Tag: 04.30.19

Why Anti-Money-Laundering Legislation Has Art Dealers Worried

No, it’s not because they want to launder money. “While these requirements could have significant benefits in terms of helping to curtail money laundering by bringing greater oversight to an often opaque art market, the law could also burden dealers and auction houses with onerous administrative and reporting duties that will be especially challenging for smaller and mid-size galleries.” – Artsy

The Widow Of China’s Most Famous Dissident, Now In Exile, Rebuilds Her Art And Career

Liu Xiaobo was in prison when he won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, and ever since then, his wife, Liu Xia, had been under house arrest. After he died, still in custody, in 2017, she was suicidal. A friend in Berlin publicized her plight, and last year, she was released (not to say expelled) and sent to the German capital, where she’s now back at work in both literature and visual art. Nick Frisch went to meet her. – The New Yorker

U.S. Judge Rules Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Can Keep Pissarro Looted By Nazis

“The government-owned Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid acquired hundreds of artworks, including the Pissarro, from the [eponymous] baron in 1993 for $350 million. The U.S. court ruling comes almost 14 years after Claude Cassirer sued to recover the painting” — Rue Saint-Honoré, après-midi, effet de pluie — “his grandmother was forced to sell for a pittance to avoid being sent to an extermination camp.” – Bloomberg

Conditionally Loving Lili Boulanger – Time To Take Out The “Conditionally”

Justin Davidson: “The 24-year-old Lili Boulanger had died of Crohn’s disease, after years of physical pain and artistic glory. During her brief career and in the century since, she regularly received high, though conditional praise, which almost always boiled down to this: She was surprisingly accomplished for someone so young, ill, and female. It’s time to stop hedging.” –New York Magazine

Rebuild Notre Dame? Yes – And There’s A Roadmap On How To Go About It

“First and foremost, Notre Dame’s World Heritage status calls for international principles of restoration to be integrated into the discussions on how to restore it. Decisions will have to be taken on how to consolidate its structural parts, restore the damaged surfaces, reconstruct the roof, the spire and the stained-glass windows. All these choices need to be made in accordance with the conservation principles promoted by the World Heritage Convention.” – The Art Newspaper