Art Movements
Dia founders attempt to block foundation art sale, US loses UNESCO voting rights, Pussy Riot member missing in Siberia, Queens Museum reopens, Whistler home up for sale, and more.
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
In order to stop a Sotheby’s auction of $20 million in art from the Dia Art Foundation, the Dia’s two founders are seeking a court injunction against the sale.
The United States has lost its UNESCO voting rights as a result of not paying its dues as part of a protest against Palestine being named an UNESCO member. (Israel also lost its rights for the same reason.)
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova who had gone missing has reportedly been transferred to Siberia, although where exactly is as yet unclear.
The newly expanded Queens Museum reopened its doors this week. Here’s Hyperallergic’s coverage of the expansion.
The folk art collection of Ralph O. Esmerian, who was chairman of the American Folk Art Museum and is now imprisoned for millions of dollars in fraud, is being auction at Sotheby’s in January. The collection had once been destined for the museum.
Art collector Rudy Ciccarello is planning on a Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, that will have 90,000 square feet for his $60 million collection.
The balloon painted by Banksy in Red Hook is reportedly going on sale at next month’s Art Miami after being purchased by gallery owner Stephan Keszler.
Xavier F. Salomon, a former curator of Southern Baroque paintings at the Metropolitan Museum, was named chief curator at the Frick.
Emily Ballew Neff was named the new director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma.
The London house where artist James Whistler lived with his famed mother (and sometimes his mistresses) is up for sale, the Art Newspaper reports.
Jack Kirby, the comic book artist who helped create characters like Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men, is the focus of a pop-up museum that opened on Delancey Street on the Lower East Side.
A new museum in Nanjing, China — called the Sifang Art Museum — opens this Saturday with 21,528 square feet of gallery space, a hotel, 20 residential villas, and a center for conferences.
Skarstedt is opening a space in Chelsea in March of 2014 which will join their existing galleries on the Upper East Side and in London. The first exhibition will feature Andy Warhol’s Oxidation Paintings and Yves Klein’s Fire Paintings.
The Astrodome stadium in Houston — once an icon of design as the world’s first domed stadium — had its proposal for transformation rejected by voters, and will likely be demolished.
The space for the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center in Wilton Manors, Florida, was dedicated by Magic Johnson.
The Dallas home in which Lee Harvey Oswald stayed on the eve of his assassination of John F. Kennedy opened this week as a museum as part of the marking of the 50th anniversary of the shooting.
The shears of Jackie Howe, considered the greatest sheep shearer of all time, were acquired by the National Museum of Australia for $38,000.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is convening to determine which is taller: the Willis Tower (better know by its former moniker the Sears Tower) or One World Trade Center, WNYC reports.
