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The Orange Peel, a live music space that has been closed since March, in Asheville, N.C., Jan. 27, 2021. Tens of thousands of eligible music clubs, theaters, museums and other spaces may overwhelm a $15 billion grant fund run by the Small Business Administration. Mike Belleme/The New York Times.
by Stacy Cowley
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In December, Congress created a $15 billion grant fund for clubs and performance spaces, recognizing that thousands of cultural institutions were at risk of closing permanently because there is no safe way to attend a rock concert or Broadway musical in a pandemic. Now comes the hard part: doling out the cash. The list of eligible recipients is large, and the Small Business Administration the agency in charge of creating rules and systems for the initiative, the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant has never run a major grant program. Its biggest pandemic relief effort, the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Pro
Max Beckmanns in New York
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The renowned art dealer Richard L. Feigen has died at the age of 90. Feigen set up his first gallery in Chicago in 1957, later opening in New York where he forged a reputation as one of the world’s leading dealers of Old Master paintings. During his lifetime, Feigen assembled an extraordinary private collection, with particular strengths in Italian paintings, British landscapes and 20th-century German art – holdings that he opened to Apollo in March 2014 when Susan Moore visited him at his apartment in Manhattan. That profile is reproduced in full below.
The veteran New York dealer Richard Feigen would probably claim, like many art dealers, that he is a collector manqué. What distinguishes him from most of his peers, however, is that he has in fact amassed a great private collection. While some dealers who collect have studiously focused on areas outside their commercial interests – the Chicago contemporary art dealer and Old Master drawings collector Richard Gray is a case i
Richard Feigen Courtesy of Frances F.L. Beatty
The influential New York-based dealer and connoisseur Richard Feigen, known especially for championing and leading the Old Masters market, has died, aged 90. According to a notice in the
New York Times, he died in his sleep after a brief illness with Covid-19 pneumonia.
Feigen opened his first gallery in Chicago in 1957, later expanding to New York. From 1965 to 1973, he showed works by artists such as Max Beckmann, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Beuys, and John Baldessari at his gallery in SoHo (he also gave Francis Bacon his first US show in 1959). In 1969, Feigen launched a new gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
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Question of the Day By VANESSA MILLER - Associated Press - Sunday, January 31, 2021
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Some 70 to 80 years ago - in the days of Nile Kinnick, Tennessee Williams and Virgil Hancher - the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History began hosting exhibitions and collecting contemporary works, including Max Beckmann’s “Karneval” and the swirling abstraction that is Jackson Pollock’s “Mural.”
The UI opened its first Museum of Art in 1969, expanded it in 1976 and for decades featured and grew its collections until torrential flooding devastated the campus and its exhibition space in 2008.
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