Reanimating History
An appeals court in France has upheld a suspended two-year jail sentence given to a former electrician to Picasso, who was convicted of having stolen 271 works by the artist. [Al Jazeera]
The publication of artist Celia Paul’s new book about her time with the painter Lucian Freud, who has long dominated her narrative, is “of great significance,” writes Frances Spalding. [The Guardian]
Lisson Gallery now represents the estate of Hélio Oiticica, one of Latin America’s most important artists. [ARTnews]
Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is hiring Denise Murrell, the art historian behind the lauded exhibition “Posing Modernity: The Black Model From Manet and Matisse to Today,” as associate curator of 19th- and 20th-century art. [The New York Times]
Related Articles
Reem Alsayyah, an artist with work currently on view at the British Museum in London, has said that the institution is using its programming to “artwash” funding from the oil giant BP. [The Guardian]
According to Charlotte Ashamu, an associate director at the National Museum of African Art, one of the biggest challenges facing institutions across Africa is a general lack of state funding. [Smithsonian Magazine]
ARTnews Top 200 Collector Cheech Marin’s museum of Chicano art has received a $10,000 gift from the TV network Ovation and Charter Communications. [The Press-Enterprise]
Controversies
A collection of German art said to be worth €300 million (about $331.7 million) and containing works by Markus Lüpertz and Anselm Kiefer has disappeared. [Süddetusche Zeitung]
After it laid off at least 60 of its workers, the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles closed with “no present plans to reopen.” In a new essay, Jori Finkel writes that it was always a “shell of a museum.” [The Art Newspaper]
Lives
Painter Eugenio Chicano, who represented Spain at the 1982 Venice Biennale, has died at 83. [El País]