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Religion
Peter Zumthor talked recently about his planned expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. One tidbit: there will be no white walls—Zumthor is going with a “monastic clay tone.” Almost half of the money for the $600 million project has been raised. [The Art Newspaper]
Visionaries
“Police respond to toilet decorated with anti-Trump statements found at American Visionary Art Museum.” It was apparently sitting outside the Baltimore museum. From the piece: “This isn’t the first time someone has anonymously donated art to the museum—let alone a commode.” AVAM is great: highly recommend a visit! [Baltimore Sun]
Here’s a profile of the great Rev. Howard Finster, who is responsible for no less than 46,000 works of art. He is the subject of a retrospective at the Albany Museum of Art in Georgia. [Albany Herald]
Jeff Koons visited Charleston, South Carolina, offered a little history lesson on the United States, and talked about being a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art: “They took us to the Baltimore Museum of Art. When I went through the museum I realized I knew nothing about art. I did not know who the artists were. I may have heard Matisse’s name, but probably never saw one. And I survived that moment. Not everyone survives that moment, in fact most people don’t survive that moment.”. [Charleston City Paper]
In Museum News
Anne Barlow, the director of New York’s Art in General nonprofit, has been tapped to be artistic director of Tate St. Ives. [The Art Newspaper]
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam says that a “lost sketchbook” attributed to van Gogh is not authentic. [The Art Newspaper]
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has begun work on a $10.4 million renovation. [Baltimore Business Journal]
Bonus
Anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles. [Sex Life]
Richard Artschwager at Peder Lund in Oslo. [Contemporary Art Life]
In Other News
There are reports that the Trump transition is not going so smoothly. [The New York Times]