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• A Definitive Ranking of the Many Lounges at the Armory Show

  01-03-2017 22:05 via artnews.com
  6. Champagne Lounge Officially, this is called “Pommery Champagne Bar,” but it is for all intents and purposes a lounge. The people-watching may be strong, and it is centrally located, but this is just not that strong of a lounge. 5. … Read More
  
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• US mini-satellite could help to monitor destruction in Palmyra

  01-03-2017 22:00
  
  A super-small satellite, or cubesat, dedicated to cultural heritage could help a Boston-based non-profit organisation to monitor destruction by extremists in Syria, a Getty Research Institute panel on protecting the regions cultural heritage heard in February.
  The archaeologist Scott Branting of the University of Central Florida (UCF), who helps to direct the American Schools of Oriental Researchs Cultural Heritage Initiatives (ASOR CHI), said: We need to start thinking about the potential of p
  
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• Kusama’s eternal love, broken

  01-03-2017 22:00
  
  Has the selfie struck again? Last Saturday, 25 February, the most recent of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusamas infinity mirror room installations, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), on display at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC for the artists retrospective (until 14 May), sustained minor damage from a visitor. One of around 60 acrylic yellow and black dotted pumpkins in the installation was broken. The incident was not spotted by the guards, since o
  
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• Klimt helps Sotheby’s reach auction record in London

  01-03-2017 22:00
  
  Last night, Sothebys confirmed what had been established at Christies on Tuesdaythe art market looks and feels different from last year, and the number of top works on offer seems to be on the rise. When combining the results of the Impressionist and Modern and the auxiliary Surrealist sale, the 194.8m (with fees) reached at Sothebys last night is the highest-ever total fetched in a London evening auction.The star of the evening was Gustav Klimt, not only because the Austrian art
  
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• Female artists make their presence felt at ADAA Art Show

  01-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Art Show, the Art Dealers Association of Americas annual fair in the Park Avenue Armory, opened to VIPs and press on Tuesday (28 February) but it is fitting that the public opening fell on the first day of Womens History Month in March. Female artists have a strong showing in the fair, with a number of dealers dedicating their booths to works by women.
   
  P.P.O.W.s entire stand is given over to the work of the feminist artist Betty Tompkins, including examples of her Cow Cunt serie
  
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• Damian Loeb’s starry skies

  01-03-2017 22:00
  
  Need to put things into a cosmic perspective? Head to Acquavella Galleries in New York for Damian Loebs solo exhibition, Sgr A*after Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our galaxywhich opens tonight, 2 March (until 4 April). The show features a dozen new oil on linen works based on the artists digital photographs of the skies and astronomical phenomena, including the bright green swirl of the Aurora Borealis, caught on a plane ride over the Dakotas, and the depths of the Milky Way.
  
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• All you need is LOVE (and a good conservator)

  01-03-2017 22:00
  
  Eagle-eyed visitors to the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) have no doubt noticed that one of gallerys most prized works, Robert Indianas LOVE (1970), is not in its usual location. The sculpture, which is the original version of the artists popular series, was removed from its home on the mall outside the museum in January to undergo much-needed conservation work.
  Decades of exposure to the elements have taken their toll, with water infiltration being the main preservation issue. The sculpture
  
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• Klimt sells for £48m as auction houses hope the good times return

  01-03-2017 21:41
  
  After Christie’s sells £137m of art on Tuesday, Sotheby’s looks to better £186.5m record for evening sale held in LondonA gorgeous, glad-to-be-alive flower garden scene by Gustav Klimt has sold for £48m, the highlight of London art sales regarded as a litmus test for the strength of the market.After a difficult 2016, the auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s are both desperate for a return to what was a booming market in 2015. Continue reading...
  
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• Klimt sells for £48m as auction houses hope the good times are back

  01-03-2017 21:41
  
  After a difficult 2016, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are desperate for a return to what was a booming market in 2015A dazzling, glad-to-be-alive Klimt painting of poppies, daisies, roses and zinnia has sold for £48m in London, and you could almost hear the relief of the auction houses that sell to the super-wealthy. The good times appear to be back.The Klimt garden scene is the standard bearer for a fortnight of top-end art sales being held by Sotheby’s and Christie’s.
  
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• A Florine Stettheimer Painting Makes a Rare Appearance at the Armory Show

  01-03-2017 21:08 via artnews.com
  The outside of New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch’s booth at the Armory Show is bright lime green, glorious cellophane curtains are parted at its entrance, and, inside, its potent buttercream pink walls are filled with paintings.This morning, that effervescently colored space was … Read More
  
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• Giant Yayoi Kusama at the Armory Began as a Sketch on a Napkin That She Faxed Over

  01-03-2017 20:34 via artnews.com
  During the press conference for the Armory Show, abut 30 minutes before the fair opened to VIPs, its director, Ben Genocchio, was addressing the press corps in the VIP Lounge. There were “bespoke culinary offerings” on offer, although the cloudy weather … Read More
  
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• Horsing Around: Patricia Cronin Presents ‘Tack Room’ at the Armory Show

  01-03-2017 19:59 via artnews.com
  After exiting the elevator and walking past one of the fair’s many V.I.P. lounges (this one presented by the German furniture designer Rolf Benz, for those keeping score), the first piece of art I encountered at the Pier 92 section … Read More
  
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• Pace Now Represents the Estate of Tony Smith

  01-03-2017 19:42 via artnews.com
  A bit of non-Armory Show-related news came out of Pier 94 this morning: Pace Gallery will now represent the estate of Tony Smith, the hugely important 20th-century American sculptor known for his massive minimalist creations. Previously, the artist’s estate was … Read More
  
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• At the Armory Show, Artists Urge Visitors to Resist, Protest, and Remember

  01-03-2017 19:28 via artnews.com
  Art fairs are often associated with abstract painting (much of it looking the same), stunt pieces (almost instantly forgettable), and neon sculptures (brightly and, in many cases, annoying), but, at this year’s Armory Show in New York, some galleries had on offer … Read More
  
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• De Stijl turns 100 – but still cannot touch the greats of abstract act

  01-03-2017 17:41
  
  Piet Mondrian and the rest of the De Stijl movement were admirable idealists, but their work is constipated compared with the wild moods of their American peersModern art centenaries are piling up. There are (at least) three big ones this year: the Russian revolution with its impact on the avant garde, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, and the Dutch art and design movement De Stijl, founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg in 1917.De Stijl is the most colourful – if you like red, yell
  
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• A History of Violence: Jordan Wolfson on His Shocking Foray into VR at the Whitney Biennial

  01-03-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  A cataloguing of violence in art might begin with Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s teeming battle scene, The Triumph of Death, and continue on to Caravaggio’s Grand Guignol Judith Beheading Holofernes. From there, you see Peter Paul Rubens’s Massacre of the … Read More
  
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• Armory Show’s Focus Section Goes for a Global Perspective, Politics and All

  01-03-2017 16:15 via artnews.com
  Past years at the Armory Show have included Focus sections specific to various geographical areas—inviting artists from Africa in 2016 and galleries from Nordic countries in 2012, to name two examples. But, in a shift from the last few fairs, the … Read More
  
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• Photos from the 2017 ADAA Art Show

  01-03-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  The 29th edition of the Art Show, organized annually by the Art Dealers Association of America, opened to VIPs and members of the press on Tuesday, February 28. Below, scenes of some of the artwork and action around the fair, … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: 74 Percent Loss Edition

  01-03-2017 15:11 via artnews.com
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• Former Met curator speaks candidly about the New York museum's current challenges

  01-03-2017 13:00
  George Goldner, who led the Metropolitan Museum of Arts department of prints and drawings for 21 years, spoke to us about how the museum has changed, and offered his candid opinions on its current challenges. We spoke with him earlier this month, several weeks before the Met's director, Thomas Campbell, announced his resignation on 28 February. During his tenure, Goldner made 8,200 acquisitions, by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Hans Christian Andersen. He retired in 2015 and served as a con
  
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• Ancient bronze statuette lost after the Second World War returns to Berlin

  01-03-2017 11:53
  
  A valuable Etruscan bronze statuette portraying a warrior with lance and helmet has returned to Berlins state museums more than 70 years after it disappeared.Dating from the late sixth or early fifth century BC, the statuette entered Berlins state collection in 1860 and was housed for decades in a hall filled with ancient bronzes in the Altes Museum on the citys Museum Island. In 1939, it was sent into storage to protect it from bomb damage and vanished without a trace. It is likely that it was
  
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• Picasso and Klimt top the bill as auction houses hope good times of 2015 return

  01-03-2017 08:00
  
  Sotheby’s and Christie’s hope evening auction of impressionist, modern and surrealist work will raise £200m after a lean 2016 on the auction frontFor sale: a gorgeous, glad-to-be-alive Klimt garden scene estimated in excess of £36m and a £15m Picasso painting of the tomato plant that grew on his windowsill during the Nazi occupation of Paris. More affordable might be a winter landscape by Alfred Sisley that is considered one of his finest. A snip at £6m-£
  
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• Artists Old and New Fly Off the Walls at the ADAA Art Show Opening, as Armory Week Begins in New York

  01-03-2017 02:23 via artnews.com
  Armory Week sees a dozen fairs pop up all across New York, and it always kicks off with a bang: the ADAA Art Show’s opening gala. It’s a tony, booze-soaked, evening-wear affair at the Park Avenue Armory that sees besuited … Read More
  
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• Armory Week in New York Begins With the ADAA Art Show, as Artists Old and New Fly Off the Walls

  01-03-2017 02:23 via artnews.com
  Armory Week sees a dozen fairs pop up all across New York, and it always kicks off with a bang: the ADAA Art Show’s opening gala. It’s a tony, booze-soaked, evening-wear affair at the Park Avenue Armory that sees besuited … Read More
  
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