MoMA Selling Duplicate Atget Prints
The Museum of Modern Art is selling over 1,000 duplicates from its collection of Eugène Atget prints, which is the second largest after that of the French government.
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s to Return to Court
A US appeals court has ordered that the antitrust case against Sotheby’s and Christie’s, which has already cost the auction houses over $500 million, be reinstated.
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“Mirroring Evil” Exhibition Dubbed “Obscene”
Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors have condemned “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,” which recently opened at New York's Jewish Museum.
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SF MoMA Taps Neal Benezra
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named Neal Benezra, currently of the Art Institute of Chicago, to succeed David Ross as director.
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Rebounding, NYC Museums Look Hopefully Toward Recovery
New York City’s theaters and museums are reporting rising attendance figures and, with cautious optimism, anticipate recovery.
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Plans for London Skyscaper Approved
London city-planning authorities have approved plans for a sixty-six-story skyscraper, designed by Renzo Piano, which if constructed will be the tallest in the UK.
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Criticism of Anatomy
An English artist defends legal challenges to his upcoming exhibition that will feature work comprising human anatomical specimens.
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Reconceiving Berlin Through New Museums
A spate of new and renovated museums in Berlin is helping the city reconcile its fraught past and position itself for a brighter future.
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Urban-Design Team to Study Lower Manhattan Waterfront
A team of urban designers has been commissioned to study New York's East River waterfront.
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A Conversation with Tom Sachs
In anticipation of the Jewish Museum’s already controversial exhibition “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,” Deborah Solomon talks with artist Tom Sachs—whose work for the show will feature a model of a concentration camp made from a Prada hatbox—on fascism, firearms, and fashion.
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Future of Polaroid’s Photograph Trove in Question
With the Polaroid Corporation in financial turmoil, laid-off employees are not the only ones whose futures have become precarious: The fate of the company’s collection of 12,000-plus photographs, including works by Weston, Mapplethorpe, and Rauschenberg, is also unclear.
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Ralph Rumney, 1934–2002
English writer, artist, and early associate of the Situationist International Ralph Rumney has died at the age of sixty-seven.