News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, has received an unprecedented $20 million endowment from the Walton Family Foundation. The gift will support future exhibition and education initiatives. [Read more from the Amon Carter Museum]
- A bottle of rare Scotch whisky autographed by President-elect Donald Trump is expected to attract a healthy four-figure sum at auction on Jan. 13. The 26-year-old single-malt whisky was bottled in 2012 to mark the opening of Trump’s golf club in Scotland. [Read more from the Press and Journal]
- Get ready for the next British invasion, this time in Ohio. A fantastic display of 30 motorcycles made by British companies between 1913 and 2006 will open on Saturday at the National Packard Museum. [Read more from The Vindicator]
- Sales from public art collections are frowned upon in the art world, but sometimes they’re a sad necessity. Kirklees council in West Yorkshire, England, is considering selling a prized 1940s painting by Francis Bacon. [Read more from The Guardian]
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