Armory Show Launches Museum Acquisition Prizes; Rijksmuseum Gets Rare Drawing Book; Vancouver Approves Supertall Towers

Key facts

• The Armory Show will introduce its first-ever museum acquisition prizes at its upcoming edition, running September 24–27 in New York.
• Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and the Bronx Museum will each select a work for their permanent collections.
• PAMM Acquisition Prize provides $20,000; Bronx Museum Acquisition Prize establishes a $15,000 fund.
• The Rijksmuseum received a 17th-century drawing book by Rombout van Uylenburgh, donated by the Van Eeghen family.
• The drawing book contains roughly 30 drawings, many on blue paper, and was attributed to Rombout in 2013.
• Vancouver approved plans for a four-tower development including Western Canada's tallest building at 1,033 feet, designed by Henriquez Partners Architects.
• Louis Vuitton's La Beauté launched its first beauty collaboration with Pat McGrath and Nicolas Ghesquière for the Monogram's 130th anniversary.
• A painting by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 'Portrait of an Old Man', will be unveiled at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum in December.
• The Bernini painting was previously unattributable and spent decades in storage; if confirmed, it would extend his painting career by two decades.