After being closed for four months,
museums in Germany will be able to open, subject to different restrictions depending on the number of coronavirus cases in each of the 16 states. Where cases are below 100 per 100,000 residents, the
Art Newspaper reports, museums will be able to open – in regions where the rate of cases is between 50 and 100 per 100,000 residents, visitors will be asked to book a time slot and supply their contact information. The decision makes German museums among the first venues to reopen in the country, with theatres, restaurants and indoor sports facilities having to wait until at least 22 March.
Struggle: From the History of the American People, was identified in a Manhattan flat.
The 30 panels from the series were sold off individually, against Lawrence’s wishes, in the late 1950s and early ’60s, with the whereabouts of five of the paintings subsequently lost.
Remarkably, the discovery in Manhattan was the second in as many weeks. Last October, a visitor to ‘Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – an exhibition that reunited part of the series – realised that panel 16 was hanging on the wall of his neighbours, who had bought it at a charity auction some 60 years previously.
Lightning strikes twice: Another lost painting by Jacob Lawrence surfaces
A Jacob Lawrence painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, awaits placement as part of an exhibition. The panel by the renowned Black artist, part of his American Struggle series, was last seen in 1960. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
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.- When a nurse living on the Upper West Side of New York City checked an app for neighborhood bulletins in the fall, she learned about the recent discovery of a Jacob Lawrence painting in an apartment a few blocks away. It had turned out to be one of five panels long missing from the artists groundbreaking 30-panel series Struggle: From the History of the American People, which was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right across Central Park.
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Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces
Its owner, a nurse living on the Upper West Side, flagged a worker at the Metropolitan Museum’s information desk. “Listen, nobody calls me back. I have this painting. Who do I need to talk to?”
Ralph Augsburger, a conservator at ArtCare Conservation, with the long-missing Panel 28 from Jacob Lawrence’s series “Struggle: From the History of the American People.” It will join an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum later this week.Credit.The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Amr Alfiky/The New York Times