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The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. The legendary Swiss dealer\u00a0Bruno Bischofberger<\/strong>\u00a0has died at 86, reports\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>. Through his eponymous gallery, founded in 1963, he brought artists famed America to audiences in Europe\u2014and befriended many of them along the way. \u201cI have been involved with Andy Warhol for a large part of my life as an art dealer, collector and friend,\u201d Bischofberger wrote in 2001. He produced Warhol\u2019s film\u00a0L\u2019amour<\/em>, is credited with the idea for Warhol to make portraits of people in his entourage, and even suggested that the Pop artist collaborate with Jean-Michel Basquiat for a 1984 series of apintings. Other artists he helped champion include\u00a0Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, Jean Tinguely, Gerhard Richter, Sol LeWitt,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Donald Judd<\/strong>. He also amassed a large collections of art and design objects, which he stored in a former factory in Zurich that was redesigned by his daughter,\u00a0Nina Baier-Bischofberger,<\/strong>\u00a0and her husband,\u00a0Florian Baier<\/strong>. \u201cMy father is a hoarder,\u201d his daughter told\u00a0W<\/em>\u00a0in 2015. \u201cHe always wants more, more, more.\u201d<\/p>\n SKELETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET<\/strong>. A Nazi-looted painting by\u00a0Toon Kelder<\/strong>, from the famous collection of Jewish art dealer\u00a0Jacques<\/strong>\u00a0Goudstikker<\/strong>, has been hanging in the family home of a Dutch SS collaborator\u00a0Hendrik Seyffardt<\/strong>\u00a0for decades, according to art detective\u00a0Arthur Brand<\/strong>. Speaking to\u00a0De Telegraaf<\/em>,\u00a0Brand said the circumstances around the discovery have amounted to \u201cthe most bizarre case of my entire career.\u201d He was tipped off by a relative of Seyffardt, who told him they felt \u201cashamed\u201d and wanted the artwork returned to its legal owners. When the relative saw the Kelder painting, titled\u00a0Portrait of a Young Girl<\/em>, hanging in the home of Seyffardt\u2019s granddaughter, she told the relative it was \u201cJewish looted art, stolen from Goudstikker. It is unsellable. Don\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d Instead, that relative contacted Brand, who confirmed the painting was labeled Goudsticker on the back. However, with the statute of limitations passed, Dutch police reportedly have their hands tied; the\u00a0Dutch Restitutions Committee<\/strong>\u00a0does not deal with private art collections. As a result, the anonymous Seyffardt relative who came forward \u201csees public exposure as the only way to hopefully return the painting to the Goudstikker heirs, where it rightfully belongs,\u201d Brand said.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tNearly half of the artists in the\u00a0Venice\u00a0<\/strong>Biennale\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0main exhibition, as well as those represented in more than a dozen national pavilions, said they did not want to be considered for the show\u2019s\u00a0top honors in solidarity with the resignation of the Biennale jury. Those prizes, now known as the \u201cVisitors\u2019 Lions,\u201d will be chosen by public vote. [ARTnews<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tLondon\u2019s first museum dedicated to the\u00a0Beatles<\/strong>\u00a0will open by next year. It will offer access to the 3 Savile Row building\u2019s rooftop in Mayfair, the site of the band\u2019s last public concert in 1969. [Times of London<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tScholars from\u00a0Trinity College Dublin<\/strong>\u00a0have discovered a previously unknown, long-lost copy of a Medieval manuscript containing the earliest surviving poem in English, Caedmon\u2019s\u00a0Hymn<\/em>, in Rome\u2019s National Central Library. [Artnet News<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tFormer French Prime Minister\u00a0Dominique de Villepin<\/strong>\u00a0said that, while he was foreign minister between 2002 and 2004, he should never have accepted as gifts two sculptures of Napoleon from the former president of Burkina Faso and an Italian businessman. He later returned both artworks. [Le Figaro<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA new book by curator\u00a0Fiona Rogers<\/strong>\u00a0looks at the history of women artists using the medium of collage in politically charged works, from\u00a0Mar\u00eda Magdalena Campos-Pons<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0Toshiko Okanoue.\u00a0<\/strong>Here are some highlights. [The Financial Times<\/strong>]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES<\/strong>. \u201cCacao offers this connection between past and present,\u201d\u00a0Agustin Otegui<\/strong>\u00a0told the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>. His family has been involved with building Mexico City\u2019s new\u00a0Museum of Cacao & Chocolate<\/strong>, located in a renovated 17th-century house and a new five-story addition. While building the institution, architects discovered that buried under it was one of the largest and best preserved\u00a0tzompantli<\/em>, or wooden rack, displaying over 650 human skulls thought to have been sacrificed in the 15th century, during\u00a0Aztec<\/strong>\u00a0rule. Eleven years after working on excavating the site while constructing the chocolate museum above ground, the public will soon be able to sip hot cocoa from a museum cafe, learn about the ancient history of cacao, and peer at the pre-Hispanic skulls rack visible through a window near the museum\u2019s ticket office, all in a single visit. With chocolate, \u201cyou have this bean that was used by the Maya and Aztecs, and now it\u2019s a daily delicacy. It\u2019s a link to the past that keeps going,\u201d said Otegui.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/painting-ss-home-bruno-bischofberger-dead-morning-links-1234784953\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-56757094.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. The legendary Swiss dealer\u00a0Bruno Bischofberger\u00a0has died at 86, reports\u00a0ARTnews. Through his eponymous gallery, founded in 1963, he brought artists famed America to audiences in Europe\u2014and befriended many of them along the way. \u201cI have been involved with Andy Warhol for a large part of my life as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1929514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}