Five Artists in the News: Marina Abramovic Performer Sues MoMA, Stolen Egon Schieles Head to Auction and Ana Maria Hernando Transforms Madison Square Park

Two works by Egon Schiele, which were seized by the Nazis and ended up in US museums, have been consigned to auction at Christie’s, Observer reports. They were retrieved in January by the heirs of the Austrian performer Fritz Grünbaum, who was killed in Dachau.

Fourteen years after “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present" at MoMA, New York, a former performer is seeking unspecified damages, reports the Daily Beast. John Bonafed alleges he was assaulted while nude on seven occasions by visitors during performances of Imponderabila.

Robert Whitman, a key figure in performance and multimedia art, has died at 88. Whitman helped stage influential Happenings in New York in the 1960s with artists including Jim Dine and Claes Oldenburg. (ARTNews)

Works by Edward Hopper bequeathed to the Whitney Museum by his widow in the late 1960s “made their way to the market, with no proof of how they left the studio, which is to say no proper provenance," recalls former curator Gail Levin in New Criterion.

Enjoy Ana Maria Hernando's transformation of Madison Square Park. Called To Let the Sky Know / Dejar que el cielo sepa, the Buenos Aires-born artist's colorful clouds of tulle float above the snow covered park in the heart of New York. (Instagram)