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Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale Totals $413 M., Led by $33.2 M. Van...
The New York evening auctions came to a close on Thursday night with Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale, which brought in a total of $413 million, squarely within its pre-sale estimate of $342...
View ArticleO’Keeffe Among Highlights of Christie’s Auction, Dublin-NY Portal Shut Down,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES STEADY GROUND. Christie’s evening sales on Thursday fell firmly within estimates,...
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Man Ray’s Experimental Short Films Still Captivate a Century Later
Swirling coils, dancing legs, twitching starfish, and thrown dice are a few of the beguiling visuals in Man Ray: Return to Reason, a recently released collection of four experimental shorts in the...
View ArticleX’s Latest Viral Sensation Is a Venice Biennale Artwork About a Nonbinary God
There have been many talked-about works at the current Venice Biennale, from a Golden Lion–winning Mataaho Collective installation formed from tie-downs to an assortment of abstractions by...
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In Five New Shows, Matthew Barney Turns His Abstract Football Film Into...
Making his way through his new studio a few weeks back, Matthew Barney stopped to inspect a strange set of alchemical dumbbells and tried to describe the elements of stress, vulnerability, and frailty...
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DJ Sets and a Nightclub Screening Can’t Hide How Boring Harmony Korine’s...
Context is everything, and filmmaker Harmony Korine is certainly building a lot of it around Aggro Dr1ft, the film he first premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, Korine took the...
View ArticleBritish Museum Announces It Has Recovered 268 More Missing Objects Following...
The British Museum announced in a statement Friday that it had located 268 objects that were either missing or stolen from its collection. The museum announced in February an initial number of around...
View ArticleSaint Martins College Students Take Control of the School’s Reception Area in...
Students at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, a top art school in the U.K., took over the school’s reception area earlier this week in protest of the institution’s failure to...
View ArticleChilean Authorities Return 117 Fossils to Morocco
Chilean authorities returned 117 fossils dating back 400 million years to Morocco in a repatriation ceremony at the National Library of Chile in Santiago on Monday. The artifacts had been seized from...
View ArticleDealer Nino Mier Weighs Closing Los Angeles Galleries After Being Accused of...
Dealer Nino Mier may close four of his gallery’s eight locations after an Art Newspaper report revealed an alleged pattern of underpayments to artists. Artnet News reporter Annie Armstrong first...
View ArticleJerry Gogosian Apologizes After Mocking Sotheby’s Auctioneer’s Name
As the May auctions drew to a close this week, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the person behind the popular Instagram account Jerry Gogosian, issued an apology for having mispronounced and made fun of a...
View ArticleArtist Joseph Awuah-Darko Accuses Kehinde Wiley of Sexual Assault
British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko accused star artist Kehinde Wiley of sexual assault in an Instagram post published Sunday and said that he is seeking “legal action.” On his own...
View ArticleNew Museum Leadership Changes: Isolde Brielmaier to Depart, as Karen Wong...
With the New Museum closed to the public until its expansion opens early next year, there has been a musical-chairs-style reshuffle among the institution’s top brass. Next month, Isolde Brielmaier,...
View ArticleBritish Museum Recovers Missing Objects, Artist Accuses Kehinde Wiley of...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES ACCUSATION. British-born, Ghana-based artist Joseph Awuah-Darko has accused star...
View ArticleThe Viral Billie Eilish Louvre Promotion Video Appears to Be a Hoax
A video that appeared to be promoting the the pop star Billie Eilish’s new record Hit Me Hard and Soft that went viral over the week was appears have been a fake. The video shows the I. M....
View ArticleA $5 M. Yayoi Kusama Painting That Has Never Been Exhibited Leads Bonhams...
Infinity, a never publicly seen painting by Yayoi Kusama is coming to auction at Bonhams’ Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong next week. The red-and-black painting from 1995 comes with an...
View ArticleChristie’s Website and App is Back Online After Ten-Day Outage
Christie’s website and app are now up and running again, the auction house confirmed. This comes following a ten-day outage that sparked concern among art advisors and collectors amid a busy season of...
View ArticleFacing Enrollment Crisis, Vermont College of Fine Arts Strikes Deal with...
Citing an enrollment crisis that threatens to shutter its doors forever, the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier has forged a partnership with the California Institute of the Arts...
View ArticleNative American Curator Sues Chicago Blackhawks, Walker Art Center in Legal...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BLACKHAWK CONTROVERSY. Apsáalooke curator Nina Sanders is suing the Chicago...
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Artist Ophelia Arc Welcomes You Into a Psychological Web of Her Own Making
Somewhere between Faith Wilding’s 1972 crocheted “Womb Room” installation and the sculptural works of Eve Hesse exists the work of emerging artist Ophelia Arc. Her corporeal crochet sculptures and...
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