— Pussy Riot to Appear at Barclays Center: Recently released Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will make an appearance at Amnesty International’s upcoming concert at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, according to Amnesty. The organization has not made clear whether the women will be performing at the February 5 concert, where the Flaming Lips, Lauryn Hill and Tegan and Sara are among the attractions. Alyokhina also recently made an appearance at the Prudential Eye Awards in Singapore, where the group was nominated for a digital/video award. [BBC, TAN]
— LaBeouf Cries Performance Art: In high Franconian style, Shia LaBeouf is now claiming his plagiarism stunts as a performance art project with screenwriter Luke Turner and MoMA’s first poet laureate Kenneth Goldsmith. In a picture posted on twitter, LaBeouf wrote, “Performance art has been a way of appealing directly to a large public, as well as shocking audiences into reassessing their own notions of art and its relation to culture. My twitter “@thecampaignbook” is metamodernist performance art. A Performative redress which is all a public apology really is.” [Time]
— French Woman Sues For Nazi-Looted Art: French citizen Leone Meyer is suing the University of Oklahoma in an effort to recover a Camille Pissarro work that was seized from her father by the Nazis during their occupation of France. Pissarro’s work “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” was donated to the museum in 2000. Meanwhile, France’s culture minister, Aurélie Filippetti announced that the country planned to return three Nazi-looted artworks including a 17th century painting by Joos de Momper. [Forward, NYT]
— Restoration by Popular Vote: Because they can’t afford to restore all of their artworks, the National Museum of Rome is asking Italian citizens to vote on one work to be restored. [NPR]
— Detroit Creditors Ask for Independent DIA Committee: The worth of the Detroit Institute of Art’s assets will be discussed for the first time in open court today in a bankruptcy hearing where creditors are expected to ask for the establishment of an independent committee to assess the value of the museum’s collection. [USA Today]
— De Niro Sr Gets His Due: A new documentary just premiered at Sundance that chronicles the life of figurative painter Robert De Niro Sr., father of the actor. [TAN]
— An 18th century Jade artwork that has been missing for 35 years, has been returned to Harvard’s Fogg Museum by officials of the Department of Homeland Security. [Boston Globe]
— "This is the artist's institution," says new MOCA director Philippe Vergne in a new LA Times profile. [LAT]
— A group of Red Hook artists is suing a landlord for rent stabilized lofts. [WSJ]
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