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After a Year of Silence, Dor Guez Is Ready to Show the Art World the Value of ‘Not Knowing’

A work from Dor Guez’s 2023 series “Amid Imperial Grids” in the exhibition “Not knowing is a good place to start” at carlier | gebauer in Berlin. Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid; Photo © Andrea Rossetti The maps won’t tell you where you are in Dor Guez’s new solo exhibition at …

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For More than Half a Century, Collector Joan Agajanian Quinn Has Been the Heart of LA’s Art Community

Joan Agajanian Quinn in her Beverly Hills home. Photo Ryan Pfluger For nearly 50 years, Joan Agajanian Quinn has asked the questions that everyone wants to answer. A consummate journalist, she was the West Coast editor at Interview magazine, a society editor at the LA Herald Examiner, and host of the TV interview shows Joan …

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What Was the Chicano Art Movement?

Members of four organizations march in support of United Farm Workers at Denver’s Denargo market in 1967. Photo Dave Mathias/The Denver Post via Getty Images The Chicano Art Movement represents a kaleidoscopic convergence of aesthetics and politics. When examined at a distance, it can be misunderstood as a singular, cohesive movement with a clearly defined …

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Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya Sculpts Vampires and Nahuales—But Do Not Be Afraid

“Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of My Flesh,” 2024, at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland One’s eye typically skates right over the list of materials on the caption for an artwork, since the verbiage used—“oil on canvas,” “ink on paper,” and the like—tends to be more perfunctory …

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Eikoh Hosoe, Artist Who Set Japanese Photography on a New Course, Dies at 91

Eikoh Hosoe (at right) with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Eikoh Hosoe, a Japanese photographer who blazed a new trail for his medium with his taboo-testing pictures about invisible worlds, has died at 91. The Japanese agency Kyodo News reported his death last week, saying that he died in Tokyo of complications related to …

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Sharjah Biennial Announces Artists for 2025 Edition, Will Feature Works by Arthur Jafa, Lorna Simpson and More

Hajra Waheed, Hum II, 2023, installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. ©Hajra Waheed/Courtesy the artist and mor charpentier The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the artists participating in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from February 6, through June 15, 2025. The exhibition, one of the premier international showcases of its kind, will feature …

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Nolita’s Elizabeth Street Garden Faces Eviction After Development Dispute

Elizabeth Street Garden. via Google Images. The Elizabeth Street Garden, a communal outdoor space in downtown Manhattan, has been served a two-week eviction notice by New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development after a lengthly legal dispute. The notice comes three months after a legal ruling in July allowing the city to move …

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Man Agrees to Guilty Plea for Trafficking Stolen Andy Warhol Print of Vladimir Lenin Worth $175,000

The same art gallery which sold the print helped identify it as stolen. Courtesy of US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California A man has pled guilty to a federal charge of trafficking after trying to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print of Vladimir Lenin to an auction house. A press release from …

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Judge Makes Ownership Call on Basquiat Fought Over by Art Lender and Collectors Who Were All Duped by Inigo Philbrick

Inigo Philbrick (L) in 2016 before he was sent to prison for the biggest art fraud in US history. courtesy Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still resonate. On Tuesday, a US …

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