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Abraham Bloemart s Moses Striking the Rock, a painting from 1596 now in its collection. The museum said it had investigated and did not find compelling evidence that Curt Glaser had been forced to sell the painting. Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The Nazi authorities removed Curt Glaser from his post as director of the Berlin State Art Library in April 1933 because he was Jewish. He was also evicted from his home and, the following month, sold most of his art collection at two auctions. Since 2007, 13 private collectors or institutions including the Dutch Restitutions Committee, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the city of Basel have concluded that Glaser sold his collection in May 1933 as a result of Nazi persecution, and agreed to either return or pay some compensation to his heirs for art he sold that wound up in th
UCCA Beijing opens the most comprehensive exhibition of Andy Warhol in China to date
Installation view. Courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art.
BEIJING
.- Becoming Andy Warhol is the most comprehensive exhibition of Andy Warhol (1928-1987) staged to date in China. This exhibition brings nearly 400 works selected exclusively from the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), including works that are displayed for the first time outside of The Warhol, with new attention paid to Warhol as a photographer and filmmaker. The exhibition reconsiders Warhols innovative and versatile artistic legacy and is informed by recent scholarship that candidly examines his life and prolific output with a more holistic understanding. It includes both representative and lesser-known works from various phases and aspects of his career, asserting Warhols anticipation of hybridity and repetition as primary influences in contemporary visual culture. Becoming Andy Warhol is produce
In My Opinion: Essex Crossing Should Include Local Arts Organizations | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side thelodownny.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thelodownny.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In October, Buildings Deportment documents revealed that a 14-screen movie theater would be part of the big Essex Crossing project on Delancey Street. Now developers of the nearly 2-million square foot mixed use complex tell Crain’s the operator of the theater will be Regal Cinemas.
The theaters will be located in a 24-story building at the southeast corner of Delancey and Essex streets. The 65,000 square foot facility will be just above a new Essex Street Market. It’s a 15-year lease. Regal Cinemas already runs the multi-screen theaters at Union Square and at Battery Park City.
Rohan Mehra, of the Prusik Group (the firm handling retail leasing at Essex Crossing) told Crain’s the theater would be the largest in Lower Manhattan. “We feel that this is going to be a theater that draws people to this project,” he said. :You need entertainment in any kind of well-curated mixed-use development.”
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