“The Kiss,” Brancusi. Courtesy Artizon Museum Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. The flight to Japan from art world centers like New York, London, and Paris isn’t exactly short. Those that do make the trip this year, however, won’t be disappointed …
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Grownups and children play in Joel Mesler’s pool party-themed installation at 30 Rockefeller Park Plaza. Courtesy Valerie Cassady On a recent afternoon, a couple was walking through the latest show by Joel Mesler, at Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery’s Beaux-Arts townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, when Mesler himself stopped them and asked a jarring …
Jean-Michel Basquiat Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict will head to sale in London at Sotheby’s this week with a $30 million estimate. Photo Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines SOTHEBY’S SUMMER SALES. Today, Sotheby’s London begins its modern and contemporary art auction with an evening sale that features works from the Ralph I. Goldenberg collection, …
Marcos Acosta, Watchers, 2024. Courtesy Hexton Gallery This summer, Aspen, the vacation home of numerous powerful art collectors, gets a second art fair. In late July, the Aspen Art Fair will open its inaugural edition at the Hotel Jerome, a historic red brick Victorian building opened in the 1880s. Some exhibitors will take over hotel …
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A rendering of Centre Pompidou x Jersey City. Courtesy OMA New Jersey officials are arguing over finances for Centre Pompidou‘s Jersey City outpost, which has already been the subject of controversy among Republican politicians in the state. The museum, which will open in 2026, was once expected to receive roughly $58 million in state funding, …
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http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-52176064-e1693421940412.jpg The complaint adds to a long list of artworks sought by the US Department of Justice. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images The United States Department of Justice has reached an agreement to recover more than $100 million in assets, including artworks by Andy Warhol and Claude Monet, linked to the scandal relating to 1Malaysia …
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Marina Abramović. Photo Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Glastonbury, the widely attended music festival in England, generally makes a lot of noise, and this year will be no different, with fans there to see acts such as SZA, Coldplay, Paul McCartney, Avril Lavigne, and many more. But artist Marina Abramović will also be on hand to cut …
Marilyn Monroe, 1954. Photo Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Headlines MARILYN MONROE’S MANSION in Los Angeles has been declared a landmark in a bid to save it from demolition by its owners, according to Variety. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council designated Monroe’s 1929 Spanish Colonial house a historical cultural monument, in an unanimously approved decision. The actress lived …
David Hockney asleep in the transit lounge at Dubai Airport, 1977. Courtesy of Lyndsay Ingram. The tale of the artiste maudit is often spun to inject mystery and intrigue into the lives of great painters, that image of a tortured soul working all hours for peanuts, fingers worn to paint-splattered bone, barely sustained on a …
Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe Courtesy of La Biennale de Venezia Deep within the cavernous Arsenale di Venezia, amidst hundreds of works on view at the 60th edition of the Biennale, two paintings by Peruvian artist Violeta Quispe offer an invitation into a queer, gender-breaking multiverse. The works — El Matrimonio de la Chola (2022) and …
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