— $13 Million More for DIA: Just after automakers promised $26 million to the “grand bargain” plan to save the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has pledged $10 million and the J. Paul Getty Trust has vowed to give $3 million. If the DIA raises $100 million, the city of Detroit will transfer the collection to a nonprofit. According to James Cuno, president and chief executive of the Getty Trust, the Getty is "proud to participate with other distinguished supporters in addressing the unique situation that is currently facing the DIA, through no fault of its own." [LAT]
— LA Wants Lucas Museum: Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has made a bid for the George Lucas Cultural Arts Museum by launching a social media campaign that encourages locals to tweet reasons for #WhyLucasinLA. The mayor has proposed Exposition Park, where a sports arena currently stands, as the potential home of the museum. Look out Chicago and San Francisco! [CBS]
— Gurlitt Task Force Confirms Rosenberg Ownership: The group of experts tasked with combing through the collection of recently deceased art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt have officially confirmed that a Matisse painting belongs to the heirs of Paul Rosenberg. The family, however, was none too pleased that the decision was first announced to the press. "We would like to express our disappointment...with the Task Force's decision to release this information to the press before informing the heirs," said Christopher Marinello, the lawyer representing the Rosenberg family. “It is the height of insensitivity and continues the vein of disregard for due process and compassion that we have seen since the discovery of the Gurlitt hoard." [WSJ]
— Guccifer Goes to Jail:Guccifer, the hacker who exposed George W. Bush’s paintings to the world, has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Romanian court. [Reuters]
— Voina’s Strange Support of Putin: Turns out Oleg Vorotnikov, a co-founder of controversial Russian art collective Voina, supports Putin’s Crimea annexation. [TAN]
— MoMA’s First App:MoMA senior curator Paola Antonelli explains Bjork’s “Biophilia,” the first downloadable app in the museum’s collection. [MoMA]
— Sylvia Yount will replace Morrison Heckscher as the head of the Met’s American Wing. [AiA]
— Three paintings and five sculptures by Cy Twombly have been donated to the Tate, as per a stipulation in the artist’s will. [The Guardian]
— John Marciari has been chosen to be the Morgan Library’s new head of drawings and prints. [Gallerist]
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