Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Launches Climate Change Initiative – With a new $5 million grant-making program, the late painter’s foundation wants to help visual arts organizations combat climate change. The multi-year Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, the first of its kind in the US, aims to target energy efficiency and clean energy projects at US art museums with its first grant cycle. (
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The ADAA Fair Moves to November – The Art Dealers Association of America’s annual Art Show has become the latest art fair to shift dates but this time, it’s for keeps. The event, which has historically been held at the Park Avenue Armory in late February, will move to November permanently. The 2021 edition will take place from November 3 to 7. (
Getty Research Journal.
Head with Horns, which was shown in
Gauguin: Maker of Myth, the 2010-11 exhibition at London’s Tate Modern and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, was a work by Gauguin, French art specialists were sceptical about the sculpture. They include Anne Pingeot, France’s honorary general curator of heritage, who played a key role in the formation of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and oversaw its sculpture collection.
In the Getty journal, Pingeot writes that, despite strenuous efforts, she has still been unable “to shed any light on its journey” from the 1890s until its appearance at Wildenstein’s. The dealer was unwilling to disclose the provenance, other than saying they had acquired it from an unnamed Swiss owner.