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# Art Movements
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-16/
- Published: 2013-10-11T15:01:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:58.000Z
- Description: The last chance for 5Pointz survival lost, DIA looks at moving to state control, Martin Creed's first retrospective, lost Da Vinci possibly found, Norman Rockwell painting definitely lost, 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)

![Martin Creed's 2011 installation in in Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/martincreedballoons.jpg)

Martin Creed’s 2011 installation in the Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo in Spain (photograph by Flickr user En busca del sol)

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

Goodbye 5Pointz: the graffiti center in Long Island City [**may be demolished by the end of the year**](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520704579125902343221802.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) following the City Council’s approval this week of the $400 million development plan.

The Detroit Institute of the Arts is working on a proposal [**to possibly transfer its control from the city to the state**](http://www.freep.com/article/20131003/NEWS01/310030186/kevyn-orr-detroit-institute-of-arts-christies-bankruptcy?ref=hyperallergic.com), the *Detroit Free Press* reports.

Over [**1,000 works of art believed stolen out of churches and other cultural spaces in Albania**](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24468977?ref=hyperallergic.com) by an art-trafficking group were seized by Albanian police.

A previously lost 16th-century painting by Leonardo da Vinci [**may have been discovered in a Swiss vault**](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/04/leonardo-da-vinci-lost-portrait-isabella-deste?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Conversely, a Norman Rockwell painting worth over a million dollars [**vanished last month from a storage space in Queens**](http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/us/norman-rockwell-painting-missing/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

In Spain, a painting by Joan Miró that went missing in 2011 [**has been recovered by police**](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Mir-found-at-art-handlers/30631?ref=hyperallergic.com), the *Art Newspaper* reports, although how it went wandering has yet to be revealed.

![Grottes de Lascaux in France (photograph by David Martin/Flickr user) Note: used as cave painting illustration, not as one that was in study](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/grotteslascaux.jpg)

Grottes de Lascaux in France (photograph by David Martin/Flickr user) Note: used as cave painting illustration, not as one that was in study

A new study shows that the [**majority of the oldest cave paintings were likely done by women**](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/?ref=hyperallergic.com), despite the long belief that they were all done by men, *National Geographic* reports.

Around[ **200,000 works of art are on the move from the Louvre**](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/risk-of-flooding-forces-the-louvre-to-move-worlds-biggest-hidden-art-collection-8854255.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Paris following last week’s government approval for relocation due to the threat of floods from the Seine to their storage cellars.

Meanwhile, [**a loan of a billion dollars is said to be sought**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-10/abu-dhabi-s-louvre-builder-said-to-be-seeking-1-billion-loan.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) by the developers of the Louvre and Guggenheim outposts in Abu Dhabi.

Juilliard School is launching a scholarship program with a $60 million donation from Bruce and Suzie Kovner [**aimed at reducing student debt prior to graduation**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/60-million-gift-to-establish-fellowships-at-juilliard/?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com).

The [**Art Institute of Chicago announced a grant of one million dollars**](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-art-institute-cps-grant,0,1231935.story?ref=hyperallergic.com) from Cari and Michael J. Sacks to go towards a five-year program of collaboration with the Chicago Public Schools.

[**MoMA has acquired the Occuprint Portfolio**](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/moma-acquires-occupy-wall-street-art-prints?ref=hyperallergic.com) that includes over 30 screenprint posters from Occupy Wall Street, which will soon be available in the study center of the museum.

In January, the Hayward Gallery in London [**will open the first major survey of art by Martin Creed**](http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/martin-creed-79080?ref=hyperallergic.com).

The [**plans for the 30-acre Menil Collection campus in Houston**](http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/heights/news/article/Menil-Collection-shares-new-gateway-designs-4886462.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) were revealed as a “gateway” that includes walkways and lush landscape design.

![Ai Weiwei's "Forever Bicycles" in Toronto (photograph by Sean Marshall/Flickr user)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/aiweiweibikes.jpg)

Ai Weiwei’s “Forever Bicycles” in Toronto (photograph by Sean Marshall/Flickr user)

Michael Levitt, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems,” Stanford reports, also [**co-designed a sculpture at this year’s Burning Man**](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/october/levitt-nobel-chemistry-100913.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) with his wife, artist Rina Levitt.

A [**massive Ai Weiwei sculpture involving 3,144 connected bicycles**](http://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiweis-forever-bicycle-sculpture-re-purposes-3144-steel-bikes-10-10-2013/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is installed this month in Toronto.

Fabrizo Moretti, the drummer for The Strokes, [**installed a sculptural installation of tiny astronauts**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/fab-moretti-art%5Fn%5F4063986.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) outside Rag + Bone in Manhattan, the Huffington Post reports. People have already started stealing the little cosmonauts.

The [**2014 Aperture Portfolio Prize is having a call for entries**](http://www.aperture.org/portfolio-prize/?ref=hyperallergic.com) through November 27, “to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition.”