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A BIG GIFT. The artwork patron Dimitris Daskalopoulos, a mainstay of the ARTnews High 200 Collectors listing, revealed that he’ll donate 100 works from his prized assortment of up to date artwork collectively to the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museum of Modern Artwork Chicago, on whose boards he sits. ARTnews Editor in Chief Sarah Douglas has the story . The choice to have two establishments share such a big physique of labor has no clear precedent. The Guggenheim’s director, Richard Armstrong, termed it “a house run.” As well as, Daskalopoulos—who has acquired works by David Hammons, Mike Kelley, and Lynda Benglis over some 30 years—will give about 110 items to Tate and 140 to the Nationwide Museum of Modern Artwork in Athens.
CHARITABLE SALES. Subsequent month in Geneva, Christie’s will supply a 205-carat yellow diamond that was additionally bought by way of the home in 1918, throughout World Struggle I, by the British Pink Cross Society and the Order of St. John, Penta stories. Then, it earned the equal of about $780,000 right now; this time, it has a $10.7 million excessive estimate. A portion of the proceeds from the sale will go to the Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross , based on Christie’s. In the meantime, artwork, awards, and different objects owned by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are being bought in an internet public sale by Potomack Firm to profit the Washington Nationwide Opera, the Related Press stories. It carries a $80,000 excessive estimate, and features a Pablo Picasso plate.
The Digest
A wall-hung Louise Bourgeois spider would be the costliest sculpture ever provided at public sale in Asia, when Sotheby’s brings it as much as the block in Hong Kong later this month with an estimate of $15 million to $20 million.
[Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, Penta/Barron’s]
The Mattress Manufacturing unit in Pittsburgh has employed David Oresick to be its govt director. Oresick, who has run the Silver Eye Heart for Pictures within the metropolis since 2014, will take the place of Hayley Haldeman, who introduced late final 12 months that she would step down. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Photographer Annie Leibovitz shot a pregnant Rihanna on the Ritz Paris. [Vogue]
Mako Komuro—who gave up her Japanese imperial title, Princess Mako, married a commoner, and moved to New York—is reportedly working on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork as an unpaid intern on a present of works by Okinawan artist Yamada Shinzan (1885–1977). [Town & Country]
Working with Gagosian and the corporate (RED), artist Ed Ruscha has created a limited-edition scarf. The proceeds from its sale will profit efforts to offer “equitable entry to COVID-19 reduction in nations in want,” Rosemary Feitelberg stories. A bonus merchandise: (RED) cofounder Bono stopped by Ruscha’s studio. [WWD]
The Brooklyn residence of seller Audrey Rose Smith and photographer and designer Vicente Muñoz, who’re married and who put out Balcony journal, consists of artwork by Virginia Greenleaf Koch and Ernst Yohji Jäger. [Clever/Architectural Digest]
The Kicker
ONE OF THE MOST QUOTABLE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET, artist, collector, and Baltimore Museum of Artwork trustee John Waters informed the Pitch (“Kansas Metropolis’s impartial supply for information and tradition”) that he likes Kansas and that “it’s like a minimalist, stunning artwork piece.” Waters has a brand new guide popping out, Liar Mouth: A Really feel-Unhealthy Romance, that’s “most likely the craziest factor I’ve written since Pink Flamingos ,” he mentioned. “It’s a few girl who steals suitcases in airports. Right here’s the human trailer: Marsha Sprinkle, suitcase thief, grasp of disguise, scammer… kids and canine hate her.” What extra may you need? It’s out subsequent month. [The Pitch]