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The Headlines

A MONDRIAN MOMENT. This yr marks the 150th anniversary of painter Piet Mondrian’s start, and the artwork world is toasting it in excessive fashion, Nina Siegal studies within the New York Instances. The exhibition “Mondrian Strikes,” on the Kunstmuseum within the Hague, the Netherlands, appears to be like on the artist’s work by means of the lens of motion, and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, has “Mondrian Evolution,” which options practically 90 works by the artist. There are some new developments within the examine of the celebrated determine, as effectively. New analysis reveals that Mondrian was “a really wild dancer,” Ulf Küster, who curated the Swiss present, informed the paper. These seeking to pay their respects to the person can go to his grave at Cypress Hills Cemetery in New York. The New Yorker stopped by with MoMA curators in 2019 to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of his dying.

CALIFORNIA ARCHITECT HARRY GESNER, who gained a faithful following for his creative and generally uncommon residences, died on Friday at 97, the Los Angeles Instances studies. Gesner’s most well-known mission might be the Wave Home, which went up in Malibu in 1957; it “juts out over the sand with a sequence of crested roofs that appear to evoke the types of the waves that curl slightly below,” Carolina A. Miranda writes within the paper. His path into the career was uncommon: He audited a category taught by Frank Lloyd Wright at Yale , declined Wright’s invitation to review with him, after which apprenticed with an uncle. His goal, Harrison Smith writes within the Washington Publish, was “to create environmentally pleasant homes that served as a supply of pleasure, not simply as shelter.”

The Digest

The 2023 Turner Prize exhibition—and award ceremony—will probably be held on the Towner Eastbourne museum in England, the primary time that the intently watched occasion has been held within the county of Sussex. [BBC News]

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is giving $10 million to the Museum of Historical past & Business in Seattle to broaden its Bezos Middle for Innovation, to which he gave $10 million in 2013. [Geekwire]

The Smithsonian‘s Board of Regents voted on Monday to deaccession 29 Benin bronzes held by the Nationwide Museum of African Artwork. The Smithsonian stated that they might be returned to Nigeria “at a later date.” [Smithsonian Institution/Press Release]

As a part of the Masterpiece Excursions from London’s Nationwide Gallery, a Rembrandt portrait of his spouse from the museum’s holdings is now on view on the Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown, Wales. “Individuals ought to have entry to nice artwork domestically,” the Nationwide Gallery’s deputy director, Susan Foister, stated. [The Guardian]

The Cleveland Museum of Artwork stated that the Italian authorities has not contacted it following studies in Could in an Italian newspaper that it holds a Sixteenth-century ceramic sculpture allegedly stolen from a Tuscan chapel within the early twentieth century. [Cleveland.com]

The Kicker

BLUNT BLAKE. Artist Peter Blake secured himself a long-lasting place in music historical past—and a long-lasting hyperlink to probably the most well-known rock band of the twentieth century—by designing the unforgettable cowl of the 1967 Beatles album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band. Fantastic issues. However he informed critic Jonathan Jones within the Guardian that they have been far from his favorite group of the period. “I’ve by no means been an unlimited fan of the Beatles like I’m of the Seaside Boys,” he stated. “It’s a harmful factor to say, I hope that gained’t be your headline: ‘Peter Blake doesn’t just like the Beatles.’” [The Guardian]