Art Movements
This week in art news: Selected artifacts from the British Museum are available to print in 3D, North Korea's UK embassy opened its first-ever art exhibition, and a rehearing on the California Resale Royalty Act is to be held on December 15.
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider the California Resale Royalty Act on December 15. California was the only U.S. state to have had an artist resale royalty law until a judge ruled the act unconstitutional in 2012. Hyperallergic’s illustrated guide to artist resale royalties can be found here.
London’s High Court has rejected claims by the University of London that post-1944 additions to the Warburg Institute‘s collection belong to the University. Justice Proudman ruled that the university is obliged to provide funding for the Warburg. The decision has been heralded as a victory for the Institute following fears that the University of London would break up its collection. See Hyperallergic’s previous coverage here.
14 objects from the British Museum are available to download and print in 3D. The museum’s “first downloadable collection” is available via Sketchfab (image at top of post).
Art dealer Tony Shafrazi is facing eviction from his SoHo loft. The dealer filed a lawsuit accusing his landlord of fraud and breach of contract.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities has criticized the Swedish government’s plans to close its cultural institutes in the Mediterranean. An online petition to save the spaces currently has over 13,600 signatures.
A parliamentary committee published a report criticizing the Arts Council England’s allocation of funds. Since 1995, the Council’s lottery spending has amounted to £165 a head in London, compared to £47 a head for the rest of England. London Mayor Boris Johnson subsequently announced that any cuts to London’s art budget would be “an act of sabotage for one of our country’s greatest assets.”
North Korea’s UK embassy is currently hosting its first art exhibition. The show marks the first time that members of the public have been invited to enter the embassy.
“Intersection,” the Art Prize–winning installation by artist Anila Quayyum Agha, has gone back on display at the Grand Rapids Art Museum due to popular demand.
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Two Kickstarter projects, MaKey MaKey and Ototo, have been added to the Museum of Modern Art‘s permanent collection.
Vincent van Gogh’s “Still Life, Vase with Daisies, and Poppies” (1890) sold at Sotheby’s for $61.8 million. Sales from Tuesday’s Impressionist & Modern Art evening Auction totaled $422.1 million.
The Stedelijk Museum acquired “Zwei Lampen” (1994) a painting by German artist Isa Genzken.
The Tate Modern acquired nine works by Korean artist Nam June Paik.
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture has returned a number of Peruvian artifacts, including human skulls, to the Peruvian Consul General.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) will return a Nazi confiscated portrait to the heirs of its original owners. The painting, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck’s “Portrait of a Lady” (1652), will remain on view until April 26.
The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) awarded a grant to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum for the restoration of “St. Serapion” (1628) by Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán.
Two Henry Moore bronzes from the estate of Lauren Bacall sold for $1.34 million at Bonhams.
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MAD architects unveiled their first renderings of the (George) Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
New York’s Churner & Churner gallery is to close at the end of the month.
The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors approved a road map for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
The Centre Pompidou intends to open a gallery dedicated to architecture and design by 2016.
Posman Books, located in Grand Central Terminal, will close it doors on December 31st.
A new fair dedicated entirely to photography, Photo London, will open at Somerset House in May.
Philippe van Canteren, the artistic director of the S.M.A.K. Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent, was named curator of the National Pavilion of Iraq for the 2015 Venice Biennale.
The Guggenheim Museum appointed Troy Conrad Therrien as curator of architecture and design initiatives, the first person to hold the newly created position.
Hossein Sadid was appointed chief financial officer of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Sadid has previously worked as a consultant to the Smithsonian.
