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- Jayne Wrightsman
leaves over 375 works of art and $80m to the Met. The
Met said that a selection would go on display at the museum,
including 22 paintings by Canaletto, Delacroix, Géricault, van
Dyck, Tiepolo, Seurat and others; a portrait on paper of Marie
Antoinette by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun; “exquisitely
bound” rare books; and 55 small objects ranging from a pair of
17th-century Italian porphyry urns to an 18th-century French
porcelain inkstand in the form of a pomegranate.
- Teresa Iarocci
Mavica to Curate the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2020.
Teresa Iarocci Mavica,
co-founder, and director of the V-A-C Foundation was appointed as
commissioner of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2020 by
the Russian Ministry of Culture. Mavica will serve as the curator of
the pavilion at both the International Art Exhibition and the
International Architecture Exhibition until 2021.
- Artemisia
Gentileschi’s depiction of Lucretia sold for €4.8m at Artcurial.
A work by the 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi sold for
€4.8m at the Parisian auction house Artcurial.
- Glenn Lowry named
most influential art figure. A
$450m revamp and relaunch of the Museum of Modern Art in New York
has propelled the gallery’s head to top spot in an annual
contemporary art power list, – The Guardian reports. – Glenn Lowry
has been named the world’s most influential art figure in the 18th
edition of the Power 100, produced annually by the magazine
ArtReview. In second place is the photographer Nan Goldin, who has
led protests against galleries taking money from the Mortimer and
Raymond branches of the Sackler family. Banksy, meanwhile, appears
on the list for the first time since 2008.
- Kyoto museum to
reopen in March with new contemporary art section. A
newly constructed contemporary art section in a Kyoto museum that
will exhibit works from various genres including manga and fashion
has been shown to the press before the museum’s reopening in March.
The new section of the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art was added to
the northeast part of the main building. As part of the renovation,
the public museum also created a glass ceiling for its inner garden
so the space can be used as a reception venue, – Kuodo News reports.