Michael Jackson Estate & BMI Extend Rights Deal For King Of Pop’s Catalog
Don’t stop till you get enough. BMI and the Michael Jackson estate have extended their long-term deal for rights to the King of Pop’s catalog. This deal continues the relationship between Jackson and the performance rights group that began in 1979. The estate and BMI most recently renewed the deal in 2014.
Celebrating the Eternal Legacy of Artist Yayoi Kusama
An upcoming Hirshhorn collection exhibition will honor the artist’s seven-decade career.
THOMAS HART BENTON HEIRS SUE MISSOURI BANK FOR MISMANAGEMENT OF ARTIST’S ESTATE
essie Benton, daughter of the American regionalist Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), has filed a lawsuit against Kansas City’s UMB Bank this week, accusing it of mismanaging Benton’s multimillion-dollar estate and leaving more than one hundred artworks from the estate unaccounted for. The bank’s practices, she alleges, “have resulted in an excess of millions of dollars in damages to the Benton Trusts.”
‘A Master of the Gestural Brushstroke’: the Legacy of Ed Clark
Ed Clark, a painter and innovator of the post-war abstract art movement, has died at age 93. Clark was a fixture in the New York art scene of the 1950s, frequenting the Cedar Tavern alongside peers like Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Though his career didn’t yield the same level of market success in the decades following the downtown New York painting boom, Clark’s work has sparked renewed interest from critics and collectors alike in recent years.
Germany plans photography archive
Germany plans photography archive to preserve ‘visual memory of our society’ – Culture minister Monika Grütters enlists international experts to help create a central institution but critics question necessity and feasibility.
8,300 Works by Long-Unknown Artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein Go to Wisconsin Arts Center
There are big acquisitions and then there are truly gigantic acquisitions. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has just landed one of the latter, acquiring a bounty of works by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein from the estate of the late artist, whose output included campy but tender photographs of his wife, scrappy ceramics, and inventive paintings.