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The article informs about ongoing deliberations regarding the fate of artifacts, with discussions centering on whether to burn, bury, or preserve them, alongside various injunctions filed to prevent their destruction. Topic include Stakeholders consider the historical and cultural significance, potential museum locations near Wounded Knee, and the need for consensus-building among community members amidst emotional debates.

Reports that the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has acquired Helen Frankenthaler's "Nature Abhors a Vacuum" painting. Comparison to her 1952 painting "Mountains and Sea".

Reports that the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut has bought Hendrick Goltzius' "Adam". Suggestion that the old master painting was bought at the International Fine Art Fair in New York frm Jack Kilgore; Announcement that "Adam" will be on view as part of "Intimate Visions: Small-Scale European Paintings of the 15th to 19th Centuries" exhibition.

The article reports on the discussion of the Indian government and Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) on whether a number of the museum antiquities it acquired since 1990 where the product of looting by art dealer Subhash Kapoor. Topics covered include the discussion as part of India's efforts to recover sacred idols and ancient relics plundered by smugglers and temple raiders, the willingness of the Met in returning illegal objects, and its policy for artifacts entering the collection.

The article focuses on the mystery surrounding the location of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvador Mundi," after it was acquired in November 2017 by a close ally of Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Topics covered include the anticipation that it will be displayed at the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum in United Arab Emirates, the museum's cancellation of its scheduled unveiling, and the concern by Leonardo experts on the uncertainty on the painting's whereabouts and future.

The article reports on the rapid-response collecting practices of museums in Ireland to collect flags, banners and signs from Ireland's referendum on abortion. Topics discussed include remarks from Brenda Malone, curator at the National Museum of Ireland, and view of Leontine Meijer-van Mensch, deputy director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, about the rapid-response approach of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, England.

The article reports that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)in New York City has acquired the original set of 176 emoji, glyphs original designed for pagers by Japanese mobile provider NTT DoCoMo in 1999. Details are included on the original emoji design by Shigetaka Kurita. It goes on to note that MoMA will add the set to a collection of digital objects.

The article discusses the art collectors Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros' donation of Latin American art to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, New York.

The article profiles conservation director Claire Barry of Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Topics mentioned include her foray in the museum in 1985, restoration of nature paintings from various artists, and Barry's role in major acquisitions of the museum, such as "The Torment of Saint Anthony" painting by Michelangelo

The article focuses on art collectors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner and their donation to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Topics include an exhibition of donated works being held by the Whitney beginning November 20, 2015 and the Wagner's history of collecting art, including works by artists Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, and Christopher Wool.

The article discusses the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist organization's destruction of ancient artifacts in the Middle East and northern Africa, focusing on the implications in terms of museums' willingness to repatriate artifacts to the lands where they originated. Topics addressed include advocacy for repatriation as a means to prevent archaeological smuggling and illicit dealing, as well as arguments that pillaging by ISIS justifies removing cultural artifacts from certain areas.

The article discusses New York City's Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA's) permanent acquisition of artist Jasper Johns' sculpture "Painted Bronze." Topics addressed include the work's previous home at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the reaction of MoMA chief curator Ann Temkin, and MoMA's additional acquisition's of contemporary art works by artists such as Kerry James Marshall and Julian Schnabel.

The article discusses plans to build the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi art museum, designed by architect Frank Gehry located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Topics addressed include the United Arab Emirates' efforts to turn Abu Dhabi into an artistic and cultural tourism capital, as well as curators' acquisition strategies for the museum.

The article focuses on the use of the swastika flags representing the Nazi party of the German politician Adolf Hitler in the Jewish neighborhoods of Florida, and Levittown, New York, informing that the great museums have denied taking the Nazi flags as donations to abolish it completely.

The article presents news briefs related to art as of May 15, 2014. Topics addressed include removal of an export ban on French artist Charles Le Brun's painting “A Portrait of Everhard Jabach and Family" so that the painting can be sent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York City, plans for the “Broadway Morey Boogie" art show in New York City's Broadway Malls, and mobile application (app) company Art Intelligence's development of an app on artist Cindy Sherman.

The article discusses a civil rights museum run by the state of Mississippi that is scheduled to open in 2017. Topics discussed include artifacts related to the life and death of Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers, the role of the director of collections at the state's Department of Archives and History Cindy Gardner to acquire artifacts for the museum, and the distrust that is felt by many African Americans towards the state of Mississippi.

The article discusses several topics related to art and museums as of January 16, 2014. Topics addressed include the popularity of New York City's Frick Collection museum's exhibition "Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting From Mauritshuis," the Metropolitan Museum of Art's acquisition of Ferdinand Hodler's painting "The Dream of the Shepard," and the creation of artworks inspired by Alexander Borodin's opera "Prince Igor."

The article discusses the purchase of famous art works by Sheika al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the chairwomen of the Qatar Museums Authority, as of July 22, 2013. Topics addressed include the nation of Qatar's efforts to gain influence within the art market, the Qatari's art budget and purchasing methods, and efforts to focus on culture in Qatar.

The article discusses the 2013 European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, highlighting the involvement of museum buyers at the fair. Topics addressed include the Metropolitan Museum of Art's purchase of Joseph Wright's (Wright of Derby) painting "Virigil's Tomb in Moonlight," works displayed by art dealer Otto Naumann, and the sale of modern and contemporary art at the fair.

The article discusses controversy over the Taubman Museum of Art's desire to include among its collections sculptures made by Mark Cline, who specializes in fiberglass dinosaurs that decorate many miniature golf courses. Curator Brian Sieveking says Cline's work will help the Roanoke, Virginia museum attract a wider audience.

The article reports that an appeals court in Greece has dismissed a criminal case against Marion True, former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. True had been accused of conspiring to acquire an ancient gold wreath which had been looted from Greece. The museum had returned the wreath to the Greek government in March, 2007.

This article looks at the closing of the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York City which has dozens of claimants wanting their property back. Judge Richard B. Lowe of the State Supreme Court closed the gallery until ownership of items can be sorted out. Larry Salander and his museum have been accused of defrauding customers and business partners and of selling some paintings to more than one person. The largest claimant is Renaissance Art Investors.

The article focuses on rare photographs of the Auschwitz death camp of World War II recently donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The photographs, donated by a former U.S. Army officer, were collected by Karl Hocher, a camp SS officer, and show its German personnel in their leisure hours. The photographs can be viewed by the public at the museum's Web site.

The article reports that the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California has agreed to return 40 objects from its antiquities collection to the government of Italy, which contends the objects were looted from that country. Some of the objects date back to the fifth century B.C. and are among the museum's most prized pieces. The museum's former antiquities curator, Marion True, is on trial in Rome for trafficking in looted art.

The article focuses on a small group of prestigious architects who are planning to sell their archives to museums even as they continue to work. Architects Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenmann have both had their archives appraised as worth tens of millions of dollars. Architects accumulate tremendous amounts of material during their careers. Most donate them to museums or other institutions. Some architects criticize the practice of selling archives.

This article looks at problems at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. The former antiquities curator, Marion True, has been on trial in Rome, Italy for 19 months on charges of trafficking in looted antiques. The museum is also locked in a standoff over 51 artifacts that Italy wants returned. Despite all the difficulties of buying non-looted goods, curator Karol Wight says she will still try to purchase items.

The article provides a look at the work of Italian artist Omero Bordo, who specializes in replicating ancient Etruscan art. After Italy reclaimed ownership of the Euphronios krater, which had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for 35 years, Bordo offered his replica to the museum's director, Philippe de Montebello, for a fee.

The article reviews the exhibition "Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions" at the Morgan Library & Museum e in New York City until May 25, 2015.

Corrections to the exhibition "Richard Estes: Painting New York City," and an article on the addition to the Corning Museum of Glass in New York published in the March 15, 2015 issue are presented

The article offers U.S. art news briefs as of November 2014 on topics including the Hugo Boss Prize won by artist Paul Chan, the fall acquisitions of the National Gallery of Art and the female prisoners in the 1976 painting by John Wesley to be featured in a New York City billboard.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City through September 28, 2014.

The article focuses on the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut and its history. It states that the gallery obtained copies of European old masters and American painting and in 2012, bought Luis de Morales' painting of Christ carrying the Cross. It mentions that ancient Assyrian reliefs arrived at the museum in the 1850s.

The article features a series of acquisitions to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas designed by Tadao Ando. New acquisitions include the rare early wall drawing by minimal and conceptual art pioneer Sol LeWitt, the light sculpture by Dan Flavin, "Untitled (For You Leo, In Long Respect And Affection) 4" and the painting entitled "Kingdom Day, 2010," by Mark Bradford. It also notes works by artists Robyn O'Neill, Howard Hodgkin and Bruce Nauman.

The Bronx Museum, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, announced Wednesday that it had received $500,000 from the Ford Foundation, part of a campaign to raise $1 million for a new acquisitions fund that will focus on buying the works of contemporary artists with strong connections to the Bronx. The campaign's goal is to add 40 significant new works to the museum's permanent collection over the next year. ''These acquisitions will highlight the Bronx roots of many contemporary artists, illustrating how the borough has served as inspiration for a wide range of artists over the past 40 years,'' said Holly Block, the museum's executive director. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several photographs featuring people at the opening of venetian-style palace museum created on the basis of the will of Isabella Stewart Gardner including Alli and Bill Achtmeyer and the new director of the museum Ian Wardropper are presented.

CORRECTION APPENDED ONE recent afternoon in the offices of the Midtown law firm run by David Boies and his powerful litigation partners, a large black clamshell box sat on a conference table. Inside were raucous, sometimes wildly funny collages of photographs and magazine pages handmade by the artist Richard Prince, works of art that have become the ur-texts of one of the most closely watched copyright cases ever to rattle the world of fine art. In March a federal district court judge in Manhattan ruled that Mr. Prince -- whose career was built on appropriating imagery created by others -- broke the law by taking photographs from a book about Rastafarians and using them without permission to create the collages and a series of paintings based on them, which quickly sold for serious money even by today's gilded art-world standards: almost $2.5 million for one of the works. (''Wow -- yeah,'' Mr. Prince said when a lawyer asked him under oath in the district court case if that figure was correct.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A surprising number of sculptures are included in ''Masterpieces of Renaissance Portraiture,'' which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday. But rather than display them against gallery walls the curators will show many of them free-standing and in the round. That's because Keith Christiansen, chairman of European paintings at the Met, who has organized the exhibition with Stefan Weppelmann, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings at the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, wants visitors to be able to examine some of these three-dimensional works from every angle. ''Busts were generally displayed high over doors and/or flat against a wall,'' Mr. Christiansen said. But in some of these sculptures there are extraordinary details in unexpected places that have gone unnoticed for decades. One example appears on a marble bust of Beatrice d'Este, the second daughter of the duke of Ferrara, by the Italian sculptor and medalist Gian Cristoforo Romano. The bust, on loan from the Louvre, is carved from a single block of marble and features a long braid cascading down Beatrice's back, held together with an intricately twisted hair ribbon. ''You would have thought only a painter could have produced something so detailed,'' Mr. Christiansen said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Another fragment of Louis Armstrong's legacy is back where it belongs. The Armstrong museum and archive in Queens has received a treasure-trove of rare 78-r.p.m. records, bootleg tapes, five personal letters, candid photographs, European posters, news clippings, discographies, even weight-loss tips -- 192 cubic feet in all -- from the estate of a Swedish man known as the world's second-largest private collector of Satchmoiana. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the launch of a public campaign by the management of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts to acquire the Lime Green Icicle Tower designed by artist Dale Chihuly.

The Museum of Modern Art will pay $31.2 million for the American Folk Art Museum's building, according to a notice the folk art museum filed to its bondholders. The two museums announced the planned sale last week but had not disclosed the price. The folk art museum took on $32 million of debt to construct the building on West 53rd Street, but attendance never met expectations, and after sustaining investment losses in the financial crisis, the museum defaulted on its debt. The folk art museum had said that the sale would allow it to retire its debt, as well as pay fees to lawyers and consultants. The numbers are close: As of June 30, 2009, the museum owed a principle of $29,945,000 on the bonds. This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SUSAN WEBER is nothing if not persistent. After getting her master's degree in 1985 in a program run jointly by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Parsons School of Design, she was rejected for a curatorial position at Cooper-Hewitt. So Ms. Weber, who was married at the time to the financier George Soros (they have since divorced), began working at the Open Society Institute that her husband had founded. Several years later, a longtime passion for the decorative arts prompted her to apply for the post of director of graduate education at the program run by Cooper-Hewitt and Parsons the New School for Design. ''They strung me along for a year and a half before they turned me down,'' she said. ''I think they figured I was so rich, why would I want to work?'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers an overview of the art museum sector in the U.S. in 2009. It notes that the recession has forced several museums to cancel programming, reduce staff, freeze pay and impose an increase on admissions fees. It adds that while other museums are experiencing challenges, others museums are doing good including the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan which opened a new education wing. It adds that the recession enabled museums to purchase important works of art at cheaper prices.

The article reports that the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas has acquired a complete set of Edward Sheriff Curtis' "The North American Indian (1907-1930)" in July 2009. The rare set includes 20 volumes of illustrated books, each accompanied by a portfolio of photogravuses of American Indians made between 1903 and 1928 by Curtis. Director Ron Tayler said that the acquisition complements the museum's holdings of great western artists.

The article presents an update on various issues in Fort Worth, Texas as of December 2008. The DLP Cinema three-dimensional (3-D) projection technology of Texas Instruments uses millions of microscopic mirrors that project persuasively lifelike images in digital 3-D. A bronze sculpture from 1903 by Anna Hyatt Huntington and a painting from 1941 by Jean Xceron were acquired by the Amon Carter Museum.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two life-size bronze sculptures from a London dealer after an unsuccessful effort by the British government to keep them in Britain. The 1724 statues, the Venus de' Medici, above right, and the Dancing Faun, above left, by the sculptor Pietro Cipriani, were modeled after a pair of sculptures from the collection of the Medici family, the museum said. (Those pieces are now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.) The Getty did not disclose how much it paid for the bronzes, but The Los Angeles Times, which reported the acquisition on Tuesday, said the British Cultural Ministry had been unable to raise a recommended price of about $10 million. In a parallel effort to prevent the departure of masterworks from Britain, the National Gallery in London and the National Galleries of Scotland are seeking to raise about $165 million to acquire two Titian paintings, ''Diana and Actaeon'' and ''Diana and Callisto,'' Reuters reported. Both paintings are being sold by the Duke of Sutherland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]