“Milton Esterow and Judith Esterow, the owners of the magazine since 1972, said in a statement that they sold the 112-year-old publication to Skate Capital, a private asset management firm owned by a Russian, Sergey Skaterschikov.”
Category: visual
Tiny Ancient Chinese Cup Sells For Record $36 Million
“The ‘chicken cup’, so-called because it is decorated with a rooster and hen tending to their chicks, was bought by a Shanghai collector. It is eight centimetres (3.1 inches) in diameter and is 500 years old.”
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Gets A New Director
“Beatrix Ruf, who is German born, has led the Kunsthalle Zurich for the past 13 years. Ruff has been instrumental in putting Zurich on the contemporary art map.”
German Authorities Reach Deal With Cornelius Gurlitt on Allegedly Looted Art
“Cornelius Gurlitt, the German man who had been hiding more than 1,000 works of art – some believed to have been looted during World War II – has reached an agreement with German officials regarding his secret stash.”
Now It Begins: Competing Claims to Paintings From Gurlitt’s Trove
“Lawyers for Cornelius Gurlitt, an octogenarian collector of art plundered by the Nazis, said Monday that a rival claim had been filed for a well-known Matisse painting” – Seated Woman/Woman Sitting in Armchair – “delaying plans to return the picture to descendants of the French art dealer Paul Rosenberg.”
Austrian Gov’t Declines to Bail Out Bankrupt Businessman by Buying His Art Collection
Karlheinz Essl “had offered to sell his 7,000-piece collection, most of which is housed in the Essl Museum near Vienna, to raise money to inject into his struggling DIY store chain bauMax.”
The Largest American Art Show Ever? (It’s Outdoors)
“Beginning Monday, curators are asking the public to vote online to choose which artwork will be featured on 50,000 displays for the “Art Everywhere” initiative in August. Members of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America are donating the space.”
Museums And Music, Theatre, Dance – It’s Gotta Happen
“You simply cannot understand the contemporary art world without considering performance. Nor can you appreciate the history of modern music without acknowledging its support from the art world.”
Taking American Art To The American People
“We’re hoping this puts American art on the minds of every single American on their way to school or work and becomes part of the daily conversation.”
What Does Artist Anish Kapoor Think Of His London OlympicS Park Sculpture Now?
“The work comprises a central trunk that houses the lifts and viewing platforms around which curl massive loops of knotted red steel. ‘There was a lot of pressure to have it in grey like everything else in the park’ explains Kapoor. ‘So we had a quarrel and then it was made in red as we wanted.'”