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London’s Serpentine Galleries Unveil 19-Foot-Tall Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Pumpkin,’ 2024 © YAYOI KUSAMA COURTESY OTA FINE ARTS, VICTORIA MIRO, AND DAVID ZWIRNER. PHOTO: GEORGE DARRELL. London’s Serpentine Galleries unveiled a new public sculpture on Tuesday by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose “Infinity Mirror Rooms” have attracted crowds around the world. The bronze work, located next to the Round Pond in Kensington …

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Aspen Art Fair Debuts in Colorado, Looted Asante Treasures Find New Home in Ghana, Sex Pistols Record Breaks Record at Auction, and More: Morning Links for July 11, 2024

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 To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES ASPEN’S GRASP. Known for winter sports and other outdoor …

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Art History and Performing Art Majors Face Highest Rates of Unemployment, New Study Finds

A university student works with clay. (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP) (Photo by DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images) Art history, visual and performing Arts, and graphic design majors nationwide have the bleakest employment prospects across all college majors in the United States, according to data analyzed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York …

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Motherwell Estate Gifts $200,000 to Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center and its Famed Residency Program

Robert Motherwell and Renate Ponsold at Greenwich Harbor in 1977. ©Dedalus Foundation The estate of Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell and photographer Renate Ponsold Motherwell, who died in 2023, will give $200,000 to Fine Arts Work Center, a residency program and arts education center in Provincetown, Massachusetts that Motherwell cofounded more than 50 years ago. The …

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In Legal Complaint, Artist Daniel Arsham Accused of Firing Employee for Union Support

Daniel Arsham. Photo Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images for Art Saint Barth Artist Daniel Arsham has been accused of violating national labor laws, including firing an employee in retaliation for their union activities, in a complaint filed Tuesday by a Brooklyn regional director of the National Labor Relations Board. In November 2023, employees of the artist’s studio, …

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British Museum Should Charge Visitors £20 Entry Fee, Says Former Director

The British Museum in London. Photo Behlul Cetinkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The former director of the British Museum, one of the many London institutions that offers free admission, recently suggested that foreign tourists should pay an entry fee of £20 ($25), a measure that he said could help generate extra funds. “The money has …

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Tokyo Gendai Gets Ready to Open as Japan’s Art Market Heats Up

People are silhouetted during dusk as they visit the Toyosu Gururi park in Tokyo’s Koto district on July 3, 2024. AFP via Getty Images Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. On Tuesday evening in Tokyo’s Roppongi district, under a sky that threatened downpour, …

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Paul Allen’s Vintage Computer Museum Shutters, Sends Its Holdings to Auction

Microsoft cofounders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, 1984. ©Doug Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the South Seattle steward of Paul G. Allen’s collection of vintage computers and internet technology, will officially never reopen following its closure during the 2020 Covid lockdown. But many of its wares will live on, possibly in …

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Sotheby’s London Auctions Begin, Albertinum Exhibition Abruptly Closes, and More: Morning Links for June 25, 2024

Jean-Michel Basquiat Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict will head to sale in London at Sotheby’s this week with a $30 million estimate. Photo Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines SOTHEBY’S SUMMER SALES. Today, Sotheby’s London begins its modern and contemporary art auction with an evening sale that features works from the Ralph I. Goldenberg collection, …

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