> ## 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-21/ - Published: 2013-11-15T16:15:23.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:51.000Z - Description: Dia Art Foundation founders withdraw their lawsuit, last Pollock painting confirmed, arson at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit again, 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) ![Tyree Guyton's Art "MasterPiece" for Heidelberg Projects (image via Flickr user TK)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/heidelbergmain.jpg) Tyree Guyton’s Art “MasterPiece” for Heidelberg Projects was destroyed in a suspected arson (image via Flickr user Lyfetime) *Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.* The [**lawsuit that the Dia Art Foundation founders**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/lawsuit-to-block-the-sale-of-artwork-from-dia-art-foundation-is-withdrawn/?smid=tw-share&ref=hyperallergic.com) filed to stop a sale of some of the foundation’s significant art holdings was withdrawn. An Italian Renaissance exhibition that was planned for next fall by former Cleveland Museum of Art director David Franklin — who abruptly resigned his position in October — [**was canceled**](http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/11/the%5Fcleveland%5Fmuseum%5Fof%5Fart%5Fca.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). Here is [Hyperallergic’s coverage of his tumultuous resignation](https://hyperallergic.com/the-mysterious-resignation-of-the-cleveland-museum-of-art-director/). ![A detail of the newly authenticated Pollock painting, with fur from his Hamptons home (via nypost.com)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/new-pollock.jpg) A detail of the newly authenticated Pollock painting, with fur from his Hamptons home (via nypost.com) A painting that Ruth Kligman — Jackson Pollock’s mistress — claimed to be the artist’s last work [**was confirmed as authentic**](http://nypost.com/2013/11/08/pollocks-final-work-authenticated-as-mistress-claimed/?ref=hyperallergic.com), partly due to a hair discovered in the work from Pollock’s polar bear-skin rug. One of the Heidelberg Project’s Detroit buildings [**was destroyed in a suspected arson this week**](http://www.freep.com/article/20131112/NEWS01/311120077/Heidelberg-Project-s-House-of-Soul-burns?ref=hyperallergic.com). Here’s [Hyperallergic’s coverage](https://hyperallergic.com/community-art-project-victimized-by-arson-rises-from-the-ashes/) of a fire this summer that destroyed another of the art project’s blighted-houses-turned-sculpture projects. Tobias Natter, director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, quit in response to staff joining a foundation that is embroiled in a controversy over [**Klimt art believed looted by Nazis**](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/30/us-austria-museum-idUSBRE99T12720131030?ref=hyperallergic.com). The Museum of African Design — considered to be the first design museum in Africa — [**opened October 24 in Johannesburg with an exhibition on South African designers**](http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/world/africa/africa-first-design-museum-creative/?ref=hyperallergic.com). The [**new Shijia Hutong Museum in Beijing** ](http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2013/11/15/museum-aims-to-capture-sights-and-sounds-of-old-beijing/?ref=hyperallergic.com)is aiming to preserve the daily artifacts of traditional life that is rapidly disappearing in the city, the *Wall Street Journal* reported. Samuel Miller, who served as director of the Newark Museum for nearly three decades, has [**passed away**](http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/samuel%5Fmiller%5Flongtime%5Fdirector%5Fof%5Fnewark%5Fmuseum%5Fdied%5Fthursday.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). Photographer Jack Mitchell, who focused on portraiture of artists and those in the performing arts, particularly the American Ballet Theater and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, [**died last week**](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/arts/jack-mitchell-photographer-of-the-arts-dies-at-88.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). Ed Ruscha’s archives [**were acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin**](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/ruschas-archives-go-to-the-ransom-center-in-texas/?smid=tw-share&ref=hyperallergic.com). ![Richard Phillips' Playboy bunny in Marfa (photograph by Matt Baker)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/11/marfaplayboybunny.jpg) Richard Phillips’ Playboy bunny in Marfa (photograph by Matt Baker) Richard Phillips’ [**Playboy bunny sculpture in Marfa, Texas, is being relocated to Dallas Contemporary**](http://keranews.org/post/playboy-marfa-sculpture-moving-west-texas-dallas?ref=hyperallergic.com) following the state of Texas demanding its removal this summer as it was considered an advertisement. A giant banner featuring art by Ralph Steadman is being planned as [**a permanent public art memorial to Hunter S. Thompson**](http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/11/downtown-louisville-getting-weird-hunter-s-thompson-memorial/7550/?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the late author’s hometown Louisville, Kentucky. The National Lighthouse Museum, whose attempts at fundraising have been struggling since the decision was made to host the museum on Staten Island, [**may finally be opening August 7, 2014 for National Lighthouse Day**](http://www.ny1.com/content/news/198720/fundraising-campaign-guides-lighthouse-museum-s-future?ref=hyperallergic.com), NY1 reported. After cracking during the August 23, 2011 earthquake, the [**Washington Monument in Washington, DC has been repaired**](http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/11/washington-monument-scaffolding-is-coming-down-today/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and its scaffolding will be removed. The former Alphabet City deli that is currently hosting an exhibition for street artist RAE [**will be an ongoing exhibition space called Whale & Crown**](http://evgrieve.com/2013/11/about-whale-and-crown-new-exhibition.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), EV Grieve reported. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, considered the world’s largest museum of cartoon art, [**reopened in a new 30,000-square-foot space at the Ohio State University**](http://thelantern.com/2013/11/billy-ireland-cartoon-library-relaunches-new-facility/?ref=hyperallergic.com). A death mask of Napoleon that was sold for £175,000 at a Bonhams auction[ **has been blocked under an export ban from leaving the UK**](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/block-on-rare-napoleon-death-mask-leaving-uk-8937941.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). After Walmart had controversially planned to build a Supercenter on a Virginia Civil War battlefield, [**the retail giant donated the land to the state for preservation**](http://wamu.org/news/13/11/10/walmart%5Fdonates%5Fwilderness%5Fbattlefield%5Fland%5Fto%5Fvirginia?ref=hyperallergic.com#.UoKKSS1nT0M.twitter).