Trove of Photographs Gifted to SFMOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will receive a gift of 473 photographs, including 26 works by Diane Arbus from art dealer Jeffrey Fraenkel. Read More
Museums
Brooklyn Museum Buys José Campeche Painting
Last November, the Brooklyn Museum sold off from its collection a 1887 painting by Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin called Crucifixion by the Romans at Christie’s London for £1.72 million ($2.67 million). Today it announced that it used some of those funds to acquire a portrait, Doña María de los Dolores Gutiérrez del Mazo y Pérez, that Puerto Rican painter José Campeche painted around 1796. Read More
MOCA Detroit Gets Grant From Rauschenberg Foundation for Mike Kelley’s ‘Mobile Homestead’ Project
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has received a $150,000 grant from the Rauschenberg Foundation to support the programming of Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead installation at the museum. Read More
The Many Lives of Michael Rush, Director of the Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum
The Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, in Lansing, Mich., is set to open on Saturday, Nov. 10., and City Pulse, an alternative newspaper in the city, just published hefty profiles of many of the museum’s top administrators. They’re all good, long reads, but the portion on the Broad’s director, Michael Rush, is particularly interesting. Read More
Grand Opening of Soho’s Expanded Drawing Center, Scuttled by Sandy, Arrives November 7
In an e-mail to press today, the director of Soho’s Drawing Center, Brett Littman, announced that it will officially reopen to the public on Wednesday, Nov. 7, after being closed for more than a year for extensive renovations and an expansion. Read More
Sam and Helen Zell Give $10 M. to MCA Chicago
Carol Vogel of The New York Times nabs the scoop that billionaire real-estate maven and art collector Sam Zell and his wife, Helen, will give $10 million to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, to create a Zell Fund for Artistic Excellence. Read More
Keith Haring Foundation Gives $1 M. to the Whitney
The Whitney announced today that it has received a $1 million donation from the Keith Haring Foundation to support exhibitions in the Renzo Piano–designed building that it is scheduled to move into in the Meatpacking District in 2015. Read More
Next Year, the Guggenheim Will Become a Giant James Turrell Sculpture
In June the Guggenheim Museum will present James Turrell’s first solo museum exhibition in New York since 1980, an ambitious project that will close the museum’s ramps and use its architecture to create a mass of shifting color similar to his Skyscapes. The show will also feature studies and drawings for his magnum opus, Roden Crater (1976–). The show is part of a tripartite retrospective that will occur simultaneously at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Read More
Klaus Biesenbach and Courtney Love Will Host Halloween Carnival at PS1
This Sunday MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach and Courtney Love Cobain, as she’s called in the flier, will host the museum’s first ever artist’s Halloween carnival and parade. Read More
Eli Broad Donates Roxy Paine Work and 18 More to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan
Art collector, philanthropist and financier Eli Broad announced this week that he’ll be donating 19 works, including Roxy Paine’s Containment 1, to the new Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, at his alma mater Michigan State University. The museum will debut on Nov. 10. Read More
