Industry News
The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired a large panel by Derick Baegert. This will be the first piece by the German gothic painter to reach US soil. Upon the announcement of their acquisition, which was possible through a $17 million endowment from 2013, Nicole Myers, the museum’s curator of European painting and sculpture, said, “I think this is an artist who is due for a reevaluation.” [The Art Newspaper]
Check out the rendering for Orange County Museum of Art’s new Costa Mesa space, designed by Thomas Mayne’s firm Morphosis. The building is slated to be complete in 2021. [New York Times]
Rest in peace Barbara Luderowski, sculptor and founder of Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory, who wrote in her will, “Then I want some huge celebration as a fundraiser for the Mattress Factory with a big ticket. It will be for my friends and my enemies, who will like to celebrate my termination. No way will I let some funeral director touch me.”[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Winners of the Swiss Pax Art Awards have been announced. [Artforum]
Eye Candy
Watch Red Bull Music’s experimental short film exploring the influence and work of Rammellzee. [Youtube]
Since 1975, photographer Wendy Ewald has been lending her camera to her child subjects. Look through a collection of the sometimes funny, often touching photographs. [New Yorker]
Architect Kris Provost waxes poetic on how architects photograph their favorite buildings, accompanied by a set of some of his own architectural photographs. [Fast Company]
A photo set of California’s kitschy, roadside pop architecture throughout the last century accompany the new book “California Crazy” by Jim Heimann. [The Guardian]
And More
What would you do if you discovered a painting in your living room had, in fact, been the subject of Nazi looting? That’s what happened to dealer Alain Dreyfus ten years after he purchased a piece by Alfred Sisley, and apparently, he wants his money back from Christie’s, which sold it to him. [Artnet news]
Kanye West debuted his most recent album, ‘Ye,’ last night, in what the Times characterizes as a “last-minute, seemingly slapdash musical rollout.” [New York Times]
Though it’s imperceptible now, Van Gogh’s vibrant yellow paintings of sunflowers are fading to brown, due to the artist’s use of light-sensitive paint and decades of exhibition.[The Guardian]