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# Art Movements
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-184/
- Published: 2016-12-30T12:01:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:41:37.000Z
- Description: This week in art news: Yoshitomo Nara was sued by a cosmetics company he claims copied his work, a Henry Moore sculpture was installed at Columbia University despite students deeming it a "monstrosity," and India began construction on the world's tallest statue.
- Author: Benjamin Sutton
- Tags: News, Art Movements, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

![Installation view of Henry Moore, "Reclining Figure" (1969–70), bronze, 90 x 133 x 79 in, gift of David and Laura Finn (photo Roberto C. Ferrari, Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/12/art-movements-henry-moore-columbia.jpg)

Installation view of Henry Moore, “Reclining Figure” (1969–70), bronze, 90 x 133 x 79 in, gift of David and Laura Finn (photo by Roberto C. Ferrari, Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University)

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

After lawyers for artist [Yoshitomo Nara](http://artasiapacific.com/News/YoshitomoNaraSuedbyKoreanCosmeticsCompany?ref=hyperallergic.com) wrote to the Korean cosmetic company W.Lab to demand that it recall one of its products that features a figure similar to the artist’s paintings of childlike figures, W.Lab not only denied the allegations, but sued Nara to claim ownership of the design.

[Henry Moore’s](http://news.columbia.edu/Henry-Moore-Sculpture-Joins-Public-Art-Collection-on-Columbia-Morningside-Campus?ref=hyperallergic.com) bronze sculpture “Reclining Figure” (1969–70) was installed in front of Columbia University’s Havemeyer Hall. Plans to install the sculpture in front of the school’s Butler Library [prompted protests](https://hyperallergic.com/columbia-students-object-to-installation-of-henry-moore-monstrosity/) in March from current and former students who dubbed it a “monstrosity,” “a desecration of our home,” and an “arrogant middle finger to the world.”

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, laid the foundation stone for what is planned to be the [world’s tallest statue](http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/india-build-giant-statue-medieval-king-shivaji-161225143133892.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). The 630-foot-tall statue of 17th-century Hindu ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji is expected to cost some $530 million and be completed in 2019.

![Rendering of the Chhatrapati Shivaji monument under construction (via change.org)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/12/art-movements-shivaji-memorial.jpg)

Rendering of the Chhatrapati Shivaji monument under construction on an island off the coast of Mumbai (via change.org)

Israeli authorities claimed to have found new fragments of the [Dead Sea Scrolls](http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.760249?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the Cave of the Skulls.

An ancient Kuwaiti manuscript that was stolen during Iraq’s 1990–91 occupation was [recovered](http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2583045&language=en&ref=hyperallergic.com) by Iraqi security personnel in a sting operation.

[Kunsthaus Zürich](http://www.kunsthaus.ch/fileadmin/templates/kunsthaus/pdf/medienmitteilungen/2016/mm3%5Fdadadig%5Fe.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) completed the digitization of its collection of Dada documents and artworks.

![Hans Arp, Max Ernst, and Tristan Tzara postcard to Paul Eluard (1921), brush and pen in ink, tobacco, postal stamps, stamp in black, 14 x 9 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich (© 2015 ProLitteris, Zurich / Estate of Tristan Tzara)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/12/art-movements-arp-ernst-tzara-kunsthaus.jpg)

Hans Arp, Max Ernst, and Tristan Tzara postcard to Paul Eluard (1921), brush and pen in ink, tobacco, postal stamps, stamp in black, 14 x 9 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich (© 2015 ProLitteris, Zurich / Estate of Tristan Tzara)

A limestone bas relief that was stolen from Queen Hatshepsut’s temple in Luxor and illegally smuggled out of Egypt was [returned](http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/253502/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Stolen-relief-of-Queen-Hatshepsut-recovered-from-L.aspx?ref=hyperallergic.com) to the country’s Ministry of Antiquities from London.

Designer [Hannah Hill](http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/28/another-artist-is-claiming-that-a-big-fashion-brand-has-ripped-off-her-designs-6342606/?ref=hyperallergic.com) claimed that fashion brand Topshop stole her “Halloween Queen” patch design without giving her credit or compensation.

## Transactions

The Polish government has reached an agreement to acquire the art collection of the [Princes Czartoryski Foundation](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/arts/design/poland-buys-czartoryski-family-art-collection.html?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com), which includes works by Rembrandt, Auguste Renoir, Albrecht Dürer, and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady With an Ermine” (1489–90).

![Leonardo da Vinci, "Lady with an Ermine" (1489–90) (via Wikimedia Commons)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/12/art-movements-lady-ermine.jpg)

Leonardo da Vinci, “Lady with an Ermine” (1489–90) (via Wikimedia Commons)

The owner of a painting by Johann Zoffany that was valued at £4 million (\~$4.9 million) and was destroyed in a 2015 fire at the Clandon Park will likely be [reimbursed](http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/owner-of-lost-zoffany-painting-could-receive-4m-from-uk-government/?ref=hyperallergic.com) for the lost work by the UK government.

The [Stephen Petronio Company](http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/Stephen-Petronio-Company-Buys-Crows-Nest-Catskill-Mountains-Property-for-13-Million-20161228?ref=hyperallergic.com) purchased Crows Nest, a 175-acre property in New York’s Catskill Mountains, for $1.3 million.

A monument that has been colloquially dubbed the “national lynching memorial” — but officially named the [Memorial to Peace and Justice](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/12/21/what-the-lynching-memorial-will-force-us-all-to-face/?utm%5Fterm=.93251c1c1f3d&ref=hyperallergic.com) — and is slated to open in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2018 received a $10-million donation from Pat and Jon Stryker.

![Rendering of the Memorial to Peace and Justice (via Equal Justice Initiative)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/12/art-movements-memorial-peace-jsutice.jpg)

Rendering of the Memorial to Peace and Justice (Courtesy MASS Design Group, via Equal Justice Initiative)

## Transitions

[Norman Kleebatt](http://www.artnews.com/2016/12/29/norman-kleeblatt-chief-curator-of-the-jewish-museum-in-new-york-will-depart-institution-after-four-decades/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the chief curator of the Jewish Museum in New York City, will leave the institution in early 2017.

The Columbia Museum Art at the University of South Carolina named [Lynn Robertson](http://www.thestate.com/entertainment/local-events/article123138889.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) as its interim executive director.

Beijing’s [Palace Museum](http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/hong-kong-will-build-branch-of-beijing-s-palace-museum-/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will build an outpost in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. It is expected to open by 2022.

The [Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts](http://rbth.com/arts/2016/12/26/moscows-pushkin-museum-embarks-on-ambitious-building-plan%5F668686?ref=hyperallergic.com) unveiled a new plan to unify its campus in central Moscow, with underground galleries connecting its various buildings. The project is scheduled for completion in 2019.

The publication [*Art Papers*](http://burnaway.org/art-papers-becomes-quarterly-digital/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is switching from a bimonthly to a quarterly publishing schedule.

Berlin gallery [Cruise and Callas](https://www.artforum.com/news/id=65615?ref=hyperallergic.com) will close in February 2017.

## Obituaries

![Kenneth Snelson's "Free Ride Home" (1974) at the Storm King Art Center (photo by joevare/Flickr)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/12/art-movements-kenneth-snelson.jpg)

Kenneth Snelson’s “Free Ride Home” (1974) at the Storm King Art Center (photo by joevare/Flickr)

[Richard Adams](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38446309?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1920–2016), author. Best known for *Watership Down* (1972).

[Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller](http://www.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2016/12/27/le-collectionneur-jean-paul-barbier-mueller-est-mort%5F5054484%5F1655012.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1930–2016), financier and art collector.

[Pierre Barouh](http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2016/12/28/mort-de-pierre-barouh-auteur-de-la-chanson-du-film-un-homme-et-une-femme%5F5055053%5F3246.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1934–2016), singer.

[Howard Bingham](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/dec/27/howard-bingham-obituary?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1939–2016), photographer.

[Carrie Fisher](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38422973?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1956–2016), actress and author.

[Claude Gensac](http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2016/12/27/mort-de-la-comedienne-claude-gensac-epouse-a-l-ecran-de-louis-de-funes%5F5054598%5F3476.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1927–2016), actress.

[George Michael](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/arts/music/george-michael-dead.html?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1963–2016), pop star. Co-founded, with his former partner Kenny Goss, the British contemporary art space the [Goss-Michael Foundation](http://g-mf.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in Dallas.

[Debbie Reynolds](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/movies/debbie-reynolds-dead.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1932–2016), actress.

[Jens Risom](https://www.artforum.com/news/id=65613?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1916–2016), modernist designer.

[Reiner Ruthenbeck](https://www.artforum.com/news/id=65636?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1937–2016), artist .

[Kenneth Snelson](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/arts/design/kenneth-snelson-dead-sculptor.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1927–2016), sculptor.

[Eugene Yufit](https://www.artforum.com/news/id=65640?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1961–2016), artist and filmmaker.