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• Lawyer Sues His Co-Owner Of A Painting He Believes Is An Important Jackson Pollock

  11-10-2016 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I felt sincere about selling this masterpiece,” Pierce O’Donnell said in a recent interview. He believes it is one of the “great art finds of the 21st century. Unfortunately, she has frustrated every effort to sell it.”
  
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• Does The Nobel Committee Have A Bias Against American Writers?

  11-10-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the Nobel committee has yet to set a date for any announcement for a literature prize this year (they’ve skipped a few years previously), it does seem unlikely that phones will ring in the homes of Joyce Carol Oates, Don DeLillo, or any other U.S. author.”
  
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• This work by Caravaggio is a model of the Wildenstein family’s fortunes at the centre of Paris trial

  11-10-2016 23:00
  
  A Caravaggio painting has become a prime example for the complicated financial situation of the billionaire French-American art-dealing dynasty, the Wildenstein family, in a long-running legal case in Paris over the estate of Daniel Wildenstein. The Lute Player was discussed in court last week in a trial in which eight defendants, including Guy Wildenstein, the president of the New York art business Wildenstein & Company, are charged with tax evasion and money laundering. The French governm
  
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• The Caravaggio work at the centre of the Wildenstein money-laundering trial

  11-10-2016 23:00
  
  A Caravaggio painting has become a prime example for the complicated financial situation of the billionaire French-American art-dealing dynasty, the Wildenstein family, in a long-running legal case in Paris over the estate of Daniel Wildenstein. The Lute Player was discussed in court last week in a trial in which eight defendants, including Guy Wildenstein, the president of the New York art business Wildenstein & Company, are charged with tax evasion and money laundering. The French governm
  
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• The Caravaggio at the centre of the Wildenstein money-laundering trial

  11-10-2016 23:00
  
  A Caravaggio painting has become a prime example for the complicated financial situation of the billionaire French-American art-dealing dynasty, the Wildenstein family, in a long-running legal case in Paris over the estate of Daniel Wildenstein. The Lute Player was discussed in court last week in a trial in which eight defendants, including Guy Wildenstein, the president of the New York art business Wildenstein & Company, are charged with tax evasion and money laundering. The French governm
  
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• Musée Carnavalet closed until at least 2019 for €43m restoration

  11-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Muse Carnavaletthe museum of Pariss history, which opened in 1880 and is run by the City of Parisclosed last week for an extensive renovation and restoration. It is due to reopen in late 2019 or early 2020. The museum occupies two annexed htels particuliers in the Right-Bank Marais neighbourhood: the Htel Carnavalet, which dates to the mid-16th century and is an important example of the remaining Renaissance architecture in Paris, and the Htel Le Peletier, dating to the late 17th century, w
  
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• Market revs up for racing car artist Salvatore Scarpitta

  11-10-2016 23:00
  
  Italian artists have been enjoying their moment in the sun, and the Italian-American Salvatore Scarpitta is the latest to emerge from the shadows, thanks to big gallery shows and an increased presence at auction this season.
  Luxembourg & Dayan in New York is presenting an exhibition of works from his most sought-after period, the late-1950s to the mid-1960s. The show, which opens tomorrow (13 October-23 December), contains 20 mixed-media workswall pieces made with torn bandages and canvas.
  
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• JTT Will Move to a Larger Space on the Lower East Side, Open With a Diane Simpson Show

  11-10-2016 22:59 via artnews.com
  It has been a wild year for the Lower East Side gallery district, with veteran dealers closing, all sorts of enterprises opening up and relocating, and at least one blue-chip macher plotting a grand and ambitious entrance.The latest news is that JTT, the venturesome … Read More
  
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• A Daisy Chain Of The 82 Funniest Books

  11-10-2016 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the publication this month of Today Will Be Different, Maria Semple’s follow-up to Where’d You Go, Bernadette, we got to wondering: What’s the funniest book by a living writer? Well, who better to ask than Maria Semple? The Seattle-based novelist told us her three favorite funny books, so then we asked those three authors. Then we kept asking.”
  
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• No snap judgments at New York photography auctions

  11-10-2016 22:00
  
  Absent any dedicated single-collection sales, the fall photography auctions in New York unspooled with few dramatic moments. Christies led the week, starting with a slate of 27 pictures by artists ranging from Brancusi to Ana Mendieta that brought in $1.1m during its evening sale on 4 October (all prices include buyers premium).
  The auctions high-water mark was reached early on with lot number 4, Man Rays Rayograph, 1922, which made $295,500 against an estimate of $250,000 to $350,000. A rare w
  
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• Early Basquiat Works, Never Shown in Public, Will Be on View at X Contemporary Fair During Miami Basel

  11-10-2016 21:18 via artnews.com
  X Contemporary, a Miami Basel satellite fair, announced today that one of its exhibitors, Brooklyn’s Bishop Gallery, will show a collection of never-before-exhibited early works by Jean-Michel Basquiat at its next edition, which runs at the Nobu Hotel in Miami Beach from November 30 … Read More
  
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• Marsha Cottrell at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

  11-10-2016 20:43 via artnews.com
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• Salvador Dalí's surreal cookbook set to be Christmas bestseller

  11-10-2016 20:07
  
  Reissue of the lavish compilation of recipes, Les Diners de Gala, features dishes such as conger eel of the rising sun and frog pastiesStuck for ideas for Christmas dinner this year? Worry no more. Thanks to an unlikely new celebrity chef, fashionable dinners this festive season are likely to feature thousand-year-old eggs, conger eel of the rising sun and frog pasties (recipe below), all washed down with a cocktail of brandy, ginger and cayenne pepper.If that sounds a bit more surreal than your
  
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• AXA Gives Thomas Hart Benton Drawings, Painted Studies to the Met

  11-10-2016 19:37 via artnews.com
  Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that the AXA insurance company has given it 29 drawings and studies that served as the basis for Thomas Hart Benton’s career-defining mural America Today. The mural itself was also donated … Read More
  
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• Kentridge spectacle evokes silent cinema at old Coronet

  11-10-2016 17:32
  
  In his short film Shards, William Kentridge rummages through a haphazard stack of papers in the studio, clasping odd scraps to his ears and listening intently, for each of them plays a different tune. Its an apt choice to feature on the playbill of Paper Music, a cine-concert by the South African artist and his longstanding collaborator, the composer Philip Miller, which is in London for one week only (until 14 October). In a throwback to the days of silent cinema, Kentridges animations are acc
  
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• Newcastle and Gateshead to host UK’s Great Exhibition of the North

  11-10-2016 17:31
  
  The city of Newcastle and adjoining town of Gateshead, in the north-east of England, have been chosen by the government to host the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018.
  The two-month projectentitled The Blazing World: the Fires of Inventionwill showcase the great creative, cultural and design sectors in the city and across the whole of the north of England, says a statement from the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport.Newcastle and Gateshead together were one of four locations shortlist
  
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• Ed Ruscha: Extremes and In-betweens, Gagosian, London — review

  11-10-2016 15:58
  These unsettling, beguiling new works are the artist’s response to anxious times
  
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• David Bowie's sombre art collection needs more space oddities

  11-10-2016 15:50
  
  Aside from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there’s little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie’s art collection – instead he’s weirdly fascinated by 20th-century British paintingDavid Bowie’s art collection was tasteful. Disappointingly tasteful. As Sotheby’s announces the full list of art owned by the late great pop star, to be auctioned in November, it is hard to stifle a yawn.Where are the vulgar pop art provocations? Where is the camp o
  
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• Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark Names Dexter Wimberly New Director

  11-10-2016 15:15 via artnews.com
  The Newark, New Jersey–based nonprofit Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art has appointed Dexter Wimberly as its new executive director. Wimberly will start in his new post on October 15 with the opening of the organization’s newest exhibition, “Zachary Fabri: … Read More
  
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• Vuitton foundation's Russian loan show overshadowed as Putin cancels French trip

  11-10-2016 14:41
  
  An exhibition reuniting Modern masterpieces from the historic collection of Sergei Shchukin is due to open next week at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris without the presence of Vladimir Putin. The Russian president has cancelled his long-planned trip to France after his French counterpart, Franois Hollande, suggested Russia committed war crimes in Syria by supporting the bombing of Aleppo. The meeting was called off when the French government indicated that talks would be confined to Syria,
  
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• Morning Links: Jeffrey Uslip Edition

  11-10-2016 14:36 via artnews.com
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• Artistic Director

  11-10-2016 13:31
  The Centraal Museum Utrecht in the Netherlands is looking to hire an Artistic Director.
  Please note that, since Dutch is a prerequisite for the position, all information relating to this vacancy is in Dutch. Full details: http://centraalmuseum.nl/over/over-het-museum/vacatures/ 
  To apply: Marina Wijn Consultants, [email protected]  
  
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• International tour planned for Zaha Hadid exhibitions

  11-10-2016 11:42
  
  Exhibitions are planned in London and Rome to celebrate the life and work of Zaha Hadid in buildings that the late architect designed, while her archive is due to stay in London. Yesterday (10 October), friends and former colleagues gathered in St Pauls Cathedral in London for her memorial service, which Charles Saumarez Smith, the secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts, described as "impressively international".  Londons Serpentine Sackler Gallery, which is housed in a
  
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• Italian Kinetic Art from the 1960s — review

  11-10-2016 11:38
  The exhibition is at once witty and poignant, nostalgic and contemporary
  
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• Doug Moran portrait prize finalists for 2016 – in pictures

  11-10-2016 06:10
  
  The footballer Adam Goodes, the painter Rick Amor, the surfer Mick Fanning and cockroaches are just some of the portrait subjects in the 2016 Doug Moran national portrait prize. Here are all 30 finalists in contention for the $150,000 award, with the winner to be announced on 26 October Continue reading...
  
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• Paul McCarthy at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

  11-10-2016 02:45 via artnews.com
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