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Museums
An allegedly selfie-taking visitor at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s Yayoi Kusama show got a little too close to the art and accidentally broke one of the artist’s pumpkin sculptures. [Hyperallergic]
An exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois charts the influence of pinball on the Chicago Imagists. [Smithsonian]
Activist, artist, and dancer Kia LaBeija, who has work in the traveling “Art AIDS America” show, gets profiled. [NBCBLK28]
Here are images of Yuki Kimura’s show at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. [Contemporary Art Daily]
“New World Disorder”
Artist and critic Hannah Black writes on the “new world disorder.” [Artforum]
Nazi-Looted Art
The heirs of an Austrian Jewish entertainer are suing to reclaim two Egon Schiele drawings. Their case involves the use of a new act that helps Holocaust victims recover looted art. [The New York Times]
An exhibition of Nazi-looted art at Paris’s Musée Maillol is bringing to light new fears of conservatism. [The Washington Post]
Market
Is this 1896 painting really by Gustav Klimt? Sotheby’s says yes, but one collector, who claims it was lost while she was renovating her home, says otherwise. [The Art Newspaper]