Leonard Lauder Is Giving His Cubist Collection to the Met

In one of the most significant gifts in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the philanthropist and cosmetics tycoon Leonard A. Lauder has promised the institution his collection of 78 Cubist paintings, drawings and sculptures.

The trove of signature works, which includes 33 Picassos, 17 Braques, 14 Légers and 14 works by Gris, is valued at more than $1 billion. It puts Mr Lauder, who for years has been one of the city’s most influential art patrons, in a class with cornerstone contributors to the museum like Michael C Rockefeller, Walter Annenberg, Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Robert Lehman.

The gift was approved by the Met’s board at a meeting Tuesday afternoon — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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P-5000 work loader / Tom Whalen

here’s my entry for gallery 1988‘s product placement screenprint show.

participants were asked to create a poster/advertisement for a fictional product from television or film. i’ve always thought the caterpillar P-5000 work loader from aliens was the bees knees, so this was pretty much a no-brainer for me.

what a great show for gallery 1988 to break in their new location with. can’t wait to see all of the entries — via strongstuff

Cuttlestack / Meg Lyman

Cuttlestack / Meg Lyman

What do you get when you cross a Meg with a week-long meeting and gridded paper? Prolific doodling of geometrical animals, of course. I drew rectangular creatures of all phyla, but the first one I painted had to be a stack of cephalopods — via CrashOctopus)