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• Preview NADA 2016

  03-05-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition of NADA New York, put on annually by the New Art Dealers Alliance, opens to the public on the evening of Thursday, May 4, with a preview earlier in the day. The fair, which returns to Pier … Read More
  
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• Michael Joo Looks Back On His Career, With Another Venice Biennale Appearance on the Horizon

  10-03-2026 18:02 via artnews.com
  On a recent quiet, cloudy afternoon in Tribeca, artist Michael Joo and I crouched beside a tower of aluminum baking trays. The towers covered a whole section of Space ZeroOne, the Hanwha Foundation of Culture’s new institutional initiative. The gallery was otherwise empty. Joo moved slowly between the columns of trays, occasionally bending down to peer into one, or pointing to the glass walls between stacks that turned the towers into makeshift vitrines, remembering where he had picked up
  
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• The US Art Market Is Stabilizing—but It’s a Different Market Now, Per New Bank of America Report

  10-03-2026 17:33 via artnews.com
  The US art market showed signs of life in 2025. Auction sales rose 23 percent from the previous year to about $3.17 billion, according to a new report from Bank of America and the analytics firm ArtTactic. But the rebound did not come from a surge in demand. Instead, it was driven largely by major estate consignments, renewed interest in well-known historical artists, and an auction system increasingly supported by financial guarantees. Yes, the market appears to be stabilizing, but in
  
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• $45 M. Basquiat Painting, ‘A Storied Masterpiece,’ Heads to Auction at Sotheby’s

  10-03-2026 16:09 via artnews.com
  A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will head to auction at Sotheby’s this May with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house announced on Monday, poising it to become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever to hit the block.The painting, titled Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) and dated to 1983, last sold at auction in 2013, when it was featured in a Christie’s sale in London. It was purchased by an unnamed buyer for $14.6 million; the painting&rsquo
  
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• Alma Allen, Artist Representing US at 2026 Venice Biennale, Joins Perrotin

  10-03-2026 15:54 via artnews.com
  Alma Allen, the sculptor chosen to represent the United States at this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale, has joined Galerie Perrotin, a blue-chip French gallery with locations in Paris, London, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Los Angeles.As ARTnews’s Maximilíano Durón and Sarah Douglas reported upon Allen’s selection in November, the artist was born in 1970, but has been based since 2017 in Tepoztlán, a town just outside of Cuerna
  
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• UK Government Slaps Export Ban on Howard Hodgkin Work After Bonhams Sold It for Record £1.7 M.

  10-03-2026 14:34 via artnews.com
  British officials are trying to keep a major painting by the late London-born artist Howard Hodgkin from leaving the UK. Last week, the country’s Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) placed an export ban on Mrs Acton in Delhi (1967-71), giving a British museum or gallery the chance to buy it instead. The move comes after the work sold at Bonhams in London last October for £1.7 million (about $2.3 million), setting a new auction record for Hodgkin.He began the painting just
  
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• Mary, Queen of Scots’ Final Letter on View, French Artist Adds Armor to Dalida Sculpture: Morning Links for March 10, 2026

  10-03-2026 14:04 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesDON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD. The final letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots before her execution in 1587 is now on public display in Scotland for the first time in 30 years at Perth Museum, where it will remain on view until April 26, reports the Washington Post. Mary composed the four-page, hand-quilled letter to her brother-in-law, Henry III o
  
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• Laura Phipps Named Director of Gochman Family Collection, Which Is Opening a New Exhibition Space in Katonah, N.Y., in Fall 2026

  10-03-2026 13:00 via artnews.com
  Laura Phipps is the new director of the Gochman Family Collection, a New York-based private collection dedicated mostly, though not exclusively, to contemporary Indigenous art. She fills a role most recently held by Zach Feuer, who founded Forge Project with Becky Gochman in 2021, and currently serves as one of the collection’s five curatorial consultants.Phipps joins the GFC after nearly two decades at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She started there as an intern in 2009, and by the
  
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• Laura Phipps Named Director of Gochman Family Collection Ahead of New Space’s Opening

  10-03-2026 13:00 via artnews.com
  Laura Phipps is the new director of the Gochman Family Collection, a New York-based private collection dedicated mostly, though not exclusively, to contemporary Indigenous art. She fills a role most recently held by Zach Feuer, who founded Forge Project with Becky Gochman in 2021, and currently serves as one of the collection’s five curatorial consultants.Phipps joins the GFC after nearly two decades at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She started there as an intern in 2009, and by the
  
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• 1,000-Year-Old Tomb in Panama Reveals Riches and Victims of Sacrifice

  09-03-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  A newly exhumed tomb in central Panama has revealed stores of riches as well as signs of human sacrifice.As reported by ZME Science, scientists working at the 1,000-year-old burial chamber known at Tomb 3 in El Caño Archaeological Park found stashes of gold as well as remains of a central buried figure surrounded by others who were likely sacrificed. “Besides the remains, the ‘Lord of Tomb 3’ lay swaddled in a fortune of gold, including massive gold pectorals, gold earri
  
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• Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years

  09-03-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution.Last week, the Met posted a job posting for a researcher who would work on a retrospective for Cy Twombly due to open in 2029. “Cy Twombly will be a retrospective exhibition of the artist comprising paintings, sculptures and drawings,” the li
  
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• Legal Conflict Between Art-Dealing Brothers Escalates Into Competing Assault Accusations

  09-03-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  A legal conflict between two art-dealing New York brothers over the names of their respective businesses has escalated from accusations of breach of contract to allegations of physical assault. An October 21, 2025 complaint filed by Harry Hutchison against Projjal Dutta and Aicon Contemporary says that on April 11, Hutchison was at work on the second floor at 35 Great Jones Street in New York when he was “accosted” by Dutta. “He was assaulted, beaten, and battered” b
  
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• 60 Percent of Sudan National Museum’s Holdings Have Been Looted, Officials Say

  09-03-2026 22:07 via artnews.com
  In September 2024, officials reported that the National Museum of Sudan in the country’s capital city, Khartoum, had been subjected to looting by members of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during Sudan’s ongoing civil war. Now, museum officials have made public the extent of that looting.“More than 60% of the museum’s holdings were looted,” said Ghalia Jar Al-Nabi, the Sudanese director of the General Authority for Antiquities and Museums, according to a rep
  
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• Iranian Media Reports Damage to Chehel Sotoun, a UNESCO-Listed Palace

  09-03-2026 21:17 via artnews.com
  Chehel Sotoun, part of a UNESCO World Heritage landmark in the Iranian city of Isfahan, was damaged following airstrikes in the area, according to Iranian state media. The report comes one week after Golestan Palace in Tehran suffered significant damage from aerial bombardment linked to US-Israeli strikes on Iran. A roughly minute-long video posted to X by Iranian state media appears to show doors blasted open. The grand windows of the 17th-century Chehel Sotou
  
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• Ancient Egyptians Used Correction Fluid to Fix Errors on Papyri, Researchers Discover

  09-03-2026 19:04 via artnews.com
  The ancient Egyptians used an early version of correction fluid to fix errors on artworks and documents, researchers have found. The news was first reported by the Times of London.While readying a 3,300-year-old papyrus for the exhibition “Made in Ancient Egypt” at the Fitzwilliam Museum in England, museum staff noticed that a painted figure of a jackal had been altered to make it appear slimmer.The jackal is part of a scene from a copy of the Book of the Dead—a scroll made to
  
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• Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show

  09-03-2026 19:01 via artnews.com
  Jonas Wood has been watching sports his whole life, and the habit has followed him into the studio. “I played tons of sports when I was a kid and I was obsessed with following them,” Wood said, speaking with me by Zoom from his Los Angeles studio. “I used to read the entire sports section in the Boston Globe, all the stats and everything.” When he got out of grad school, Wood wanted to practice portraiture, but was “kind of exhausted trying to find persona
  
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• Decades in the Making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné to Release Next Month

  09-03-2026 18:48 via artnews.com
  After over 40 years in the making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné will finally release next month. Pace will host a book launch at its London gallery on April 21, with a day-long symposium to follow on April 30 at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street space in New York.To say the publication is a labor of love for Marc Restellini, Modigliani scholar and founder of the Institut, would be an understatement. At six volumes and over 2,000 pages, with 100 wor
  
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• Lucy Raven’s Latest Film Captures a Dramatic Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest

  09-03-2026 17:54 via artnews.com
  Lucy Raven’s film work Murderers Bar (2025) captures the removal of a dam in the Pacific Northwest and the dramatic release of water that takes the form of a newly born river as it rushes from Oregon through Northern California on its way to the Pacific Ocean. The 42-minute piece is the final part of a trilogy titled “The Drumfire,” which also includes the 2021 film Ready Mix, a meditation on processes involved in making concrete at a plant in Idaho, and the 2022 films Demoliti
  
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• Works by Es Devlin, Brian Eno, and Nan Goldin to Be Auctioned to Support Palestinian Aid

  09-03-2026 17:38 via artnews.com
  Works by artists including Es Devlin, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, and Grayson Perry will be auctioned in London later this month to raise funds for humanitarian aid supporting Palestinians.The sale, organized by Choose Love, Gideon Berger Studio, Hope 93 Gallery, and art dealer Zayna Al-Saleh, will benefit the Together For Palestine Fund, which supports Palestinian-led humanitarian organizations, according to the National.The initiative follows the Togethe
  
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• Venice Biennale Faces Mass Outcry Over Return of Russian Pavilion: ‘Normalizing What Cannot Be Normalized’

  09-03-2026 16:56 via artnews.com
  The forthcoming Venice Biennale will see the first Russian Pavilion since the onset of the nation’s war in Ukraine in 2022, and few outside Russia seem happy about it.Ukraine itself issued a blistering statement about the pavilion this weekend, calling for the Biennale to exclude Russia this time around. “The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s most authoritative art platforms,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha wrote in a statement posted to social media, &ldquo
  
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Deputy Director and Chief Curator Leaves in Latest Departure

  09-03-2026 16:56 via artnews.com
  Art Gallery of Ontario deputy director and chief curator Julian Cox will leave his post this April after eight years in the role, marking the latest departure at the Toronto museum since it became embroiled in a controversy over a failed plan to acquire a work by Nan Goldin.It was not clear whether Cox’s departure was in any way related to the Goldin controversy, which stemmed from a decision not to add a recent work to the collection following her comments on Israel’s war in Gaza. A
  
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• UK TV Hosts Ant and Dec Seek Court Order to Trace Alleged ‘Secret Profits’ in Banksy Print Deals

  09-03-2026 16:38 via artnews.com
  British television presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly—better known as Ant and Dec—have secured a court order requiring an art dealer to disclose details of transactions involving Banksy prints in their collection, as the pair attempts to determine whether an intermediary made undisclosed profits from the deals.According to the BBC, a High Court judge ruled on March 4 that there is a “good arguable case” that wrongdoing may have occurred in transactions
  
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• This LA Exhibition of Julia Stoschek’s Video Art Collection Is the City’s Hottest Ticket 

  09-03-2026 15:42 via artnews.com
  “No white cubes! No black boxes!” That’s Udo Kittelmann speaking during a tour of “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a presentation he organized at the disused Venetian-style Variety Arts Theater, a six-story Los Angeles palace. On view are selections from the holdings of Julia Stoschek, an ARTnews Top 200 collector who primarily focuses on time-based media. Spaces from grand theaters to dingy basements, shadowy bathrooms to dusty hallways host 45 artwor
  
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• Inside the UK Companies House Filings for Stephen Friedman and More: Morning Links for March 9, 2026

  09-03-2026 14:24 via artnews.com
  Thaddeus Mosley, sculptor of salvaged wood, has died at 99 in Pennsylvania.A look at the latest Companies House filings in the UK reveal a mixed picture of the market for many of the world’s biggest galleries and auction houses.DOGE used ChatGPT to decide what NEH grants to cut, alleges a lawsuit.The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley died in Pennsylvania on Friday at 99, reports ARTnews . Mosley’s abstract sculptures of salvaged wood were “slee
  
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• Icelandic Pavilion at Venice Biennale to Present Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir’s “Pocket Universe”

  09-03-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  The Icelandic Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale will feature Pocket Universe, a new multidisciplinary project by the artist, poet, composer, and filmmaker Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir.Curated by Margrét Áskelsdóttir with Unnar Örn, the exhibition will be on view from May 9 through November 22, 2026, at Docks Cantieri Cucchini in Venice’s San Pietro di Castello district, a former shipyard located between the Biennale’s Giardin
  
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• The Best Actor Race Is Weirdly Up For Grabs

  08-03-2026 21:00 via vulture.com
  “‘When there’s not unanimity in the lead acting races, it can get really weird.’ In that situation, voters stop gaming out front-runners and simply vote for their guy. Which means that truly anything can happen.” – Vulture
  
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• Romance And Romantasy Fans Are Driving A Potential Literary Shift

  08-03-2026 20:30 via slate.com
  “Readers’ increasingly vocal partiality for first-person perspective over third person amounts to a profound shift in taste. Even while publishing is in dire straits elsewhere, the romance genre is in the midst of an unprecedented boom period.” – Slate
  
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• Amazon Tried To Sponsor A Book Festival In France, And That Went About As Well As You Might Expect

  08-03-2026 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Many – most, even – of France’s booksellers pulled out of . Then the organizers got Amazon to “mutually agree” to end its sponsorship. Who thought this was a good idea in the first place? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• It’s Such A Brutal Time For Both Theatre And Arts Journalism

  08-03-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  So what’s an NYT theatre critic to do? “There are so many things beyond our control … but somewhere amid all the hubbub, someone is making something, and you need to pay attention.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Man In Charge Of Pixar Cuts Any Content He Sees As Therapy

  08-03-2026 19:00 via msn.com
  Especially if that content is, you know, gay. Surely that will fix the fabled studio! – Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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