Pablo Picasso "Bathers with a Toy Boat" part of the Great Collections exhibition in Perth
• The Art Gallery of Western Australia this fall will present Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice, the first in a new series of exhibitions meant to showcase select groups of artworks from prominent museums of the word. The show is organized by Stefano Carboni, a native Venetian, and includes pieces from the collection of the Guggenheim Venice, including work by Picasso and Ernst. Check out Art Knowledge News for more information.
• Two prominent Russians have been found guilty of ‘inciting religious and ethnic hatred’ in a 2006 pop art exhibition called Forbidden Art at Moscow’s Sakharov Museum. Yuri Samodurov, the museum’s former director, was quoted as saying, “Now any exhibition on religion showing works that are not straightforwardly religious can be deemed criminal.” Read the full article at the New York Times website.
• Brandeis University in Massachusetts, in order to generate revenue without losing any of its $350 million art collection, has agreed to lease prized pieces of contemporary and modern art to Sotheby’s auction house. The director of Brandeis’ renowned Rose Art Museum has said he does not know which institutions might actually lease the art from Sotheby’s. Learn more here.