— Hidden Whistler Portrait Discovered: An X-ray has revealed a hidden portrait of James McNeill Whistler’s mistress Jo Hiffernan beneath a painting of the River Thames, completed in 1862. While hanging the first major exhibition of Whistler’s work at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London last year, curators noticed irregular bumps on the surface of “The Last of Old Westminster.” Scholars believe the artist painted over the portrait in order to complete a paid commission. [TAN]
— Google Glass Sponsors NuMu: Google Glass will be the primary sponsor of the New Museum’s 2015 triennial. Visitors will have the opportunity to don the much-maligned eyewear as part of the exhibition, perhaps as a replacement to the traditional audio guide, though the details haven’t quite been worked out yet. “The show is very much about the future,” said Lisa Phillips, the New Museum’s director. “It is very experimental.” [NYT]
— Monuments Men Donate Nazi Photo Album: The Monuments Men Foundation will donate a photo album compiled by the Nazi organization responsible for looting European art objects during World War II to the National Archives on May 8. The album, which contains photographs of stolen paintings and cultural items, is one of 39 found by the Allies during the war. Greg Bradsher, a senior archivist at the Archives, said, “This set [of albums] was primarily to show Hitler the work they were doing.” [WP]
— Ontario Museum Workers May Strike: Three hundred and fifty employees of Art Gallery of Ontario may go on strike today due to the museum’s move to outsource jobs. [Globe and Mail]
— A Look at Dan Colen: Here’s a Dan Colen profile ahead of his show at the Brant Foundation — apparently he wanted to be in the NBA before he was an artist. [WSJ]
— Post-Frieze Fair: Artist Mark Flood’s “Insider Art Fair” is coming to Chelsea the week after Frieze. [AiA]
— Anita Ellis, deputy director of curatorial fairs at the Cincinnati Art Museum, will retire at the end of May. [Cincinnati.com]
— Pulse Art Fair announced it would relocate its Miami edition from downtown to a new tented home in Miami Beach. [WSJ]
— Nan Rosenthal, curator of 20th-century art for the National Gallery of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on Sunday at 76. [NYT]
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