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about 8 months ago (02/09/2024)
Acquisitions round-up: the Städel Museum in Frankfurt shows off its Honoré Daumier bequest Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Museums & Heritage news Acquisitions round-up: the Städel Museum in Frankfurt shows off its Honoré Daumier bequest Plus, Olmec statuette becomes Kimbell Art Museum’s “most significant work of ancient American art” and Madrid’s Museo del Romanticismo buys an early Goya Hannah McGivern 9 February 2024 Share Honoré Daumier's Don't you dare! (1834) © Private Collection Daumier bequest from Hans-Jürgen Hellwig Städel Museum, Frankfurt The Städel Museum’s new show of 120 graphic works by Honoré Daumier (1808-79), running until 12 May, is drawn entirely from the collection of the Frankfurt arts patron Hans-Jürgen Hellwig...
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about 10 months ago (12/14/2023)
Kimbell Art Museum acquires important cultural touchstone of Olmec art Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Museums & Heritage news Kimbell Art Museum acquires important cultural touchstone of Olmec art The jade statuette of an Olmec ruler holding a baby were-jaguar will be exhibited as the centrepiece of the Texas museum's ancient American collection Theo Belci 14 December 2023 Share Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (around 900BC-300BC) Photo: Justin Kerr., courtesy of the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (around 900BC-300BC), a jade statuette at the centre of Olmec civilisation studies since the mid-20th century...
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about 10 months ago (12/09/2023)
Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach The purchase is part of the city’s annual programme to acquire a work from Art Basel in Miami Beach Elena Goukassian 9 December 2023 Share A visitor to Art Basel in Miami Beach looks at Anneke Eussen’s It’s Alright (2023) on Document's stand Liliana Mora The citizens of Miami Beach have spoken, and the annual municipal Legacy Purchase Program selection from this year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach fair is Anneke Eussen’s It’s Alright (2023), a wall-mounted sculpture that will join previously acquired works on permanent display at the Miami Beach Convention Center...