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• On Art Basel Miami Beach’s 20th Anniversary, the Art World Has Become Miamified, For Better or Worse

  28-11-2022 22:26 via artnews.com
  Over the last twenty years, I’ve missed only one edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2004, and am therefore convinced that 2004 was the best edition: the best parties, the best dinners, the best art, the best people. Back then, the parties and dinners were in hotels along the beach like the Shore Club, the Delano, and the Raleigh. Wynwood, across the causeway, wasn’t yet a thing. The “young” galleries were set up in shipping containers parked on the sand. The fair h
  
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• Bronzino Portrait to Sell at Auction After Being Restituted to Heirs of Jewish Collector

  28-11-2022 22:08 via artnews.com
  A restituted portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Bronzino will come to auction next year. Expected to fetch a price between $3 million and $5 million, the work will be offered during an Old Masters sale at Sotheby’s in New York that is scheduled to take place in January 2023. The ca. 1527 painting was restituted from the German government to the heirs of the Munich-based Jewish art collector Isle Hesselberger earlier this year. Proceeds from the sale will go toward Jewish causes and
  
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• Warhol Print of Queen Elizabeth II Sells for $855,000, Sets Auction Record

  28-11-2022 21:14 via artnews.com
  A royal blue print of Queen Elizabeth II set a new auction record for an Andy Warhol edition print last week after being sold in Toronto for $1,141,250 Canadian ($855,600 USD).The diamond-dusted Royal Edition is one of four images of the late monarch from Warhol’s 1985 “Reigning Queen” series. The piece was sold at the Heffel auction house on Nov. 24, and its closing amount, which includes fees and buyer’s premiums, far exceeded the estimate of $375,000–$450,000.Rob
  
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• Artists and König Galerie Cut Ties Amid Allegations Against Founder Johann König

  28-11-2022 20:54 via artnews.com
  Ten artists have dropped from König Galerie’s roster since allegations of sexual misconduct against its founder, Johann König, were reported by Die Zeit in late August. One of those artists, Monica Bonvicini, publicly split with the gallery early this month. Bonvicini initially “paused” her representation amid the allegations. Then, less than a month later, König, which is based in Berlin, announced that her relationship with the gallery was terminated.Since the
  
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• Nina Chanel Abney’s Solo Show at ICA Miami Queers the Frat House

  28-11-2022 19:58 via artnews.com
  These days, Nina Chanel Abney is everywhere. Whether she’s designing site specific works for Lincoln Center in New York or cooking up NFTs for the metaverse, Abney is working nonstop to bring her arresting works around the country and beyond. Set to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami is presenting a new suite of works by Abney in a show titled “Big Butch Energy.” Meanwhile, it was just earlier in November that she opened a new show at t
  
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• 20 Years Ago, Michel Majerus Predicted Where Painting Would Be Today. He Was Right.

  28-11-2022 18:07 via artnews.com
  If you tuned in to CNN in 2002 during the runup to the German national elections, you may have seen a series of bizarre interviews broadcast from Berlin. These were strange not because of what was said but because of what was behind the people in them: what appeared to be a large housing project tagged with graffiti. Typically, in its place is the Brandenburg Gate, a defining monument of the Berlin landscape, which had inexplicably disappeared.Those watching closely, however, would soon realize
  
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• Bernadette Mayer, Celebrated Poet Who Broke the Boundaries of Art-Making, Has Died at 77 

  28-11-2022 17:54 via artnews.com
  Bernadette Mayer, a poet, publisher, and artist who wrote with a singular stream of consciousness, died on November 22 at the age of 77. Artforum first reported news of her death.Meyer’s prolific output challenged conventions, eschewing order for automatic expression and speaking bluntly on the experience of motherhood. She first gained critical acclaim for her durational experiment Memory, in which she paired one roll of film shot every day for a month in 1971 with voiceover narratio
  
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• God’s-Eye Views: Aerial Photography in the Southwest

  28-11-2022 17:33 via artnews.com
  Although I was born in Arizona, I didn’t really become aware of the Southwest until I was about 7 years old, the first time I got a window seat on an airplane. This is, I must admit, an odd way of making a place’s acquaintance. You’re limited to just one of your five senses, and all the most iconic bits of the terrain are blurred, shrunken, or invisible: not a single paloverde tree is in sight, the saguaros are a patchy stubble, the purple mountains lose their majesty when they
  
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• Our Picks of the Best Cyber Monday 2022 Deals on Gadgets Gear, and More

  28-11-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. Today is Cyber Monday, when many US retailers post deep discounts on gadgets, gear, and other products for artists and photographers. To help you parse the offerings, here are our staff picks of the best deals on artists’ tools and studio essentials, from laptops to air purifiers, to give as gifts or to keep for yourself. A word of advice: Move fast, as
  
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• Venice Biennale Posts Record Attendance, Wellcome Collection Axes ‘Racist, Sexist, and Ableist’ Display, and More: Morning Links for November 28, 2022

  28-11-2022 13:57 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesMUSEUM MELEE. The fight over Annabelle Selldorf’s planned redesign of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London is continuing to rage. Architect Denise Scott Brown, who designed the space with her late husband Robert Venturi, told the Guardian, “She’s making our building look like&nb
  
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