Art Movements
Stolen Rotterdam Kunsthal paintings feared incinerated, Hôtel Lambert in Paris definitely has burned, Detroit files for bankruptcy, 5 Pointz edges closer to demolition, a major boost for California arts funding, and more.
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
Paintings stolen last October from the Kunsthal Rotterdam, including work by Picasso, Lucian Freud, Matisse, and Monet, may have been incinerated.
Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, and the Detroit Institute of Arts maintains that it’s dedicated to keeping its collection from being sold.
Arts funding for the California Arts Council was raised from $1 million to $3 million for the year, its first increase in over a decade.
5 Pointz moved towards demolition with Queens Borough President Helen Marshall approving the developer’s revised plans, which include more affordable housing and studio space for artists.
Osman Erden, an associate professor in the Department of Art History at Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty and President of the International Association of Art Critics in Turkey, was detained in Istanbul on July 13.
The Hôtel Lambert in Paris was severely damaged in a fire, destroying 17th-century frescoes painted by Eustache Le Sueur, as well as art by Charles Le Brun, although the Qatari prince who owns it is still planning to go forward with his controversial restoration.
Despite the Museum of the City of New York pulling out its support, the South Street Seaport Museum assured that it is open and operating with help from the city.
The National Museum of Finland has refused to give back six artifacts to Iraq that were donated in 1977 by an Iraqi delegation.
A Hopi object that was to be auctioned at Néret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou auction house was returned to the tribal elders with the help of a French lawyer.
Art looted from the Cypriot Greek Orthodox Church during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus was returned by Germany.
New members elected to the National Academy of Art include Renzo Piano, Sarah Sze, Marina Abramović, Christian Marclay, William Pedersen, Mark Bradford, Vito Acconci, Carrie Mae Weems, and Fred Wilson.
Lady Gaga listed her collaborators for her new album ARTPOP: Marina Abramović, Jeff Koons, Robert Wilson, and Inez & Vinoodh.
New York art dealer Glafira Rosales was charged with trying to sell over $30 million worth of forged paintings to two galleries in Manhattan.
Grimshaw Architect’s plans for the Koç Contemporary Art Museum in Istanbul were selected to be constructed for a 2016 opening.
The designs for Zaha Hadid’s first project in New York — a futuristic condo in Chelsea — were unveiled.
For the first time, all four of the existing copies of the Magna Carta will be gathered together in a 2015 exhibition for the document’s 800th birthday.
The current director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Bonnie Clearwater, is taking on the role of director of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale in the fall.
Long-lost pyramids in the Egyptian desert may have been found by an amateur archaeologist cruising Google Earth.
The West Sussex cottage of poet and artist William Blake is up for sale.
The Smithsonian Institution is working to find a portrait of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. dressed as Napoleon.
For the 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, artist Benoit Izard is writing “LOVE” in 300-foot-tall letters across the Everglades.
A New York couple is suing after they claimed they were tricked into buying a $50,000 finger painting made by five-year-olds for a school benefit auction.
There’s now a 3D portrait booth in Coney Island.
