PASADENA, Calif. – The Pasadena Museum of California Art will close at the current exhibition season on Oct. 7. The Board of Directors voted on June 18 to close the museum.
Pasadena Museum of California Art to close down
Mohawk Arms to muster 1,100-lot militaria auction June 30
BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. – The peaked caps and sleeve insignia of the German Third Reich diplomatic ambassador to Russia, the personal automobile standard and three other fender flags used by Kaiser Wilhelm II and a pair of British Georgian silver mounted flintlock pistols will all come up for bid Saturday, June 30, at Mohawk Arms Inc. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Theft of mammoth proportions: Agency seeks stolen tusk
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A federal agency wants its woolly mammoth tusk back. The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska on Tuesday asked the public’s help in recovering an approximately 10,000-year-old tusk stolen from the Campbell Creek Science Center, an interpretive center in east Anchorage.
The Whitney to mount major Andy Warhol retrospective
NEW YORK – “Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again,” the first Warhol retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989 and the largest in terms of its scope of ideas and range of works, will be an occasion to experience and reconsider the work of one of the most inventive, influential and important American artists. With more than 350 works of art, many assembled together for the first time, this landmark exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, will unite all aspects, media and periods of Warhol’s 40-year career. The exhibition debuts at the Whitney on Nov. 12, and will run through March 31, 2019.
Anish Kapoor sues NRA over video use of ‘The Bean’
CHICAGO (AP) – The British artist behind Chicago’s famous bean-shape sculpture has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the National Rifle Association of copyright infringement by using an image of his work in a video advertisement last year.
Mapmakers to the world featured in Jasper52 auction June 26
NEW YORK – Maps made by the world’s most renowned cartographers of their times are presented in an auction to be conducted by Jasper52 on Tuesday, June 26. Not only will these maps serve as decorative pieces, but they also will reveal innumerable ways to view our world, from Imperial Russia to the to the Strait of Magellan. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.