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The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n LOVE ACTUALLY<\/strong>. After eight years of legal disputes, a New York federal jury has awarded the\u00a0Morgan Art Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0$102.2 million in damages, contending that art publisher\u00a0Michael McKenzie<\/strong>\u00a0isolated artist\u00a0Robert Indiana<\/strong>\u00a0near the end of his life and created unauthorized versions of his work, the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>reports. Indiana is famous for his large sculpture depicting the word \u201clove\u201d in caps, with the L and O sitting atop the V and E. The dispute began after Indiana\u2019s death in 2018 at 89 and centered around accusations of elder abuse, forgery, and copyright infringement. \u201cThe isolation and exploitation of Robert Indiana in the last years, months, and even days before he died was a tragedy, and Michael McKenzie was the mastermind,\u201d said\u00a0Luke Nikas<\/strong>, a lawyer for Morgan. McKenzie\u2019s lawyer said he was considering an appeal.<\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. The South Carolina artist\u00a0Mary Aldwyth Dickman<\/strong>, who went by\u00a0Aldwyth\u00a0<\/strong>and was known for her intricate collages made in relative isolation, has died at 90, the\u00a0Post and Courier\u00a0<\/em>reports. Her intricate artworks made of found objects and printed material fashioned in various containers were sometimes compared to\u00a0Joseph Cornell\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>creations and are credited with challenging traditional art history. She also was known for living and working in a kind of treehouse for grownups that was set on stilts in a forest on Dear Island. One of her acclaimed assemblages, titled\u00a0We regret to inform,<\/em>\u00a0was made of all of her early rejection letters from exhibition spaces she had requested to show her work. \u201cIf I know what it\u2019s going to look like, I don\u2019t want to do it. That\u2019s the whole purpose: to see what it\u2019s going to look like,\u201d Aldwyth once said in a 2022 PBS documentary.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tAfter 19 years, one of the most important galleries in Los Angeles,\u00a0The Box<\/strong>, founded by\u00a0Mara McCarthy<\/strong>\u00a0as a collaboration with her father, artist\u00a0Paul McCarthy<\/strong>, announced it will close. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n \n\tSan Francisco officials said they will begin dismantling the\u00a0Armand<\/strong>\u00a0Vaillancourt fountain<\/strong> from the Embarcadero neighborhood today, despite heated controversy and the artist\u2019s own protests over its removal. [KQED]<\/p>\n \n\tPreservationists are worried that\u00a0Donald\u00a0Trump\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0project to resurface the\u00a0Lincoln Memorial\u2019s Reflecting Pool<\/strong>\u2019s basin would make the monument look like a \u201clarge lap pool.\u201d [The Washington Post]<\/p>\n