New Museum Sets Reopening Date in March

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A new beginning. this new museum The institution announced Tuesday that it will reopen on March 21 after being closed for two years, after delaying its reopening last fall. new york times Report. The museum will begin closing in March 2024 to accommodate a major expansion project at the adjacent site that will add 60,000 square feet to the museum sana– Design the building so that its total footprint is close to 120,000 square feet. Designed by OMA Shohei Shigematsu and Rem KoolhaasThe expansion nearly doubles exhibition space and includes new galleries, artist studios, education areas, a 74-seat forum, an expanded Sky Room, a bookstore and a restaurant led by Oberon Group’s Henry Rich and chef Julia Sherman. New commissions from Tschabalala Self, Klára Hosnedlová and Sarah Lucas add to the prominence of the building. Admission is free during the reopening weekend, March 21-22. The inaugural exhibition “New Humanity: Memories of the Future” will feature the works of more than 200 artists in the museum, exploring the changing concepts of humanity amid technological and social changes.

Go to Denmark. phillips Announced collection of former U.S. Ambassador to China Denmark, John L. Loeb, Jr.will be auctioned in London and New York this spring, arts journalism. The auction house said the series of sales represents the most important collection of Danish art in private hands and is the largest sale of its kind outside a Danish museum. In the early 1980s, while serving as ambassador to Denmark, Loeb was attracted by the quiet beauty of 19th-century Danish paintings and assembled the collection. Highlights include masterpieces by Wilhelm Hammershuisome of which were featured in the artist’s recent exhibitions Hauser & Wirththe works next to Bertha Wegman, PS Croyerand Anna Ancher. The auction is expected to bring in more than $12 million. Selected works will be copenhagen On January 28th at Erickson Building before touring around the world.

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Rare portraits and manuscripts oscar wilde It will be auctioned to mark the 125th anniversary of the death of the famous Irish writer and poet. [Antiques Trade Gazette]

Laying flowers after a disaster Bondi Terrorist attacks will be transformed into new works of art Sydney Jewish Museum Created by an Australian Jewish artist Nina Sanadzewho plans to preserve the petals as “something that will last for centuries and preserve memories.” [The Art Newspaper]

Painting from 1937 Rabindranath Tagore Breaking the auction estimate of $1.2 million, setting a new auction record Bengal polymath who saw a surge in demand for Indian modernist art. [Artnet News]

1872 Monet masterpiece, Small bra in Argentèse-sur-Seinewill be in South Shields Museum and Art Gallery Starting Saturday as part of a four-venue tour national gallery london. [BBC]

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Cave Encounter. Do Pete Mondrian “He owes his success to a lesbian artist living on a Cornish bay?” This guardian asked. The artist is a British painter Marlo Moss. While Mondrian is best known for his signature grids and bold primary colors, much of his abstract vocabulary may be owed to Mauss, who has long been overlooked in art history. Although she died in obscurity in Cornwall in 1958, she pioneered the use of double and parallel lines in the 1930s, techniques that were later adopted by Mondrian to add tension to his work. Today, her work is enjoying a revival: art museum exist The Hague Now her paintings are front and center; her sculptures will soon be shipped to Berlin Georg Kolbe Museum; and her 1944 painting white, black, blue and red The record-breaking £609,000 ($820,000) sale at Sotheby’s suggests belated recognition of a true modernist innovator.