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• Van Hits Memphis Museum, Damaging Two Wheeler Williams Statues

  30-10-2023 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  Two Wheeler Williams statues at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art are seriously damaged after a large van struck the institution’s marble building.. At 9:30 p.m. on October 28, the vehicle entered the museum’s plaza through a small space between a tree and a series of bollards. The van struck a corner of the institution’s original building from 1916, a bench, and two out of three partially draped figures in William’s sculpture trio, Spring, Summer, and Fall, which were acq
  
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• French Art World Seeks Funding to Preserve Studio Where School of Paris Movement Began

  30-10-2023 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  A fundraising campaign has been launched to save a 150-year-old studio with art historical significance in the Cité Falguière in Paris, the Guardian reported. The studio, known as Atelier 11, has been home to Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, French painter Chaïm Soutine, Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and French painter Paul Gauguin, and was also where the School of Paris movement began.The Cité Falguière, a cul-de-sac in Montparnasse, was construc
  
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• Advisory Panel Resigns Over Controversial BührleExhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich 

  30-10-2023 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  A panel of scholars assembled to advise the prestigious Kunsthaus Zürich over its upcoming exhibition of the Nazi-linked Bührle collection has dissolved after its members resigned, the museum said in a statement. Leadership at the Swiss institution said curators and advisers could not reach a resolution on how to proceed with detailing historical context related to the collection’s origins. The show, which is scheduled to open on November 3, centers the collection of Emil Georg B
  
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• Advisory Panel Resigns Over Controversial Bührle Exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich 

  30-10-2023 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  A panel of scholars assembled to advise the prestigious Kunsthaus Zürich over its upcoming exhibition of the Nazi-linked Bührle collection has dissolved after its members resigned, the museum said in a statement. Leadership at the Swiss institution said curators and advisers could not reach a resolution on how to proceed with detailing historical context related to the collection’s origins. The show, which is scheduled to open on November 3, centers the collection of Emil Georg B
  
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• North Carolina Museum Takes Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room Off View After a Mirror Panel Is Damaged

  30-10-2023 16:38 via artnews.com
  
  Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Room” installations have become a hit with museum- and gallery-goers, drawing massive crowds around the world. But one place Kusama’s art won’t generate long lines and lots of attention, at least for now, is the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, which has taken an “Infinity Room” off view for the rest of 2023 after it was damaged, according to the News & Observer.The installation, titled Light of Life (2018), is held b
  
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• Treat Yourself to 15 Eerie Images Celebrating Halloween

  30-10-2023 14:38 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  These highlights from the Smithsonian Photo Contest are sure to scare up some smiles
  
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• Barbara Walters’s Art Collection Goes to Auction

  30-10-2023 14:29 via artnews.com
  
  “One night, Barbara invited Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick,” remembers Pamela Gross, the former CNN producer and close friend of the late Barbara Walters. “She had a beautiful piano in her living room, and after dinner, Barbara and Sarah and Matthew gathered around the piano and started singing old tunes, and the rest of us were just pinching ourselves. It was such a special night, but that’s the way Barbara lived.”The newswoman, who died
  
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• Barbara Walters’ Art Collection Goes to Auction

  30-10-2023 14:29 via artnews.com
  
  “One night, Barbara invited Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick,” remembers Pamela Gross, the former CNN producer and close friend of the late Barbara Walters. “She had a beautiful piano in her living room, and after dinner, Barbara and Sarah and Matthew gathered around the piano and started singing old tunes, and the rest of us were just pinching ourselves. It was such a special night, but that’s the way Barbara lived.”The newswoman, who died
  
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