— More Gurlitt Works Found: Despite the fact that in 2012 authorities confiscated more than 1,000 works from the Munich apartment of recently deceased recluse Cornelius Gurlitt, the government-appointed group tasked with investigating the trove’s provenance said that more works were recently found in his home. Among those uncovered were sculptures believed to be made by Rodin and Degas. The task force will review the works to determine if they were Nazi-looted and they will be posted on the German government’s looted art databank. [NYT]
— Piero di Cosimo Gets First Retrospective: The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has announced plans to mount the first retrospective of Piero di Cosimo, a contemporary of da Vinci and Raphael. Known for a quirky personality and an interest in the Northern European style, di Cosimo has long been overlooked. “This first-ever retrospective on Piero allows us finally to bring together examples from all the genres in which he painted and from all time periods to better understand the chronology of his life and the progression of his career,” said Gretchen Hirschauer, the gallery’s associate curator for Italian and Spanish paintings. [WP]
— Italian Culture Minister Grants Museums Autonomy: Dario Franceschini,the Italian minister for culture and tourism, has announced reforms that will increase the autonomy of the country’s museums and lower costs. The proposals could make 20 museums and archaeological sites self-governing institutions no longer run by the ministry itself. “The chronic lack of autonomy of Italian museums... greatly limits their potential,” said Franceschini. [TAN]
— National Portrait Gallery Shows Important Suffragette Painting: Ethel Wright’s painting of militant suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst went on display at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday for the first time in 80 years. [Guardian]
— Yale Center for British Art to Close for Conservation: The Yale Center for British Art is set to close in January 2015 for a year in order to complete the second part of conservation of its Louis I. Kahn-designed building. [Art Daily]
— Artists Brew Schnapps From Beuys Sculpture: Three artists have used a piece of fat from a 32-year-old work by Joseph Beuys to brew schnapps as part of a performance, outraging Beuys’s surviving family members. [Independent]
— Lydia Yee is the Whitechapel Gallery’s new senior curator. [Artforum]
— Marianne Boesky Gallery now represents South African, New York-based artist Dean Levin. [Press Release]
— Lord Jacob Rothschild is the recipient of the J. Paul Getty annual medal. [LAT]
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