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“SAM Wins Bet Over Denver Art Museum, Unveils Broncho Buster”

“SAM Wins Bet Over Denver Art Museum, Unveils Broncho Buster”

by Joshua Lewis via “Seattle Refined“

Before the Super Bowl, we told you about a bet between the Denver and Seattle Art Museums determining that whoever won the big game would have to loan one of their most precious pieces of art to the other museum for a period of time.

Well, we all know what happened that Sunday. So today, Denver Art Museum’s “Broncho Buster” has arrived and been unveiled at it’s new temporary home at SAM. In attendance to witness the glorious celebration were fifth graders from The Little School in Bellevue, fully decked out in their Seahawks and 12s gear.

Nothing to do on your lunch break? SAM is offering free admission to the museum to anyone wearing Hawks gear today.  . . . .”

Coming Exhibition: The Pollock Masterpiece

This one intrigues me because I am from Iowa City, where the Pollock originates.  I have worked with one of the art historians who specializes in the Poll0ck, and she is delighted about this!

Who: Getty Museum

What: Jackson Pollock’s famous work entitled “Mural“

–the work was commissioned by the amazing art collector/supporter Peggy Guggenheim (her collection is just unbelievable) for the entrance of her New York home in 1943. It has since become representative to many people of that century’s peak in American art.   After it suffered some decay, it was restored by the Getty and will be on exhibit for a short while before returning to its home at the University of Iowa.

When: March 11, 2014 – June 1, 2014

Where: West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center

How Much: Free!

Further Information: The Getty’s Website articles (1) and (2)

“Restored Pollock Masterpiece Goes On Display

At The Getty Museum”

via “CBS News Los Angeles“

 

“LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — After a little nip here and a tuck there, “Mural,” Jackson Pollock’s brilliant, larger-than-life painting, is once again ready for its close-up.

The oil-on-canvas work, measuring more than 8 feet high and nearly 20 feet long, has been under wraps at the J. Paul Getty Museum for more than a year undergoing extensive restoration.

Officials of the Los Angeles museum showed the results Monday. The painting, which was commissioned in 1943 by New York Art Collector Peggy Guggenheim, goes on display to the general public Tuesday.

The work represents a key turning point in Pollock’s career. It marks his move away from symbolic, regional forms to the abstract expressionism he would become known for.

The painting, owned by the University of Iowa, will be on display at The J. Paul Getty Museum through June 1. . . . “

“3,200-Year-Old Gold Artifact Transferred From L.I. Estate To German Museum”

Remember the post from back on Oct. 18? Well here is the result of that lawsuit. . . . 

“3,200-Year-Old Gold Artifact Transferred From L.I. Estate To German Museum”

Via “CBS New York”

“A 3,200-year-old Ishtar Temple gold artifact has been returned to a German museum that lost it during World War II.

The Assyrian gold tablet is a little more than an inch long.

As WCBS 880′s Sophia Hall reported Wednesday, some say it’s worth more than $10 million. Others say the artifact is priceless . . . ”

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Couple Donates $70 Million Collection to Philadelphia Museum of Art

“Couple Donates $70 Million Collection to Philadelphia Museum of Art”

by Victor Fiorillo via PhillyMag

“On Thursday, Art Museum CEO Timothy Rub announced that the museum has acquired one of the country’s most important collections of contemporary art from Keith and Katherine Sachs. Keith Sachs, a museum trustee since 1988, is the former CEO of Horsham-based Saxco International, a distributor of wine and liquor bottles.

The collection of 97 works spans the last 60 years and includes pieces by American masters Ellsworth Kelly and Jasper Johns, as well as dozens of other artists. The collection features paintings, both indoor and outdoor sculpture, large-format photography, and video art.

Here’s what Rub had to say:

The Sachs Collection reinforces and expands the scope of the Museum’s holdings of contemporary art and will enable us to present to our audiences a more comprehensive view of the art of the past half century.  . . . .”

 

“Flea Market Renoir Painting Sparks Legal Battle With Museum”

“Flea Market Renoir Painting Sparks Legal Battle With Museum”

via “ABC NEWS“

“A one-of-a-kind Renoir painting the size of a napkin is at the center of an intense legal battle between a museum that claims it was stolen and a Virginia woman who claims she bought it for $7.

The tiny work of art is an 1879 landscape by the Impressionist painter titled “Paysage Bords de Seine.”

In court papers filed this week, the Baltimore Museum of Art claims the painting was stolen in 1951. As evidence, the Museum provided a 60-year-old police report, old museum catalogues and a receipt showing that a patron bequeathed the painting to the museum. . . . .”