Lynyrd Skynyrd Drummer Paints David, Is DIA Bailout Illegal?, and More

— Lynyrd Skynyrd Drummer Paints Michelangelo: Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Michael Cartellone has an exhibition of paintings inspired by Michelangeo’s “David” at two Wentworth Galleries locations in the D.C. area. In a recent Washington Post profile, the drummer describes his passion for painting and his musical career as “two halves of a whole.” The “David” paintings reimagine the iconic statue in the styles of van Gogh, Picasso, Lichtenstein, and Warhol. “One of the things I had intended to do with this project is to choose four styles that I was not familiar with,” said Cartellone, “and in essence, to deconstruct myself as a painter and put myself in a position where I was going to walk into a very unknown learning curve.” [WashPo]

— DIA Bailout May Be Illegal: According to David Skeel, a bankruptcy law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Detroit’s proposed plan to save DIA’s art and the city’s pensions is illegal. Skeel argues that the plan violates a tenet of bankruptcy law “that creditors must get more in bankruptcy than they would outside of bankruptcy.” “Because the art would be used to pay only one group of creditors — the pension recipients — the excluded creditors may be worse off in bankruptcy than if Detroit had never filed,” he writes. [WP]

— How Will de Blasio Handle the Arts? Mayor Bill de Blasio’s long-term approach to arts funding might look very different from that of the Bloomberg administration. It seems New York’s new mayor is more focused on “community outreach, supporting culture in the outer boroughs and encouraging artists to remain in New York.” “Under Bloomberg, well-established institutions tended to be favored,” said arts consultant Adrian Ellis. Now, “those smaller organizations further from Manhattan may see an increase in their funding and their priority”. [TAN]

— Van Gogh Discovered in Safety Deposit Box: A painting by Vincent van Gogh that went missing nearly 40 years ago was discovered by Spanish tax inspectors during an operation to seize contents from 542 safety deposit boxes from tax offenders. [Globe and Mail]

— Randy Kennedy’s Night at “Al’s Grand Hotel”: “All the signifiers that constitute a hotel of a certain vintage were there... matchbooks and glass ashtrays on the tables (which couldn’t be put to use, sadly, because no one had cigarettes and, besides, you can’t smoke at an art fair.)” — Randy Kennedy reviews a night spent at “Al’s Grand Hotel” at Frieze New York. [NYT]

— Bed-Stuy’s African Art Museum: Curator Vira Lynn Jones runs an African art museum with close to 4,000 objects out of a first-floor apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. [DNAinfo]

— 21C has announced plans to build yet another combination museum/hotel, this time in Nashville. [Tennessean]

— Jesús Rafael Soto’s “Houston Penetrable” at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts is a crowd-pleasing giant indoor playground. [Houston]

— The Art Newspaper asks, is 90 the new 20 in the art world? [TAN]

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