The New York Times reports that Ronald Lauder has admitted one of the major works in the Neue Galerie collection has been found with spotty provenance, and may be returned to its rightful owner. “If you asked me a year ago, ‘Do we have everything there?’ I would have said yes, because that is what I was told,” Lauder said. “I was told there were no questions about the pieces we had.”
Berlin Metropolis: 1918 – 1933 (Installation View), via Art Observed
Opening its fall exhibition this week, the Neue Galerie looks to Weimar Berlin, with an exhibition that takes an in-depth look at the German capital’s shifting cultural, political and social threads as it recovered from near obliteration into a stable economic power, before descending into the violence and genocide of World War II. (more…)
Fridericianum in Kassel via dOCUMENTA
Every five years, the city of Kassel in Germany plays host to dOCUMENTA, a colossal, 100-day long exhibition of contemporary art from all over the world. Participating artists are provided at least two years to complete their work and the results are thus consistently thorough and complex. This year is dOCUMENTA’s thirteenth edition and is expected to attract more than 750,000 visitors, nearly twice that of last year’s Venice Biennale.
Yan Lei‘s “Limited Art Project”, a room of works completed daily over the past year. The room and the art hung on its walls will be sprayed over with car paint, retransforming every piece into a blank canvas. This image is featured on BBC News’ Big Picture series.
