A few developments that need no comment:
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, can rest easy: A jury has rejected the attempt by Alfred C. Glassell Jr.’s daughter to break his will, which left half of his fortune to the MFA.
- Cindy Sherman won the Jewish Museum’s Man Ray Award, and the JM also restored some opening hours it had cut.
- The New York Sun, which I wrote about here last spring, is rising again.
- ArtPrize set the dates for next year’s contest.
- The Art Loss Register is seeking help in locating the owner of a group of stolen civil war era books, including:
Nehemiah Adams, South-Side View of Slavery (1855)
Albert Barnes, The Church and Slavery (1857)
Silas Casey, Infantry Tactics (1862)
Dean Dudley, Officers of our Union Army and Navy (1862)
William J. Hardee, Rifle and Infantry Tactics (1863)
Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South (1860)
Frederick Law Olmstead, The Cotton Kingdom, 2 vol. (1861)
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown (1860)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 2 vol. (1862)
Contact Detective Michael McFadden of the NYPD at michael.mcfadden@nypd.org or the Art Loss Register at stolen@alrny.com.