News From Around the Art World: July 28, 2020

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Jul 28, 2020

The artist Joseph Seigenthaler in his studio

The 1982 painting "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump" by Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Art Institute of Chicago on Friday, July 24, 2020. Billionaire, Ken Griffin paid more than $100 million for the large-scale 1982 canvas "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump" and has loaned it after a pre-pandemic purchase. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)

Now hanging at the Art Institute: Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin’s new, $100 million Basquiat canvas

Now that eye-widening sale has turned into news Chicagoans can use. Exuberant, elemental and about 14 feet wide by 8 feet high, the painting is now hanging on a wall in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute, where it will be on view when the museum reopens Thursday after its more than four-month COVID-19 closure.

By Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

Pablo Picasso, *Still Life* (1922). Pablo Picasso’s Estate. VEGAP. Madrid, 2020.

Stunned Conservators Just Found a Ghostly Picasso Hidden Beneath One of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Most Treasured Paintings

The discovery lends new insight into Picasso's practice.

What’s better than one Picasso? How about a second Picasso lost for decades?

That’s exactly what a team of research scientists at the Art Institute of Chicago discovered and wrote about in a report published this week in Applied Science.

By Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News

Legislation calls for the Smithsonian Institution to study a site for a National Museum of the American Latino on the National Mall in Washington

US House votes to establish a National Museum of the American Latino

The US House of Representatives voted today to establish a National Museum of the American Latino under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution to promote recognition of the Hispanic community’s role in American history and culture.

By Nancy Kenney, The Art Newspaper