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A Trustee Leaves Trove of Old Masters Works to the Met
NEW YORK — Johannes Vermeer’s “Study of a Young Woman.” Peter Paul Rubens’ self-portrait with his family. Jacques Louis David’s portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife. These paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection were made possible in part by the generosity of the longtime donor and trustee Jayne Wrightsman, who died in April at age 99.
For Bill Traylor's Art, 'Outsider' Doesn't Apply
NEW YORK — Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus remembers her father, William Louis-Dreyfus, swearing on the phone in the 1990s as he almost got outbid on a painting by Bill Traylor, the Alabama artist born into slavery who took up drawing around age 85.
Pace Gallery Doubles Down in Chelsea
NEW YORK — Tagging along on a 1970s business trip to Paris with his father, the art dealer Arne Glimcher, Marc Glimcher was struck by the rough-hewed warmth of the woodblock flooring in André Chenue’s art storage warehouse. Now, as the 55-year-old president and chief executive of Pace Gallery, the younger Glimcher has been able to bring that memory to life in Pace’s new home in Chelsea, which opens next month.
MoMA PS1 looks to Moscow to hire new director
NEW YORK — For the last six years, Kate Fowle has divided her time between Moscow, where she was until recently the chief curator at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and New York City, where she has been director-at-large at Independent Curators International (ICI).
A newer new museum is coming, with twice as much space
The new structure, which will add 60,000 square feet of space, reflects how much New York’s small, scrappy New Museum has changed since it opened on the Bowery in 2007, increasing its annual attendance to more than 400,000 from 60,000 and staff to 150 from 30.
Clean house to survive? Museums confront their crowded basements
At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: ashtrays, cocktail napkins, wineglasses. At the Indianapolis Art Museum: doilies, neckties and women’s underwear.
SFMoMA to sell 1960 Rothko to help diversify its holdings
At a time when museums around the country are trying to diversify their collections, staffs and trustees, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced plans to sell Mark Rothko’s “Untitled” (1960), mainly to “address art historical gaps” like works by women and people of color.
Annie Leibovitz Revisits Her Early Years
When Annie Leibovitz was starting out as a photographer in San Francisco, she would toss her camera equipment into the back of her 1963 Porsche Cabriolet convertible and tear off to Los Angeles on Highway 5.
Kwade Selected for the Met's Roof Garden Installation
NEW YORK — The Met’s Roof Garden Commission is a rite of summer for New Yorkers and a world stage for artists lucky enough to be chosen. This year’s fortunate selection is Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade, who will be presenting two abstract sculptures dominated by large metal frames that she described as “a kind of planetary system.”MoMA to close, then open doors to more expansive view of art
Three floors of exhibition space will retain a spine of chronology, but the museum will now mix media, juxtaposing painting, sculpture, architecture, design, photography, performance, film and works on paper.
Rule-Breaking Rainmaker Leaving Christie's Auction House
Loic Gouzer, an irreverent maverick who led history-making sales of Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hockney, is stepping down as co-chairman of Christie’s Americas postwar and contemporary art at the end of this year, the auction house announced Monday.
Phillips Auction House Is Moving to a New Space
NEW YORK — Yes, you often have to peer around a column to glimpse the art that is up for sale at Phillips, given the poor sight lines in the auction house salesroom at 450 Park Ave.National Gallery of Art Chooses First Female Director
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has selected Kaywin Feldman of the Minneapolis Institute of Art as its new director, the first woman to hold the job in the museum’s 77-year history.
