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• Three to see: Vienna

  23-09-2016 17:31
  
  The second edition of the Viennacontemporary fair at the Marx Halle (until 25 September) continues to focus on Eastern European and younger art. The Serbian artists collective Sok Zadruga presents a series of drawings by Slobodan Stosic, Of Dogs and Dogs (2016), priced at 400 each, which show individuals biting themselves (the artist explains that the works were inspired by press reports about people claiming insurance for fictitious dog bites). Local gallery Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman is, me
  
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• George Condo Returns to Hauser & Wirth Less Than One Year After Leaving the Gallery

  08-07-2026 23:13 via artnews.com
  
  George Condo is heading back to Hauser & Wirth less than a year after leaving the mega-gallery, with the two sides reuniting for a pair of exhibitions in 2027 and resuming a relationship that dates back to 2019. Hauser & Wirth announced Wednesday that it will present exhibitions of new and historical works by Condo at its Paris and Palo Alto galleries in 2027, following the artist’s 2025 career survey at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. When asked about the
  
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• Curator Ingrid Schaffner Talks Hauser & Wirth’s Henry Taylor—James Jarvaise Show

  08-07-2026 22:49 via artnews.com
  
  James Jarvaise, the late California modernist (1924—2015), cuts a slick silhouette in Henry Taylor’s vibrant impasto rendering of him. Jarvaise, wearing black shades, his shoulder-length hair combed back, sits slouched at the lower center of Taylor’s glowing, yellow canvas. “He had swag,” Taylor has said of his subject and first real art teacher, who encouraged him to enroll in art school and eventually embark on a path to become the luminous, lauded talent Taylor i
  
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• Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement in New Lawsuit

  08-07-2026 22:04 via artnews.com
  
  Mickalene Thomas, an artist known for her popular paintings and photo-based installations centering Black women, is facing a lawsuit from the photographer Barbara Karant, who alleges that Thomas used her pictures without attribution or permission in works that appeared at an array of museums and blue-chip galleries.“In installation after installation, and in collage after collage, Thomas has engaged in the wholesale copying of copyrighted works from a fellow artist,” the lawsuit clai
  
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• Italy Advances Legislation on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art

  08-07-2026 21:51 via artnews.com
  
  The Italian parliament is advancing legislation to create a formal process for restituting art and cultural property looted by the Nazis under Italian Fascist racial laws. The news was reported by the Jewish News Syndicate following a statement by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that works toward the return of Jewish-owned property in Europe.“The bill offers a historic opportunity to finally deliver justice to victims of Nazi and fascist persec
  
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• Artissima Announces 180 International Exhibitors Participating in Fall Art Fair in Turin

  08-07-2026 21:49 via artnews.com
  
  When the long-running contemporary art fair Artissima opens its 33rd edition in late October, 180 galleries from 35 countries will welcome visitors to the Oval, a vast former Olympic speed skating facility that has hosted the fair since 2010.Luigi Fassi returns as director for the fifth year running. He has organized this year’s 180 galleries (a handful more than the 176 that participated last year) into several distinct sections: new entries (33 galleries are participating for the first t
  
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• Sotheby’s Is Adapting to a Softer Wine Market by Selling Access and Experiences—Not Just Bottles

  08-07-2026 20:36 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art and luxury. See all of our reporting on the topic here.The wine market is in flux. After years of rising prices, fueled by low interest rates, global demand, and a pandemic-era rush into collectible assets, previously cove
  
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• Lari Pittman Responds to Marc Spiegler’s Op-Ed, Leonard Feinstein Consigned $35 M. Picasso to Hauser & Wirth: Industry Moves for July 8, 2026

  08-07-2026 20:24 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here’s a roundup of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Philadelphia Museum of Art Promotes Jennifer Thompson: With a 25-year tenure at the museum, Thompson was most recently curator of European painting and sculpture and department head. She will now be depu
  
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• High Line Art Wants the Public’s Opinion on 62 Artist Proposals for Its Plinth Commission

  08-07-2026 20:19 via artnews.com
  
  In a few years’ time, a giant teddy bear, a full-scale replica of a brownstone covered in clothing or a pair of legs painted with color dots could rise up on the High Line on New York’s West Side. Which work will ultimately be installed is up to the public.High Line Art is once again seeking public comment for public art proposals that will go on view in 2029 and 2030 at its plinth, located above 30th Street and 10th Avenue. Until September 8, the public can leave a comment on each o
  
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• Belgium’s Magritte-Inspired World Cup Jersey Is Having a Moment After Win Over US

  08-07-2026 19:33 via artnews.com
  
  Belgium’s crushing 4–1 victory over the United States on Tuesday night did more than send the Red Devils into the World Cup quarterfinals. It also subtly brought one of Belgium’s greatest artists into the spotlight before a global audience.As Artsy first reported, Belgium’s away kit is an explicit homage to the Surrealist painter René Magritte, transforming imagery from one of his most celebrated paintings into one of the tournament’s most distincti
  
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• Artist Files Copyright Lawsuit Against David Salle Over Painting Removed from Gallery Show

  08-07-2026 18:27 via artnews.com
  
  Artist Kelly Reemtsen filed a copyright lawsuit last month against David Salle, alleging that his 2025 painting Hatchet—which first attracted plagiarism allegations in March—copied protected elements from two of her works. The complaint seeks damages, profits from the allegedly infringing work, and an injunction preventing Hatchet from being sold or exhibited, while also requesting that the painting either be turned over to Reemtsen or destroyed.The lawsuit, filed June 22 in the US D
  
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• American Museum of Natural History to Repatriate 2,700 Native American Hair Samples Under NAGPRA

  08-07-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  The American Museum of Natural History, home to a famous model whale and gem collection as well as a gleaming planetarium on the Upper West Side of New York, has made plans to repatriate hair samples taken from Native Americans in the 19th century as part of spurious scientific studies.As reported by the New York Times, clippings of hair—originally collected for display at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and held in the collection of the museum ever since—now count among the hold
  
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• Artist ‘Interrupted’ Whitney Museum’s Displays with Pro-Palestine Messages

  08-07-2026 17:08 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, Whitney Museum displays that advertised the current Whitney Biennial briefly bore unsanctioned messages in support of Palestine, courtesy the artist Jonathan Allen.According to the Forward, on July 3, Allen placed translucent vinyl stickers on certain displays at the New York museum. Part of his “Interruptions” series, these vinyls called attention to Israel’s military actions in Gaza.“The Israeli military forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinia
  
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• Fire at Kanal-Centre Pompidou, American Museum of Natural History Repatriation, and More: Morning Links for July 8, 2026

  08-07-2026 16:33 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good MorningA fire broke out near the roof of the forthcoming Kanal–Centre Pompidou museum in Brussels on Monday evening.The American Museum of Natural History is repatriating Indigenous hair clippings that should have been returned under a 1990 federal law.Twenty-seven pieces of jewelry were stolen from France’s Musée Lalique on July 5, th
  
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• Sotheby’s to Mount Exhibition of Rarely Seen Fernando Botero Works in New York

  08-07-2026 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will open an exhibition dedicated to the work of Fernando Botero later this month in partnership with the artist’s foundation.On view July 22 to September 7, “Botero in New York” will feature rarely seen works by the artist from period when he lived in New York, from 1960 to 1973, before he moved to Paris. The works are drawn from both the holdings of the Botero family and private collections, with some available for private sale.“Botero in New York”
  
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• Warhol Foundation Announces $5.2 M. in Grants to 78 Arts Organizations, Including 33 First-Time Grantees

  08-07-2026 14:30 via artnews.com
  
  The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its Spring 2026 grant cycle, which will see the nonprofit dole out nearly $5.2 million to 78 arts and cultural organizations.The Spring 2026 cycle is divided into four types of grants: “Program Support Over 2 Years” (ranging from $50,000 to $100,000), “Exhibition Support” ($50,000–$100,000), “Curatorial Research Fellowships” ($27,000–$50,000), and “Projects Grants
  
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  08-07-2026 11:00 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  08-07-2026 01:41 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  07-07-2026 23:32 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Denmark’s Louisiana Museum Announces Remedios Varo Exhibition in Fall 2026

  07-07-2026 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  An exhibition of some 70 artworks by the Spanish artist Remedios Varo will open at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a destination museum on the coast just north of Copenhagen, this fall. The show, “Painting Magic,” is on view from September 18, 2026, through January 10, 2027, and includes examples of Varo’s paintings, drawings, and photographs. It will subsequently travel to the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.Varo was born in Spain in 1908 and left for Paris when she was 19, wh
  
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• Check Out the Art Behind the Scenes of Loro Piana’s Fall/Winter 2026 Ad Campaign

  07-07-2026 22:34 via artnews.com
  
  Loro Piana, the Italian luxury brand known for its high-end wool and cashmere garments, shot its fall/winter 2026 ad campaign at a trio of unexpected (for a fashion brand, at least) locations in Houston: the Menil Collection and private de Menil residence, both run by the Menil Foundation, and the nearby Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational space founded by John and Dominique de Menil that is full of serene, monochromatic canvases by the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko.The fashion hous
  
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• Fundación Kahlo Launches $50,000 Prize for Emerging Mexican Artists

  07-07-2026 22:13 via artnews.com
  
  The Fundación Kahlo, the New York–based nonprofit established by the family of the iconic painter Frida Kahlo, has announced the launch of a new prize to support emerging Mexican artists.Underwritten by the auction house Phillips, the Kahlo Art Prize will be awarded every other year and come with a $50,000 stipend, as well as opportunities for the winner’s work to be exhibited in Mexico City at the recently opened Museo Casa Kahlo.“Through the process of opening the muse
  
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• Pro-Palestinian Cultural Workers Call for Strike Over US Ambassador’s Visit to Venice

  07-07-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  The cultural activist group that led a historic strike and rally at this year’s Venice Biennale over Israel’s inclusion in the international exhibition has called for a mass mobilization on July 17, when the US Ambassador to Italy, Tilman Fertitta, is scheduled to arrive in Venice.The group, Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), announced the action in an Instagram post published today, inviting supporters to gather at 4 p.m. at Campo San Zaccaria, a square in central Venice just steps f
  
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• Phillips Posts $507 M. in First Half of 2026 as Watch Business Drives 60 Percent Jump in Auction Sales

  07-07-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  
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• Phillips Posts $507 M. in First Half of 2026 as Watch Business Drives 60% Jump in Auction Sales

  07-07-2026 21:30 via artnews.com
  
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• Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese Artist Whose Sound Sculptures Explored the Power of Language, Dies at 77

  07-07-2026 19:50 via artnews.com
  
  Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese conceptual artist whose whispering sound installations and language-based works made her one of her country’s most influential contemporary artists, died on Monday of cancer at Lisbon’s Hospital de São José. She was 77. Over a career that began in the early 1990s, Cunha built a body of work that quietly transformed ordinary words into immersive works of art. Using whispered recordings, brief commands and fragments of conversation,
  
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• Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New York’s New Museum

  07-07-2026 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  The New Museum in New York announced that Massimiliano Gioni, its longtime artistic director, has been named as the institution’s next director. He will take on the role beginning August 1. He succeeds Lisa Phillips, who announced her retirement, after 26 years, last September. “After an extensive international search, we are thrilled to announce Massimiliano Gioni’s appointment as steward of the New Museum in its next chapter,” New Museum board president James-Keith Brow
  
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  07-07-2026 18:49 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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