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John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Early life and education

Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma in 1915 to attorney Buck (Charles) Colbert Franklin (1879–1957) and his wife Mollie (Parker) Franklin. He was named after John Hope, a prominent educator who was the first African-American president of Atlanta University.

Franklin's father Buck Colbert Franklin was a civil rights lawyer, aka "Amazing Buck Franklin." He was of African-American and Choctaw ancestry and born in the Chickasaw Nation in western Indian Territory (formerly Pickens County). He was the seventh of ten children born to David and Milley Franklin. David was a former slave, who became a Chickasaw Freedman when emancipated after the American Civil War. Milley was born free before the war and was of one-fourth Choctaw and three-fourths African-American ancestry. Buck Franklin became a lawyer.

Buck Franklin is best known for defending African-American survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riot, in which whites had attacked many blacks and buildings, and burned and destroyed the Greenwood District. This was known at the time as the "Black Wall Street", and was the wealthiest Black community in the United States, a center of black commerce and culture. Franklin and his colleagues also became experts at oil law, representing "blacks and Native Americans in Oklahoma against white lawyers representing oil barons." His career demonstrated a strong professional black life in the West, at a time when such accomplishments would have been more difficult to achieve in the Deep South.

John Hope Franklin graduated from Booker T. Washington High School (then segregated) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He graduated in 1935 from Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, then earned a master's in 1936 and a doctorate in history in 1941 from Harvard University.

Career

"My challenge," Franklin said, "was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly."

In his autobiography, Franklin has described a series of formative incidents in which he confronted racism while seeking to volunteer his services at the beginning of the Second World War. He responded to the navy's search for qualified clerical workers, but after he presented his extensive qualifications, the navy recruiter told him that he was the wrong color for the position. He was similarly unsuccessful in finding a position with a War Department historical project. When he went to have a blood test, as required for the draft, the doctor initially refused to allow him into his office. Afterward, Franklin took steps to avoid the draft, on the basis that the country did not respect him or have an interest in his well-being, because of his color.

In the early 1950s, Franklin served on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund team led by Thurgood Marshall, and helped develop the sociological case for Brown v. Board of Education. This case, challenging de jure segregated education in the South, was taken to the United States Supreme Court. It ruled in 1954 that the legal segregation of black and white children in public schools was unconstitutional, leading to integration of schools.

Professor and researcher

Franklin's teaching career began at Fisk University. During WWII, he taught at St. Augustine's College from 1939 to 1943 and the North Carolina College for Negroes, currently North Carolina Central University from 1943 to 1947.

From 1947 to 1956, he taught at Howard University. In 1956, Franklin was selected to chair the history department at Brooklyn College, the first person of color to head a major history department. Franklin served there until 1964, when he was recruited by the University of Chicago. He spent 1962 as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, holding the Professorship of American History and Institutions.

David Levering Lewis, who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for history, said that while he was deciding to become a historian, he learned that Franklin, his mentor, had been named departmental chairman at Brooklyn College.

Now that certainly is a distinction. It had never happened before that a person of color had chaired a major history department. That meant a lot to me. If I had doubt about (the) viability of a career in history, that example certainly helped put to rest such concerns.

In researching his prize-winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois, Lewis said he became aware of Franklin's

courage during that period in the 1950s when Du Bois became an un-person, when many progressives were tarred and feathered with the brush of subversion. John Hope Franklin was a rock; he was loyal to his friends. In the case of W. E. B. Du Bois, Franklin spoke out in his defense, not (about) Du Bois's communism, but of the right of an intellectual to express ideas that were not popular. I find that admirable. It was a high risk to take and we may be heading again into a period when the free concourse of ideas in the academy will have a price put upon it. In the final years of an active teaching career, I will have John Hope Franklin's example of high scholarship, great courage and civic activism.

From 1964 through 1968, Franklin was a professor of history at the University of Chicago, and chair of the department from 1967 to 1970. He was named to the endowed position of John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, which he held from 1969 to 1982. He was appointed to the Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships, 1962–1969, and was its chair from 1966 to 1969.

In 1976, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Franklin for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. Franklin's three-part lecture became the basis for his book Racial Equality in America.

Franklin was appointed to the U.S. Delegation to the UNESCO General Conference, Belgrade (1980).

In 1983, Franklin was appointed as the James B. Duke Professor of History at Duke University. In 1985, he took emeritus status from this position. During this same year, he helped to establish the Durham Literacy Center and served on its Board until his death in 2009.

Franklin was also Professor of Legal History at the Duke University Law School from 1985 to 1992.

Racial Equality in America

Racial Equality in America is the published lecture series that Franklin presented in 1976 for the Jefferson Lecture sponsored by the National Endowment for Humanities. The book is composed of three lectures, given in three different cities, in which Franklin chronicled the history of race in the United States from revolutionary times to 1976. These lectures explore the differences between some of the beliefs related to race with the reality documented in various historical and government texts, as well as data gathered from census, property, and literary sources. The first lecture is titled "The Dream Deferred" and discusses the period from the Revolution to 1820. The second lecture is titled "The Old Order Changeth Not" and discusses the rest of the 19th century. The third lecture is titled "Equality Indivisible" and discusses the 20th century.

Later life and death

In 2005, at the age of 90, Franklin published and lectured on his new autobiography, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. In 2006, Mirror to America received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Book Award, which is given annually to honor authors "whose writing, in illuminating past or present injustice, acts as a beacon towards a more just society."

In 2006, he also received the John W. Kluge Prize and as the recipient lectured on the successes and failures of race relations in America in Where do We Go from Here? In 2008, Franklin endorsed presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Franklin died at Duke University Medical Center on the morning of March 25, 2009.

Honors

In 1991, Franklin's students honored him with a festschrift The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin (edited by Eric Anderson & Alfred A. Moss, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1991).

Franklin served as president of the American Historical Association (1979), the American Studies Association (1967), the Southern Historical Association (1970), and the Organization of American Historians (1975). He was a member of the board of trustees at Fisk University, the Chicago Public Library, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

Franklin was elected as a foundation member of Fisk's new chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1953, when Fisk became the first historically black college to have a chapter of the honor society. In 1973–1976, he served as President of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa.

Additionally, Franklin was appointed to serve on national commissions, including the National Council on the Humanities, the President's Advisory Commission on Ambassadorial Appointments, and One America: The President's Initiative on Race.

Franklin was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was an early beneficiary of the fraternity's Foundation Publishers, which provides financial support and fellowship for writers addressing African-American issues.

In 1962, honored as an outstanding historian, Franklin became the first black member of the exclusive Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.

The John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture resides at Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and contains his personal and professional papers. The archive is one of three academic units named after Franklin at Duke. The others are the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, which opened in February 2001 and the Franklin Humanities Institute. Franklin had previously rejected Duke's offer to name a center for African-American Studies after him, saying that he was a historian of America and the world, too.

In 1975, he was awarded the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates.

In 1975, Franklin was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Whittier College.

In 1978, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

In 1994, the Society of American Historians (founded by Allan Nevins and other historians to encourage literary distinction in the writing of history) awarded Franklin its Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

In 1995, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.

In 1995, President Clinton awarded Franklin the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The President's remarks upon presentation of the medal cited Franklin's lifelong work as a teacher and a student of history, seeking to bring about better understanding regarding relations between whites and blacks in modern times.

In 1995, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Historical Scholarship.

In 1997, Franklin was selected to receive the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, a career literary award given annually by the Tulsa Library Trust. Franklin was the first (and so far only) native Oklahoman to receive the award. During his visit to Tulsa to accept the award, Franklin made several appearances to speak about his childhood experiences with racial segregation, as well as his father's experiences as a lawyer in the aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa race riot.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Franklin on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry presented the Governor's Arts Award to Dr. Franklin in 2004.

In 2005, Franklin received the North Caroliniana Society Award for "long and distinguished service in the encouragement, production, enhancement, promotion, and preservation of North Caroliniana."

On May 20, 2006, Franklin was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at Lafayette College's 171st Commencement Exercises.

On November 15, 2006, John Hope Franklin was announced as the third recipient of the John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity. He shared the prize with Yu Ying-shih.

On October 27, 2010, the City of Tulsa renamed Reconciliation Park, established to commemorate the victims of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, as John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park in his honor. It includes a 27-foot bronze entitled Tower of Reconciliation by sculptor Ed Dwight, expressing the long history of Africans in Oklahoma.

Marriage and family

Franklin married Aurelia Whittington on June 11, 1940. She was a librarian. Their only child, John Whittington Franklin, was born August 24, 1952. Their marriage lasted 59 years, until January 27, 1999, when Aurelia succumbed to a long illness.

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Brooklyn Libraries in the Great Depression

There's a headcanon on my dash about Bucky stealing a copy of The Hobbit to read with Steve. And I'm slightly irked. Because while I am 100% on board with Steve and Bucky being Tolkien fans, Bucky wouldn't have needed to steal books.

One word: libraries.

New York City has three public library systems: The New York Public Library (Manhatten, Staten Island, & the Bronx), The Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn), and the Queens Borough Public Library (Queens). Steve and Bucky lived in Brooklyn, so the relevant system for them is (obviously) the Brooklyn one.

Over the years, BPL has had 60 libraries. Many of them opened in the first decade of the 20th Century. 21 of them were Carnegie libraries. (At present, there are 58 libraries, 18 of which are Carnegie Libraries.) There would have been a library within walking distance, at least for Bucky. (Depending on how far away it was, Steve's health might have made it difficult for him to go himself.)

BPL libraries were hit with serious budget cuts during the Great Depression, because library budgets are always one of the first things hit during economic downturns. It's idiotic. The money saved by cutting services is barely a drop in the bucket, and study after study has shown that library usage increases when the economy gets shitty. That was the case in the Great Depression, and it's still the case today.

BPL libraries had to reduce services, but they stayed open, and people used them. As Judge Edwin L. Garvin, President of BPL’s Board of Trustees, said in 1932:

Some persons may hold the view that the public library is a sort of luxury to be indulged in when money is easy, but to be put aside when the economic shoe pinches. The period of depression has proven quite the contrary. People have flocked to the libraries in greatly increased numbers, finding there recreation of the highest type at a minimum of cost, and also means of study in preparation for the old job which will surely some day again need its faithful servant, or for the new job which will give the individual a better opportunity to earn a living and to enjoy life.

Our boys had free access to books. They didn't need to steal.

Sources:

American Public Libraries in the Great Depression - Charles A. Seavey (Not as sketch as it looks.)

Brooklyn Read-In Marathon Protests Library Cuts - Michael M. Grynbaum

Carnegie Libraries - Brooklyn Public Library

Library Budget Cuts -- A Recurring Theme - Richard Reyes-Gavilan

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Event | Sanford Biggers, Karl Kellner, and Min Jin Lee to be Honored at 2019 Hall of Fame Benefit

The event recognizes the sustained achievements of artists who received early career support from NYFA, and the vision and commitment of enlightened arts patrons.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will celebrate the induction of three arts luminaries into the NYFA Hall of Fame during its annual benefit on Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York, NY 10013. The event recognizes visual, literary, and performing artists who have received NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships and have had a profound impact on the arts through their creative work, and patrons of the arts who have championed the value of the arts in the world around us. The evening’s honorees are:

Sanford Biggers, Visual Artist (Fellow in Performance/Multidisciplinary ’05)

Karl Kellner, Senior Partner, New York Office Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.: Patron of the Arts

Min Jin Lee, Novelist (Fellow in Fiction ’00)

The ticketed event will feature cocktails; dinner; and a live/silent auction of art, experiences, and more. Carmelita Tropicana (NYFA Board Member; Fellow in Performance/Multidisciplinary ’87 and Playwriting/Screenwriting ’91, ’06) will serve as the event emcee. All tickets come with a signed, limited-edition print by Sanford Biggers created exclusively for the event. Attire is festive cocktail.

On the inductees, feminist visual arts advocate and NYFA Board Chair Judith K. Brodsky said: “Sanford Biggers and Min Jin Lee’s work actively explores and responds to topics of race, class, and diaspora—and tells important stories that are not often part of the dominant historical narrative. We’re thrilled to induct them into our Hall of Fame along with Karl Kellner, a Patron of the Arts who has helped to champion the needs of working artists through his involvement on NYFA’s Board of Trustees.”

The event recognizes the sustained achievements of artists who received early career support from NYFA, and the vision and commitment of enlightened patrons of the arts. Biggers and Lee are past recipients of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, which are individual unrestricted grants made to artists who are living and working in New York State. Other past NYFA Hall of Fame Inductees include Ida Applebroog, Paul Beatty, James Casebere, Christopher d’Amboise, Phil Gilbert, Anna Deavere Smith, Zhou Long, Christian Marclay, Terry McMillan, Mira Nair, Lynn Nottage, Eric Overmyer, Suzan-Lori Parks, Wendy Perron, Dwight Rhoden, Faith Ringgold, Carolee Schneemann, and Andres Serrano.

“We’re thrilled to bring artists like Sanford Biggers and Min Jin Lee back to NYFA as part of our annual Hall of Fame Benefit,” said Michael L. Royce, Executive Director, NYFA. “The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is often among the first professional recognitions that artists receive, so it’s a special honor for us to celebrate all they’ve accomplished in the time since,” he added.

NYFA is proud to present this year’s honorees and celebrate their impact in the cultural community:

Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current social, political, and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, with work in group exhibitions at the Menil Collection, Tate Modern, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Biggers’ work is held in the public art collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, among others. In 2017, he was awarded the Rome Prize in Visual Arts. Biggers is also the creative director of Moon Medicin, a multimedia concept band that straddles visual art and music with performances staged against a backdrop of curated sound effects and video. He lives and works in New York City.

Karl Kellner, Patron of the Arts and former NYFA Board Member, is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and leads the firm’s New York Office. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience, predominantly in health care management. Kellner’s client service spans across the health care sector and includes health plans, provider organizations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacy-benefit managers and private equity firms. His clients include CEOs, board directors, and C-level executives, and he focuses primarily on strategy development and performance improvement. In addition to his work at McKinsey, Kellner is active in the New York City community. He served from 2006-2018 on NYFA’s Board of Trustees, where he held roles including Treasurer and Strategic Planning Committee Chair. He led an eight-year partnership with former President Clinton and the Clinton Foundation to create economic opportunity and assist small businesses in Harlem and several other urban areas across the U.S., and was a multi-year member of the Clinton Global Initiative. He has also been involved with New York Cares since the 1990’s. Kellner holds an MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA degree from Oberlin College. He lives in New York City with his wife, Suzannah, who works in the arts, and two children, Cassandra and Marshall.

Min Jin Lee’s 2017 novel Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction; a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and was included on The New York Times, BBC, CBC, and New York Public Library lists of “The 10 Best Books of 2017,” among other “best of” lists from NPR, PBS, CNN, and many others. The book has since been translated into 24 languages. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (Grand Central Publishing, 2007) was a national bestseller that was recognized as a “Top 10 Book of the Year” by The Times of London, NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and USA Today. Her work has appeared in publications and programs including The New Yorker, NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. She also served three consecutive seasons as a “Morning Forum” columnist for The Chosun Ilbo of South Korea. In 2018, Lee was named to Adweek’s Creative 100 for being “one of the 10 writers and editors who are changing the national conversation” and The Guardian’s “The Frederick Douglass 200” list of people who best embody the spirit and work of Frederick Douglass. Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and is currently a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College.

Ticket prices start at $650 and Tables at $6,500; you can purchase tickets here. For more information about NYFA’s Hall of Fame Benefit, please contact Barbara Toy at [email protected] or 212.366.6900 x 207.

Legends Limousine, a family-owned car service based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is NYFA’s transportation partner for the 2019 NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit.

Images L to R: Sanford Biggers (Fellow in Performance/Multidisciplinary ’05), Photo Credit: Alex Freund; Karl Kellner - Patron of the Arts, Image Courtesy: McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Min Jin Lee (Fellow in Fiction ’00), Photo Credit: Elena Siebert

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Highlights from the John E. Baxter Collection

What is now known as the Baxter Collection is part of a larger collection of volumes purchased with funds donated by John E. Baxter. It consists of over 300 first editions and signed copies of books by four major American authors: Edith Wharton (1862—1937), Henry van Dyke (1852—1933), William Dean Howells (1837—1920), and Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836—1907). In addition to showcasing nearly every work by each of these authors, this collection is a good example of the style of book covers in the early 20th century. Many of them contain beautiful gold stamping. Decorative designers were often consulted when selecting the color and type of cloth used.

Mr. Baxter’s donation came in 1941, when the University’s main campus was still located in Brooklyn, for a collection of works on American history during the Reconstruction period. That year, over 200 volumes were purchased thanks to Mr. Baxter’s generosity. He was a trustee of St. John’s University from 1937 until his death in 1958, as well as a supporter and director of many charities and humanitarian projects. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus for over fifty years and served as trustee of St. Mary’s Hospital (Brooklyn), St. Charles Hospital (Brooklyn and Port Jefferson), Good Samaritan Hospital (West Islip), and the Dime Savings Bank (Brooklyn). He served, over time, as the treasurer, president, director, and chairman of the board of Baxter, Kelly, & Faust, a Manhattan-based textile manufacturing company.

The Baxter Collection is available for research by appointment in the University Archives & Special Collection. All of the books can be found in the library’s online catalog: http://stjohns.waldo.kohalibrary.com/app/search (limit to Shelving Location: Special Collections Baxter).

This exhibition was curated by Kat Baumgartner, library science student and graduate assistant in the University Libraries.

Baxter Collection bookplate and photograph of John E. Baxter.

Edith Wharton (1862—1937)

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family, which allowed her to spend a lot of time in Europe as a child. An appreciation of the arts was nurtured in her, though she was unable to receive an extensive amount of formal education as a woman. Despite her relative lack of schooling, Wharton was a prolific writer, having published several poems and written a novel by the age of 16. Her experiences with high society life did not leave a positive impression on her, causing her to be bitingly satirical and often bitter when writing about the upper class in her works. Wharton moved permanently to France in 1907, placing her in the midst of World War I when it broke out in 1914; she wrote about the conflict in one of her lesser-known works, A Son at the Front. She is best known for Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and The Age of Innocence, the latter of which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. The most celebrated female author of her time, Edith Wharton continues to be studied by many students today.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836—1907)

Thomas Bailey Aldrich is a little-known name in American literature today, though without his seminal work The Story of a Bad Boy, Mark Twain may never have recorded the adventures of his two most famous characters, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. A member of the realism movement in literature, Aldrich was first published at the age of 16. Following this publication of his poetry, Aldrich went on to write for The Atlantic Monthly, a magazine he would ultimately take charge of as editor. Though this work on the magazine brought him to Boston, Aldrich also spent a great deal of time in New York City, especially during his younger years. There, he became a part of what was known as the New York Literati; this group included writers such as Walt Whitman, William Dean Howells, and Bayard Taylor. In addition to his fiction writing and editorship, Aldrich served as a Civil War correspondent for the New York Tribune.

William Dean Howells (1837—1920)

Known as both the most influential literary critic and the most prominent novelist of his day, William Dean Howells was a proponent and executor of the realist literary movement. A prolific writer across many genres, Howells produced works of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, and essays. His first publication came at the age of 15. He served as the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, immediately prior to Aldrich’s time in that role, as well as the editor of Harper’s. Like Aldrich, Howells fluctuated between New York and Boston, though unlike Aldrich, he considered Boston his true home, particularly praising the readership he found there. Howells had a strong belief in literature’s ability to serve a higher purpose than mere entertainment; he felt that it should create a better understanding of humanity, which is why he focused on everyday events in such detail in his writing. A member of the New York Literati, Howells was a close friend of Mark Twain and Henry James. His major works include The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Foregone Conclusion, and A Modern Instance.

Henry van Dyke (1852—1933)

There are two words that can be used to sum up Henry van Dyke: literature and religion. A minister at the New York City Brick Presbyterian Church, van Dyke often incorporated literature into his sermons, and elements of preaching are easy to spot in his fiction. He also published non-fiction works with titles such as The Gospel for a World of Sin and served as a professor of English at Princeton. A practitioner of the genteel tradition found in Victorian literature, van Dyke was against the realism movement strongly favored by the other three authors featured here. Despite this disagreement, van Dyke was a friend of Aldrich and Howells; he quoted both of them in his works and wrote a poem in honor of Aldrich’s 70th birthday. Like Edith Wharton, the First World War had a profound impact on van Dyke. He attempted to promote peace in the face of a world weighed down by despair in his position as Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. In addition to producing his own works, van Dyke was also a literary critic, most notably of Tennyson. However, his viewpoints were considered too narrow, partially due to the prescriptive nature with which he approached reading recommendations, causing him to be largely forgotten today.

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Rosen Family honored at ANS dinner

The Rosen Family was honored Jan. 11 with the Trustees’ Award at the Annual American Numismatic Society Gala Dinner.

Gathered together at the Harvard Club in New York City were 180 friends of the ANS. Three generations of Rosens have supported the Society. The family was among the biggest contributors to the Society’s 1980s endowment campaign.

A.A. Rosen was named as benefactor in 1982, followed by his son Jonathan, who was honored for his extraordinary financial support a year later, a practice he has continued to the present.

Adam Rosen is now following in his father’s footsteps, both as a collector and a philanthropist. He is a serious collector of ancient art and coinage, sharing his father’s passion for Greek coins and especially electrum.

Jonathan Rosen joined the Society 45 years ago. He was elected Fellow in 1997 and has been a member of the Augustus B. Sage Society since 2006.

Executive Director Dr. Ute Wartenberg opened the evening by thanking the many supporters and sponsors of the Gala. Personal perspectives on the honorees were then offered by two longtime friends of the Rosens: Harlan J. Berk and David Hendin, first vice president of the ANS Board of Trustees.

Haim Gitler, a guest at the event and chief curator of Archaeology and Numismatics at the Israel Museum, fondly recalled that 30 years ago, when he arrived at the museum on his first day of work, he found on his desk his first assignment: to catalog a collection of 1,300 ancient coins just donated by Jonathan Rosen.

As one of the foremost collectors of Archaic coinage, Jonathan Rosen championed the publication of his collection, which was prepared by Nancy Waggoner, the ANS curator of Greek coins. It was published in 1983. The volume, Early Greek Coins from the Collection of Jonathan P. Rosen, is a classic that shows the breadth of collecting in one of the most obscure areas of numismatics.

Jonathan’s wife, Jeannette, has encouraged his interests. Together they support the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Israel Museum, Bible Lands Museum, and the Morgan Library and Museum, where they have endowed a chair, the Jeannette and Jonathan P. Rosen Curatorship in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Seals and Tablets. They also are major benefactors to such educational institutions as Amherst College, where they help fund the Chair of American Studies for Henry Steele Commager, and Emory, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, along with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.

In addition to their extraordinary, generous support of the ANS, the Rosens have greatly enhanced its collections with many important donations.

The ANS Annual Gala Dinner raised more than $210,000 for its research, publications and various programs. This includes $10,110 raised through its live auction, called by Melissa Karstedt of Stack’s Bowers Galleries.

An unexpected surprise was the auction of a gold necklace and jewelry ensemble on display from the Stack Family. The ensemble is made of ancient Greek and Roman coins, crafted by the premier 19th century French goldsmith-jeweler dynasty, the family Froment-Meurice.

Lawrence Stack promised to give whatever was raised over the reserve amount of $80,000 to the Society’s $4 million Campaign to Endow the Chair of the Executive Director.

This ensemble was on display at the dinner with the intention of letting people know it would be available through auction at a later date. However, some guests were so enthusiastic that they insisted on bidding on it that night.

Sotheby’s auctioneer David Redden volunteered on the spot to handle the bidding. The necklace was purchased for $120,000, with $40,000 going to support the ANS campaign.

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*whispers* Women of Fox Way as Librarians AU????

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ANONFACE

YOU KNOW HOW TO SPEAK TO MY HEART

of course my eternal wish is that more of the women at 300 Fox Way had been given names and at least mentioned in passing, so the house actually felt as crowded as we’re told it is, and so I could talk about EVERYONE individually as librarians……. *sigh* oh well.

anyways you know who would actually be a perfect librarian? Calla. Calla would be a phenomenal librarian, particularly for teens. Like if she were a high school librarian? dude you KNOW no kid would fuck with those books. The librarian I work for is plenty scary when she wants to be (she’s a Slytherin) and we still had kids literally throwing books at each other and wrecking shit last year. Calla would be my boss x10 and no teen would be stupid enough to cross her. But she would also give lots of tough love and there would always be kids hanging around her desk talking with her and getting advice. And if there were any kids not getting the support they need she would come down like a hurricane on the teacher responsible, because Calla is NOT someone who can stand to see a job done poorly, or fuss being made where fuss wouldn’t be if someone wasn’t an asshat. The physics teacher hasn’t set foot in the library in two years.

The obvious choice for Persephone would be an archivist, but I don’t think she’s uptight enough for the rules and regulations many archives require. So a research librarian then, probably at a big university. That one librarian who’s never at the desk when you come in, but materializes nearby the moment you realize you need something. And she always finds you when your thesis books are overdue, and reminds you that she’ll get it back to you in only two days, if you would let her renew them? I bet a lot of students end up talking with her too, seniors and research assistants and grad students who are struggling to make sense of their papers.

(Word is a few years ago the administration was planning on cutting the budgets for periodicals and for reference staff in favor of tearing out some of the walls to build a fancy new makerspace, but Persephone drifted into a Board of Trustees meeting one day and and the library budget was doubled instead. And the makerspace is still coming together, but instead it’s a student-led effort run by a group who are setting it up in a study room on the 6th floor, with Persephone overseeing.)

Maura would, in my opinion, make a good librarian at a public library. Public libraries can vary depending on the size – the neighborhood branch where I grew up has a very different feel than the massive central Brooklyn branch a few miles away – but all of them share controlled chaos, weird characters, and a dedication to the community. Maura’s not as directly confrontational as Calla but also isn’t dream-like and ephemeral like Persephone, instead she’s something between the two. Public librarianship can call for a lot more rolling with the punches than any other, but Maura would be good at taking what comes and bouncing back or being a goddamn stone wall, whichever the situation requires. She’s a master at making the library’s budget go for miles, because she always wants to make sure they can keep purchasing books for the community, and she’s always asking what else the library can do to support its patrons. Resume writing workshops! Reading circles for the kids! Personal finance courses! Homework help! Blue comes in periodically and runs crafting events for all ages and also tutors younger girls! An LGBT support group meets in the basement reading room on Monday evenings and Maura closes up late specifically for them!

More than anything tho Maura talks with people, and people love talking with her. So she’s really good at publicizing the programs the library has to offer. And she’s a reference librarianship pro, guiding someone to exactly what it is they’re looking for, sometimes even before they know they’re looking for it. Nearly everyone in town knows her and loves her and that means people always have her back whenever the library’s usefulness comes into question.

And of course Maura, Calla, and Persephone all working at the SAME library, any kind of library, would be a force to be reckoned with. :D

I don’t feel like I actually know enough about Orla to theorize over what would be a good fit for her…. Maybe something small-scale, but I think working in something like a law firm library or a hospital library requires a background in those fields, and I’m not sure Orla would have the patience for that kind of time and study when there are other possible positions available………. I know Jimi even less bc she’s literally only mentioned once, so I have no ideas for her. :c

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

The Paris catacombs (photo by Joe deSousa, via Wikimedia Commons)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

Two teenage boys were rescued after getting lost in the Paris catacombs for three days. The remains of some 6 million people are housed in the catacombs’ 150 miles of tunnels.

A painting found in the attic of a home in Arizona’s Sun City retirement community is believed to be a previously unknown work by Jackson Pollock. According to auction house J. Levine Auction and Appraisal, which commissioned forensic reports to verify its authenticity, it could be worth up to $15 million.

The artist Khadija Saye is missing following the fatal blaze that consumed west London’s Grenfell Tower on Wednesday. She lived with her mother on the building’s 20th floor.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker called for the relocation of the state’s only Confederate monument, currently located on Georges Island in Boston Harbor. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, a dispute over the Confederate Memorial in Forest Park escalated after the Missouri Civil War Museum claimed to own a deed to the monument and the municipal government asserted the city owns the monument because the deed is no longer valid.

Two Australian museums, including the National Museum, agreed to return the remains of several Ainu people to Japan.

Forty-six years after the song “Imagine” was first released, John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono has finally been given a co-writer credit on the song.

A 118-year-old watercolor painting of a dead tree creeper by Dr. Edward Wilson was found in a hut in Antarctica.

Nearly a decade after its Rafael Viñoly-designed renovation opened, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum will finally open its rooftop terrace to the public.

Statue of Zeus Enthroned, artist unknown, Greek (circa 100 BCE), marble, 29 1/8 x 18 1/8 x 17 15/16 in (photo courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum)

The J. Paul Getty Museum returned a 29-inch marble statue of Zeus from the first century BCE to Italy. The Getty acquired the object in 1992 but no export documents were ever found for it; a fragment from the same sculpture was discovered in recent years near Naples.

A mural by the street artist David Choe on Manhattan’s Lower East Side was repeatedly tagged. Choe’s commission for the high-profile mural site caused controversy due to the artist’s claim that he had sexually assaulted a woman.

The East Village’s Vladimir Lenin statue, which was removed from the rooftop of East Houston Street’s Red Square apartment building in September 2016, was reinstalled nearby on the roof of 178 Norfolk Street.

A commission for a 41-foot-tall public sculpture by Tim Hawkinson that was to stand outside downtown San Francisco’s new, $6-billion Transbay Transit Center, was canceled after its costs ballooned from $1.67 million to $3.7 million.

The architect Jeehoon Park has filed a lawsuit against Skidmore, Owings & Merrill alleging that the firm’s design for One World Trade Center was stolen from a graduate student project he created in 1999.

Members of Newfoundland indigenous groups demanded the return of the skulls of their ancestors, Nonosabasut and Demasduit, from the National Museums of Scotland.

Google launched a new initiative, “We Wear Culture,” a digitized collection of over 30,000 fashion garments and objects.

The California Academy of Sciences became the first museum to commit to the Paris Accords to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The main building of Houston’s Menil Collection will be closed for eight months, beginning February 26, 2018, while its floors are sanded and finished. The museum’s other buildings, including the Rothko Chapel and Cy Twombly Gallery, will remain open.

Kurt Schwitters’s unfinished Dada installation in England’s Lake District, the “Merz Barn,” is at risk of being sold to developers who may bulldoze it unless an arts organization or institution steps in to preserve it.

Kurt Schwitters’s “Merz Barn” in the Lake District (photo by Luke McKernan/Flickr)

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Agnes Gund confirmed that she sold a 1962 painting by Roy Lichtenstein for a reported $165 million (including fees). The sale has been used to establish the Art for Justice Fund, an “initiative designed to make meaningful progress on key reforms in the U.S. criminal justice system.”

The J. Paul Getty Museum secured its acquisition of Parmigianino’s “The Virgin and Child with Saint Mary Magdalen and the Infant St John the Baptist” (ca 1535–40).

Monty Python member Michael Palin donated more than 50 of his personal notebooks, spanning 22 years, to the British Library.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts received a $9 million bequest from the estate of California businesswoman Madeleine Rast — the largest single gift in the museum’s history.

Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme,” (ca 1848) (© Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum acquired Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme” (ca 1848).

Jordan Schnitzer donated $5 million to the construction of an arts museum on the campus of Portland State University.

Zach Rawling pledged to donate Frank Lloyd Wright’s David and Gladys Wright House to the School of Architecture at Taliesin.

The province of Quebec gave grants totaling Canadian $4.5 million (~US $3.4 million) to 18 museums.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales received a $184-million grant to help build an expansion.

The Carnegie Museum of Art acquired five photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot.

In its final round of grants for 2017, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded 1,196 grants for a total of $82 million.

The Joslyn Art Museum received a gift of 124 photographs from the collection of Bruce Berman. The gift includes works by Walker Evans, Russell Lee, John Vachon, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Graciela Iturbide.

The J. Paul Getty Museum also received a gift from Bruce Berman, totaling 186 works. The gifted works include pieces by Harry Callahan, Dorothea Lange, and Camilo José Vergara.

Camilo José Vergara, “Saint Peter’s Pentecostal Deliverance Center, 937 Home Street, South Bronx” (2002), chromogenic print (© Camilo José Vergara; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo)

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Daniel H. Weiss was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum also named Allison Rutledge-Parisi as its Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art appointed three new members to its board of trustees: Allison Berg, Troy Carter, and Carter Reum.

Hemma Schmutz was appointed director of Linz’s Lentos Kunstmuseum.

Rebecca Salter will succeed Eileen Cooper as Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools.

David Lan will stand down as artistic director of the Young Vic.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, completed construction of its permanent home in the Miami Design District.

The inaugural Kuala Lumpur Biennale will open in November.

A major renovation of the Cattle Raisers Museum was completed.

On Stellar Rays will close its gallery at 213 Bowery later this Summer. Stellar Projects will be open by appointment at 1 Rivington Street.

Toby Kamps was named the new director of the Blaffer Museum.

Phillips auction house appointed Meiling Lee as an international specialist in 20th Century & Contemporary Art.

The Institute of Contemporary Art in London added artist Wolfgang Tillmans, collector Delya Allakhverdova, and arts patron Maria Sukkar to its council.

Tracy K. Smith was named the next US Poet Laureate, a role she’ll begin in the fall.

Kevin Jennings was appointed as the next director of the Tenement Museum.

Jenny Dixon, the longtime director of the Noguchi Museum, announced that she will retire at the end of 2017.

Leora Maltz-Leca was appointed curator of contemporary projects at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island.

Tarah Hogue was appointed as the Vancouver Art Gallery’s first Senior Curatorial Fellow, with a focus on Indigenous Art.

Paul O’Neill was appointed as the new artistic director of Checkpoint Helsinki.

Accolades

Switzerland’s federal office of culture announced the winners of the Swiss Art Awards and the Swiss Design Awards.

The Museum of Modern Art’s film curator, Dave Kehr, received the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Obituaries

Adam West as Batman (film still by Shed On The Moon/Flickr)

Chana Bloch (1940–2017), poet and Hebrew translator.

David Boxer (1946–2017), artist, collector, and scholar. Former chief curator of the National Gallery of Jamaica.

Andy Cunningham (1950–2017), entertainer and ventriloquist.

Samuel D. Cook (1928–2017), educator.

Edit DeAk (1950–2017), artist and writer. Co-editor of Art-Rite.

Vin Garbutt (aka the Teesside troubadour) (1947–2017), folksinger and songwriter.

Juliana Young Koo (1905–2017), diplomat, supercentenarian, and author of 109 Springtimes: My Story in 2015 (2015).

Ndary Lo (1961–2017), sculptor.

Edith Shiffert (1916–2017), poet.

Diane Marian Tor (1948–2017), artist, writer, and educator. Renowned for her “Man for a Day” and gender-as-performance workshops.

Ed Victor (1939–2017), literary agent.

Adam West (1928–2017), actor. Best known for portraying Batman.

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PIONEER DESIGNER OF SKYSCRAPERS: STEPHEN FRANCIS VOORHEES Image: Artist - Paul Trebilcock, American, 1902 - 1981 Portrait of Stephen Francis Voorhees, Princeton University Class of 1900 (1878-1965) Princeton University Art Museum Oil on canvas - commissioned by the Engineering Association Image appeared in “South of the Mountains”, Vol. 18, No. 3

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PIONEER DESIGNER OF SKYSCRAPERS: STEPHEN FRANCIS VOORHEES

By K. R. MacCalman

South of the Mountains, Vol. 18, No. 3; July – September 1974

Utilizing the dynamic lift of the vertical line coupled with the belief that architecture must give expression to the culture of the times, Stephen Francis Voorhees became one of Amer¬ica’s foremost architects. Convinced that urban growth required the aban¬donment of horizontal ground-level lines, he pioneered in designing sky-scrapers.

As Voorhees expressed it, "A horizontal line is a dead one. It leads on and on but never up. A vertical line leads up and that is what we need— to be lifted up. Skyscrapers, because they have these vertical lines so strongly, are dynamic, inspiring—giving the impression of life soaring.”

Voorhees declared also that interpretation of contemporary culture must be a primary goal of architecture. He said, "In addition to making buildings safe, protective and comfortable, archi¬tects must with equal effort strive to give proper expression to the culture of the times.”

Residence of S. F. Voorhees (photo from the Nyack Library)

Stephen Voorhees’s home was at Voorhis Point, South Nyack. He had a residence in the stormy times of winter at 71 Park Avenue, New York. His work was largely in the urban centers of the east, on the campuses of colleges and in the hospital centers and research laboratories of our country. He was chairman of the board of design as well as vice president of the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940. He was president of The American Institute of Architects from 1935-1937. In the Second World War, he was consultant to the War Production Board, the Advisory Council on National Defense and the Office of Production Management. He carried one of the very few passes, issued directly from the office of the President, enabling him to board any flight, military or civilian, of any plane taking off from any airport at any time. Among other operations in the building of bases, he planned the building of many emergency air strips in the Caribbean for American and allied forces.

Stephen Voorhees of Voorhis Point was born in 1878 at Rocky Hill, N. J., a small hamlet just northwest of Princeton. His forbearers came to America in 1660- from The Netherlands, Stephen Coerte Van Vorhees of Hees being the first of the family to settle in New York.

His preliminary education was received in the rural school of Rocky Hill and continued at the New Jersey State Model School, Trenton. In the autumn of 1896 he entered Princeton University, where he majored in engineering. Voorhees’s studies at Princeton were interrupted by the Spanish American War during which he served as a cook in the First Regiment of United States Volunteers.

Following graduation from Princeton in 1900, Voorhees worked for two years as a civil engineer in Newark, N. J., in the office of William P. Field. In 1902 he joined the New York firm of Eidlitz and McKensie, architects. His first responsibility there was as a civil engineer and superintendent of construction. His first job assignment was to supervise the laying of the foundations of the New York Times Building, which became on its comple-tion the highest building in New York and well known in professional circles for the advanced work in its steel construction. Shortly Voorhees transferred to the architectural branch of the firm and in 1910 became a member of the successor firm of McKensie, Voorhees and Gmelin.

1906, Watson, Edward B. and Edmond V. Gillon, Jr. (1976). New York Then and Now (Mineola, N. Y.: Courier Dover Publications) ISBN: 9780486131061. p. 22.

Stephen Voorhees came to Rockland County through his engagement to Mabel A. Buys of Voorhis Point, South Nyack, whom he married in 1907. The Buys family home was situated on Piermont Avenue at the driveway into Voorhis Point. The property extended to the Hudson River and included the end of the point. Frank, as he was known to his friends, and his new brother-in- law built two homes facing the Hudson on this land. Frank occupied his home until his death in 1965. During its building he commented to his friends that every board and nail had to be stretched to cover the house area for there were no finances to spare at that time. Although sounding alike there appeared to be no relationship between the name of Voorhees and that of the land upon which he built, Voorhis Point. The point had been named after the Voorhis family, who held that and much other land at a much earlier date.

Both were descendants of Stephen Coerte Van Voorhees.

Frank Voorhees moved into his new home in 1909 and immediately became active in local community affairs. He was one of the organizers of the Nyack Arts Club, later the Nyack Country Club built around the theatre and tennis. He was on the board of the Rockland Country Club and until a short time before his death was a regular on the golf course, playing usually some¬where in the 80’s. He was an elder of the First Reformed Church of Nyack and one of the main contributors to the building of a church school building attached to the main church hall and named Voorhees Hall. He also designed and supervised the building of a new manse for the church at 37 Clinton Avenue, South Nyack, being again principal backer. His firm designed the Interchurch Center in New York and his church assisted in developing The Voorhees Chapel in the Reformed section. Those who knew him in Rockland County describe him as out-going, well liked, brilliant, an effective man in whatever he undertook, with a host of friends.

In 1926, Voorhees became senior partner of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker and continued to head up this firm until he retired in 1959. He then continued as consultant to that and successor firms till his death in 1965. His firms specialized in designing office buildings, religious and educational build¬ings, hospitals and research laboratories.

In World War I he served in the surgeon general’s office as a major in charge of hospital design. In World War II he was consultant to the War Production and other boards with special assignments.

His contributions to the building industry seem endless. In 1930, he was elected president of the New York Chapter, American Institute of Archi¬tects. From 1933-1937 he served as president of the national body of The American Institute of Architects. In 1930 he was also elected an honorary member of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International Union. In 1944 the New York chapter awarded him the gold medal of honor for "dis¬tinguished work and high professional standing.’’

Voorhees strove continually for a better understanding and relationship between the profession and labor. To this end he was one of a group who organized the New York Building Congress, composed of the many seg-ments of the building industry. He became its first president and guided it successfully and securely through its first year. On his retirement from the presidency, a group of some 30 leaders in the building industry presented him with a framed scroll bearing this trib¬ute: "His intelligence, initiative, brilliant ability, untiring energy, faithful service and ardent devotion to the perform¬ance of his duties have been an inval¬uable asset through the years. The noble qualities of heart anti mind which he has shown on all occasions, not only in his work with the Executive Committee and other committees, but also as the presiding officer of the Congress, have endeared him as a leader and proclaim him Guide, Philosopher, and Friend to all the Congress’’.

Among buildings in the New York area designed by firms headed by Voorhees were the Irving Trust Company building on Wall Street, the head¬quarters of the New York Telephone Company and the A. T. and T. long lines building at midtown, the Western Union Company, the Bank of New York building, The Interchurch Center, The Grace Rainey Rodgers Audi¬torium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the main building of the Brooklyn Edison Company and the Brooklyn Municipal Building. Notable structures elsewhere include the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N. J., the Travelers Insurance Company buildings in Hartford, Connecticut, the Genesee Valley Trust building in Rochester, the Prudential Insurance Company of America headquarters building, Newark, N. J., the Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and the hospital, laboratory and library of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Mich.

Voorhees’ firms were also architects for buildings on the campuses of Harvard University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Loyola Seminary, Massa¬chusetts Institute of Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Columbia University and Princeton University. At Princeton, Voorhees built the Fire¬stone Library and the Engineering Quadrangle, which was dedicated to him and named The Stephen Voorhees Engineering Quadrangle. From 1930-1949 he was supervising architect of Princeton. He served as a trustee of the univer¬sity from 1943-1948, being named trustee emeritus in 1948. Princeton had awarded him the degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1937.

Voorhees had many interests aside from those of his profession and his local residential scene. He served as trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology and was a director of the Bank of New York, The General Cable Corporation, The Nyack National Bank and its successor, The Marine Midland Trust Company. He was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1945, a member of the advisory council of the Federal Housing Authority, a director in New York for the Regional Planning Association. He was on the board of visitors for Rockland State Hospital, active in the work of the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and YMCA. He was a member of the Historical Society of Rockland County and served for a number of years on the vocational board of the Board of Educa¬tion of the City of New York.

At the age of 84, two years before his death, Voorhees undertook an exploration of the canals of The Netherlands, home of his forbearers. He chartered a canal boat, built of mahogany, complete with captain and crew.

He took along, with others, as his guests his sister and the president of Princeton with his wife. The boat was of a size to sail the Zuider Zee as well as to explore the canals. Voorhees said afterwards that the trip was a most satisfying experience. He had always been a camera buff and had with him the latest Polaroid. He especially enjoyed taking pictures of the children at the various piers at which canal boat tied up. He would give them the prints and watch them run off to show their families the "instant” picture. Most had never seen a Polaroid.

Princeton University, which he served so long and so well, concluded a memorial to Stephen Voorhees (at his death in 1965) with: "Any record of his activities is necessarily incomplete. No one has left a better record—no one has inspired and encouraged more people. In concluding this memorial, we might well borrow a phrase from the tribute of the New York Building Congress and proclaim him Guide, Philosopher, and Friend to all.”

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Rosen Family honored at ANS dinner

The Rosen Family was honored Jan. 11 with the Trustees’ Award at the Annual American Numismatic Society Gala Dinner.

A.A. Rosen was named as benefactor in 1982, followed by his son Jonathan, who was honored for his extraordinary financial support a year later, a practice he has continued to the present.

Jonathan Rosen joined the Society 45 years ago. He was elected Fellow in 1997 and has been a member of the Augustus B. Sage Society since 2006.

In addition to their extraordinary, generous support of the ANS, the Rosens have greatly enhanced its collections with many important donations.

Lawrence Stack promised to give whatever was raised over the reserve amount of $80,000 to the Society’s $4 million Campaign to Endow the Chair of the Executive Director.

Sotheby’s auctioneer David Redden volunteered on the spot to handle the bidding. The necklace was purchased for $120,000, with $40,000 going to support the ANS campaign.

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Kota Ezawa, “Chez Tortoni” (2015), part of a series inspired by the artworks stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 (courtesy Murray Guy Gallery)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.

Protestors gathered at the Museum of Modern Art to demand the removal of Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, from the institution’s board. Fink was one of a number of CEOs invited to discuss economic policy with President Donald Trump earlier this month.

Two more works found in Cornelius Gurlitt‘s collection — a drawing by Adolph Menzel and a painting by Camille Pissarro — were returned to the heirs of their Jewish owners.

Artists and campaigners will protest in London this weekend to demand the closure of the LD50 gallery in Dalston. According to the Guardian, the gallery has hosted a number of events involving white supremacist and far right speakers including Brett Stevens, whose writing inspired Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 attacks in Norway.

A bipartisan group of 24 United States Senators signed a letter urging President Trump against slashing or abolishing federal funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities (NEA and NEH).

Rotherwas Project 2: Kota Ezawa, Gardner Museum Revisited opened at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. The exhibition consists of Ezawa’s digital drawings of the 13 artworks stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, as well as a six-minute animation based on security footage recorded the night before the robbery. The footage was released by the FBI in 2015.

Guercino, “Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory the Wonderworker” (1639) (via Wikipedia)

Italy’s Carabinieri art crime squad recovered a Guercino painting stolen from a church in Modena in 2014. Three men were arrested after they attempted to sell “Madonna with the Saints John the Evangelist and Gregory the Wonderworker” (1639) to a collector in Casablanca for around £800,000 (~$1 million).

Vjeran Tomic, a cat burglar dubbed the “Spider-Man,” was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing five paintings — works by Amedeo Modigliani, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso — from the Paris Museum of Modern Art on May 20, 2010.

A wrought iron gate bearing the Nazi slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work sets you free”) was returned to the Dachau concentration camp two years after it was stolen.

Approximately 7,700 tributes left in the streets of Paris in the wake of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks were digitized and made publicly available by the Archives de Paris.

Jenny Heinz, a longtime patron of the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic, was denied entry to a performance at Lincoln Center after she refused to remove an anti-Trump sign attached to her jacket.

Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, and Luke Turner ceased their participatory artwork, “He Will Not Divide Us,” after gunshots were reportedly fired near its new location at the El Rey Theater in Albuquerque. The Museum of the Moving Image announced on February 10 that it had closed the work in order to “restore public safety.” In a statement, the artists attributed the closure to “political pressure.” LaBeouf was arrested and charged with assault after an altercation outside the museum last month.

Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, and Luke Turner, “HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US” (2017) (via thecampaignbook.com)

Arts patron and philanthropist Shelley Rubin filed a lawsuit against Nisha Sabharwal and her husband, Mohit. Rubin claims the couple, who she met at an event at the Asia Society in 2009, conned her into buying $18 million in knockoff jewelry.

A tract of Roman road was discovered during the construction of a McDonald’s in Marino, Italy.

Bath and North East Somerset Council approved a 100% cut to its small project grants for the arts in order to save £433,000 (~$544,000) by 2020. The decision was condemned by Equity, the UK’s trade union for actors, stage managers, and models.

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Aidan Koch, Alternate Paris Review 213 cover (2015) (Anne Koyama Collection of Comic Art, the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum)

Annie Koyama donated over 250 pieces of original artwork by contemporary American cartoonists to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.

John and Anna Sie donated $12 million toward the remodeling of the Denver Art Museum’s North Building.

The Moody Foundation donated $2.1 million toward the Museum of Street Culture in Dallas.

The Pérez Art Museum Miami received a $200,000 matching grant from the Knight Foundation for its PAMM Fund for African American Art.

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa received significant, undisclosed gifts from the Roger Ballen Foundation and the Eiger Foundation.

The New-York Historical Society acquired the personal effects of late New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts acquired two works by Sarah Anne Johnson.

Sarah Anne Johnson, “Untitled (Schooner and Fireworks)” (2012), expanded polyurethane foam, plastics, LED lights, stove paint, acrylic paint, wood, balsa, cotton canvas and string, silicone resin, 635 cm approximate diameter, gift of the Cirque du Soleil (courtesy Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)

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Miguel Falomir was appointed director of the Museo Nacional del Prado.

Courtney J. Martin was appointed deputy director and chief curator of the Dia Art Foundation.

The Drawing Center appointed four new trustees: Andrea Crane, Amy Gold, David Salle, and Waqas Wajahat.

Sara Reisman was appointed executive and artistic director of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation. Alexander Gardner was appointed executive director of The Treasury of Lives, a non-profit founded by the Foundation.

Caitlín Doherty was appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.

Susan Greenberg was appointed director of collections at the Brooklyn Museum.

Mari Spirito will step down as director and curator of exhibitions at Alt after February 28.

Risa Shoup was appointed executive director of Spaceworks.

Christina Rees was appointed editor-in-chief of Glasstire.

Andrea Rosen announced that she will close her gallery and co-represent the estate of Félix González-Torres with David Zwirner.

Parkett will cease publication after the release of its special issue this Summer.

The Washington Art Consortium announced its decision to disband.

The Obama Foundation appointed Ralph Appelbaum Associates to lead the exhibition design for the Obama Presidential Center’s museum.

The International Fine Print Dealers Association announced the appointment of three new members: Galerie Maximillian, Hauser & Wirth, and mfc-michèle Didier.

The Royal Academy of Arts launched Mayfair Art Weekend, a rebranding of Brown’s London Art Weekend. The new partnership involves over 60 London galleries.

Accolades

Serpentine Pavilion 2017, designed by Francis Kéré, design render, exterior (© Kéré Architecture)

Diébédo Francis Kéré was commissioned to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion.

Performance artist Taylor Mac and musical director Matt Ray were awarded the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, for their 24-hour work, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

Naima J. Keith was awarded the 2017 David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art.

Lawrence Weiner was announced the recipient of the 2017 Aspen Award for Art.

Sarah Forrest received the 2017 Margaret Tait Award.

Wendy Yao, the founder of the Los Angeles–based bookstore Ooga Booga, received the 2017 White Columns / Shoot the Lobster Award.

The American Craft Council announced the recipients of its 2017 Emerging Voices Awards.

Jenny Sabin Studio was named the winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s 2017 Young Architects Program.

Opportunities

Lisa Oppenheim, “APPLAUSE” (2016), at the entrance of Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York (photo by Allison Meier for Hyperallergic)

Socrates Sculpture Park announced an open call for its 2017 Broadway Billboard series. Proposals should be sent to [email protected] and are due by April 15.

Obituaries

Alan Aldridge (1943–2017), artist and illustrator. Best known for his Pop imagery of the 1960s and ’70s.

Edward Barber (1949–2017), documentary and portrait photographer.

Dick Bruna (1927–2017), illustrator and children’s book author. Creator of Miffy.

Larry Coryell (1943–2017), guitarist.

Tony Davis (1930–2017), folk and jazz singer. Frontman for the Spinners.

Frank Delaney (1942–2017), author and broadcaster.

Sofia Imber (1925–2017), journalist and arts administrator. Founder of the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art.

Jannis Kounellis (1936–2017), key figure of the Arte Povera (“poor art”) movement.

Installation view of Jannis Kounellis’s “Untitled (12 Horses)” (1969) at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, June 2015 (photo by Allison Meier for Hyperallergic)

Thomas Lux (1946–2017), poet. Best known for Split Horizon (1994).

Junie Morrison (1954–2017), funk musician and producer.

Ivor Noël Hume (1927–2017), archaeologist. Director of archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg between 1957–1988.

Michael Rainey (1941–2017), owner of the London boutique Hung on You. Dressed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Eileen Ramsay (1915–2017), photographer.

Richard Schickel (1933–2017), movie critic, author, and filmmaker.

Clyde Stubblefield (1943–2017), drummer. Best known for his contribution to James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” (1969).

Seijun Suzuki (1923–2017), filmmaker. Best known for Branded to Kill (1967).

Abba Tor (1923–2017), engineer. Collaborated with architects such as Eero Saarinen and Louis I. Kahn.

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Parmigianino, “The Virgin and Child with Saint Mary Magdalen and the Infant Saint John the Baptist” (ca 1535–40), oil on paper, laid on panel, 75.5 x 59.7 cm (courtesy DCMS)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.

The city of Paris plans to construct a 2.4-meter (~7.9 feet) wall of bulletproof glass around the base of the Eiffel Tower. The €20 million (~$21.3 million) project is intended to prevent individuals or vehicles from launching an attack on the site.

Protestors demonstrated against the closing of the Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem. The nonprofit space was shut down at the behest of culture minister Miri Regev, who opposed an event titled “Breaking the Silence,” a discussion led by an Israeli veterans’ anti-occupation group that collects testimonies from soldiers serving in the Palestinian territories.

The UK’s culture minister, Matt Hancock, placed a temporary export bar on Parmigianino’s “The Virgin and Child with Saint Mary Magdalen and the Infant Saint John the Baptist” (ca 1535–40). The Getty Museum worked with Sotheby’s to file an export application for the work last year. The work will leave the UK unless a resident buyer can match the £24.5 million (~$30.6 million) asking price.

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College removed and shrouded works created or donated by immigrant artists in its collection in protest over President Trump’s January 27 executive order that banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, will stage a public screening of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-nominated film, The Salesman (2016), in Trafalgar Square on Oscar night. Farhadi announced that he would not attend the Oscars following President Trump’s proposed travel ban on individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Victoria Coates, an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance studies, was appointed the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Strategic Assessments.

The youth wing of Norway’s Labour Party proposed moving the site of a planned memorial dedicated to the victims of the 2011 Norway attacks. A group of locals near Utøya sued the state last year in a bid to block the project. The planned memorial, entitled “Memory Wound“, was designed by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg.

Rendering of Jonas Dahlberg, “22 July Memorial at Sørbråten” (courtesy Jonas Dahlberg Studio)

Artist Moses Amik Beaver was found dead at Thunder Bail Jail in Ontario. It is not known why the artist, who was known to suffer mental health issues, was being detained. Mary Wabasse, Beaver’s sister, was killed in a car crash two days after the renowned First Nations artist was found dead.

Over 470 South Korean artists filed a lawsuit against impeached president Park Geun-Hye, former culture minister Cho Yoon-Sun, and former presidential chief of staff Kim Ki-choon, over a government document of “blacklisted” artists.

Hands Off Our Revolution, a coalition of over 200 artists united against right-wing populism, launched its website and is planning exhibitions and other events later this year. Its members include Adam Broomberg, Hank Willis Thomas, Hito Steyerl, Maya Lin, Yinka Shonibare, and the Otolith Group.

The heirs of Nazi artist Erich Klahn won a court battle to ensure that his work continues to be displayed in a convent in northern Germany.

Thieves stole over 160 rare books from a warehouse in London, including works by Copernicus, Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci. A source connected to the case told the Guardian that a sole collector may have organized the theft. “They would be impossible to sell to any reputable dealer or auction house,” the source said. “We’re not talking Picassos or Rembrandts or even gold bars — these books would be impossible to fence.”

The March/April 2017 issue of Playboy

Cooper Hefner, the son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and the new chief creative officer of the magazine, decided to reintroduce nude photography, despite a highly publicized decision to scrap the practice in 2015.

Greece’s Central Archaeological Council rejected a request by Gucci to stage a 15-minute catwalk show on the Athens Acropolis. The fashion brand offered to pay the council a total of €56 million (~$59.8 million) to film at the site.

The Arts Law Centre of Australia, the Indigenous Art Code, and Copyright Agency | Viscopy issued a joint statement in support of proposed legislation to ban the production and sale of fake Aboriginal art.

Beate Reifenscheid, the curator of an Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing, described a joint statement issued by Kiefer’s dealers (White Cube, Gagosian, and Thaddaeus Ropac) as an attack on her curatorial freedom. Kiefer denounced the show, arguing that it was staged “without [his] involvement or consent.”

Bern’s Kunstmuseum and Bonn’s Bundeskunsthalle will stage concurrent exhibitions of Nazi-looted works recovered from Cornelius Gurlitt‘s art collection.

New York City’s 115th Street Library was renamed after entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.

An art history student raised concerns over mold at the Picasso Museum in Paris. The museum completed a five-year, $30-million renovation two years ago.

Transactions

Herman Saftleven, “Study of a Sticky Nightshade or Litchi tomato (Solanum sisymbriifolium)” (1683) (photo by Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum)

The Nationalmuseum acquired a 1683 botanical watercolor study by Herman Saftleven.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art jointly acquired two prototype chairs made by Donald Judd between 1979 and 1980.

Transitions

Nancy Spector was appointed artistic director and chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum.

Karol Wight, the president and executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass, was appointed to an advisory post on the US State Department Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

Pamela Joyner was elected to the J. Paul Getty Trust’s board of trustees.

Isaac Julien was appointed to the Art Fund’s board of trustees.

Jay Sanders was appointed executive director and chief curator of Artists Space.

Ulysses Grant Dietz will step down as the chief curator of the Newark Museum at the end of the year.

Benjamin T. Simons was appointed director of the Academy Art Museum, Maryland.

Anne Hilde Neset was appointed director of Oslos’s Kunstnernes Hus.

Heather Saunders was appointed director of the Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Debra Simon was appointed director of public art at the Times Square Alliance.

Elvira Dyangani Ose was appointed senior curator of Creative Time.

The estate of photographer August Sander is now represented by Hauser & Wirth and Galerie Julian Sander in Cologne.

August Sander, “Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne” (1931), gelatin silver print, 18 x 24 cm (© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv, Cologne; ARS, New York; courtesy of Galerie Julian Sander, Cologne)

Mary S. Walker was appointed director of development at the the Knoxville Museum of Art.

Paddle 8 announced a second round of layoffs following its split from art auction startup Auctionata.

Andrew Goldstein was appointed editor-in-chief of artnet News.

The Department for Culture, Media, and Sport plans to open a gallery dedicated to the UK’s Government Art Collection.

Egypt’s Museum of Islamic Art reopened three years after it was damaged by a car bomb.

The Blanton Museum of Art unveiled its newly renovated and reinstalled permanent galleries.

The Seattle Asian Art Museum will close its doors on Monday, February 27, for a six-month renovation.

Accolades

Burhan Ozbilici won the 2017 World Press Photo Award for his photograph of the assassination of Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey.

The Canada Council for the Arts announced the recipients of the 2017 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

Eva and Franco Mattes were awarded the third annual Prix Net Art.

Obituaries

Exterior of the Hotel Chelsea, New York (via Wikipedia)

Svend Asmussen (1916–2017), jazz violinist.

Hilary Bailey (1936–2017), writer. Best known for the Fifty-First State (2008).

Stanley Bard (1934–2017), manager and part owner of the Hotel Chelsea, Manhattan.

Richard Burton (1933–2017), architect.

Barbara Caroll (1925–2017), jazz pianist and singer.

Gervase de Peyer (1926–2017), clarinetist.

Max Ferrá (1937–2017), founder and first artistic director of the Intar Hispanic American Arts Center.

Bobby Freeman (1940–2017), singer. Best known for “Do You Want to Dance” (1958).

Nicolai Gedda (1925–2017), tenor.

Barbara Gelb (1926–2017), author and journalist. Co-authored the first biography of Eugene O’Neill.

Barbara Harlow (1948–2017), author and scholar. Best known for Resistance Literature (1987).

Al Jarreau (1940–2017), jazz, R&B, and pop singer.

Harvey Lichtenstein (1929–2017), former president and executive director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Lev Navrozov (1928–2017), translator and Soviet dissident.

Jiro Taniguchi (1947–2017), manga artist.

Veljo Tormis (1930–2017), composer.

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Alberto Giacometti and his sculptures at the Venice Biennale, 1956 (archives of the Giacometti Foundation, courtesy Tate)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.

Cho Yoon-Sun, South Korea’s culture minister, resigned after being arrested for allegedly drafting a blacklist of around 10,000 artists who criticized impeached president Park Geun-Hye.

The Museum of Modern Art discarded a sculpture by Pat Lasch without informing the artist, according to a report by the New York Times.

A book purporting to chart Donald Trump’s life and presidential campaign was pulled from the National Museum of American History‘s gift shop after The Washington Post reported that it included a number of blatant falsehoods.

A number of institutions, including the New-York Historical Society, the Bishopsgate Institute in London, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, are looking to preserve some of the placards and artworks created for the US presidential inauguration and the international women’s marches last week.

Spain’s Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 75 people in connection with art trafficking late last year. Around 3,500 stolen archaeological artifacts and artworks were recovered as part of the pan-European operation— code-named Pandora — though officials have yet to release an inventory of the objects recovered.

Alberto Giacometti‘s group of six plaster sculptures, the “Women of Venice,” will be reunited as part of the Tate Modern’s upcoming retrospective of the artist’s work.

Anthony van Dyck, “Portrait of Adriaen Moens” (1624)

German food manufacturer Dr. Oetker will return a portrait by Anthony van Dyck to the heir of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker. The company appointed a provenance researcher in 2015 to vet its corporate collection for works that may have been looted by the Nazis.

Shia LaBeouf was charged with assault and harassment following an altercation with a man who took part in “He Will Not Divide Us,” an art project at the Museum of the Moving Image created by the actor in collaboration with Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner.

Cuban authorities freed Danilo “El Sexto” Maldonado Machado. The artist, who received the support of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, had been detained since November 26.

Three artists withdrew their work from Our Lady, an exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, in protest over the inclusion of work by Zwelethu Mthethwa, who remains on trial for the 2013 murder of sex worker Nokuphila Kumalo. The show’s partnering institution, the New Church Museum, subsequently withdrew its loans to the exhibition.

Christo abandoned plans to create “Over the River,” a massive public art project in south-central Colorado that he and Jeanne-Claude, his late collaborator and wife, first conceived in 1992.

Iowa-based artists and arts organizations urged state lawmakers to preserve a $6-million cultural trust fund dedicated to supporting the arts.

More family members will be able to visit the graves of relatives buried in the potter’s field on Hart Island, as part of a settlement announced between New York City and the New York Civil Liberties Union. Over 1 million people are buried on Hart Island, the site of the largest mass grave in the US.

(courtesy Royal Mail)

Royal Mail plans to issue a set of special edition stamps dedicated to David Bowie. According to its press release, Bowie is the first “individual music artist or cultural figure” to be honored on a Royal Mail stamp.

Bronx resident Noëlle Santos launched an Indiegogo campaign in order to open an independent bookstore in the South Bronx. According to Gothamist, the borough lost its last general interest bookstore when Bay Plaza’s Barnes & Noble closed last month.

The art collective Luzinterruptus placed 400 LED breastfeeding nipples outside Facebook’s Madrid headquarters to protest the social media giant’s anti-nudity policies.

The College Art Association stated that it offers its “complete and total opposition” to the Trump administration’s reported efforts to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). “Given that the respective budgets of the NEA and NEH represent only a tiny fraction of the entire federal budget, their planned elimination cannot logically be seen as a cost-saving measure,” the statement reads. “Rather, it appears to be a deliberate, ominous effort to silence artistic and academic voices, representing a potentially chilling next step in an apparent effort to stifle and eradicate oppositional voices and cultural output from civic life.”

Transactions

George Peter Alexander Healy, Frederic Edwin Church, Jervis McEntee, “The Arch of Titus” (1871) (courtesy Newark Museum)

The Newark Museum was awarded a Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant for the conservation of George Peter Alexander Healy, Frederic Edwin Church and Jervis McEntee’s “The Arch of Titus” (1871) [via email announcement].

Sheldon and Leena Peck donated seven Rembrandt drawings to the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of an estimated $25 million gift.

Canadian heritage officials repatriated the fossils of a 220-million-year-old Saurichthys and a 250-million-year-old Ichthyosaur to China.

The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation revealed the 47 grant recipients from its second annual Art and Social Justice open call.

Transitions

Sarah Arison, Andrew Cogan, Karen Kiehl, Joel Mallin, Victoria M. Rogers, Ellen N. Taubman, and Susan Weber joined the Brooklyn Museum‘s board of trustees.

Deana Haggag was appointed president and CEO of United States Artists.

Stephanie Stebich was appointed director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Daina Augaitis announced that she would step down as the chief curator and associate director of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Gonzalo Casals was appointed director of the Leslie–Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.

Sara Gabriela Baz Sánchez was appointed director of the Museo Nacional de Arte.

Jessica Ludwig was appointed deputy director of the Morgan Library & Museum.

Elena Ochoa Foster was appointed chair of the Serpentine Galleries council.

Ira Goldberg will step down as executive director of New York’s Art Students League at the end of the month.

Susan Krane will resign as executive director of the San Jose Museum of Art at the end of the month.

James Merle Thomas was appointed executive director of Vox Populi.

Wim Pijbes was appointed managing director of Stichting Droom en Daad (Foundation Dream and Do).

Jeremy G. Shubrook was appointed director of festivals, performance, and public programs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

November Paynter was appointed director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada.

Brandy S. Culp was appointed curator of American decorative arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Emily J. Peters was appointed curator of prints and drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Lisa Çakmak was promoted to associate curator of ancient art at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Meredith Gray was appointed director of communications at the Chrysler Museum of Art.

Marcela Guerrero and Rujeko Hockley were appointed assistant curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Art dealers Jay Gorney and Lisa Cooley joined Paula Cooper Gallery.

Phillips promoted Peter Sumner to the role of deputy chairman, Europe, and senior international specialist, 20th century and contemporary art. Dina Amin was appointed senior director and head of the 20th Century and contemporary art department, Europe.

Eloy Torrez‘s 1985 mural of actor Anthony Quinn, “The Pope of Broadway,” was protected with anti-graffiti coating following a four-and-a-half month restoration project.

Eloy Torrez, “The Pope of Broadway” (1985), Los Angeles (via Flickr/Ian Muttoo)

Accolades

Sedrick Huckaby was awarded the 2016 Moss/Chumley Award.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced the recipients of its 2017 awards. Liz Waldner received the Foundation’s inaugural Dorothea Tanning Award.

Absolut announced the finalists for its 2017 Absolut Art Award.

Opera North and the University of Leeds announced the shortlist for the Dare Art Prize.

Obituaries

A banknote by J.S.G. Boggs (via tjcenter.org)

Peter Abrahams (1919–2017), writer and journalist.

J.S.G. Boggs (1955–2017), artist. Best known for creating his own hand-drawn bank notes

Anthony Cronin (1923–2016), poet and writer.

Terry Cryer (1934–2017), photographer.

Thibaut Cuisset (1958–2017), photographer.

Moshe Gershuni (1936–2017), painter and sculptor.

William A. Hilliard (1927-2017), journalist.

Eddie Kamae (1938–2017), musician.

Jaki Liebezeit (1938–2017), drummer. Co-founder of Can.

Werner Nekes (1944-2017), filmmaker.

Don Presley (1945-2017), auctioneer. Owner of Don Presley Auction Co., California.

Maggie Roche (1951–2017), songwriter and singer.

Charles Bobo Shaw (1947–2016), jazz drummer.

Peter Overend Watts (1948–2017), bass guitarist. Member of the Mott the Hoople.

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