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☆ Why the pioneering abstract painter Janet Sobel disappeared from the art world at the height of her fame
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Helen Stoilas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Edward C. Robison III/Courtesy The Menil CollectionSobel’s rise in the New York art scene was speedy — and short-lived. An untitled Sobel work, featuring totemic figured rendered in crayon and gouache on drawing pad paper. There’s a lot to still learn.”An untitled Sobel work, circa 1946. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art/The Menil CollectionAn untitled Sobel work, circa 1946-1948. James Craven/Courtesy The Menil CollectionWhat the exhibition demonstrates above all is how innovative Sobel was, in both her media and methods of application.

Persons: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Janet Sobel, you’ve, Sobel, Edward C, Robison III, Sol Sobel, Sidney Janis, Janis, “ Janet Sobel, Clement Greenberg, Pollock, ” Greenberg, —, totemic, Paul Hester, Len Sobel —, — Sobel, Baruch, ” Len Sobel, Peggy Guggenheim, Guggenheim, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Leonora Carrington, New Jersey —, Natalie Dupêcher, ” Dupêcher, Len Sobel, William Rubin, Rubin, Sobel —, Len Sobel’s, I’m, James Craven, …, ”, Dupêcher, “ Organizations: CNN, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Art Students League, Arts Club of Chicago, Brooklyn Daily, New, Puma, ”, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Menil, Brooklyn, Pennsylvania Academy, Fine Arts, Guggenheim, EPA, of Modern Art, MoMA, San Diego Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Locations: New York, Paris, Brighton Beach , Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Washington ,, Houston —, Ukrainian, New Jersey, York, Manhattan, Venice, Perth Amboy, Plainfield , New Jersey, Ukraine, Bentonville , Arkansas, America

☆ Italy repatriates looted ancient artefacts from the US
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] Some of the antiquities returned to Italy from U.S. are displayed during a ceremony in New York, U.S., August 8, 2023. The items, the oldest of which date back to the 9th century BC, include works belonging to the periods of the Etruscan civilisation, Magna Graecia and Imperial Rome. Pictures provided by the Italian culture ministry show the artefacts include several painted pots, the head of a statue and some coins, which were displayed at a restitution ceremony earlier this week in New York. The Italian statement said a further 65 artefacts had come from the Menil Collection museum in the U.S. city of Houston. "The Menil Collection declined these works from the collector and they have never been part of the museum's collection," the spokesperson said.

Persons: Angelo Amante, Keith Weir, Miral Fahmy, Mark Potter Organizations: REUTERS, Graecia, Menil, Italian, of, Thomson Locations: Italy, U.S, New York, REUTERS ROME, United States, Imperial Rome, Houston

☆ Italy repatriates looted ancient artefacts from the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] Some of the antiquities returned to Italy from U.S. are displayed during a ceremony in New York, U.S., August 8, 2023. Carabinieri/Handout via REUTERSROME, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Italy said it repatriated 266 ancient artefacts worth tens of millions of euros from the United States, where they had been brought and sold during the late 1990s by an international network of artefact smugglers. A statement from a specialist unit of Italy's carabinieri police on Friday said the return of the artefacts was due to the cooperation between Italian and U.S. judicial authorities. Pictures provided by the Italian culture ministry show the artefacts include several painted pots, the head of a statue and some coins, which were displayed at a restitution ceremony earlier this week in New York. The statement said 145 pieces were recovered as part of bankruptcy proceedings against British antiquities dealer Robin Symes.

Persons: Robin Symes, Angelo Amante, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, Graecia, Menil, Thomson Locations: Italy, U.S, New York, REUTERS ROME, United States, Imperial Rome, Houston

☆ ‘Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself’ Review: Paper Explorations
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Karen Wilkin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

HoustonEither Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) never produced a drawing that wasn’t compelling or never allowed one to leave his studio. That conviction is borne out by “Robert Motherwell Drawing: As Fast as the Mind Itself” at the Menil Drawing Institute here. Organized by Edouard Kopp , the Institute’s chief curator, to coincide with the publication of “Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonné,” it is the most comprehensive survey to date of works on paper by the youngest and, it can be argued, most sophisticated and intellectual of the Abstract Expressionists. More than 100 works from the 1940s to the late 1980s, from public and private collections, including the artist’s foundation, trace Motherwell’s exploration of different mediums and papers, as well as varied gestures and marks, in major series such as “Elegies to the Spanish Republic,” “Beside the Sea,” “Lyric Suite” and “Opens.”

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