.

London’s [National Portrait Gallery](http://www.npg.org.uk/about/press/news-release-baroness-joan-bakewell.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) acquired Glenys Barton’s sculpture of journalist and broadcaster Baroness Joan Bakewell.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/04/6997.jpg)

Glenys Barton, “Baroness Joan Bakewell” (2014) (photo © National Portrait Gallery, London)

## Transitions

Blank Forms, Recess, and the Swiss Institute became [W.A.G.E. Certified](http://www.wageforwork.com/certification/6/w.a.g.e.-certified-?ref=hyperallergic.com).

[Nina Zimmer](http://www.monopol-magazin.de/nina-zimmer-wird-k%C3%BCnstlerische-direktorin-beim-kunstmuseum-bern-und-zentrum-paul-klee?ref=hyperallergic.com) was appointed director of the Zentrum Paul Klee and the Kunstmuseum Bern.

[Lynda Roscoe Hartigan](http://www.pem.org/press/press%5Frelease/336-pem%5Fappoints%5Fnew%5Fdeputy%5Fdirector?ref=hyperallergic.com) was appointed deputy director of the Peabody Essex Museum.

[Carl Heron](http://www.britishmuseum.org/about%5Fus/news%5Fand%5Fpress/press%5Freleases/2016/scientific%5Fresearch%5Fdirector.aspx?ref=hyperallergic.com) was appointed director of scientific research at the British Museum.

[Kathryn MacKay](http://www.artforum.com/news/id=59066?ref=hyperallergic.com) was appointed associate film curator at the University of California’s Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

[Thelma Golden, Soumaya Slim, and Caroline Grainge](http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/29/lacma-announces-new-board-members-including-thelma-golden/?ref=hyperallergic.com) were appointed to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art’s board of trustees.

[Cheyenne Westphal](http://theartnewspaper.com/market/exodus-continues-at-sotheby-s-as-worldwide-head-of-contemporary-art-to-leave/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art, will leave the auction house next month.

Philanthropist Shari Behnke announced that the [New Foundation Seattle](http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/03/30/23885524/did-the-new-foundation-seattle-just-go-up-in-smoke?ref=hyperallergic.com) will close at the end of May due to an illness in her family. According to *The Stranger*, the Foundation’s staffers first learned of the decision from Behnke’s press statement.

The [Untitled art fair](http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1364592/untitled-art-fair-expands-to-san-francisco?ref=hyperallergic.com) will expand to San Francisco next year.

[Greene Naftali](http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/29/greene-naftali-to-open-a-temporary-brooklyn-space-with-a-lutz-bacher-show/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will open a temporary exhibition space in Williamsburg — dubbed the Greene Naftali Garage — on April 8.

[Hauser & Wirth](http://cloud.hauserwirth.com/documents/kbrfl7DI8r6Ul54RWB0s93i7t733ZH6H70QI2R37v4yZUj29aW/lygia%5Fpape%5Fannouncement1-nO7WO0.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) now represents the estate of artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004).

## Obituaries

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/03/sealand-aerial-view.jpg)

Aerial view of the Principality of Sealand (via Wikipedia) (click to enlarge)

[David Baker](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/arts/music/david-baker-who-helped-bring-jazz-studies-into-the-academy-dies-at-84.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1931–2016), jazz performer, composer, and educator.

[Joan Bates, aka Princess Joan of Sealand](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12205685/Princess-Joan-of-Sealand-obituary.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1929–2016), wife of Paddy Roy Bates who declared himself the head of state of [Sealand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality%5Fof%5FSealand?ref=hyperallergic.com) — a micronation consisting of an abandoned military platform off the coast of Suffolk.

[Terry Brain](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-35907091?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1956–2016), animator. Co-created the popular television series *The Trap Door* (1984–86).

[Ronnie Corbett](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/31/ronnie-corbett-dies-aged-85/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1930-2016), comedian and actor. Best known for *The Two Ronnies*.

[Gegam Grigorian](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12207506/Gegam-Grigorian-opera-singer-obituary.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1951–2016), opera singer.

[Zaha Hadid](https://hyperallergic.com/starchitect-zaha-hadid-dead-at-65/) (1950–2016), architect. The first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Gold Medal.

[Jim Harrison](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/arts/jim-harrison-free-spirited-writer-dies-at-78.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1937–2016), poet and author. Best known for *Legends of the Fall* (1979).

[Imre Kertesz](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35933390?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1929-2016), writer. Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature.

[Peter Stanford](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/nyregion/peter-stanford-steward-of-new-yorks-maritime-history-dies-at-89.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1927–2016), founding president of the South Street Seaport Museum.