As the painter approaches the end of her working life, her family keeps her enterprise afloat – and now seems the right time for it. “The horror of her work, unfashionable for so long due to its painterly naturalism, seems appropriate now, as truths about the female experience are being peeled back, and a return to figurative painting has seen artists use the body to discuss, among other things, the sexist politics of art.”
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The Museum Director In The Netherlands Who Became A Nazi Ally
Dirk Hannema, who was the top museum official in the Nazi shadow government, helped the Nazis by buying art from a “clearinghouse” the Nazis set up. The info isn’t new, but “the details of his collaboration are being revisited these days as part of a sweeping review by Dutch museums of their war-era record.”
An Art Dealer’s Family Tries To Find One Last Degas That Was Looted By The Nazis
Where is The Portrait of Mlle. Gabrielle Diot? A German dealer may know, but he’s not talking – and the family says that the German government isn’t doing nearly enough to help.
The Value For Leonardo Paintings Has Soared Since The ‘Salvator Mundi’ Sale
The drawing had been in a private French collection, and before the sale of Salvator Mundi was expected to go for 11 million euros. Now? Buyers have already offered more than 15 million euros – but it could go for more at auction.
Why Kerry James Marshall Says He’s Done Making Public Art
“I’ve done about all the public art I think I really want to do,” the 63-year-old South Side artist reiterated in a phone interview Sunday evening from the Bronzeville studio where he has continued to work even as prices for his paintings have climbed into the stratosphere. “The work I do now, I want to be less accommodating and less compromising … There’s too many contingencies that go with public art, and there are more compromises than I think I’m going to be willing to make from here on out.”
Artists Re-Envision Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ To Reflect Today’s America
The people depicted in Rockwell’s famous series of paintings — as per the expectations of the time and the artist’s own lived experience — were almost all lily-white New Englanders. Reporter Laura M. Holson talks with artists who are restaging those images, often with the cooperation of the Rockwell Museum, with a more variegated cast of characters.
V&A Museum Offers Special LGBTQ Tours
“Taking place on the last Saturday of each month, the tours are free to all and aim to uncover the queer histories of the objects in the museum’s collection.” For instance, the Flemish sculptor Giambologna’s marble of Samson slaying a Philistine (both unclothed) with the jawbone of an ass — an artwork that ended up in the possession of King James I’s boyfriend.
Court Finds Jeff Koons Liable For Plagiarizing Famous Fashion Ad
“The American artist Jeff Koons has been found guilty of plagiarising an iconic French clothing advertisement for one of his celebrated sculptures, Fait d’Hiver. Advertising creative director Franck Davidovici had sued Mr Koons, among the world’s most bankable living artists, for copyright infringement, saying he had produced what his lawyer called a ‘servile copy’ of a famous advertising campaign he ran in 1985 for French clothing brand Naf-Naf.”
Chris Dercon, Director Driven Out Of Volksbühne Theatre, Will Head Paris’s Grand Palais
The 60-year-old Belgian had had very successful tenures running London’s Tate Modern and Munich’s Haus der Kunst when he was recruited to lead the former East Berlin’s “People’s Stage”; as an outsider and non-theatre person, he faced stiff local resistance and resigned after about a year. Now he’s been named president of the Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, which operates the Musée du Luxembourg as well as the Palais, Paris’s flagship art fair and exhibition venue.
LA MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach’s Plan To Stabilize The Museum
Several people told him the MOCA directorship would be “the most difficult, if not the most impossible, job in the art world,” he says. “But after 10 years of working for and with [MoMA PS1 board chair] Agnes Gund, I follow one very important principle in decision-making: ‘It’s not about you, it’s about the difference you can make.’”