The Guggenheim Museum is currently exhibiting interwar posters from Europe created during the interwar years.
According to the museum website, "he 1920s and 1930s were among the greatest years in the history of poster design. Vox Populi, or the “voice of the people,” posters were used by manufacturers, political movements, and the entertainment industry as immensely refined art created for a vast public. "
More on the exhibit can be found here.
A Fifth Avenue doorman found a Corot in the bushes near the apartment building where he works.
Apparently the painting went missing for a month.
According to the Associated Press, a middleman who was showing the work to a prospective buyer claimed he got drunk and lost "Portrait of a Girl" on July 28. One of the owners sued him, then dropped the suit.
The other owner was recently indicted in federal court on wire fraud conspiracy charges.
The practice of deaccessioning artwork, which for many years has been either illegal or unethical, may now be permitted.
The New York State Board of Regents, which oversees many public museums in New York, has made the surprise decision to let rules prohibiting the practice expire on October 8.
A bill to ban the practice failed to gain hold in the New York legislature. The Metropolitan Museum of Art argued that the bill was "impractical, unworkable and unneeded."
Although the practice may have its upsides, particularly when museums and other institutions need to raise much-needed revenue, the potential downsides are clear: a mass privatization of art, museums acting like profit making enterprises, and the continued monetization of culture.
This article from the New York Times highlights some of these critical issues.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit Institute of Arts is putting up ornately framed reproductions of some of its most significant paintings on the streets of southeast Michigan as part of a celebration of its 125th anniversary.
An interactive map of the locations in Wayne, Macomb, Oakland and Washtenaw counties will be posted on the museum’s Web site in mid-September, when the installation is complete.
One of the more interesting ongoing sagas related to the art world is that of Huguette Clark.
Clark is the 104-year-old mining heiress who has lived in a New York hospital for the past 20 years. She has a $500 million fortune according to the Wall Street Journal. Almost all of her finances are being managed by her lawyer and accountant, who are under attack by the Manhattan District Attorney's Elder Abuse Unit. The DA alleges that lawyer Wallace Bock and accountant Irving Kamsler are improperly managing her $500 million fortune.
On Thursday, Judge Laura Visitacion-Lewis of the New York County Court said the bid by Clark's relatives to have her declared incapacitated purportedly had procedural deficiencies in its court filing specifically because of "its hearsay, conclusory and speculative assertions of incapacity."
Some of those assertions by Clark's three relatives had been based on stories that appeared in The Post and MSNBC.com detailing Bock and Kamsler's handling of the heiress and her wealth.
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