News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, missing for 32 years, has been returned to the University of Arizona Museum of Art by a Good Samaritan from New Mexico. Preliminary authentication confirms it is the famous painting that was cut out of its frame and removed by a man and woman who followed a museum staff member inside the gallery on Nov. 29, 1985. [Read more from the UAMA]
- Fans of Yayoi Kusama, the undisputed queen of polka dots, will soon be able to pay homage to the ground-breaking Japanese artist in her very own museum. The five-story Yayoi Kusama museum will open on October 1 in Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward. [Read more from the Art Newspaper]
- Rock legend Kirk Hammett’s collection of classic horror and sci-fi art has gone on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. The exhibition features 135 works amassed by the Metallica guitarist over the last three decades. [Read more from PEM.org]
- To mark the centenary of the October Revolution, Tate Modern in London is planning a new exhibition titled Red Star over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture 1905–55. Drawn from the remarkable collection of graphic designer David King (1943-2016), the posters, prints and photos present a visual history of Russia and the Soviet Union from the overthrow of the last Tsar through Stalin’s campaign of terror. [Read more from Tate Modern]
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