Art industry news: LVMH helped Musée d’Orsay buy $47 million Impressionist masterpiece and other stories

Art Industry News is a each day digest of crucial developments popping out of the artwork world and artwork market. Here’s what it’s worthwhile to know on Tuesday, January thirty first.

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Designer Paul Smith Curates Picasso Exhibition – In 1973, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s dying, the well-known British designer was invited to the National Picasso Museum in Paris to curate an exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces. A younger viewers, and these unfamiliar with Picasso’s work. The present opens on his March seventh and runs by means of August twenty seventh. (Press launch)

Fake superstar obituaries revealed in London – Adam McEwen was an artist and former obituary author. each day telegraph In London, he used the talents he realized at his previous job to jot down pretend obituaries for celebrities (who had been nonetheless alive). A big print farewell to Dolly Parton, Lewis Hamilton, Greta Thunberg, Grace Jones and extra now hangs in Gagosian’s Davis Street Gallery. (Guardian)

France buys Caillebotte portray with LVMH present – France is Gustave Caillebotte’s proud new proprietor, because of luxurious conglomerate boat occasion, showcases Nineteenth-century jewels on the Musée d’Orsay. The roughly $47 million portray, bought by a member of Caillebotte’s prolonged household, is, based on Jean-Paul Clavery, an adviser to LVMH boss Bernard Arnault, “the final Impressionist masterpiece nonetheless in non-public fingers. He was thought-about one of many (APs)

Cooper Union postpones present about Russian artwork motion – The New York artwork college has determined to cancel an upcoming exhibition on the Moscow artwork and structure college Vkhutemas, which was lively within the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties amid the continued conflict in Ukraine. It was condemned by about 500 students, critics and artists who open letter, calling it a “troubling instance of censorship and historic erasure.” (art news)

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Vagina Museum Seeks New Home – The London museum devoted to feminine anatomy has been informed to go away its present location at Bethnal Green Site, with a ultimate opening date tomorrow, February 1st. Management is searching for a brand new house whereas sustaining its presence within the digital realm. (evening standard)

National Gallery Acquires Native American AbEx Artist – The DC-based National Gallery of Art has acquired the primary work by a Native American member of the New York School AbEx motion. Although he was missed for many of his profession, his 1961 untitled portray by Chippewa George Morrison presents him as a pioneering member of the motion. Morrison’s work lastly got here due final 12 months. Appeared in the USPS postage stamp line.art newspaper)

2023 YoungerArts Jorge M. Perez Award Winner Names – Cornelius Tulloch is the winner of this 12 months’s award, named after the eponymous mega-collector and philanthropist, which comes with a vast prize of $25,000. The Miami-based artist not too long ago joined the Everglades’ Artist in Residence program to discover the legacy of South Florida’s black historical past. (Press launch)

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Ai Weiwei Plans Exhibition Focusing on Design – The Chinese artist and activist will take over London’s Design Museum in April with “Ai Weiwei: Making Sense,” the UK’s greatest exhibition in eight years. From Stone Age instruments to Lego blocks, Ai will showcase new works and large-scale installations, together with 5 huge ‘fields’ that Ai has been amassing because the ’90s. The present will open on April seventh and run by means of July thirtieth. (independence)