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After 30 Paintings from Tehran Museum Disappear, Critics Call For Investigation

Panoramic cityscape. Photo by Barry Iverson/Getty Images Thirty valuable paintings on loan from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran have vanished after “an unidentified entity outside the municipality with official documentation” for an exhibition that it appears never took place, according to a report from Artdependence. Tehran City Council member Nasser Amani disclosed the …

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Spent Fireworks and Rock-Like Debris Rain Down on Crowd at PST ART Event in LA with Several Injuries Reported

Cai Guo-Qiang, WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART, Act II: “WE ARE,” 2024. Realized at LA Memorial Coliseum. Photo by Kenryou Gu, courtesy Cai Studio Around 4,000 people filled the Los Angeles Coliseum on September 15 to witness the kickoff event for the Getty Museum’s $20 million PST ART: Art & Science Collide, in which …

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Elizabeth Catlett, a Black Revolutionary in More Than One Sense, Gets a Worthy Retrospective

The Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Catlett show. Alex Greenberger/ARTnews Artists’ grant applications tend to be anodyne things because the point of them is often to appeal to an organization’s sensibilities, not to take a stand. But take a stand is what Elizabeth Catlett did in 1945 when she wrote of the “double handicap of race and …

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Getty’s PST ART Exhibitions Take an Expansive View of Science to Center Indigenous Knowledge

An installation view of several works in the “We Live in Painting” exhibition at LACMA. On the right and hanging in the center are several works by Porfirio Gutiérrez. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA On first glance, one might be forgiven for wondering how the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “We Live in …

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Legal Advocacy Groups Call for Iran to End Campaign Targeting Dissident Artists

Philippe Rouyer, Jean-Christophe Simon, Setareh Maleki, Mohammad Rasoulof, Mahsa Rostami and Amin Sadraei attend the Seed of the Sacred Fig press conference at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival. Photo Cindy Ord/Getty Images A new report co-published by two legal U.S.-based advocacy groups calls on Iran to stop a years-long campaign to persecute artists, a …

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New York Supreme Court Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Helen Frankenthaler Foundation of Exploiting the Late Artist’s Legacy

Abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler in her studio in New York. Getty Images A New York Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation by one of its former board members, Frederick Iseman. In the dismissal, Judge Jennifer G. Schecter cited the plaintiff’s absence of standing. In a seperate motion, …

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Arthur Jafa, Polymathic Chronicler of Black America, Joins Sprüth Magers

Artist Arthur Jafa presents the exhibition at the museum of Serralves, in Porto. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett Arthur Jafa, the filmmaker, artist, and cinematographer feted for his explorations of Blackness in America, has signed with Sprüth Magers. Jafa’s first exhibition with Sprüth Magers opens tomorrow in Los Angeles. He will continue to be represented by …

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