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Rome s Gagosian Gallery presents Souvenirs of Time, an exhibition of photographs by Cy Twombly, the celebrated American painter who died in Italy in 2011. ....
Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit The Cy Twombly Foundation is taking the Paris museum to court over a renovation it calls an “aberration.” The timing of the dispute has raised suspicions. The newly repainted Salle des Bronzes in the Louvre. The museum is being renovated while it is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.Credit.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Published March 5, 2021Updated March 12, 2021 PARIS In the midst of a pandemic, with empty galleries, shuttered doors and plunging revenues, the Louvre faces new turbulence: a legal fight over the color of its walls. ....
Jeff Koons Loses His Copyright Infringement Appeal A French Court Rules The long-awaited court appeal case between Jeff Koons and the photographer Frank Davidovici over copyright infringement concerning a sculpture appropriated from a 1970s ad campaign has ruled in favour of the plaintiff for a second time. The work (Koons’s 1988 sculpture Fait d’hiver, from his “Banality series) was removed from a major Pompidou Centre exhibition. It depicts a woman lying in the snow with a pig, almost exactly replicating a Naf Naf advert that Mr Davidovici created. Davidovici was alerted to the 2014 exhibition catalogue, which travelled from the Whitney Museum in New York then to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. ....
The artist s foundation is threatening to sue the museum for redecorating the space. February 23, 2021 Cy Twombly in the Salle des Bronzes, one of the oldest sections of the Louvre museum, with his painting above. Photo: Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images. In 2010, one year before his death, Cy Twombly unveiled a 3,770-square-foot painting on the ceiling of the Louvre’s Salle des Bronzes in Paris. The famed artist’s installation was inspired by the 1,000-some works of ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art on view in the light-colored, airy gallery at the time. But after the museum recently renovated the space replacing the marble floor with parquet, painting the walls a deep red, and adding a black dado around the perimeter the Cy Twombly Foundation is threatening legal action. ....