The Thomas Hart Benton mural “Independence and the Opening of the West” is a fixture in the lobby of the south entrance to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence. It depicts the role Independence played in changing the American West. TNS The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene …
Hilma af Klint: Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk. A potential agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and mega gallerist David Zwirner stands to separate the artist’s work for profit. The family of the Swedish artist oversees her foundation, which is responsible for the preservation of …
Installation view of “World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project,” 2024–25, at California African American Museum, showing, from left, Karon Davis’s sculpture George Washington Carver (2024) and Henry Taylor’s painting ‘Call Her Green’ Plant (2024). Photo Elon Schoenholz Historically, the relationship between Black Americans and the American South—in both the art world and the …
Liliane Lijn, Bridal Wound, 1986–90. Lewis Ronald/©Bildrecht, Wien 2024/Tate The Venice Biennale has traditionally been viewed as a survey of the present, but this year, it was arguably an exhibition about the past. More than half the 331 participants were dead, as sure a sign as any that a long-running trend for canonizing the uncanonized …
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Janet Olivia Henry. Christopher Garcia Valle for ARTnews Do you want a plastic shopping cart small enough to be pushed around by a doll? Go right ahead, and Google it—you’ll turn up many carts of that kind. But not so long ago, it wasn’t so easy to find objects like this on demand, the artist …
Installation view of Nour Mobarak’s “Dafne Phono”, 2024, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York A well-known story from Ovid’s first-century narrative poem Metamorphoses goes something like this: after the sun god Apollo kills the snake-dragon Python, the god of love Cupid seeks revenge on Apollo …
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The painting at the center of the legal battle – ‘Cut Melon.’ COURTESY CHRISTIE’S Christie’s has filed a lawsuit in Paris against Italian real estate investor Nanni Bassani Antivari, who the house asserts is refusing to pay for a work purchased at Christie’s France in June. In legal filings obtained by the Art Newspaper, Christie’s …
Lorraine O’Grady. Photo Marc Dimov/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Lorraine O’Grady, an artist who bravely used her conceptual pieces and performance art to critique systems of power, incisively underlining the ways that class, race, and gender influence one another, died at her home in New York on Friday. Her death was announced by a trust …
‘Challenging’: Guillaume Cerutti, Christie’s CEO, gave his end-of-year presser on Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images Christmas is almost here, which means Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti did his best to bring festive cheer by crunching the auction house’s 2024’s numbers during his end-of-year press conference Tuesday. Cerutti said the house’s projected sales for this year total …
OpenAI officially launched the AI video generation model Sora in Suqian, Jiangsu, China, on December 10. Photo Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images The UK government is considering an upgrade of its “right to personality” law that could gain artists new safeguards against generative artificial intelligence models capable of mimicking their styles. Per the Financial Times, the …
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