L to R: Diane Abbey, Arthur Abbey and Monika Bincsik at the exhibition Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection
NEW YORK – Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Diane and Arthur Abbey, well-known New York collectors of Japanese bamboo art, have provided a generous gift to endow a curatorship in the Museum’s Department of Asian Art. In recognition of their gift, the position has been named the Diane and Arthur Abbey Curatorship for Japanese Decorative Arts. Assistant Curator Monika Bincsik, who joined the department five years ago, is the first incumbent, effective February 13, 2018. The curatorship is the first endowed position for Japanese decorative arts in the Museum’s history.
LOS ANGELES — The Broad today announced major new acquisitions for its collection, including Helter Skelter I, 2007, a massive, mural-scale painting by the Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford, and Bradford’s recent work, I heard you got arrested today, 2018. The museum also acquired Longing for Eternity, 2017, by Yayoi Kusama, adding a second of the artist’s iconic Infinity Mirror Room installations to its collection.
