Artnet News: "President Trump Liked Artworks at His French Embassy So Much He Took Them Home. Too Bad He Has a Habit of Falling for Fakes" - Sep 8, 2020
Trump went on the art-borrowing spree instead of visiting a military cemetery during a French state visit. Back in Washington, DC, White House curators delivered some bad news: the Franklin portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis was actually a copy. The Franklin bust was also a replica, but Trump allegedly joked that the knockoff was better than the authentic version.
Boston Globe: "Making good on a promise, Museum of Fine Arts names first-ever director of belonging and inclusion" - Sep 3, 2020
Rosa Rodriguez-Williams will become the Museum of Fine Arts’s first-ever senior director of belonging and inclusion, the organization announced Thursday. The longtime director of Northeastern University’s Latinx Student Cultural Center will start her new role with the MFA next week.
Artnet News: "A New York Museum Is Selling Its Only Jackson Pollock Painting at Christie’s to Fund Acquisitions of Work by Women and Artists of Color" - Sep 3, 2020
The Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, has become the latest institution to sell off a major artwork to fund its efforts to diversify its collection. The early Jackson Pollock painting, Red Composition (1946), is expected to fetch between $12 million and $18 million at Christie’s. The proceeds will be used, according to the museum, to fund acquisitions of work by artists of color, women artists, and others under-represented in its holdings.
Art News: "Painting with disputed van Gogh attribution sells for $651,000 in Germany" - Sep 2, 2020
A painting attributed to Vincent van Gogh, which the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has rejected, has sold at the German auction house Dechow for €550,000. According to a report by Monopol, Dechow has not revealed the identity of the buyer.
Art Basel: "Due to the pandemic's impact, Art Basel announces the cancellation of its Miami Beach fair" - Sep 2, 2020
Up until recently, the organizers behind Art Basel Miami beach were optimistically planning for the yearly art fair held in Miami in early December. Last Wednesday, Art Basel released a statement formally cancelling the fair due to the pandemic.
Artforum: "Galleries demand refunds from cancelled Dallas Art Fair" - Sep 2, 2020
More than 30 galleries have requested refunds from the organizers of the Dallas Art Fair. Originally slated to take place this past April, the fair, which focuses on modern and contemporary art, had been pushed to October owing to concerns surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.
Art Newspaper: "European museums defend their partnerships in China" - Sep 1, 2020
As China faces growing criticism over its detention of Uyghers and crackdown in Hong Kong, Tate, V&A and the Pompidou explain why it is important to continue working in the country.
New York Times: "Keith Haring’s personal art collection to be auctioned for charity" - Aug 31, 2020
Legal counsel had warned the Keith Haring Foundation for years that keeping a collection made by artists other than its founder might fail to serve its charitable purpose. So last year the nonprofit began arranging with Sotheby’s to sell the artworks in an online auction called “Dear Keith,” with all proceeds benefiting the Center, an L.G.B.T.Q. community organization in the West Village.
Guardian: "'Fake' Rembrandt came from artist's workshop and is possibly genuine" - Aug 30, 2020
A tiny painting of a weary, melancholic old man long rejected as a fake and consigned to a museum basement has been revealed as one from Rembrandt’s workshop, and possibly by the man himself.
New York Times: "Natural History Museum union files complaint over Coronavirus app" - Aug 26, 2020
District Council 37, the union representing hundreds of workers at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, has filed a legal complaint against the institution in protest of the mandated use of an app to track employees’ health and possible COVID-19 symptoms.