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• ‘They’re Trying to Erase Us’: Chevron Takes Down Public Art Piece

  08-06-2023 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  In the middle of the night on May 15, a public art project in Richmond, California, disappeared without a trace. The project, titled Fencelines – A Collective Monument to Resilience, was a collection of slats onto which community members wrote their hopes and wishes for the future of the city and its environment. The slats were installed on a fence that cordons off the Chevron refinery, which sits along the waterfront of the San Francisco Bay. On Wednesday, Chevron admitted that it took do
  
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• Gang Members Arranged Return of Stolen Gottfried Lindauer Paintings from New Zealand Gallery In Secret Prison Deal

  08-06-2023 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  Two paintings by Gottfried Lindauer, valued around $490,000 US ($800,000 NZD) that were stolen in 2017 were returned to police through a secretive deal arranged by senior gang members, the New Zealand Herald reported Wednesday.The Māori portraits, Chieftainess Ngatai-Raure and Chief Ngatai-Raure, were painted by the Czech-New Zealand artist in 1884. The art works were stolen from the International Art Centre gallery and auction house in a “smash-and-grab” incident
  
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• Justin Chance’s Wool Quilts are Catchalls for Curiosity

  08-06-2023 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  My pieces begin as titles. Titles come to me when I’m washing dishes, or running, or showering. A recent example is Aloha Sadness (2023): I thought, That’s so dumb, but also so real. Aloha means goodbye, but also hello. I asked what would Aloha Sadness look like? I did a little research—looked up tiki culture, watched Lilo & Stitch, played that song “Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride” in the studio.I’m driven by curiosity, and I can get interested in literally
  
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• A 6,000-Year-Old Slab of Carved Wood Predating Stonehenge Has Been Found in Berkshire, England

  08-06-2023 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  A crew of builders in Boxford, Berkshire, England stumbled upon a large chunk of carved oak over 6,000 years old while digging foundation trenches for a new building, Historic England announced Wednesday.The ancient slice of decorative oak, which was carved 2,000 years before Stonehenge and more than 4,000 years before the Romans set foot on the British Isles, is believed to be the oldest piece of carved wood in Britain.The wood, which measures just about three-feet-long, one-and-a-half feet wid
  
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• Artist Julien Creuzet Wants Us to Question What We Know and Free Ourselves

  08-06-2023 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  “Forgotten, buried at the bottom of insomnia,” a woman’s soft, high-pitched voice repeatedly sang out against slow, ethereal music as you descended a staircase into a recent basement installation by Julien Creuzet, one of today’s most closely watched artists who earlier this year clinched the commission for the French Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.   Creuzet’s exhibitions typically carry paragraph-length titles that point to the show’s underly
  
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• Fiber Is the New Painting: A Younger Generation of Artists Is Weaving and Sewing Personal Histories

  08-06-2023 16:50 via artnews.com
  
  South African artist Igshaan Adams trained as a painter at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town. Amid financial struggles in his mid-20s, he decided to stop buying pricey oil paints. Instead, with his grandparents’ permission, he cut up clothing and other fabrics from their home and stitched them together to create a figurative image. Soon after, in 2010, he got a job teaching painting and composition to weaving artisans at an NGO called the Philani Maternal, Child Health and Nutriti
  
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• Sukanya Rajaratnam, Taste-Making New York Dealer, Joins White Cube

  08-06-2023 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  Sukanya Rajaratnam, a New York dealer known for mounting historically significant exhibitions of Black artists, will join White Cube as global director of strategic market initiatives in September.Earlier this year, Rajaratnam announced that she would leave her role as partner at Mnuchin Gallery after 15 years. During her tenure there, she was known for staging groundbreaking exhibitions of Black artists who had long been overlooked by the mainstream art world, including Sam Gilliam, Ed Clark, A
  
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• White Cube Heads to Seoul, Canada’s National Gallery Gets New Director, and More: Morning Links for June 8, 2023

  08-06-2023 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesON THE PENINSULA. In recent years, galleries from the United States and Europe, like Gladstone and König, have been opening outposts in Seoul, hoping to tap into South Korea’s burgeoning art market. Now, Melanie Gerlis reports in her weekly Financial Times column, White Cube is joining them. It&n
  
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