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The Headlines

ARTIST ALFRED LESLIE, whose rule-breaking work spans all the historical past of postwar American artwork, died on Friday on the age of 95, William Grimes reviews within the New York Occasions. Born within the Bronx, Leslie studied with Tony Smith at NYU, was an artist’s mannequin for Reginald Marsh’s courses, and confirmed his Summary-Expressionist work on the fabled “Ninth Road Present” in 1951. He additionally created experimental movies—1959’s Pull My Daisy, with Robert Frank , most famously—and made a controversial break with abstraction within the early Nineteen Sixties, to as an alternative produce figurative portraits which might be typically grand in scale, imposing in tone, and even a bit menacing. Explaining that shift to Artwork Papers in 2002, in an interview quoted by the Occasions, Leslie stated that he thought that if “I might sort out one thing that was wholly discredited and present that there was some tiny glimpse of worth in it whereas making lovely work, this could be a beautiful accomplishment.”

RETURNS ON INVESTMENT. Within the Nineteen Sixties, artist John Craxton purchased a chandelier in a London store for £250, suspecting that it was the work of artist Alberto Giacometti. He was appropriate, the Guardian reviews, and that piece is now headed to public sale at Christie’s with a excessive estimate of £2.5 million ($3.1 million)—and hopes that it might fetch way more. That’s spectacular, however in uncooked {dollars}, the Nationwide Gallery of Australia has a fair larger success story. As some art-history varieties might recall, it drew controversy again in 1973 when it purchased Jackson Pollock‘s Blue Poles (1952) for A$1.3 million. The museum just lately up to date its valuation of that masterpiece, the Sydney Morning Herald reviews, and decided that it’s now price a cool A$500 million (US$354 million). To the billionaires now studying: Don’t get any concepts. The portray isn’t on the market.

The Digest

Photographer George Zimbel, who took unforgettable pictures of nightlife and on a regular basis life, in addition to celebrated snaps of Marilyn Monroe and President John F. Kennedy, has died on the age of 93. [The New York Times]

For its Fifteenth-anniversary version, the Dallas Artwork Honest has tapped 88 galleries, together with Perrotin, Varied Small Fires, and Night time Gallery. [ARTnews]

A Canadian artist, Sam Kerson, has been pursuing a go well with towards a Vermont regulation faculty for overlaying murals he made, which it says some view as racially offensive. Kerson argues that violates the Visible Artists Rights Act‘s prohibition on the modification or destruction of an paintings; the varsity says it has finished neither. An appeals courtroom will rule. [The Associated Press]

The CoBrA motion is scorching, Victoria Woodcock reviews. Amongst its followers: artist Robert Nava, who stated that he loves its “sincerity within the return to the fundamentals, searching for newness.” [Financial Times]

After serving as interim director of the Burchfield Penney Artwork Middle in Buffalo, New York, on three separate events, Scott Propeack has been named its director. On the museum, he has additionally been a registrar, affiliate curator, collections and exhibitions supervisor, chief curator, and deputy director. [The Buffalo News]

The Museum of Fashionable Artwork‘s Meret Oppenheim retrospective—which earned a rave evaluate from Alex Greenberger in ARTnews—was featured on CBS. “I discover it very transferring how steadfast she was in at all times eager to reinvent herself,” the present’s curator, Anne Umland, stated. “You possibly can stroll by the present and see numerous completely different concepts on the wall, however it’s all her.” [CBS News Sunday Morning]

The sixth Dhaka Artwork Summit in Bangladesh will open subsequent month sans personal views or a VIP lounge. “It’s a pageant, so everybody has to return, go away and hang around collectively,” cofounder Nadia Samdani stated. She and her husband, Rajeeb, are additionally constructing a cultural middle referred to as Srihatta within the metropolis of Sylhet. [Financial Times]

The Kicker

DOWN THE DRAIN. Archaeologists excavating a Roman tub in Carlisle, England, have discovered semi-precious stones that apparently fell out of bathers’ rings across the third century, the Guardian reviews. That should have been traumatic. In fact, they may have taken off their jewellery earlier than hopping into the water, however then they’d have risked a thief making off with it. So-called “curse tablets” addressed to such evildoers have been discovered at Roman baths elsewhere within the nation, the Guardian notes. One declares that an individual will “have all intestines fairly eaten away if he has stolen the ring.” Appears painful. No, thanks. [The Guardian]