{"id":121334,"date":"2025-10-14T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/121334\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:54:16","slug":"ruth-asawa-may-have-broken-record-at-moma-and-more-art-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/121334\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Asawa May Have Broken Record at MoMA\u2014and More Art News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSMITHSONIAN SHUTDOWN<\/strong>. The\u00a0Smithsonian Institution<\/a><\/strong>, a government-funded museum network in Washington, D.C., was forced to close this weekend due to the continuing government shutdown, reports Alex Greenberger for\u00a0ARTnews<\/a>. The 21-member institution has repeatedly been attacked by the\u00a0Trump<\/strong>\u00a0administration, and its closure for the foreseeable future marks yet another blow. The\u00a0National Gallery of Art\u00a0<\/strong>has been closed since last weekend for the same reasons, but the Smithsonian had previously used its own money to stay open. News of the institution\u2019s closure comes as the government shutdown nears its second full week.<\/p>\n

\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n

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\n\tRUTH ASAWA<\/a>\u2019S RECORD.<\/strong>\u00a0A traveling\u00a0Ruth Asawa<\/strong>\u00a0retrospective that opens at New York\u2019s\u00a0Museum of Modern Art<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on October 19 appears to be the museum\u2019s largest show ever dedicated to a woman artist, Jori Finkel for the\u00a0Art Newspaper<\/a>\u2014based\u00a0on the number of objects included, at least. The MoMA version contains 376 works, and is due to occupy all 16,000 square feet of the museum\u2019s sixth floor. But that is not how MoMA is billing the show, and the museum seems not to have even registered its record-breaking status. The exhibition came from the\u00a0San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/strong>, where it featured 327 pieces, though the museum only confirmed that the exhibition was its largest by a woman after Finkel inquired.\u00a0To date, MoMA has not explicitly made such a confirmation, despite curator\u00a0Cara Manes<\/strong>\u00a0stating it\u2019s \u201ca safe claim to make.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tA forgotten\u00a0Paul Gauguin<\/strong>\u00a0work from the artist\u2019s famous Brittany period, which was long kept in a private collection, is heading to auction at\u00a0Artcurial<\/strong>. The December 9\u00a0Paris sale of\u00a0Danse bretonne\u00a0(Breton Dance), from 1889, is estimated to fetch\u00a0\u20ac500,000\u2013\u20ac700,000 ($580,000\u2013$811,000). It will be exhibited in Paris during Art Basel this month. [Connaissance des arts<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tSotheby\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0is searching for third-party guarantees to offset risk ahead of its much-anticipated November sale in New York of three, sumptuous\u00a0Klimt<\/strong>\u00a0paintings from the\u00a0Leonard Lauder<\/strong>\u00a0collection. Sotheby\u2019s guaranteed the paintings, but hopes to find a single backer for the pieces, which together are worth $300 million. [Artnet News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tA famous portrait by\u00a0Jean-\u00c9tienne Liotard,<\/strong>\u00a0long believed to depict the young\u00a0Marie Antoinette<\/strong>, actually features her older sister, Maria Carolina, according to a new study. \u201cWhile these remarkable portraits have been on display many times over the last 250 years, it will be extra special to see Marie Antoinette as she actually was, rather than mistaking her for her sister,\u201d said\u00a0Marc-Olivier Wahler<\/strong>, director of the\u00a0Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art et d\u2019Histoire<\/strong>\u00a0in Geneva. [BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tChilean artist\u00a0Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a<\/strong>\u00a0has won the 2025\u00a0Roswitha Haftmann Prize<\/strong>, which comes with a cash prize of 150,000 Swiss francs ($187,000). The prize is Europe\u2019s largest of its kind and will formally presented to the artist in a ceremony in Zurich next month. [Artforum<\/a>]\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tART FOR CHILDREN OF WAR<\/strong>. Amid a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of the remaining living hostages from captivity to Israel, as well as that of prisoners to Palestine, musician\u00a0Kate Bush<\/strong>\u00a0is reminding us of where all sides can agree. She has invited 52 UK visual artists to raise money for children affected by war, reports the\u00a0Guardian<\/a>. Specifically, Bush is asking artists to donate an artwork in response to a lyric in her hit song,\u00a0Running Up That Hill: \u201cIf I only could, I\u2019d make a deal with God.\u201d\u00a0Peter Doig<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Maggi Hambling<\/strong>\u00a0are among the artists contributing to the fundraiser and online auction to be held from October 28 to November 13. Proceeds will be given to the charity\u00a0War Child<\/strong>, which works to aid children living in war-torn areas, including Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Headlines SMITHSONIAN SHUTDOWN. The\u00a0Smithsonian Institution, a government-funded museum network in Washington, D.C., was forced to close this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,48751,73109,35535],"class_list":{"0":"post-121334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-museum-of-modern-art","18":"tag-ruth-asawa","19":"tag-smithsonian-institution"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}