Five Artists in the News: Van Gogh Meets Law & Order at the Met, Tina Modotti’s Radical Eye And Pauline Boty’s Star Shines Again

One of Vincent van Gogh's early paintings, with a $2.8m price tag, is among the 200 works promised as a gift to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art by the TV producer Dick Wolf of “Law & Order” fame. Two galleries at the Met will be now named in Wolf’s honor, The New York Times reports.

A show about Harold Cohen, the artist who developed arguably the world’s first AI art software in the late 1960s when he became a pioneer of computer-assisted art, is coming to the Whitney Museum next year, reports the Observer.

The radical eye of Tina Modotti, the Hollywood movie star who became a Modernist photographer in Mexico, is celebrated in "Artist and Activist" at Foam Museum in Amsterdam. For more, see Widewalls.

Pauline Boty is trending on HENI News. The British Pop artist whose career was cut short aged just 28, is far from forgotten. A show now on at Gazelli Art House in Londonand two films due out in 2024 means Boty’s profile has never been higher, writes The Critic.

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