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• Superflex's triplicate treat

  16-06-2017 16:11
  
  The Danish artists collective Superflex are a bunch of japesters (their Investment Bank Flowerpots on show in the Aros Triennial in Aarhus serve, for instance, as containers for hallucinogenic plants). A piece available with von Bartha gallery at Art Basel (until 18 June) is another example of their canny creativity. If Value Then Copy (2017) is a triptych emblazoned with the aforementioned text, available at CHF65,000 for the original trio. Each of the works will be copied ten times,
  
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• Jeff Koons Prevails in Appeal Over Copyright Challenge to ‘Made in Heaven’ Series

  22-07-2026 22:28 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Jeff Koons has once again prevailed in a legal challenge, as a New York federal appeals court affirmed that a copyright lawsuit filed against him by artist Michael Hayden was brought too late.According to court documents filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit was dismissed for the second time on procedural grounds: Hayden waited until 2021 to file suit, which sought to assert copyright over a set piece Hayden had created that appears in a 1
  
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• The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Reopens, This Time Without Any Crown Jewels

  22-07-2026 21:34 via artnews.com
  
  The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime heist took less than eight minutes, during which time thieves, disguised as construction workers, used a monte-meubles, or a moving exterior staircase, to break into the Apollo Gallery. Once inside, they quickly absconded with nine bejeweled objects, including a tiara, a necklace, earrings, and a brooch. On
  
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• If Dealers Want to Sell an Artwork to a Museum, They May Have to Find the Buyer Themselves

  22-07-2026 20:55 via artnews.com
  
  Art dealer Sonia Dutton was at her gallery on the Lower East Side last fall, where “Night Drawing,” Boston artist Rose deSmith Greenman’s debut New York exhibition, was on view. The untrained artist began drawing only in her seventies, but her still lifes, often made after dark with humble materials like everyday markers and ballpoint pen, bristle with energy. In came a museum curator who expressed enthusiasm about the show, and even interest in acquiring a piece. But that
  
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• Archaeologists Open Three New Kingdom Tombs at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis

  22-07-2026 20:36 via artnews.com
  
  An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three rock-cut tombs dating to Egypt’s New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara. The news was first reported by Ahram Online.Located 40 km southwest of Cairo, Saqqara was an important cemetery of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. In the second half of the 18th Dynasty (1550—1292 BCE), high-ranking city dignitaries created tombs for themselves in the limestone cliffs at Bubasteion.Hi
  
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• After $75 M. Gift, Shuttered California College of the Arts to Become School Named for Silicon Valley Billionaire

  22-07-2026 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  In January, the Bay Area’s California College of the Arts announced that it would close in 2027 after selling its two campuses to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. Now, Vanderbilt has revealed that its San Francisco campus will open next year as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named in recognition of a $75 million donation from Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang and his wife, Lori Huang.“Technology expands what we can build.
  
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• Getty Names Final Round of Grantees for Initiative Focused on Preserving Black Architects’ Work 

  22-07-2026 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced the final cohort of grantees for the Conserving Black Modernism initiative, which focuses on preserving the work of Black architects.  This year’s grantees range, which each receive $150,000 for a total of $750,000 for the cohort from an urban park to a shopping mall. The funding will primarily be used to support historic structures report for the buildings that will
  
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• Gagosian to Stage Major René Magritte Exhibition During Frieze London

  22-07-2026 19:30 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian will present a major exhibition devoted to René Magritte and his influence on contemporary art this fall, bringing together museum and private loans alongside newly commissioned works by living artists in London during Frieze week.Opening September 24 at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill space, “This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte” will feature paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and photography spanning the Belgian Surrealist’s care
  
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• Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton Glass Desk Sells for $243,200, Setting Auction Record for His Design Work

  22-07-2026 18:07 via artnews.com
  
  A monumental desk designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry sold for $243,200 at Freeman’s in Chicago last week, according to Artnet News. The figure is more than ten times its $20,000 high estimate and sets a new auction record for one of Gehry’s design objects. Known as Icehenge, the sprawling 16-piece work was created in 2012 for the lobby of Chicago’s landmark Inland Steel Building, where Gehry oversaw a renovation after acquiring a s
  
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• Check Out Refik Anadol’s AI-Powered Light and Sound Projection on the Smithsonian’s Iconic ‘Castle’ Building

  22-07-2026 18:06 via artnews.com
  
  During a brief pause in a years-long renovation that began in 2023, the Smithsonian’s iconic red sandstone Castle hosted an immersive light and sound installation by Refik Anadol. The project, Smithsonian Dreams, was projected onto the façade of the building for two hours, starting at 9 PM, on Friday and Saturday evenings last week.A Smithsonian spokesperson estimates that approx. 20,000 visitors settled onto the mall over the course of both nights to experience the multisensory pro
  
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• Louvre Reopens Apollo Gallery, Jessica Morgan to the Tate, and More: Morning Links for July 22, 2026

  22-07-2026 16:23 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Jessica Morgan has been named director of the Tate museum network.The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery has reopened nine months after the infamous crown jewels heist exposed major security weaknesses.British artist Lucy Sparrow’s first US museum exhibition has transformed a 1980s supermarket into a felt-filled wonderland.The Headlines COMING HOME. After more than a decade building a more expansive and globally minded Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan is returning&
  
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• At The Momentary, Lucy Sparrow Transforms a Supermarket into a Felt Wonderland

  22-07-2026 16:07 via artnews.com
  
  The UK-based artist Lucy Sparrow is known for transforming seemingly ordinary spaces—supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, to name a few—into felt wonderlands, celebrated both for their tempting tactility and their technicolor allusions to childhood. What began as a nascent fascination with the material’s ease of use soon grew into a fine art practice, one that asks viewers to see the humdrum artifacts of daily life in a new, playful way.She first found success in 2014, with t
  
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• Jessica Morgan Named Top Director at Tate, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade

  22-07-2026 14:29 via artnews.com
  
  After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027.In that new role, she will oversee one of England’s most important art institutions. Tate facilitates two major London museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain—as well as institutions in Liverpool and St. Ives.She fills a role left vacant by Maria Balshaw, who departed Tate at the end of 2025, during a period of
  
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• Jessica Morgan Heads to Tate as Director, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade

  22-07-2026 14:29 via artnews.com
  
  After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027.In that new role, she will oversee one of England’s most important art institutions. Tate facilitates two major London museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain—as well as institutions in Liverpool and St. Ives.She fills a role left vacant by Maria Balshaw, who departed Tate at the end of 2025, during a period of
  
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• The Online Backlash to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Misses the Point of the Epic Poem

  22-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Months before Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hit theaters, many on the internet had seemingly already reached a conclusion. The armor was wrong. Agamemnon’s black, plasticky helmet looked, one widely shared post complained, was like something out of a Batman movie. Odysseus’s ship was a Norse longship, from the wrong civilization and the wrong era. Most of the costumes belonged to the classical period, a good thousand years after the Bronze Age world the poem supposedly descr
  
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• In Venice and Shanghai, Wallace Chan Presents a Vision of Buddhist Maximalism

  22-07-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In the 1990s, the Hong Kong–based artist Wallace Chan purged all his earthly possessions to live as a Buddhist monk for six months. But since then, he has swapped austerity for exuberance, channeling his spirituality into glittering works of art. After studying metal intently for eight years, he found himself pioneering new techniques in titanium. And for his two-venue summer show, “Vessels of Other Worlds”—on view both in Venice at the Pietà Chapel and in Shanghai
  
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• At the Art + Tech Summit, Christie’s Pins Its Future on AI Billionaires Who Aren’t Buying Art… Yet

  22-07-2026 00:09 via artnews.com
  
  “We are in a historic moment in wealth creation,” said CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank at the keynote presentation of the 2026 edition of the Christie’s Art + Tech Summit last week, alongside Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan and Michael Anders, founder of the investment firm ICONIQ Capital. Frank was referring to the riches being created as big AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX go public. These initial public offerings are projected to create 20 new billionai
  
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• Trump Installs New Thomas Jefferson Bronze Sculpture in White House Rose Garden

  21-07-2026 22:43 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, President Trump installed a new, life-size bronze sculpture of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden, making it the fifth statue he has added to the White House grounds during his second administration, the Washington Post reports.The piece is another example of Trump-led efforts to install realistic statues around the country of America’s Founding Fathers in particular, partly in reaction to damage done to Confederate monuments and statues of other figures with divisive contribut
  
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• Katie Holmes Has a New Boyfriend—And He Is an Artist

  21-07-2026 22:37 via artnews.com
  
  Life imitates art, sort of. Katie Holmes plays a New York–based photographer reconnecting with her high school flame in Happy Hours, a new film Holmes also wrote and directed. Happy Hours premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 6, and, according to TMZ, it was at a dinner related to the festival that Holmes met her new boyfriend, New York–based artist Jason Bard Yarmosky.Yarmosky was one of the 10 artists who participated in the 2026 Tribeca Festival Artist Awards Program, an
  
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• ‘Do You Love America?’: Smithsonian Museum Leader Grilled Over Gender, Diversity, Patriotism at Congressional Hearing

  21-07-2026 22:01 via artnews.com
  
  “Dr. Hartig, are you America first? Do you love America?” So asked Representative Tim Burchett (Republican of Tennessee) of Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH), during a two-hour congressional hearing Tuesday over allegations that the institution has failed in its duty to preserve and present the nation’s story.The hearing will likely carve out its own place in American history—not merely for the spectacle of the p
  
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• Long-Lost Artworks by Chilean Muralist Julio Escámez Are Slowly Being Uncovered and Restored

  21-07-2026 21:51 via artnews.com
  
  Two 1970s murals by Chilean artist Julio Escámez, long thought to have been destroyed by Augusto Pinochet’s military regime, are currently in the process of being uncovered and restored. The Heritage Unit of the Municipality of Chillán (UPA), which has been carrying out the work, announced this week that they expect to finish restoring the first of the murals by December 2027.  In 1969, Eduardo Contreras Mella, the mayor of Chillán and a member of Chile’s Co
  
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• Hong Kong Palace Museum Partners With Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan

  21-07-2026 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  The Hong Kong Palace Museum entered into an agreement with the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan to collaborate on exhibitions, academic research, and other projects.At a signing ceremony on Monday, the connection forged between the two institutions marked the first official reciprocal visit by a Central Asian cultural institution since Hong Kong’s chief executive, John Lee Ka-chiu, led a delegation including the Palace Museum’s director to the region last month. It follows a
  
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• Trump-Backed Federal Council Aims to Reduce Protections of Historic Sites

  21-07-2026 21:43 via artnews.com
  
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• New York Sculptor Bet $100,000 on a Charlie Kirk Statue, Now No One Wants to Buy It

  21-07-2026 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  A New York sculptor thought he had found an unlikely market for a new artwork. Instead, he found himself stuck with a six-foot-four-inch bronze-colored monument sitting in his studio, a broken foot, a six-figure bill, and almost no interest from collectors.Artist Sergio Furnari says he spent roughly $100,000 building a life-size sculpture of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, believing wealthy donors would help finance the project and eventually turn it into a traveling monument. Inste
  
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