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Thursday, 19 May 2016 11:42

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that Kathryn Kanjo will take over as director when the institution’s longtime head, Hugh Davies, steps down later this year. Kanjo, who will assume her new position in October, currently serves as the museum’s deputy director. At the moment, the institution is laying out plans for a major expansion and renovation, which will be designed by the New York-based architect Annabelle Selldorf.

Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:09

1. Floridian Exuberance by Cullman & Kravis

This bright and airy coastal retreat by Cullman & Kravis is a perfect blend of timeless refinement and playful whimsy. A neutral palette in the home’s entryway, dining room, main living area, and kitchen, is the perfect foil to an eclectic mix of art and design. Filled with unexpected juxtapositions (think an irreverent painting by the conceptual artist Mel Bochner hung above a classic console), the sun-splashed residence succeeds at being both exceedingly elegant and approachable.

Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:07

Days after receiving an $8 million gift from benefactors Donald and Donna Baumgartner, the Milwaukee Art Museum announced that it has selected Marcelle Polednik to serve as its new director. Polednik, who is currently the director and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville at the University of North Florida, will succeed Dan Keegan, who is retiring this week. The museum’s recent gift was intended to support the position of museum director, which will be renamed the Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:05

On Tuesday, May 17, Sotheby’s Geneva hosted the highest-grossing jewelry sale in history. Garnering over $175 million, the record-breaking event was led by the largest pear-shaped fancy vivid pink diamond ever to come to auction. The magnificent, 15.38-carat stone netted $31.6 million. The previous record for a jewelry auction was set last year at Sotheby’s, when one of its sales brought in $161 million.

Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:04

The studio of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney—a sculptor, collector, and great granddaughter of the railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt—will soon open for public tours. Located in Greenwich Village, the studio served as the headquarters of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which Gertrude founded, until 1954. Tours of the legendary art complex will begin on Friday, June 3, thanks to a $30,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:00

Last month, two divers discovered the remains of a 1,600-year-old shipwreck in the harbor of Israel’s Caesarea National Park. The Israel Antiquities Authority ordered successive dives, bringing to light a trove of Roman coins and statues in a spectacular state of preservation. The find is the country’s most significant discovery of marine artifacts in thirty years.

Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:35

1. This high style home belongs to J. Crew’s CEO and features interiors by Thierry Despont.

Located in a Romanesque Revival-style building designed by Albert Wagner in 1887, this stylish loft belongs to J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler. The TriBeCa beauty features soaring ceilings, arched windows, original columns, and rich Brazilian hardwood floors. At 6,226 square feet, the residence is massive, especially by New York City standards, and features five bedrooms and a monumental, eighty-two foot wide living room.

Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:34

The Milwaukee Art Museum’s endowment just got an $8 million boost from benefactors Donald and Donna Baumgartner. The gift will support the position of museum director, which will be renamed the Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. The donation comes at a pivotal time for the institution as Dan Keegan, the museum’s current director, retires this week. The museum has yet to announce a successor.

Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:33

For the past nine years, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, who established the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, in 1978, have been working tirelessly  on Tate Modern’s $394-million expansion. The duo, who designed the original Tate Modern, which opened in 2000, were tasked with linking the existing structure to a new, ten-story building. The revamped Tate Modern, which offers sixty percent more exhibition space, will open to the public on June 17.

Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:32

On November 19 and 20, a Los Angeles-based auction house will offer an array of items that once belonged to Marilyn Monroe. The objects, which include letters, a gold purse containing the actress’ lipstick, and a Blancpain cocktail watch, are from the estate of Lee Strasberg—Monroe’s mentor and acting coach. Items from the sale will embark on a worldwide tour this month, with stops in London and Ireland.

Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:25

Phillips has been making waves in the art world lately. After nabbing a number of former Sotheby’s and Christie’s employees, the London-based auction house announced that it will raise its buyer fees in an attempt to increase revenue. Beginning May 16, Phillips will charge twenty-five percent of the hammer price on works up to and including $200,000, twenty percent of the portion of the hammer price above $200,000 up to and including $3 million, and twelve percent of the portion of the hammer price above $3 million

Monday, 16 May 2016 12:02

For weeks, twenty-one of the country’s most esteemed interior designers have been working tirelessly to transform a newly constructed townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side into a dazzling wonderland of art and design. Their efforts are now visible to all as the 44th Kips Bay Decorator Show House is officially open to the public. Located in the Carlton House (19 East 61st Street), a 9,742-square-foot, limestone structure worth $49.5 million, the Kips Bay Show House is a catalyst for creativity—a place where designers are free to follow their wildest visions, no matter how grand or challenging.

Monday, 16 May 2016 12:01

Femme Assise, one of Pablo Picasso’s most important Cubist works, will be offered at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on June 21. The work, which dates back to 1909, is expected to fetch over $43 million—a handsome sum, but nowhere near Picasso’s auction record of $179 million, which was set last May. The portrait is on consignment from a private collector who has owned the painting since 1973.

Monday, 16 May 2016 12:00

Pittsburgh’s Warhol museum is the proud new owner of a rare work from Andy Warhol’s Paint-by-Number series. The institution has long dreamed of adding the 1962 painting to its collection, and was finally able to do so thanks to mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, who recently acquired the piece. The museum traded a number of deaccessioned works from its collection for the painting.

Monday, 16 May 2016 11:59

The small Tuscan town of Monterchi has repeatedly refused to loan a rare fresco by the Renaissance master Piero della Francesca to Rome’s Capitoline Museums. Ownership of the work, which was painted on a church wall in the 1450s, has been murky, prompting the mayor of Monterchi to fear that if the works leaves the town, it might not return. The fresco attracts approximately 30,000 visitors to Monterchi every year.

Monday, 16 May 2016 11:57

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., has acquired six works by one of the most celebrated self-taught artists, Bill Traylor. Traylor, who spent most of his life as a sharecropper on the Alabama plantation where he was born, is known for his animated scenes of people running, climbing, fighting, yelling, poking, and drinking. Inspired by his memories of life on the plantation as well as the world around him, Traylor’s works provide glimpses of a long-gone African-American culture in the rural Deep South. The works acquired by the Smithsonian will be featured in the major Traylor exhibition Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, which is slated to open March 16, 2018.

Friday, 13 May 2016 16:15

The New York-based interior designer Glenn Gissler seems to defy classification. Trained as an architect, he derives great joy from knocking down walls and renovating a space to help it achieve its full potential. A voracious collector, his razor-sharp eye makes for interiors that are superbly curated, featuring a mix of art and design from a range of periods and movements. A consummate designer, he excels at creating spaces that are profoundly artful, exceedingly refined, and utterly timeless.

Friday, 13 May 2016 16:15

Modern and contemporary masterpieces from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art will go on view in Berlin from December to February 2017. A venue for the exhibition, which will include works by international and Iranian artists, has not been announced. The Tehran Museum owns one of the greatest collections of Western art outside of Europe and the United States, boasting works by an array of modern masters, including Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol.

Friday, 13 May 2016 16:13

Cheyenne Westphal, Sotheby’s former worldwide head of contemporary art, has joined the London-based auction house Phillips. Westphal left Sotheby’s back in March after twenty-six years with the company. Her exit took place amidst a number of shake-ups at Sotheby’s, including the resignation of its co-head Alex Rotter. Westphal will join Phillips as its new chairwoman.

Friday, 13 May 2016 16:13

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is restoring one of the most important paintings in its collection—Pablo Picasso’s The Studio (L’Atelier). Painted in 1928, the work appeared in the Museum of Modern Art’s seminal Picasso: Forty Years of His Art exhibition and was acquired by Peggy Guggenheim in 1942. The restoration will involve removing an accumulation of particles from the painting’s dulled surface.

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