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☆ Patti Smith Sings for a ‘New York Gem’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Alex Vadukul | Dolly Faibyshev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over a century ago, J.P. Morgan built a majestic library for his opulent mansion in Midtown Manhattan. After his death, his son, the financier Jack Morgan, opened it to the public in 1924, and it eventually became the Morgan Library & Museum. Last night, crowds of art patrons and well-heeled bibliophiles gathered in that grand library to attend the Morgan’s centennial celebration. Servers wended through the crowd, carrying hors d’oeuvres trays of crescent duck and caviar as they passed shelves lined with rare editions of works by Rousseau and Voltaire. Devotees of the Morgan like the architect Peter Marino, the art dealer Vito Schnabel and the artist Walton Ford were in attendance.

Persons: Morgan, Jack Morgan, bibliophiles, Dante, Socrates, tuxedos, Keane, Taylor Swift, Rousseau, Voltaire, Peter Marino, Vito Schnabel, Walton Ford, Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit Organizations: Morgan Library & Museum Locations: Midtown Manhattan

☆ Schiele drawings stolen by Nazis have been returned to their former owner’s heirs more than 80 years later
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —During a ceremony and press conference Wednesday in New York, seven drawings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele were returned to the heirs of their former owner, Fritz Grünbaum, whose art collection was stolen by the Nazis during World War II. His routines, which often openly derided Nazism and Hitler, were eventually banned, and Nazis arrested Grünbaum in 1938. His wife, Elisabeth, was later forced to turn over her husband’s art collection — which Bragg said Wednesday included “hundreds of pieces” — to the Nazis. Grünbaum’s collection included “I Love Antithesis,” a colorful watercolor painting of the artist, and “Girl Putting on Shoe,” which was previously held by MoMA. Earlier this week, additional Schiele pieces were “seized” from three US museums amid other efforts to reunite Grünbaum’s collection, though they currently remain at the museums pending further investigation.

Persons: Egon Schiele, Fritz Grünbaum, “, ”, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr, Nazism, Hitler, Grünbaum, Elisabeth, Bragg, Timothy Reif, ” Bragg, Edith, Grünbaum’s, they’d, Ronald Lauder, Reif, ” Reif, Hitler’s Organizations: CNN, Manhattan District, Attorney, MoMA, Nazi, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Morgan Library, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fischer Foundation, New York Times Locations: New York, Austrian, Jewish Austrian, Vienna, Dachau, Germany, Minsk, Belarus, Schiele, Swiss, California

☆ Schiele Works Believed to Be Stolen Are Seized From U.S. Museums
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Tom Mashberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Whether you are a plaintiff, prosecutor or defense counsel, attorneys are always looking for new precedents,” Mark Vlasic, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and former United Nations war crimes prosecutor, said in an email. The art will be transported to New York at a later date. In a statement, the Art Institute said: “We are confident in our legal acquisition and lawful possession of this work. Before Wednesday’s actions, the Grünbaum heirs had filed civil claims not just against the three museums, but also against the Museum of Modern Art and the Morgan Library and Museum, both in New York City; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California; and several individual defendants. The plaintiffs in this case had filed claims seeking the return of other Schiele works at other museums.

Persons: ” Mark Vlasic, ” Organizations: Georgetown University, United, Art Institute, Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie, Oberlin, Museum of Modern Art, Morgan Library and Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Locations: United Nations, Oberlin, New York, New York City, California

☆ Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Jason Farago | More About Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Big Apple is a good place for reinvention, and the Swiss poet Frédéric-Louis Sauser had reason for a restart here in the spring of 1912. At 25 years old he’d washed up in New York Harbor, nearly penniless after trying his luck in Russia and Brazil. Henceforth he would be called Blaise Cendrars: a name for a poet of fire, a promise of ash (cendres) and art. “Blaise Cendrars: Poetry Is Everything,” at the Morgan Library & Museum, is one of the most appealing and eye-opening shows of the summer — a concentrated pop of free-spirited trans-Atlantic modernity, alive with rich color and typographical pyrotechnics. If you haven’t heard of Cendrars, you’re not alone; in an intro French poetry class you are more likely to encounter his good friend Guillaume Apollinaire, a more polished example of modern alienation and fractured style.

Persons: Frédéric, Louis Sauser, he’d, chucked, Sauser, ”, Blaise Cendrars, “ Blaise Cendrars, you’re, Guillaume Apollinaire Organizations: nickelodeon, First Presbyterian Church, Morgan Library & Museum Locations: Swiss, New York Harbor, Russia, Brazil, Greenwich Village, New York

☆ She’s More Than the Creator of Peter Rabbit
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Tanya Mohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences. Beatrix Potter’s tales about the frolics and misadventures of Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck and other animals have charmed children around the globe for well over a century. Now, a new traveling exhibition explores how the English artist and author’s passion and curiosity for the natural world and scientific study inspired her books — and her life. “She creates these little enchanting, watercolor worlds and fills them with characters in gardens and ponds,” said Trinita Kennedy, a senior curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, where “Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature” is on view through Sept. 17. It closed there in January, and after its run at the Frist it will head to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.

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