Photographer Annie Leibovitz Returns With Her Most Personal Project: "Women: New Portraits"

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz has returned to her most personal 1999 project, “Women,” to engage new subjects in the next generation. Seventeen years later, with “Women: New Portraits,” Leibovitz is adding to history and elaborating with a new mentor, Gloria Steinem, and a new format beyond the printed page. Leibovitz and Steinem have engaged new viewers through a 10-city international tour, and have focused on issues ranging from sexual violence against women to women’s experiences in the working world in “talking circles,” where the audience is invited to join in. Leibovitz felt her 1999 project had deep resonance, but that it was never “done.” This exhibition will first open in Frankfurt from October 14 to November 6, and then in New York from November 18 to December 11 in the gymnasium of the old Bayview Correctional Facility, a former women’s prison.

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Explore a Digital Reconstruction of Lavish 2000-Year-Old Pompeii Home

The house of Roman banker Lucius Caecilius Jucundus was only partially destroyed in 79 EC when Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii. Today, the house still retains some of its foundations, walls, and even details of mosaics and carved reliefs. Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University have digitally reconstructed the building using 3D technology that simulates the experience of walking through the home’s meticulously embellished interiors.

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MAAT Museum, Designed by British Architect Amanda Levete, Opens in Lisbon

The Museum of Architecture, Art and Technology (MAAT), which opened in Lisbon to the public last weekend, offers 7,000 square meters of new exhibition space. British architect Amanda Levete dug down, instead of building up, in order to not block out river views and create new open space to attract the local populace, resulting in the gleaming white stone roof functioning as a public park. Visitors can gaze out over the river, famous for turning gold in the setting sun.

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Klaus Kertess, Art Dealer and Curator, Dies at 76

Klaus Kertess, curator and art dealer, helped launch the careers of numerous artists who are now cornerstones of art history. He passed away at age 76. Kertess opened Bykert Gallery in New York in 1966 at only 26 years of age. Over the next nine years, Bykert showed a formidable roster of artists associated with Minimalism, Post-Minimalism, and Process Art, including Brice Marden, Dorothea Rockburne, Chuck Close, Bill Bollinger, among many others. He started the gallery at a time when there were no galleries actively looking for new artists, or where younger artists could turn in the hopes that they would show their work. He continued working as a writer, publisher, curator and art dealer throughout his long life in the world of the arts.

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Warhol By the Book Opens at Blanton Museum of Art in Austin

The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas presents Warhol By the Book. It is the first museum exhibition in the United States to examine Andy Warhol’s career-long work in books. This segment of his vast portfolio of work is often overlooked. The exhibition spans five decades and over 250 objects, encompassing nearly all of Warhol’s book projects -- from his early days as a student in Pittsburgh and a commercial illustrator in New York, to his years as a Pop art pioneer and superstar in the spotlight. Original artist books, book jacket covers and ephemera, illustrations, screen prints, paintings, photographs, films, and several books authored and owned by Warhol will be on display beginning October 16.

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$35 Million Bidding War Anticipated Over Prince’s Secret Music Vault

Bremer Trust, the organization temporarily overseeing the late icon’s estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, opened Prince’s storied cache of unreleased music in late April of 2016. Now, Bremer Trust estate advisors Charles Koppelman and L. Londell McMillan may be asking as much as $35 million for the contents of the hidden music cache of unheard work. Three major labels are said to be in talks for the rights to his music.

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Elaine Lustig Cohen, Prolific Graphic Designer, Passes Away at 89

Elaine Lustig Cohen, whose career began almost accidentally with signage for the celebrated Seagram Building in Manhattan, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan at the age of 89. She is survived by her daughter, Tamar Cohen, a graphic artist. Her first design project was meant to be completed by her first husband, but he died of complications of diabetes before he could begin. Though she had absolutely no design experience, she designed every single detail of the Seagram signage project, including the 375 address outside, fire hose connections, switches and other unseen details. When the building opened in 1958, it was hailed as a minimalist architectural masterpiece. Elaine Lustig Cohen would go on to have a long, illustrious career.

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Art History A-Level Dropped as UK Government Trims Creative Subjects from Curriculum

Art historians are fighting back against claims that the subject is “soft,” arguing its loss could have detrimental effects on the industry. The subject will be dropped in UK schools after 2017. Former education secretary Michael Gove proposed cuts to the number of creative and art based courses to make way for “more challenging, more ambitious, and more rigorous” subjects. Other subjects that were axed include Statistics, Classical Civilization and Archaeology. Top academics, notably the Association of Art Historians have condemned the insinuation that art history is worthless to school-age children.

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Value of Overlooked Old Masters Skyrockets, Reshaping the Contemporary Art Market

Auction house rewards are growing for scholars who reattribute overlooked artworks by Old Masters. When pieces that were once “attributed to” Old Masters are reauthenticated as being “by” a master, they have the potential to sell for exponentially more they were once thought to be worth. Renowned academic-turned-dealer Andrew Butterfield is at the cusp of this reattribution movement. Butterfield has uncovered four Bernini works since 2002. One piece he discovered, which had failed to find a buyer at auction for $200 in 1975, is now valued at $50m. Whether a piece is by a master or the student can make an incredible difference on the price. Collectors and dealers have to trust the auction house, or the professional they are dealing with, to represent the piece correctly. Last week, Sotheby’s found itself in hot water after a forgery scandal rocked the Old Masters market, sparking questions about whether more fakes were yet to emerge.

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Tokyo’s Only Furniture Museum is a Top Draw for Antique Furniture Lovers

Minoru Ikeda, founder of France Bed, opened a historical furniture museum in 1972 in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, to showcase his antique collection. In 1979, the facility evolved into the Furniture Museum, and was eventually relocated from Central Tokyo to the city of Akishima in 2004. About 10% of the 1,700 items Ikeda has collected over the years is on display, most notably the Windsor chairs, originating from Britain, and a large collection of Japanese chests from different time periods. An exhibition titled “Chairs of Modern Japan II - During Showa Era and Before WWII” will be held from October 16 through November 20.

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Prosecutors Push for Four-Year Prison Sentence and $275M Fine for Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein

French-American art dealer Guy Wildenstein could be facing up to four years in prison, with two years suspended, and a penalty of $275 million for alleged tax evasion and money laundering. Two other members of the Wildenstein family, Alec Jr. and Liouba Stoupakova, widow of Guy’s brother, were recommended suspended prison sentences of 6 months and one year, respectively. The Wildensteins, along with two offshore banks, two lawyers and a notary, are accused of using a complex system of trusts and shell companies to evade French tax authorities and hide the vast majority of their wealth.

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Cover image credit: Andy Warhol, In the Bottom of My Garden, ca. 1956. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.