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# Art Movements
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-2/
- Published: 2013-07-05T16:59:38.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:18.000Z
- Description: Chicago's Field Museum's major budget cuts, the return of looted Chinese art, BMW pulls out of BMW Guggenheim Lab, a possible Michelangleo, Baltimore's the Contemporary planned to reopen, the St. Louis Art Museum's new expansion …
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: News, Art Movements, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![Ari Marcopolous's photograph is featured on the cover of Jay-Z's new album. (](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/07/jayz-ari-m_cover-640.jpg)

Ari Marcopoulos’s photograph is featured on the cover of Jay-Z’s new album.

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

Due to a debt of $170 million, [**the Field Museum in Chicago is continuing cuts to research staff**](http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Chicago-s-Field-Museum-reorganizes-amid-money-woes-4646818.php?ref=hyperallergic.com), although their president Richard Lariviere stated that they expected to recover within two years. The financial crisis resulted from a $90 million bond project for expanded construction that wasn’t met with the capital campaign they expected and required them to cut into their endowment.

The cover art for Jay-Z’s new album, *Magna Carta Holy Grail*, which features a photograph by Ari Marcopoulos, [**went on display in Salisbury Cathedral next to the 1215 Magna Carta**](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/10158034/Jay-Z-installs-Magna-Carta-album-cover-art-in-Salisbury-Cathedral.html?ref=hyperallergic.com).

![The two bronze animal heads returned to China (via Christie's/Telegraph)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/07/animalsheadschina.jpg)

The two bronze animal heads returned to China (via Christie’s/Telegraph)

Two bronze animal heads looted from China in the 19th century [**were returned by François-Henri Pinault,**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/christies-leader-returns-ancient-bronzes-to-china/?smid=tw-share&ref=hyperallergic.com) chief executive of Kering, which owns Christie’s. The heads caused an uproar back in 2008 when they came up at auciton [**as part of the Yves Saint-Laurent sale.**](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3373996/Chinese-fury-at-Yves-Saint-Laurent-art-sale.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)

Although it was planned to be a partnership through 2016, [**BMW dropped their support of the Guggenheim Museum’s BMW Guggenheim Lab**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/bmw-ends-support-for-guggenheim-lab-project/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which launched in 2010 as a series of pop-up structures for forums on urban living.

As a component of the London Festival of Architecture, an installation by Leandro Erlich [**created the illusion of a house with mirrors like those that stood in the area before the WWII Blitz**](http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/2013/06/london-architecture-festival-leandro-erlich-art-installation?ref=hyperallergic.com).

The Shem Art Museum designed by SO-IL being built at the University of California, Davis, [**will have a 50,000-square-foot “canopy”**](http://www.wired.com/design/2013/07/so-il-university-of-california-davis-museum/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that allows in light to alter the space with the seasons.

Two thousand photographs by Annie Leibovitz [**were donated to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia**](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2013/06/06/works%5Fby%5Fphotographer%5Fannie%5Fleibovitz%5Fdonated%5Fto%5Fart%5Fgallery%5Fof%5Fnova%5Fscotia.html?ref=hyperallergic.com).

![“San Giovannino,” possibly by Michelangelo. (via Brancatelli/Zicarelli)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/07/sangiovannino.jpg)

“San Giovannino,” possibly by Michelangelo. (via Brancatelli/Zicarelli)

A sculpture of a young John the Baptist that may have been made by Michelangelo[ **lured researchers and art historians to Spain**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/01/michelangelo-statue-san-giovannino-might-be-real%5Fn%5F3528241.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ref=hyperallergic.com), where it is on display in the Holy Chapel of the Savior in Úbeda.

The Baltimore Contemporary Museum, renamed the Contemporary and with a roving exhibition focus, [**is set to reopen this fall 18 months after it was suddenly closed and its staff let go**](http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-07-02/entertainment/bs-ae-contemporary-museum-reopening-20130702%5F1%5Fcontemporary-museum-sue-spaid-first-exhibit?ref=hyperallergic.com). Here’s [**Hyperallergic’s report on the closure** ](https://hyperallergic.com/baltimore-contemporary-museum-suddenly-suspends-operations/)from last May.

Patrick Cariou is expected to file an appeal of the ruling overturning [**his copyright infringement case against Richard Prince**](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Photographer-to-appeal-to-Supreme-Court-in-copyright-case/29995?ref=hyperallergic.com). Here’s [**Hyperallergic’s coverage of the ongoing dispute**](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/cariou-v-prince/).

A group called Advocates for Justice [**is suing to try and stop the planned renovation of the main branch of the New York Public Library**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/opponents-sue-to-block-new-york-public-library-renovation-plan/?ref=hyperallergic.com), which would remove the historic stacks.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [**acquired designer Manfred Heiting’s collection of around 25,000 photography books** ](http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int%5Fsec=11&int%5Fnew=63556&ref=hyperallergic.com#.UdbxlWT72LI)and other materials related on the history of photography.

A new building designed by David Chipperfield Architects [**was opened at the Saint Louis Art Museum**](http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/st-louis-art-museum-debuts-million-expansion/article%5F38f34ba9-eb69-5f31-b0dd-ff4979c89f4b.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), expanding the institution’s public space by 30% and adding 21 galleries. The construction comes alongside a renovation of the main building, designed by Cass Gilbert in 1904, and [**an installation by Andy Goldsworthy**](http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2013/07/andy-goldsworthy-st-louis-art-museum-stone-sea?ref=hyperallergic.com) between the two buildings.

An artist at the 99 Commercial Street artist center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, [**was conned out of $1,700 by a fraudelant buyer**](http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130702/greenpoint/greenpoint-art-studio-scammed-painting-purchase-fraud?ref=hyperallergic.com), who used a bad check to get money wired from the artist for a proposed art purchase.