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Five Artists in the News: Alicja Kwade’s Golden Gift, Storm Damages Rothko Chapel and Can an Artist's Dog Die of Paint?

15 Aug 2024

Roy Lichtenstein, Finger Pointing from The New York Collection for Stockholm 1973. Copyright the artist's foundation.

Berlin: Alicja Kwade has donated her golden sculpture Goldelse to the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie, its director Klaus Biesenbach has announced via Instagram.

Chicago: The New York Collection for Stockholm (1973), a portfolio of works by leading artists, such as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, which was published by E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), sold for $25,200 at Wright auction house. HENI News

Tel Aviv: A paintings by Klimt is the works moved by Tel Aviv Museum of Art to the basement meant to shield them from possible Iranian missiles, Gulf News reports.

New York: Raven Chacon is among the artist’s whose works will be featured when the American Academy of Arts and Letters opens its new contemporary art space in the fall, e-Flux reports.

Legal: Federal prosecutors will not try to prove a painting stolen in 2005 while on loan to the Everhart Museum is an authentic Jackson Pollock. WVIA

In other news

Houston: The Rothko Chapel, home to the artist’s murals, will remain closed after suffering damage during Hurricane Beryl.

"I googled, 'Will dogs die after eating paint?'. Artist Dominique Fung recalls the day her elderly Shiba Inu rescue developed a taste for the walnut oil in a tube of paint."

- Vogue