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ARTnews Awards 2024 Best Thematic Museum Show: “Scratching at the Moon”

“Scratching at the Moon” at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Curators: Anna Sew Hoy and Anne EllegoodFebruary 10–July 28, 2024 Related Articles ARTnews Announces ARTnews Awards Asian American Art Survey in LA Highlights the Power of Artists Living in Community Three years ago, artist Anna Sew Hoy approached ICA LA director Anne Ellegood about organizing a …

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ARTnews Awards 2024 Lifetime Achievement: María Magdalena Campos-Pons

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, for “Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold” at the Brooklyn Museum September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024Additional venues: Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles For more than three decades, María Magdalena Campos-Pons has used her body …

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ARTnews Awards 2024 Established Artist of the Year: Delcy Morelos

Delcy Morelos, for “Delcy Morelos: El abrazo” at the Dia Art Foundation, New York October 5, 2023–July 20, 2024 With her large-scale sculptures composed primarily of earth, Delcy Morelos has filled entire rooms with large-scale installations that explore how humans relate to the land they walk upon. Soil, hay, cinnamon, and cloves recur in these …

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Candida Gertler Resigns from Outset Fund Amid Artist Protests Over Israel Ties

LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 27: Candida Gertler attends the unveiling of new art work as leading British artist Lubaina Himid is awarded the Robson Orr Ten Ten Award 2021 at 11 Downing Street on September 27, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Outset Contemporary Art Fund) Getty Images for Outset Contemporary …

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Justin Sun Vows to Buy 100,000 Bananas From Vendor Who Sold 25-Cent Banana Used for $6.2 M. ‘Comedian’

Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images The story about cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian keeps on giving. Sun kept the promise he made immediately after buying the artwork, comprising a banana duct-taped to the wall, …

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Swiss Auction House Becomes First to Sell Artwork Authenticated Solely by AI

A mixed media work by Mimmo Paladino titled ‘Lo Spirito della Foresta’ (1981) was one of the works to be authenticated by Art Recognition for the auction. COURTESY GERMANN AUCTION HOUSE. Last week, in an unprecedented move, a Swiss auction house sold an artwork solely authenticated by artificial intelligence (AI). Germann Auction House in Zürich …

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Trump Picks Businessman and Art Collector John Phelan For Head of Navy Despite Lack of Experience

John Phelan (left) and Amy Phelan attend the amfAR Palm Beach Gala in March. Photo by Ryan Emberley/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that businessman and Top 200 collector John Phelan will lead the US Navy, despite no prior military experience. Phelan is the founder and chairman of the private investment firm …

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A Notable Byzantine Artist Has Been Identified by a 700-Year-Old Handwriting Study

Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos of Protat, 1290–1310. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons The identity of a notable Byzantine painter has been discovered using a handwriting analysis studying a Medieval illuminated manuscript, the Associated Press reported this week. Manuel Panselinos, as the artist is known, was a contemporary of Giotto and equally influential among Byzantine art …

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UK Government Won’t Prevent Parthenon Marbles Loan, but British Museum Head Says Agreement Not Imminent

Parthenon sculptures of Ancient Greece, fragments which are collectively known as the Parthenon Marbles aka Elgin Marbles at the British Museum on 4th December 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The Elgin Marbles are considered stolen goods by Greece, and has regularly demanded their return, while the Acropolis Museum, which houses the remaining sculptures, keeps an …

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ARTnews Awards 2024 Emerging Artist of the Year: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio for “MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio” at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles November 12, 2023–June 16, 2024 To relaunch its “MOCA Focus” exhibition series, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles chose LA-based artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio to take over a portion of its sprawling Geffen Contemporary location. Marking Aparicio’s …

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