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Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading The People 1830
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Museum Talk
The ICA Boston is closing its Nicholas Nixon exhibition in light of sexual harassment claims from several former students. Following a heated internal forum (since taken offline), the museum made the decision to take his work down ten days earlier than planned. [Artnet news]
The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida discovered two ancient mosaics that the museum seemed to have simply forgotten about. [Hyperallergic]
Rest in peace, Robert T. Buck, former director of the Brooklyn Museum. Buck was known for bringing the museum to attention in the minds of Manhattanites at a time when Rockaway Beach might be the only thing that got them to cross the river. [New York Times]
Comings And Goings
The Louvre is hosting a large Delacroix exhibit, its first since 1963. Among the works on display is July 28, 1930: Liberty Leading The People, the iconic rendering of the French Revolution. [Washington Post]
The estate of Joseph Beuys is now represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, in conjunction with an exhibition dedicated to Beuys in its London location. [ARTnews]
After a tempestuous stint as director of Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre, Chris Dercon has stepped down. The controversy came to a head when the theater was occupied by protesters with “concerns that Dercon would make the avant-garde theatre more corporate.” [The Art Newspaper]
The Guardian has a good slideshow of works by the Nigerian-born, Belgium-based artist Otobong Nkanga. [The Guardian]
Friday Readings
Amy Sillman reviewed Laura Owens’s paintings at the Whitney and made some interesting comparisons between New York- and Los Angeles-based painters. [Artforum]
Check out a conversation with a seasoned L.A. tattoo artist on the origins of the popular black-and-grey realism style of tattooing. [NPR]
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