> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Art Movements - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/art-movements-20/ - Published: 2013-11-08T17:10:46.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:52.000Z - Description: 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. - Author: Allison Meier - Tags: News, Art Movements, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2) ![James Whistlery, "Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville" (1865), oil on canvas (via The Yorck Project)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/jameswhistlerpainting.jpg) James Whistler, “Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville” (1865), oil on canvas (via The Yorck Project) *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**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/nyregion/2-founders-of-dia-sue-to-stop-art-auction.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1383927590-ze4wPTa8Dc5nLSosd8TZbQ&ref=hyperallergic.com). The [**United States has lost its UNESCO voting rights**](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/08/us-unesco-voting-funds-palestine-decision?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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**](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24848893?ref=hyperallergic.com), although where exactly is as yet unclear. The newly expanded Queens Museum [**reopened its doors this week**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/arts/design/the-expanded-queens-museum-reopens.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). Here’s [Hyperallergic’s coverage](https://hyperallergic.com/queens-museum-of-art-doubles-in-size-and-halves-its-name/) 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**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/folk-art-collection-from-imprisoned-former-museum-chairman-going-to-auction/?smid=tw-share&%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com). 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**](http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/arts-collector-plans-90000-square-foot-museum-for-downtown-st-pete/2151224?ref=hyperallergic.com), 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**](http://gothamist.com/2013/11/06/banksys%5Fheart%5Fballoon%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fsold%5Fin.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) at next month’s Art Miami after being purchased by gallery owner Stephan Keszler. ![Cover of Captain America Comics #1 (Mar, 1941), with art by Jack Kirby (via Marvel/Wikimedia)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/jackkirby1.jpg) Cover of Captain America Comics #1 (Mar, 1941), with art by Jack Kirby (via Marvel/Wikimedia) Xavier F. Salomon, a former curator of Southern Baroque paintings at the Metropolitan Museum, [**was named chief curator at the Frick**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/new-chief-curator-for-the-frick/?%5Fr=1&ref=hyperallergic.com). Emily Ballew Neff was named [**the new director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art**](http://www.ou.edu/content/web/news%5Fevents/articles/news%5F2013/neff-to-serve-as-director-of-fred-jones-museum-.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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**](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Whistlers-Chelsea-home-for-sale-with-m-price-tag/30827?ref=hyperallergic.com), 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**](http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/local/2013/11/07/pop-up-museum-to-jack-kirby-finds-a-home-in-lower-east-side/?ref=hyperallergic.com) on the Lower East Side. A [**new museum in Nanjing, China**](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304069604579153943286886308?ref=hyperallergic.com) — 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**](http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www%5Ffitzandco%5Fcom/Skarstedt%5FChelsea%5FRelease%5FFINAL.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com)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*. ![Interior of the Astrodome (via Library of Congress)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/astrodome.jpg) Interior of the Astrodome (via Library of Congress) 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**](http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/us/houston-astrodome-fate/?ref=hyperallergic.com). The [**space for the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center**](http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-11-07/news/fl-magic-johnson-world-aids-museum-20131107%5F1%5Fed-sparan-museum-donors-museum-board-chairman?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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**](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/07/us-usa-dallas-jfk-idUSBRE9A603D20131107?ref=hyperallergic.com) 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**](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-30/national-museum-of-australia-acquires-shears-of-jackie-howe/5059052?ref=hyperallergic.com). The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat [**is convening to determine which is taller**](http://www.wnyc.org/story/size-does-matter-at-least-in-the-tallest-building-debate/?ref=hyperallergic.com): the Willis Tower (better know by its former moniker the Sears Tower) or One World Trade Center, WNYC reports.