Brent Sikkema’s Husband Convicted
A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty of arranging the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, according to Hyperallergic. Brent Sikkema, 75, was stabbed 18 times in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in the early hours of January 14, 2024, in a killing that shocked the art world. The article also briefly notes other art-news items, including unionized staff at Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts calling for renaming due to Les Wexner’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and coverage of Columbia University’s MFA show. Additional sections mention Nicholas Fox Weber’s biography “Anni Albers: A Life” (covering Albers’s 1899 birth in Berlin and 1933 escape from Nazi Germany) and a review of Karla Knight’s “Orbit.”
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This story was covered in Auction Fever, Art’s Lost-and-Found Reckoning