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• Traveling Exhibition and Brooklyn Museum Fete to Honor Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of African-Diasporan Art

  07-03-2017 23:32 via artnews.com
  Spanning several decades’ worth of epochal African-American and African-diasporan art, including work by Norman Lewis, Jack Whitten, Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Theaster Gates, Lorna Simpson, Julie Mehretu, Kevin Beasley, and more, the collection of Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. … Read More
  
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• Traveling Exhibition and Brooklyn Museum Fete to Honor Joyner Giuffrida Collection of African-Diasporan Art

  07-03-2017 23:32 via artnews.com
  Spanning several decades’ worth of epochal African-American and African-diasporan art, including work by Norman Lewis, Jack Whitten, Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Theaster Gates, Lorna Simpson, Julie Mehretu, Kevin Beasley, and more, the collection of Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. … Read More
  
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• Christie’s Nets $117.7 M. in Solid London Postwar Sale, Setting Records for Oehlen, Crosby, Tillmans

  07-03-2017 23:07 via artnews.com
  The postwar and contemporary auctions in London kicked off tonight with a strong showing at Christie’s King Street salesroom, where its evening sale managed a £96.3 million haul ($117.7 million), with a solid sell-through rate of 95 percent, with only three lots passed over. That total … Read More
  
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• ‘Magritte: The Treachery of Images’ at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

  07-03-2017 22:39 via artnews.com
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• What do ivory bans, Asia and Google have in common?

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS
  The finest Italian Renaissance drawings belong to its three 15th- to 16th-century giantsLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Drawing was indispensable to the art of this time, and just as humankind became the centre of everything, says Julian Brooks, the senior curator and head of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, one of the worlds most acquisitive museums, including in this area. Driving the genre, Brooks notes, was the greater availabili
  
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• Saudi artist Abdulnasser Gharem to have first solo US show at Lacma

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Saudi Arabian artist Abdulnasser Gharem will open his first US solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) next month. The artist, who was until recently also a lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army, is known for his politically and socially engaged works that draw on his Muslim heritage. Abdulnasser Gharem: Pause (16 April-2 July) includes 11 works of sculpture, prints and film, all of which were created after a significant moment for the artist, when he says the world
  
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• How American museums are celebrating Women's History Month

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  Don your pink pussy hat and celebrate Women's History Month at one of these museums around the countryor tune in to the celebrations online.You can help re-write women into history on 11 March, when more than 80 institutions across the USincluding the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA Boston) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MOCAD)and hundreds more worldwide host the fourth annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, a collaborati
  
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• Dame Marina Warner hosts a Bloomsbury bash to support single parent families

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  What better way to spend the eve of International Womans Day than with Dame Marina Warnerthe eminent writer, scholar and chronicler of mythswho was hosting an evening in support of Gingerbread, Britains only charity for single parents which celebrates its centenary next year. It was especially appropriate that the event took place in The Keynes Library at 46 Gordon Square, now owned by the University of Londons Birkbeck School of Arts, which was where the motherless Vanessa and Virginia Stephen
  
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• Christie’s sale injects confidence into contemporary art auction market

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  The contemporary art auction market received a much-needed shot in the arm at Christies last night. In large part due to well-pitched estimates, the auction house achieved 82.2m or 96.4m with fees (est 67.6m-101.6m), up 65% on last years total. Of the 56 lots offered, 35.7% went above high estimate and 44.6% sold within estimate. Only three works went unsold.The market is back this year, Francis Outred, Christie's head of post-war and contemporary art in Europe, said after the sale. There
  
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• Behind closed doors, private sales prosper

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  Auction houses, reckoning with weak sale totals in 2016 and facing continued uncertainty in 2017, are beefing up their private sales services, seeing it not only as a way to pad the bottom line in lean times but also as an increasingly necessary tool in their business-getting arsenal.
  Sothebys announced in February that it had hired David Schrader, a managing director at JPMorgan Chase, as head of private sales for contemporary art. In a statement, Amy Cappellazzo, chair of Sothebys Fine Art Di
  
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• Art adviser ordered to pay $1m she made in private sale of Basquiat painting

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  In a cautionary court ruling for art advisers, Lisa Jacobs has been ordered to pay Michael Schulhof, the former president of Sony Corp of America, the $1m she made from the sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting Future Sciences Versus the Man (1983). In a 27 February decision in New York Supreme Court, Judge Charles Ramos ruled that Jacobs had committed fraud and breached a contract that set her fee at $50,000. Jacobs is appealing the decision.
  According to the decision, Jacobs worked as a cur
  
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• Antwerp's Axel Vervoordt Gallery opens “art village” in former distillery

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Axel Vervoordt Gallery opens its new flagship space in a 19th-century distillery on the outskirts of Antwerp today, 8 March. The Kanaal gallery is in a mixed-use cultural and residential complexa city in the country as it is described on its websitethat the Axel Vervoordt Company has spent the past five years renovating.
  A desire for more space was one motive for the expansion out of central Antwerp, says Boris Vervoordt, who oversees the arts and antiques division of his father Axels compa
  
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• Antwerp dealer Axel Vervoordt opens “art village” in former distillery

  07-03-2017 22:00
  
  The Axel Vervoordt Gallery opens its new flagship space in a 19th-century distillery on the outskirts of Antwerp today, 8 March. The Kanaal gallery is in a mixed-use cultural and residential complexor a city in the country as the gallerys founder Boris Vervoordt describes itthat the Axel Vervoordt Company has spent the past five years renovating.
  A desire for more space was one motive for the expansion out of central Antwerp, says Vervoordt, who oversees the arts and antiques division of his fa
  
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• Performa 17 Announces Commissions, Focus on the Legacy of Dada

  07-03-2017 20:52 via artnews.com
  Though Dada began 101 years ago, it continues to inspires artists today, and so, for its 2017 edition, Performa will focus on the legacy of the art movement. Titled “100 Degrees Above Dada,” in reference to a similarly named show that … Read More
  
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• Documenta 14 Will Host Works From Greece’s National Museum of Contemporary Art in Kassel

  07-03-2017 19:02 via artnews.com
  One month out from the opening of Documenta 14 in Athens, much of the quinquennial’s program remains shrouded in secrecy. However, at a press conference today in Kassel, Germany, its organizers said that they planned to host works from Greece’s … Read More
  
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• Pop art's American dream is over – and a zombie culture has begun

  07-03-2017 18:20
  
  The British Museum’s latest show brings together great pop and abstract expressionist images from the US. In the age of Trump, they seem like relics from a lost civilisationThe ruins of a lost civilisation are unveiled in the British Museum’s latest blockbuster. It fills the same huge gallery that recently housed colossal Egyptian statues and has previously displayed the wreckage of a Viking ship. The world it uncovers feels just as vanished and remote, yet the archaeological fragmen
  
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• Nazi art theft: Germany helps Jewish collector's heirs hunt stolen works

  07-03-2017 17:09
  
  Ancestors of Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse working with state-funded experts to try to recover thousands of lost piecesThe American heirs of a German-Jewish family have launched an unprecedented partnership with German state institutions to try to recover a vast art collection stolen by the Nazis.Ancestors of the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse will work alongside government-funded provenance researchers to seek information from leading art institutions and private collectors about what happened t
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Basically Saved’ the Auctions Edition

  07-03-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Iraqi troops in push to recapture old city of Mosul

  07-03-2017 11:40
  
  Iraqi government troops are marching into the old city of Mosul, with Islamic State (Isil) forces on the verge of retreat. There are growing fears for the safety of the 750,000 civilians in western Mosul caught up in crossfire, as well as concerns about the fate of historic buildings.
   
  Isil forces seized Mosul in October 2014. The following February, Isil extremists destroyed dozens of important antiquities in the Mosul Museum. A few days later, militants targeted the site of Nineveh, in
  
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• Disowning Ivanka: The Art World Stares Down the First Daughter

  07-03-2017 10:00 via artnews.com
  A look into the past and present of Ivanka Trump's presence in the art world—and how artists and observers have responded to her father's presidential rise. Read More
  
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• Remake remodel: the art of appropriation – in pictures

  07-03-2017 08:00
  
  By reusing images made by others, photographers can create unsettling new moods – and give back power to women Continue reading...
  
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