– Robert Wilson Makes the Louvre His Living Room: The visual artist and stage auteur Robert Wilson will be theLouvre's artist-in-residence this fall, staging performances in the Parisian museum, and exhibiting works from his personal collection of contemporary art, found objects, and historical artifacts in a show titled "Living Room." Wilson will also perform John Cage's "Conference on Nothing" (1949) in the museum's auditorium on November 11 and 14. [AFP]
– Frida's Photos Get Restored: Some 369 photographs from Frida Kahlo's collection of more than 6,500 will be restored thanks to a six-month conservation grant from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, among them photos taken by the artist herself as well as her father Guillermo Kahlo and greats of modern photography, including Man Ray, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. "These photos [provide] important historical evidence of Frida and Diego [Rivera]’s life," said Hilda Trujillo, director of La Casa Azul, a museum housed in Kahlo's former home. "They enable us to understand many aspects of Frida’s personality, her family life, her relationship with Diego and friends, her political, social and sexual vision, her peculiar way of dressing and grooming, her illness and many back surgeries, her frustration at not being able to have a child and her intense social life." [TAN]
– Israeli Dealer Busted in Global Forgery Scheme: In June art dealer Itzhak Zarug was arrested at his apartment in Wiesbaden following a joint Israeli and German investigation on suspicion of being the mastermind behind an international art forgery ring, with over 1,000 artworks being seized and another 18 accomplices arrested in subsequent raids at galleries and homes in Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Cyprus. Among other suspected forgeries, German police suspect Zarug and a partner of selling seven supposed modernist Russian paintings in the last two years for a total of more than $3.35 million. [Tablet]
– How Sandy Will Change Art Insurance Rates: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the havoc it wreaked on galleries, studios, and art storage facilities in New York City, experts predict that insurance companies are likely to respond in one of three ways: excluding flood coverage in at-risk areas, raising deductibles and retentions, or jacking up premiums. [ARTnews]
– Top 20 Female Artists at Auction: Joan Mitchell and Mary Cassatt lead the pack in terms of women artists' auction revenue, with Mitchell alone grossing $239.8 million between 1985 and 2013 — compared to Andy Warhol's $380.3 million in 2012 alone — while Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman top the list of living women artists at auction. [Bloomberg]
– The Museum of Modern Art may have more Twitter handles than you can count on your fingers and toes, but it has just launched its very first Tumblr, MoMA Teens, in an effort to connect with teenagers. [NYT]
– Danielle Rice, the executive director of the Delaware Art Museum since 2005, is leaving to helm a new graduate program in museum leadership at Philadelphia's Drexel University. [News Journal]
– As its 800th anniversary approaches, one of four copies of the Magna Carta will go on view at Massachusetts's Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts in 2014. [Berkshire Eagle]
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