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• How Dealers’ Concerns About Accessibility Pushed Basel’s Liste Art Fair to Relocate

  12-06-2023 23:35 via artnews.com
  
  A video artwork by French artist Florian Fouche at Parliament gallery’s booth at the Liste Art Fair shows the artist’s father, who is hemiplegic, navigating the streets of Paris in a wheelchair.It is unlikely that Fouche’s father—or, for that matter, any wheelchair users at Liste’s VIP preview today—could have navigated the art fair’s previous venue, a maze-like former brewery. The fair’s decision to stay in the convention center where Art Basel is
  
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• Colony Investment Management to Buy 60 Percent Stake in Perrotin

  12-06-2023 23:28 via artnews.com
  
  The real estate investment company Colony Investment Management is in discussion to purchase a 60 percent stake in Perrotin gallery, according to Bloomberg News. The two companies, both headquartered in Paris with offices in several other cities, are in “exclusive negotiations,” with a deal likely closing “in the second half of this year.” Per the report, the deal will enable Perrotin to explore the opening of galleries in cities like Zurich, London, or Istanbul, or to po
  
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• Pace Keeps Calder’s Legacy Alive with a Special Presentation at Art Basel

  12-06-2023 21:08 via artnews.com
  
  Marc Glimcher and Alexander S. C. Rower met when they were 19. They were introduced by the former’s father, Arne Glimcher, who had just began working with the estate of Rower’s grandfather, Alexander Calder. “I liked him, but I think he didn’t like me,” Glimcher said of Rower, the day before he set off for this year’s Art Basel in Switzerland. “He thought I was a Harvard snob, and he was off trying to decide if he should be a poet or work with the estate
  
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• Bronwyn Katz’s Intricate Sculptures Excavate Traces of Colonial Violence in South Africa

  12-06-2023 20:37 via artnews.com
  
  Growing up in the small town of Kimberley, South Africa—home to the world’s largest hand-dug diamond mine—was formative for Bronwyn Katz, whose sculptural practice is one of excavation. Some of Katz’s materials, among them stone, copper, and iron ore, are literally extracted from the earth; when she uses found objects, she performs a metaphorical extraction, digging out meaning and history. Her intricate, earthy-hued sculptures explore how memory, especially collective me
  
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• P. Staff’s Kunsthalle Basel Show May Burn Images into Your Retina

  12-06-2023 19:50 via artnews.com
  
  A typical P. Staff film is both disturbing and alluring, a jolt to the senses that you might have trouble shaking. Weed Killer, their 2017 breakout, found acclaim in New York and Los Angeles museums by invoking Catherine Lord’s memoir about her battle with cancer and the impact of chemotherapy. Staff’s densely edited film prominently featured high-definition thermal imaging, causing many of the performers to appear in shocking shades of highlighter orange in some memorable shots.On V
  
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• Historian Claims Tate Britain ‘Censored’ His Curatorial Proposal for Turner Painting in Rehang

  12-06-2023 19:46 via artnews.com
  
  A historian has alleged that Tate Britain “censored” his proposal for a rehung gallery featuring a J. M. W. Turner painting in the London’s current rehang.In a London Review of Books article, Rediker claimed that Tate Britain ultimately did not accept his suggestion to place Turner’s ca. 1835 painting A Disaster at Sea beside an object that would more explicitly elucidate histories of state violence in England. When Tate declined to do so, Rediker cut ties with the museum
  
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• 55-Carat Ruby of ‘Unprecedented Size’ Sells for $34.8M at Sotheby’s

  12-06-2023 19:42 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has auctioned off a 55.22 carat ruby in New York for $34.8 million. The unmounted stone was unveiled by the auction house in Dubai in May. It was promoted as the largest and most valuable ruby ever to appear at auction, with sales expectations of greater than $30 Million. The ruby sold as part of Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction on June 8.Quig Bruning, head of Sotheby’s Jewelry in New York, told the UK press agency PA Media that he was entranced after seeing the E
  
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• 55-Carat Ruby of ‘Unprecedented Size’ Sells for $34.8 M. at Sotheby’s

  12-06-2023 19:42 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s has auctioned off a 55.22 carat ruby in New York for $34.8 million. The unmounted stone was unveiled by the auction house in Dubai in May. It was promoted as the largest and most valuable ruby ever to appear at auction, with sales expectations of greater than $30 Million. The ruby sold as part of Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction on June 8.Quig Bruning, head of Sotheby’s Jewelry in New York, told the UK press agency PA Media that he was entranced after seeing the E
  
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• Crimean Treasures to Go to Ukraine after Decade of Legal Battles

  12-06-2023 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  In 2013, four Crimean museums loaned 300 artifacts to the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam for the exhibition “Crimea — Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea.” The exhibition went on tour to Germany in 2014, during which time Russia invaded Crimea, eventually annexing it from Ukraine. The Dutch museum was unsure whether to return the Crimean works to Ukraine or to museums in Crimea, which is now under Russian control, and ended up putting the works in storage.Nearly a decade of l
  
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• Chevron Says It Destroyed Public Art Piece in California Near Refinery

  12-06-2023 17:25 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, Chevron said that it had removed a public art project installed on a fence near the company’s refinery in Richmond, California. At the time, it was unclear if the work had been placed in storage or if it had been disposed of. A Chevron spokesperson told ARTnews late Friday that the piece had been destroyed.“The wood was placed in our wood bin weeks ago when it was taken down. It has been processed with other wood since then,” the spokesperson told ARTnews in an email
  
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• A Haven for Modern Art in Buffalo Returns, Doubling in Size and Ambition

  12-06-2023 16:58 via artnews.com
  
  Sometimes, all you need to thrive as an institution is a good permanent collection hang, no special exhibitions necessary. The Albright-Knox Gallery, now reopened as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum after a four-year closure, stands as proof.Rather than kicking things off with a blockbuster, the museum is counting on its treasure-filled holdings to lure visitors. Those holdings are rich in modern and postwar art, and have now been filled in with contemporary jewels too. The permanent collection accoun
  
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• Dutch Court Sends Crimean Artifacts to Ukraine, Takashi Murakami Talks AI, and More: Morning Links for June 12, 2023

  12-06-2023 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesLEGAL AFFAIRS. When Russia annexed the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014, the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam was faced with a thorny legal issue. It was hosting a show of some 300 prized historical artifacts from Crimea that were on loan from museums in the region and the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Where should the material go when t
  
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