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# Art Movements
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-15/
- Published: 2013-10-04T16:47:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:00.000Z
- Description: The government shutdown's impact on art, looted Egyptian museum objects recovered, Queens Museum sets reopening date, International Photography Hall of Fame finds new home, and more...
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: News, Art Movements, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![John Wehrle's 1984 "Galileo, Jupiter, Apollo" mural in Los Angeles in 2007 (photograph by Ingrid Truemper/Flickr user)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/galileomural.jpg)

John Wehrle’s 1984 “Galileo, Jupiter, Apollo” mural in Los Angeles in 2007 (photograph by Ingrid Truemper/Flickr user)

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

The US government remains in shutdown mode. Here are some notable fall outs that have been impacting the art community: the [**Smithsonian’s museums are all closed**](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-smithsonian-federal-government-shutdown-20131001,0,164684.story?ref=hyperallergic.com) along with national monuments; the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was unable to attend the opening of the *Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections* at the National Gallery of Art [**after it was canceled**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/greek-prime-minister-shut-out-of-art-exhibit-opening-reception-by-shutdown/2013/10/01/bb96489e-2aa8-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f%5Fstory.html?ref=hyperallergic.com); and a continued shutdown could cause [**delays for National Endowment for the Arts grants and visas**](http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/10/govt%5Fshutdown%5Feffects%5Fon%5Farts%5Findustry%5Fminor%5Fnow%5Fbut%5Fwill%5Fgrow%5Fadvocacy%5Fgroup%5Fwarns.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). However, as NPR reports, the shutdown has been a boon to [**private museums in Washington, DC**](http://www.npr.org/2013/10/02/228502917/some-are-benefiting-from-the-government-shutdown?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Over[ **400 objects that were looted out of Egypt’s Mallawi Museum**](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ransacked-Egyptian-museum-recovers-more-looted-works/30455?ref=hyperallergic.com) have been recovered, including 13 through a sting operation, the *Art Newspaper* reports.

The Queens Museum has officially [**set its re-opening date for November 9**](http://www.queensmuseum.org/queens-museum-re-opening?ref=hyperallergic.com).

![Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (photograph by the author)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/cooperhewitt2.jpg)

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (photograph by the author)

To [**add to their $79 million renovation project**](http://www.afanews.com/home/item/2139-cooper-hewitt-museum-receives-$5-million-for-renovation?ref=hyperallergic.com#.Uk7XAWTXhEI), New York City is giving the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum an additional $5 million.

The Bass Museum of Art [**received a $7.5 million grant from the City of Miami Beach**](http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/morning-edition/2013/10/the-bass-museum-of-art-gets-75m.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) for a new wing.

Washington State University [**received a donation of $5 million** ](http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/oct/02/wsu-plans-new-art-museum-receives-5-million-gift/?ref=hyperallergic.com)towards a new art museum on campus.

The [**International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum opened at its new St. Louis location**](http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/article%5Fabd79ca2-53ed-55c7-9dd8-ead11f56ad80.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) after wandering from Santa Barbara, California, to Oklahoma City, where it was kicked out of the science center where it was housed and went looking for a new home.

The Museum for African Art in New York [**is officially planned to open sometime in 2014**](http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/09/26/new-africa-center-sets-2014-opening-date/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the *Wall Street Journal* reports.

According to a Museums Association survey, last year [**around a third of museums and galleries in the United Kingdom eliminated staff**](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24332116?ref=hyperallergic.com). In comparison, half of these organizations boosted their amount of volunteers and interns.

Photojournalist Bill Eppridge, probably best known for his *LIFE* photographs such as his harrowing images of the assassination of Robert Kennedy, [**passed away this week**](http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/03/in-memoriam-iconic-life-photographer-bill-eppridge-1938-2013/?ref=hyperallergic.com#1).

An 1984 Los Angeles mural by John Wehrle — called “Galileo, Jupiter, Apolllo” —[ **is being uncovered and restored**](http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/10/03/la-artist-uncovering-history-with-restoration-of-1984-mural-in-downtown-la/?ref=hyperallergic.com) by artist William F. Herron III. It’s one of several murals created during the 1984 Summer Olympics that are now being restored by the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles.

![William Tecumseh Sherman monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 2009, currently being restored (photograph by Ralph Hockens/Flickr user)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/shermanmonument.jpg)

William Tecumseh Sherman monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 2009, currently being restored (photograph by Ralph Hockens/Flickr user)

The statue of William Tecumseh Sherman designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens[ **is nearing the completion of its $500,000 conservation**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/nyregion/they-made-the-statue-dazzle-then-to-improve-it-they-toned-it-down.html?smid=tw-share&%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com), which has involved gilding the whole sculpture for a reveal this month in Manhattan’s Grand Army Plaza, the *New York Times* reports.

The [**Masterpieces in Schools project in the UK**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/arts/design/a-monet-for-show-and-tell.html?smid=tw-share&ref=hyperallergic.com) is loaning paintings by artists like Turner, Monet, and Lowry to public schools.

A Pittsburgh art installation by Kurt Hentschlager that involved fog machines and strobe lights[ **was shut down after three people had seizures**](http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/art-architecture/zee-exhibit-to-reopen-wednesday-despite-patrons-seizures-705536/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

A new [**24-hour sculpture park opened in Oslo**](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/01/ekeberg-park-sculpture-all-night-oslo?ref=hyperallergic.com) with art by James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, and Marina Abramović.

The “Tower of Power” by Chris Burden at the New Museum — made of 100 kilograms of real gold — [**has required extra security**](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/04/new-museum-york-security-gold-display?ref=hyperallergic.com) due to its thievery temptations.

Harvard Art Museums [**is launching a digital magazine called *Index***](http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/about/press/harvard-art-museums-launch-index-magazine?ref=hyperallergic.com), which will be “a platform for discussions about visual culture and an exchange of ideas,” produced by their staff and others at international art-related organizations.

[**Ai Weiwei has teamed up with The Sk8room**](http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-designs-skateboard-decks-for-the-sk8room-09-27-2013/?ref=hyperallergic.com) to release a series of skateboards, showing piles of ceramic crabs and sunflower seeds with quotes like: “maybe being powerful means to be fragile.”