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• The Best Books of 2023

  01-12-2023 15:36 via smithsonianmag.com
  Whether you are looking for some gift ideas or a great read to enjoy on the plane or cozied up over the holidays, consider our carefully curated lists
  
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• The Ten Best Photography Books of 2023

  01-12-2023 15:33 via smithsonianmag.com
  Our favorite titles this year will make readers feel the power of visual storytelling
  
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• Greek Prime Minister ‘Annoyed’ Over Cancellation of Meeting with British PM Over Parthenon Marbles

  29-11-2023 23:12 via artnews.com
  Relations between the prime ministers of Greece and Britain are less than cheery this holiday season, after a scheduled meeting in London was cancelled a few hours prior, due to a row over the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum.Prime minister Rishi Sunak told members of parliament on November 29 he had cancelled a planned meeting with Kyriakos Mitsotakis in London the day before because the Greek prime minister had reneged on a promise not to use the four-day trip to advocate for the repatr
  
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• The Man Who’s Saving America’s Forgotten Grapes

  28-11-2023 14:00 via smithsonianmag.com
  Bordeaux. Napa Valley. Missouri? This vintner wants to put this once-booming wine region back on the map
  
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• How Lee Miller, a Magazine Model and Muse, Became a Daring World War II Photographer

  28-11-2023 14:00 via smithsonianmag.com
  The bold journalist, who made a splash on both sides of the lens, is the subject of a new biopic starring Kate Winslet
  
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• The Uniquely American History of Eggnog, Everyone's Favorite—or Least Favorite—Holiday Quaff

  28-11-2023 13:00 via smithsonianmag.com
  This Yuletide mainstay continues to warm cockles and ventricles everywhere
  
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• The Best 2023 Black Friday Weekend Deals on Art Supplies and Gifts–Updated

  26-11-2023 18:21 via artnews.com
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. It’s Black Friday weekend, the start of the holiday shopping season! Many US retailers have marked down selected wares, including art and craft supplies. To help you parse the offerings, we’ll be tracking some of the best deals on artists’ tools, from pastels to tablets, to give as gifts or to keep for yourself.We will be updating this page o
  
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• 15 Must-See French Art Foundations

  24-11-2023 14:49 via artnews.com
  Around the world, art foundations are formed for a variety of reasons. Beyond the tax advantages that may accrue to an individual, a family, or a corporation may lie a desire to preserve a collection, to promote particular values, or to keep a collector’s memory alive. Whatever the reasons, members of the public are the ultimate beneficiaries, as the artworks in private hands become accessible to all.It stands to reason that France, a country with a deep and rich art history and some of th
  
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• The Ten Best Books About Food of 2023

  22-11-2023 14:30 via smithsonianmag.com
  Travel to Rome, Alaska, West Africa and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives
  
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• Chef Jason Hammel Reveals His Top Five Recent Obsessions

  21-11-2023 18:50 via artnews.com
  Jason Hammel, a self-taught chef and owner of the Chicago-based Lula Café, recently released The Lula Cafe Cookbook. Along with recipes, the book, published by Phaidon, chronicles the restaurant’s history from its early years as an artist–run cafe to its present as a nationally acclaimed restaurant with a James Beard Award-winning chef. Hammel and his now wife Amalea opened the restaurant as friends and aspiring artists in 1999. Through food, the married duo have been able to
  
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• GRWM, Phillips Evening Sale Edition with Art Adviser Dane Jensen

  17-11-2023 22:17 via artnews.com
  Your typical 30-lot contemporary art auction can be over in an hour, but the prep-work involved for those who are participating in it lasts much longer. Late on Tuesday afternoon, art adviser Dane Jensen sat at the zinc bar of a French bistro in midtown Manhattan. Wearing stylish attire that has come to be a constant feature at an art auction, in this case, a green Gucci sneakers, matching green sweater, dark gray pants, and a navy blazer, he flipped through the catalog for Phillips&rs
  
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• Why Climate Protesters Should Keep Targeting Museums

  16-11-2023 16:47 via artnews.com
  ON FEBRUARY 28, 1974, Tony Shafrazi walked into the Museum of Modern Art in New York and spray-painted kill lies all in red across the achromatic surface of Picasso’s Guernica (1937), in protest of United States atrocities in Vietnam. The next day, his action appeared on the front page of the New York Times, as he had intended: Shafrazi had notified news agencies in advance.On October 14, 2022, nearly 50 years later, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland walked into the National Gallery in Londo
  
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• Winter 2023: Collaborations

  14-11-2023 15:00 via artnews.com
  Consider it apt that this issue focusing on collaborations comes out just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach. As that annual fair has grown over the past two decades, it has attracted creatives from far beyond the art world, most notably from the realm of fashion, and has provided fertile environs in which collaborative projects with artists could develop and evolve. Today, collaborations between artists and fashion brands are ubiquitous—an entire issue could be devoted to these alone. That
  
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• Rare ‘Inverted Jenny’ US Postal Stamp Sells for Record-Breaking $2 M. At Auction

  12-11-2023 23:39 via artnews.com
  A rare ‘Inverted Jenny’ stamp recently sold at auction for just over $2 million with fees, setting a record for a single US stamp.The hammer price for the red, white and blue stamp was $1.7 million. The auction was conducted by Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries on November 8. “This is a historic moment for the hobby,” president Scott Trepel said in a statement emailed to ARTnews. “The Inverted Jenny we sold today is the best example of the 100 stamps from the sheet
  
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• Earthquakes Decimate Western Afghanistan’s Ancient Villages and Historic Monuments

  10-11-2023 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  A number of ancient structures have been damaged in Afghanistan’s rural countryside following four deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquakes and dozens of aftershocks between October 7 and 15.Ancient villages constructed from bricks and mud straw were destroyed during two initial earthquakes in the territory around Zinda Jan in the Herat province. At least 1,500 people died in the two quakes, and thousands were left injured, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitaria
  
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• Frick Pittsburgh Apologizes for Postponing Exhibition of Islamic Art in Response to Israel-Hamas War

  10-11-2023 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  The director of Pennsylvania’s Frick Pittsburgh museum apologized on Friday for postponing a show about Islamic art across the centuries. The decision to do so, reported in late October by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, had been done in response to the Israel-Hamas war.Elizabeth Barker, the museum’s leader, had initially said that she pushed the show back to 2024 because she feared that local Jews and members of other communities might take offense at the exhibition. But Jewish and M
  
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• Documenta Denounces Selection Committee Member for Signing ‘Anti-Semitic’ BDS Letter

  10-11-2023 19:03 via artnews.com
  
  For the second time since the October 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,400 Israelis, Documenta, one of the world’s top art festivals, publicly spoke out against an individual affiliated with it for engaging with pro-Palestinian causes.On Friday, the German art exhibition denounced Ranjit Hoskoté, a member of the selection committee for its 2027 exhibition. Hoskoté, an Indian poet and critic, had been the subject of a report in Suddeutsche Zeitung published Thursday that resurface
  
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• Nicholas Galanin’s Pointed Public Sculpture Inspires Glorious Noise in New York

  10-11-2023 16:44 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about about art that surprises us, about the works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday.The children playing by the 1920s-era carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park had no idea what was about to fill their ears when guitar tones and drones from a violin started surrounding Nicholas Galanin’s imposing public sculpture nearby. Raven Chacon and Laura Ortman&
  
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• Christie’s Robust 20th Century Sale Nets $640.8 Million, with Six Auction Records 

  10-11-2023 06:29 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s New York staged a marathon two-and-a-half-hour sale of 20th-century art on Thursday night that netted $640.8 million and notched new auction highs for Fernando Botero, Richard Diebenkorn, Arshile Gorky, Barbara Hepworth, Joan Mitchell, and Joan Snyder. All but two of the 63 works found buyers and two lots were withdrawn. The night was notable for the depth of bidding both in the room and on the phones; American bidders were an especially strong presence throughout the eveni
  
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• Christie’s Robust 20th Century Sale Nets $640.8 M., with Six Auction Records 

  10-11-2023 06:29 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s New York staged a marathon two-and-a-half-hour sale of 20th-century art on Thursday night that netted $640.8 million and notched new auction highs for Fernando Botero, Richard Diebenkorn, Arshile Gorky, Barbara Hepworth, Joan Mitchell, and Joan Snyder. All but two of the 63 works found buyers and two lots were withdrawn. The night was notable for the depth of bidding both in the room and on the phones; American bidders were an especially strong presence throughout the eveni
  
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• The Met’s Costume Institute Unveils Sensory-Themed Exhibition and Gala for 2024

  09-11-2023 23:22 via artnews.com
  
  Anticipation surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition has come to a close with the reveal of its latest annual theme. A preview held Wednesday morning at the museum featured Andrew Bolton, the curator overseeing the Costume Institute’s extensive fashion collection, as he announced the title for the much-awaited annual showcase: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”The theme, set to serve as the visual centerpiece for the Costume Instit
  
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• Nan Goldin Cancels New York Times Project Over Newspaper’s ‘Complicity with Israel’

  09-11-2023 19:45 via artnews.com
  
  The photographer Nan Goldin said on Thursday that she had called off a project for the New York Times Magazine, accusing the newspaper of a pro-Israel bias in its reporting on Gaza.“Yesterday, I canceled a big job with the New York Times Sunday magazine — a cover shoot of a musician I admire — because of the NYT’s reporting on the war on Gaza, which shows complicity with Israel,” she wrote on Instagram. “For what they report and don’t report, and how the
  
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• The Collection of a Discreet Hedge-Funder Has Quietly Become Active Business

  09-11-2023 18:58 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.When financier Arthur Samberg died in July 2020 at 79, he was best known as the founder of Pequot Capital Management, one of the largest US hedge funds in the early 2000s. But court documents reviewed by ARTnews reveal that, behind the scenes, Samberg and his family were quiet major art collectors, owne
  
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• Artworks, Jewelry, and More from Barbara Walters’s Estate Fetch $5 M. at Auction

  09-11-2023 18:57 via artnews.com
  
  Bonhams’s auctions of objects from the collection of Barbara Walters brought in $5 million. Ninety-nine percent of the 135 objects offered at an in-person sale sold, while all of the 238 lots made available online found buyers.The estate toured Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, London, and Hong Kong before the sale, before landing in New York alongside an exhibition commemorating her career. Art, jewelry, design, and personal objects were among the items made available for auction.Presented at B
  
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• Bitter Family Feud Revealed in Lawsuit Against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Accuses Board of ‘Grabstract Expressionism’

  09-11-2023 16:41 via artnews.com
  
  A lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York State’s Supreme Court reveals blistering criticisms against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s board members by one of its own, Fredrick Iseman, Frankenthaler’s nephew, who sat on the board for 20 years.In the suit, Iseman claims that other board members, specifically Clifford Ross, also the artist’s nephew, her stepdaughter, Lise Motherwell, and the board’s director Michael Hecht, are taking advantage of the artist’s le
  
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• Painter Sam McKinniss Joins David Kordansky Gallery After JTT’s Closure

  09-11-2023 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  Sam McKinniss, a painter best-known for his works based on famed images of celebrities, has joined David Kordansky Gallery, which has spaces in New York and Los Angeles.McKinniss, who is also represented by Almine Rech, had been among the most notable artists represented by JTT, a closely watched New York gallery that made the surprise announcement that it would shutter this past summer after 11 years in business. That gallery’s founder, Jasmin Tsou, has since joined Lisson Gallery as a di
  
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• Video Artist Pipilotti Rist on Centering the Body With Dazzling Furniture-Sculpture Hybrids 

  09-11-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  IN HER FIRST YEAR of graduate school, Pipilotti Rist made an iconic and influential video that landed her a debut exhibition invitation after its first screening. In that 5-minute piece, I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), Rist dances around in a low-cut black dress, her breasts at times flopping out of the garment, as she repeats the titular phrase in a singsongy voice that builds into a cathartic crescendo. She recorded, edited, and starred in the piece herself, and the results are
  
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• Sotheby’s White Glove $406 M. Fisher Landau Sale Sets New Benchmarks for Agnes Martin, Mark Tansey

  09-11-2023 03:30 via artnews.com
  
  Second in line launching the fall auction season in New York on Wednesday evening, Sotheby’s highly anticipated sale of works amassed by the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau, a former trustee at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, fetched a collective $406 million with fees. The grouping of 31 lots hammered at a collective $351 million, surpassing the $344 million low end of the estimate that Sotheby’s specialists had projected. The sale brought a packed h
  
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• 1932 Picasso from Fisher Landau Estate Sells for $139 M.

  09-11-2023 01:00 via artnews.com
  
  A 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso titled Femme à la montre from the collection of the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau, sold on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s during a New York evening sale for $139 million with fees. It marks the second highest price achieved by a work by Picasso at auction.Offered as the tenth lot in the anticipated sale, Sotheby’s auctioneer Olivier Barker opened the bidding at $100 million, with several bids bringing the hammer price for the w
  
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• Egypt’s Billion-Dollar Museum Is Getting Ready to Open as the Country’s Tourism Sector Weathers the Israel-Hamas Conflict

  08-11-2023 22:46 via artnews.com
  
  After 20 years and a billion dollars, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will soon be ready to welcome visitors, according to a report by CNN. Described as “largest museum in the world dedicated to one civilization,” the GEM is also expected to become one of the world’s leading centers for archaeological and historical study.Strategically set between Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza, the GEM has an 120-acre footprint and will house 100,000 artifacts, 20% of
  
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• Artforum Staff Speaks Out After Firing of Editor Following Gaza Letter: ‘No Desire to Shut Down Conversations’

  08-11-2023 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  The editorial staff of Artforum issued a statement Wednesday in response to the firing of editor David Velasco, marking the first time that the magazine’s editors have publicly addressed the situation since it was reported in the New York Times nearly two weeks ago.Velasco was reportedly fired after Artforum published a letter that called for a ceasefire in Gaza and Palestinian liberation. (The letter also appeared in e-flux and Hyperallergic, and as a since-deleted Google document.) Signe
  
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• Brooklyn Museum Union Ratifies First Contract, Averting Strike

  08-11-2023 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  The union at the Brooklyn Museum voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to ratify a three-and-a-half year contract, one day before the group was set to strike. This concludes negotiations that began in January 2022 between the staff’s union, Local 2110 UAW, and museum administration, and shows that a labor movement that is sweeping other sectors is continuing to impact art institutions.“We’re thrilled to have finally reached this agreement with the Museum,” Elizabeth St. Ge
  
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• An Ambitious Art Festival in Iceland Goes Back to the Future to Explore a Planet in Peril

  08-11-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Iceland may not be a country most associate with biennials and big art commissions, but it does have at least one cutting-edge art festival, Sequences, which returned to Reykjavik last month with works by 45 international artists.Founded in 2003 by Kling & Bang, the Icelandic Art Centre, and the Living Art Museum, Sequences has gained popularity and grown in ambition, and was helmed by Marika Agu, Maria Arusoo, Kaarin Kivirähk, and Sten Ojavee, who help run the Estonian Centre for Conte
  
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• Best Practices: Artist Uman Courts a Constant State of Evolution in Her Paintings

  08-11-2023 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Toward the end of a 3-hour visit one afternoon this past August, Uman stood in a corner of her multiroom studio in Albany, New York, mixing oil paints in a small wooden box. She’d been working for weeks on an eight-foot-square canvas painted with a vibrant red background and a central white orb meant to denote a looming streetlamp. That day, she stepped forward and began adding raspberry globs of paint to the left side of the canvas.“I might cover this up,” Uman said. “Th
  
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• Christie’s First Big Auction of the Fall Season in New York Disappoints as Blue-Chip Artists Flounder

  08-11-2023 05:21 via artnews.com
  
  Christie’s first evening sale of the marquee November auctions in New York fell short of expectations, hammering beneath its low estimate and failing to deliver strong results for well-established artists.Held on Tuesday night, the sale was dedicated to art made in the 21st century and hammered at $88.4 million, about $8 million short of its $96 million presale estimate. With premium, it netted just $107.5 million across 42 lots.Records usually boost morale during lackluster sales, but the
  
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• British Museum Independent Review Shares Details of Antiquities Thefts

  07-11-2023 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  The British Museum has released new details around the theft of 2,000 Greek and Roman antiquities that has shaken public confidence in the storied institution. As first reported by the Art Newspaper on Tuesday, the museum posted on its website the terms of reference of an independent review, which outlines the review team’s responsibilities. The document has determined that the thefts began as early as 1993 and lasted until last year. Available for reading on the museum’s websit
  
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• Four Men Charged in the Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Bowl

  07-11-2023 21:33 via artnews.com
  
  Following British law enforcement’s announcement several months ago of a major breakthrough in the 2019 theft of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet sculpture, the Crown Prosecution Service said Monday that it has criminally charged four men, the New York Times has reported.In 2019, the 200-pound sculpture, titled America and estimated to be worth around $6 million, was ripped from a wood-paneled bathroom at Blenheim Palace, the house that former UK prime minis
  
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• Artists Nan Goldin, Molly Crabapple Attend Activists’ Sit-In for Gaza Ceasefire at Statue of Liberty

  07-11-2023 20:02 via artnews.com
  
  Some 500 protestors affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), including artists Nan Goldin and Molly Crabapple, gathered at the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on Monday in protest of the bombardment of Gaza by Israel. Demonstrators at the National Park Service–managed statue—one of the most highly-trafficked monuments in the United States—called for an immediate end to the violence in Gaza, which has nearly 10,000 people, per statistics shared thi
  
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• Harald Falckenberg, German Art Collector with a Discerning Eye, Dies at 80

  07-11-2023 17:54 via artnews.com
  
  Harald Falckenberg, a German art patron whose willingness to support conceptual art made him one of the world’s top collectors, died on Sunday in Hamburg at 80. His passing was announced on Tuesday by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, a German art museum that runs a 65,000-square-foot building that is devoted to Falckenberg’s 2,400-piece collection.“His legacy will not be forgotten in the art world,” Dirk Luckow, director of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, said in a statement. 
  
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• Italian Diver Discovers Trove of Roman Coins Near Sardinian Coast

  07-11-2023 17:30 via artnews.com
  
  A trove of at least 30,000 Roman bronze coins was spotted by an Italian diver off the coast of Sardinia, according to the Italian ministry of culture.An investigation conducted by divers from an art protection squad and the ministry’s undersea archaeology department revealed that the coins date back to the first half of the 4th century CE. The coins were discovered close to Sardinia’s northeast shore, near the town Arzachena.Experts believe that the coins may have been part of a ship
  
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• Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Event Attendees Report ‘SevereEye Burn’, Possibly From UV Rays

  07-11-2023 16:57 via artnews.com
  
  People who showed up to Yuga Labs‘ recent three-day event celebrating a collection of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs have reported eye and skin irritation, potentially from UV light used at the event.Yuga Labs’ ApeFest, held Nov. 3-5 in Hong Kong, included a brightly lit party held on Saturday. Several of those who attended wrote on social media that they experienced “eye burn” and other symptoms after the event.“Yuga Labs is aware that some attendees are
  
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• Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Event Attendees Report ‘Severe Eye Burn’, Possibly From UV Rays

  07-11-2023 16:57 via artnews.com
  
  People who showed up to Yuga Labs‘ recent three-day event celebrating a collection of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs have reported eye and skin irritation, potentially from UV light used at the event.Yuga Labs’ ApeFest, held Nov. 3-5 in Hong Kong, included a brightly lit party held on Saturday. Several of those who attended wrote on social media that they experienced “eye burn” and other symptoms after the event.“Yuga Labs is aware that some attendees are
  
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• 22 of the Best Movies About Artists

  07-11-2023 14:46 via artnews.com
  
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission.Compared with cops and superheroes, artists don’t appear on the big screen very frequently, but when they do, the results are often memorable. Dramas about art or artists can range from artist biopics to art-world satires, and as with just about any sort of story that gets the Hollywood treatment, accuracy takes a backseat to entertainment. Still, if you’
  
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• Finnegan Shannon’s Exhibition on a Conveyor Belt Alleviates Museum Fatigue

  07-11-2023 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Art museums have developed a reputation for inducing a particular kind of exhaustion. Navigating crowds in order to get a glimpse at masterpieces, feeling overstimulated in blockbuster shows, and standing on hard concrete floors leads to what is commonly called “museum fatigue.” Exacerbating matters is the fact that museums just don’t have enough comfortable seating.For an exhibition at moCa Cleveland, Brooklyn-based artist Finnegan Shannon has taken matters into their own hand
  
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• An Inside Look at LACMA’s Star-Studded Art + Film Gala 2023

  06-11-2023 23:08 via artnews.com
  
  Although the art world has no shortage of extremely fancy galas, there’s only one, as far as we know, that’s co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio and Eva Chow. That event is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s annual star-studded Art + Film gala, a dinner party where cultural luminaries like Jane Fonda, Paris Hilton, and Larry Gagosian gather to break bread and raise money for the museum, which came to a total of $5 million this year. 
  Major attendees included honorees Judy
  
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• UK Museum Leaders Pledge Action Against Climate Change at Inaugural Summit

  06-11-2023 21:39 via artnews.com
  
  Leaders from nearly 70 UK museums, foundations and funding agencies met last week at the inaugural UK Museum COP meeting at Tate Modern, a summit organized by The National Museum Directors’ Council that convened representatives of British cultural institutions to discuss how their institutions can address issues related to climate change.The meeting was meant to formalize actions by museums to address the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, including pledges to reduce carbon e
  
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• Ukraine’s Odesa National Art Museum Damaged in Russian Airstrike

  06-11-2023 21:09 via artnews.com
  
  A Russian airstrike on the strategic Black Sea port of Odesa wounded at least eight people on Sunday night and damaged one of the city’s major art institutions, Odesa officials reported.According to a statement from Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, a missile launched by Russia caused significant damage to the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, one of the most important Tsarist-era palaces in Odesa’s historic city center. “On November 6, the Odesa National Art Museum turns 124 years
  
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• New Ruins Found at Ancient Port City Near Morocco’s Capital

  06-11-2023 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  Ancient ruins believed to be a port city near present-day Rabat have been identified by archaeologists who discovered thermal baths and working-class neighborhoods, the Associated Press reported on Friday.Researchers from the National Institute of Archaeological Sciences and Heritage of Morocco presented these finds from Chellah, a 1.2-square-mile UNESCO world heritage site, on Friday. Nearly five times larger than Italy’s Pompeii, the country hopes to bring tourists and scholars to the si
  
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• Hungary Removes National Museum Director Over Display of LGBTQ+ Imagery at World Press Photo Exhibition

  06-11-2023 17:43 via artnews.com
  
  Hungary’s cultural minister dismissed the director of the country’s National Museum in Budapest after just a two-year stint over the public display of LGBTQ+ imagery, the Associated Press reported Monday.In a statement, Hungary’s culture ministry accused Laszlo L. Simon, who became director of the museum in 2021 and was appointed for a for a five-year term, of non-compliance with national law that bans the display of LGBTQ+ content to people under the age of 18,according to the
  
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• 26 Famed Artworks That Have Been Vandalized

  06-11-2023 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  What makes a person want to vandalize a cherished artwork? The factors often vary greatly.Politics often play a role, as has been the case with the many recent protests led at museums by climate activists around the world. Personal interests often can become paramount as well, as they have with a variety of young provocateurs who have targeted others’ artworks, sometimes even as part of their own art practices.In each case, however, the base motive remains the same: to raise a ruckus by di
  
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