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Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, A Man Reading (Saint Ivo?), ca. 1450, oil on oak.
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Museums
The British Museum has made its first-ever Banksy acquisition with a work called Di-faced Tenner (2004)—an imitation £10 note that carries the face of Princess Diana. A spokesperson for the institution has said that there are no current plans to exhibit the work. [The Art Newspaper]
Kiki Smith has given more than 800 works to the State Graphic Collection of Munich. An exhibition called “Touch: Prints by Kiki Smith,” which opens February 14, will showcase over 160 artworks. [Artforum]
A look at the plans for Destination Crenshaw, a 1.3-mile-long open-air museum in South L.A. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2020. [Los Angeles Times]
What changes will arts institutions bring to South L.A.? [ARTnews]
Exhibitions
At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pat Steir is showing a series titled “Silent Secret Waterfalls.” Robert Sullivan writes that the works on view “become nature paintings not because they paint nature but because the paint is set free and allowed to do precisely what it does in nature.” [The New Yorker]
Super Bowl
Here’s the run-down on last night’s Burger King commercial, which featured Andy Warhol eating a Whopper and the slogan #EatLikeAndy. [Artnet News]
And More
A Q&A with the artist, musician, and former drag queen Taboo!, and a look around the eclectic East Village apartment that the famed performer has called home for over 30 years. [Artspace]
Christopher Wright, an old-masters scholar, says that a painting at London’s National Gallery attributed to the workshop of 15th-century artist Rogier van der Weyden was more likely crafted by art forger Eric Hebborn in the 1960s. The museum has called Wright’s assertions “baseless.” [The Guardian]
Las Vegas-based artist Vladimir Kush claims that Ariana Grande plagiarized his work in her 2018 music video for the song “God is a Woman.” [The Art Newspaper]
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