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Ai Weiwei. Photo Gao Yuan/Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio Ai Weiwei, the Chinese provocateur who ranks among the world’s most popular artists, will have his first US retrospective in a decade at the Seattle Art Museum next year. His last retrospective, held first at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. in 2012, was …

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The 1928 winners of the William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes collecting their awards. Photo UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images During the 1920s and ’30s, a cohort of Black artists, writers, and intellectuals, many of whom were based in Harlem, ushered in what was then known as the New Negro Movement. Today, the …

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George Rouy. Photo Kemka Ajoku George Rouy, a fast-rising British painter, is the latest artist to join the roster of Hauser & Wirth, the mega-gallery which operates 18 spaces worldwide. The 29-year-old painter is now the youngest artist represented by the gallery. Rouy will continue to be represented by London’s Hannah Barry Gallery, the space …

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Brooke Lampley Emma Marie Jenkinson Brooke Lampley, the global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, will leave the auction house at the end of May for a Senior Director position at Gagosian, ARTnews has learned.  Lampley joined Sotheby’s in 2018 after having worked as a specialist at Christie’s where, in 2015, she began leading …

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Sotheby’s art handlers hold Leonora Carrington’s “Les Distractions de Dagobert” during a media preview for Sotheby’s upcoming “New York Marquee Evening Sales” on May 3, 2024, in New York City. AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES CARRINGTON’S SURREAL NIGHT. The Surrealist artist Leonora …

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Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Musuem and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana on May 12, 2024. Getty Images Repatriation ceremonies tend to be bureaucratic affairs done for show—the deal to return a looted artwork is conducted long before the object is …

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Joshua Serafin’s VOID (2022– ), as seen at the Venice Biennale. Photo Andrea Avezzù/Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia 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 under-recognized artists. But just one piece in the show has …

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Courtesy Christie’s 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, bringing in $413 million, reports Daniel Cassady for ARTnews. While bidding was not as fast and furious as a few years ago, the event suggests the art market …

O’Keeffe Among Highlights of Christie’s Auction, Dublin-NY Portal Shut Down, Artist Katherine Porter Dies, and More: Morning Links for May 17, 2024 Read More »

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity (1995) 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 estimate of over $5 million.  The painting is a rare example of Kusama combining two of her most well-known motifs, dots …

A $5 M. Yayoi Kusama Painting That Has Never Been Exhibited Leads Bonhams Hong Kong Sale Read More »