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The University of Yale is to keep its $200 million Van Gogh. Pierre Konowaloff claimed ownership of the painting The Night Café(1888) in 2008, stating that it had been stolen from his family during the Russian Revolution. This week the US Supreme Court rejected his appeal, ruling that the university could keep the piece. More details via The Art Newspaper.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced the arrival of three new board members: Thelma Golden, Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Soumaya Slim, daughter of Carlos Slim and Caroline Grainge, wife of Lucian Grainge, CEO of the Universal Music Group. More information on Art News.
Artist activist Piotr Pavlensky is once again making headlines, Russian investigators have modified charges against him from “ideologically motivated vandalism" to “damaging a cultural heritage site". Pavelensky, best known for nailing his scrotum to the ground at Moscow’s Red Square in protest against violence within the psychiatric institution system, risks up to three years in prison under this new sentence. More on Art Daily via AFP.
British artist Grayson Perry has been nominated for the 2016 BAFTA awards, a ceremony dedicated to the best of British television. The winners will be announced on May 8. More via the Guardian.
