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Farewells
Jorge Daniel Veneciano will step down as director of the Museum of Arts and Design after only five months on the job. [Artforum]
Brooke Lampley, who has been with Christie’s for 13 years, is leaving her job as head of its Impressionist and modern department to join Sotheby’s. She’ll start in 2018. [Art Market Monitor]
Philip Kennicott: Efforts to eliminate the NEA, NEH “are part of a nascent but ominous larger movement to eliminate the last vestiges of a public realm free of the dictates of the market.” [The Washington Post]
Outsider Art
The Times asked Monty Blanchard, the president of the American Folk Art Museum in New York, and Leslie Tcheyan, his partner, who is a jewelry designer, to “show us your wall.” [The New York Times]
Nate Freeman tours the Outsider Art Fair, which opened in New York yesterday. Maurizio Cattelan was there—and Harvey Fierstein! [ARTnews]
Giants
A bounty of letters and other mementos related to Alexander Hamilton sold for $2.6 million at Sotheby’s. Sadly, an 11-year-old bidder at the sale did not win the lot he was after. [The New York Times]
Lynne Cooke previews the Walker Art Center’s upcoming Merce Cunningham retrospective. [Artforum]
Jed Perl on Diebenkorn. [The New York Review of Books; subscription required]
An Extra Large Bonus Section
Adam McEwen discusses his show at the Aspen Art Museum. Of his famed obituary works, he says, “They’re about death but they’re not only about death.” [The Aspen Times]
“What it’s like to have under three minutes to photograph President-elect Trump.” [The Washington Post]
Verde, the restaurant at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, currently has a special menu in honor of PAMM’s Julio Le Parc retrospective, and it features an intriguing snow cone! [Miami New Times]
Sadie Benning at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. [Contemporary Art Daily]
Danica Barboza at Lomex in New York. [Sex Life]
Here are 10 places to view public art in 2017, from Minneapolis to Palm Springs to New York. [T: The New York Times Style Magazine]