Actualités
Dans notre section Actualités nous offrons une compilation d'articles publiés de toutes les avancées significatives en matière de successions d’artistes. For further up to date information on artists’ estates you can follow us on twitter and facebook.
Michael Jackson Estate & BMI Extend Rights Deal For King Of Pop’s Catalog
Don’t stop til you get enough. BMI and the Michael Jackson estate have extended their long-term deal for rights to the King of Pop’s catalog. This deal continues the relationship between Jackson and the performance rights group that began in 1979. The estate and BMI most recently renewed the deal in 2014.
THOMAS HART BENTON HEIRS SUE MISSOURI BANK FOR MISMANAGEMENT OF ARTIST’S ESTATE
essie Benton, daughter of the American regionalist Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), has filed a lawsuit against Kansas City’s UMB Bank this week, accusing it of mismanaging Benton’s multimillion-dollar estate and leaving more than one hundred artworks from the estate unaccounted for. The bank’s practices, she alleges, “have resulted in an excess of millions of dollars in damages to the Benton Trusts.”
‘A Master of the Gestural Brushstroke’: the Legacy of Ed Clark
Ed Clark, a painter and innovator of the post-war abstract art movement, has died at age 93. Clark was a fixture in the New York art scene of the 1950s, frequenting the Cedar Tavern alongside peers like Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Though his career didn’t yield the same level of market success in the decades following the downtown New York painting boom, Clark’s work has sparked renewed interest from critics and collectors alike in recent years.
Germany plans photography archive
Germany plans photography archive to preserve ‘visual memory of our society’ – Culture minister Monika Grütters enlists international experts to help create a central institution but critics question necessity and feasibility.
8,300 Works by Long-Unknown Artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein Go to Wisconsin Arts Center
There are big acquisitions and then there are truly gigantic acquisitions. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has just landed one of the latter, acquiring a bounty of works by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein from the estate of the late artist, whose output included campy but tender photographs of his wife, scrappy ceramics, and inventive paintings.
Philanthropic Organizations buy ‘Ebony’ and ‘Jet’ Photo Archive
Philanthropic Organizations Pay $30 M. for ‘Ebony’ and ‘Jet’ Photo Archive, Plan Donation to Getty, Smithsonian.
Mapplethorpe Foundation Endows Fellowship at Guggenheim
The Guggenheim Museum in New York has received an endowment from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to fund a conservation fellowship for photography at the museum. Fellows will use the museum’s photography collection for research, as well as work to preserve it.
David Smith Estate Names Jennifer Field Executive Director
The David Smith Estate has named Jennifer Field its new executive director. Through the position, she will oversee projects related to the sculptor’s work, of which some monumental pieces are currently showing at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England.
PERROTIN & NAHMAD NOW REPRESENT GEORGES MATHIEU ESTATE
Following their successful collaboration with Hans Hartung, Perrotin & Nahmad Contemporary are pleased to announce that they now exclusively represent the estate of French artist Georges Mathieu worldwide.
Which Mega-Gallery Took on the Most Artists Over the Past Three Years?
If it seems that Hauser & Wirth has been taking on artists and estates left and right lately, ARTnews found that the numbers back that up. The most recent one to move to the mega-gallery—the estate of sculptor John Chamberlain, announced earlier this week—makes a total of 24 artists or estates taken on in the past three years. That slightly edges out Gagosian, 13 years older and commonly understood to be the most powerful of the megas, which took on 21 artists and estates during the same period.
