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October 18, 2007
BoboLinks: Guggenheim Bilbao Riles Anti-Terrorists; Dealers in Trouble; New Director for PAFA
---Jason Webb of Reuters reports that families of the victims of Basque terrorists are protesting a current photography exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao of work by Clemente Bernad, which they feel is sympathetic to the ETA rebels. Webb writes:
The museum said it would not remove the photographs unless ordered to do so by the courts.
---The complicated Salander-O'Reilly Galleries creditors story has too much libel-suit potential for me to touch without quoting directly from court papers, so let me update you with a bunch of links:
Philip Boroff of Bloomberg reports today that New York State Supreme Court Judge Richard Lowe will hold a hearing tomorrow on creditors' claims. According to Boroff:
[Lawrence] Salander, 58, and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries are accused in lawsuits of defrauding customers and business partners and failing to pay more than $30 million in debt....Yesterday, Salander canceled what would have been the opening of his last exhibition after London-based dealer Clovis Whitfield removed about half of the artworks planned for display. That followed four days when the gallery was locked under an earlier order from Lowe.
Bloomberg had a previous story here. But the publication that has been following the story most closely is the Maine Antique Digest, here, here, here and here. The Art Newspaper weighs in here.
---And in other news about galleries in legal trouble, The Art Newspaper reports on the sentencing of pre-Columbian art dealer Edward Merrin
---In happier news, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has finally found a new director, David Brigham, former executive director of the Allentown Art Museum. He succeeds Derek Gillman, who a year ago became director of the Barnes Foundation. Peter Dobrin of the Philadelphia Inquirer has more here.
Posted October 18, 2007 11:27 AM
