Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: A great private enterprise discusses Toshio Hara, a Japanese aristocrat who founded and runs the privately owned museum, noted for its avant-garde programming and international collecting. The article covers the museum’s origins in 1979, the Hara family’s involvement, the building by Jin Watanabe, the ARC extension designed by Arako Isozaki, and Hara’s aim to collect beyond Japan, with early influences from Rothko, Warhol, and Johns.
Christie’s international auction sales totaled $1.172 billion for January to June 2000, with the period’s results showing a 16 percent increase over the previous year. The top lot was Picasso’s Nature morte aux tulipes, which realized $28,606,000 at the Twentieth Century Art sale in Rockefeller Center.
The Guardian review discusses a Proms 2000 concert featuring the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen conducted by Daniel Harding with Christian Tetzlaff performing Schumann's Violin Concerto and as part of the program Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 2 and Schumann’s Third Symphony, noting both the vivid musical contrasts and moments of humour.
Francis Bacon’s Tangled Web discusses the estate of Francis Bacon suing Marlborough Fine Art over alleged dealer chicanery, with details of Bacon’s Dublin studio installation and related art-world scrutiny. The article is by Michael Shnayerson and centers on the dispute eight years after Bacon’s death in 1992, as well as the process of cataloging his studio’s belongings by curators.
Michael Shnayerson reports on Francis Bacon, his heir John Edwards, and Marlborough Fine Art amid a lawsuit alleging gallery chicanery and hidden motives surrounding the artist after his death in 1992.