– Show of 123 Kahlo Fakes Kicks Up Controversy: All 123 paintings in a new traveling show of Frida Kahlo’s work are fakes painted by four anonymous Chinese artists. "The Complete Frida Kahlo: Her Paintings, Her Life, Her Story," currently on view in San Diego, is the project of Dr. Mariella Remund and her partner Hans-Jürgen Gehrke, who obtained rights to reproduce the paintings from the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. "We could have retired in the south of France with a villa and two Ferraris, but we decided we would rather do this," Remund said. [KPBS]
– Vezzoli’s PS1 Show Cancelled: Franceso Vezzoli’s planned exhibition at MoMA PS1, in which he planned to reconstruct an Italian church brick-by-brick inside the museum, has been cancelled due to export problems in Italy. Vezzoli may face a fine or even fours years of jail time for attempting to export items of artistic value without permission. "Part of curating is to come up with new ideas — and I started this morning," said MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach. [NYT]
– Gurlitt's Toulouse-Lautrec Trove Uploaded: German authorities have released information about 39 drawings and prints by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec that were among the 1,406 artworks seized from the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt— photos of 34 of them have also been released. This brings the total number of works from the cache unveiled to 118; German authorities announced last week plans to post information regarding 590 of the seized artworks online. [AFP]
– Optimal Age for Artists Found: Dutch economist P.H. Franses claims he has determined when artists hit the peak of their career. Examining data of 221 famous 19th and 20th century painters, he compared their total life spans with the year they created their most lucrative artwork. The resulting average suggests artists are most successful, at least by this market-determined measure, when they are “at the 0.618 fraction of their lives” — 41.92 years old — having lived just under 62% of their lives. [Pacific Standard]
– Pompidou Collection Expands, Travels: Barbara Duthuit, the widow of Henri Matisse's grandson Claude Matisse, has donated two works by the beloved modernist — the 1910 painting "Fillette au Chat Noir (Marguerite)" and the 1948 gouache cutout "La Jérusalem Céleste" — to the Centre Pompidou. Meanwhile some 20 works from the Pompidou's collection — including a Picasso, a Calder, an Yves Klein, and more — recently went on view in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where they are serving as an appetizer for the forthcoming King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture. [TAN, Le Figaro]
– Permit-less Performa Piece Stays Put: The giant outdoor sculpture "Queen Mother of Reality," which Pawel Althamer created as part of his Performa 13 commission and installed in Williamsburg's East River State Park, was ordered removed by the state for not having the correct authorization on Thursday, but on Monday the resilient artwork had not budged. [DNAinfo]
– A man fell over the fourth floor railing to his death at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on Saturday. [USA Today]
– Oklahoma-based billionaire Lynn Schusterman has donated 119 objects of Judaica to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [The Boston Globe]
– Eli Klein, "Gallery Girls" villain and dealer specializing in Chinese contemporary art, is moving his gallery from Soho to Chelsea. [Artdaily]
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