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New Museum Planned?--Rumors abound that the Guggenheim Museum will build a new $400 million branch on Pier 40, the largest on the Hudson River that is part of the new 5-mile Hudson River Park. Award-winning architect Frank Gehry is rumored to be connected to the project.
Artists Linked--"Wondrous Strange: Pyle, Wyeth, Wyeth & Wyeth" is the first exhibition to give serious attention to the motivation that most dramatically links Howard Pyle with the works of his student, N.C. Wyeth; Wyeth's son, Andrew; and his son Jamie. At the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, through February 21. (302) 571-9590.
Kiss Permanent--A bronze cast of Rodin's Kiss that was looted by the Nazis during WWII has been placed on permanent display in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris. The Tuileries Sculpture Project will put 20 pieces of modern sculpture in the city's royal gardens by the end of this year.
Pollock, et al, Displayed--See more than 150 paintings, works on paper and sculptures by influential American painter Jackson Pollock at MoMA, Manhattan, through February 2. Also on exhibit are "Focus: Pollock and Printmaking" and "Dubuffet to de Kooning: Expressionist Prints from Europe and America."
Paintings for the Heartland--The Indianapolis Museum of Art has acquired 17 paintings and 84 prints by Gauguin and his followers from Pont-Aven from a Swiss businessman/collector. Valued at approximately $30 million, the works will be unveiled in a show next March.
Stained Glass On View--"Glory in Glass: Stained Glass in the United States" is on view at the gallery of the American Bible Society, 1865 Broadway at 61st St., NYC, through February 16. Fourteen windows from seven historic churches, panels and roundels, as well as rare examples of medieval and Renaissance glass, photographs, illustrated books and documents complete the display.
Russia to Return Works--The Russian Cultural Ministry has announced that it will return to rightful owners those works of art looted during World War II as well as contribute information from its archives to an international database on looted art. Not included in this offer is "trophy art," the works taken by Soviet troops from Germany and Eastern Europe that are considered to be reparations for wartime ravages that Russia suffered.
Auctions Set Records--At Christie's recently, a van Gogh self-portrait from 1889 sold for $71.5 million, the second highest price ever paid for a van Gogh at auction and the third highest for any artwork sold at auction.
--A record auction price was set for Maori art at Sotheby's when a four-foot statue, owned by a Swiss collector, fetched $1.1 million recently. Representatives of the tribe which carved the sculpture circa 1830 had hoped to see it returned to New Zealand.
--And Nineteen items of American Indian art were withdrawn from auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan after tribes protested that their heritage was being sold into private hands. Three additional objects were bought by people who intended to return the items to the tribes.
Pop Art Exhibited--"Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes in the Chinese Style" includes six examples of the Chinese art that inspired him. Through February 7 at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Museum Receives Works--The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin will be the new home of one of the largest and most important private collections of Old Master paintings and drawings. The 700 works, estimated to be worth more than $30 million, are partially a gift from the private collectors, while three donors have contributed several million dollars toward the acquisition, leaving the university to raise $15 million.
1 Alfred Stieglitz
7 Alfred Bierstadt
12 John Singer Sargent
14 Berthe Morisot
23 Edouard Manet
Nicole (Paschal) Corneyea
28 Jackson Pollock
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Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 9 No. 3 -- January 1999