Tag: Collection
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Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art
News The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley. Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen) Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the read more
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Laura Phipps Named Director of Gochman Family Collection Ahead of New Space’s Opening
Laura Phipps is the new director of the Gochman Family Collection, a New York-based private collection dedicated mostly, though not exclusively, to contemporary Indigenous art. She fills a role most recently held by Zach Feuer, who founded Forge Project with Becky Gochman in 2021, and currently serves as one of the collection’s five curatorial consultants. read more
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Sotheby’s to Auction $130 M. Robert Mnuchin Collection Led by $70–100 M. Rothko Painting
Sotheby’s is preparing to bring works from the collection of the late dealer and financierRobert Mnuchinto auction this May in New York, adding a fresh trove of blue-chip material to a season the house hopes will build on its blockbuster November and a strong start to the spring sales. The consignment is made up of read more
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Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch
News The museum offers scans of items including a painting by Claude Monet, Neolithic sculptures, and Greek terracotta vases Some of the 3D scans were done in collaboration with Japan’s national broadcaster NHK. (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) A voluptuous Neolithic marble figurine, a model Nayarit home from ancient Mesoamerica, Claude Monet’s 1891 read more
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Scotch & Soda Launches Basquiat-Inspired Collection
Amsterdam-based fashion brand Scotch & Soda released a collection this week that is inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and features some of the artist’s work. The collection is a partnership with the Basquiat estate, via the global licensing agency Artestar. In a press release, Scotch & Soda said that like Basquiat, who is best known for read more
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Sotheby’s to Auction Jean and Terry de Gunzburg Collection, Led by Claude Lalanne Mirrors and $15 M. Rothko
Sotheby’s is about to turn a pair of very polished lives into a two-part auction season. In April and May, the house will present roughly 135 works from the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg, carrying a combined estimate of $67 million to $99 million. The first chapter arrives on April 22 with a read more
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New Museum to Open in Portugal Around Collection of José Teixeira
A new museum is slated to open in Portugal in April around the contemporary art collection of José Teixeira, the chairman of dstgroup, a civil construction and public-works engineering company. The institution in Braga, about an hour by car or train from Porto in the northwest of Portugal, will showcase a collection of 1,500 artworks read more
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Christie’s to Offer Three Masterworks From Agnes Gund Collection This May
When Agnes Gund bought Mark Rothko’s1964 abstraction No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe)in 1967, she purchased it directly from the artist in his studio. The painting would go on to hang in her living room for decades. This May, it will be offered on the secondary market for the first time, leading a focused read more
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Four Major Works by Bacon, Freud, and Kossoff from Lewis Collection to Hit Auction Block at Sotheby’s London in March
Sotheby’s will offer four major works from the Lewis Collection next month, spearheaded by a 1972 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, in what the auction house described as a markedly stronger market than a year ago. The group, which includes two portraits by Lucian Freud and a rare swimming pool scene by Leon Kossoff, will be read more
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Gelman Collection of Mexican Art Surfaces at Santander, With Plans to Bring it to Spain
Banco Santander announced Wednesday that it will manage roughly half of the Gelman Collection—one of the most significant collections of 20th-century Mexican art—after the collection disappeared from public view in 2008, El País reports. More precisely, the Madrid-based bank now oversees 160 of approximately 300 works amassed by influential art patrons Jacques and Natasha Gelman. read more
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Thieves Steal Dutch Museum’s Entire Silver Collection
A museum in the eastern Dutch city of Doesburg has been hit by thieves who lifted its entire silverware collection in the early hours of Wednesday morning. According to museum staff, more than 300 “irreplaceable” objects were stolen, valued at tens of thousands of dollars. At approximately 4:30 a.m. local time, two men forced entry read more
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