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• Met Curator Ian Alteveer to Lead MFA Boston’s Contemporary Art Department

  13-06-2023 22:56 via artnews.com
  
  Ian Alteveer, a Metropolitan Museum of Art curator who has been crucial in expanding the New York institution’s contemporary art offerings, will depart his current post for a new one at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.Starting on September 13, Alteveer will become the chair of the MFA’s contemporary art department, bringing to an end a 17-year period at the Met, where Alteveer first began as exhibition assistant on a Jasper Johns show in 2006. He is now a curator of modern and contemp
  
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• Here’s the 2023 IFPDA Print Fair’s Exhibitor List

  13-06-2023 22:53 via artnews.com
  
  The International Fine Art Dealers Association announced the exhibitor list for its 2023 Print Fair in New York on Monday, and it includes over 90 exhibitors spanning seven countries. Major names include Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Galerie Lelong, Marlborough, and Two Palms.This year’s fair, which will take place October 26 to 29 at the Javits Center will mark the 30th anniversary of the fair.“We are extremely happy to return to the Javits in New York with our 30th Anniversary
  
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• The Sales of Big-Ticket Artworks at Art Basel Give a Peek Into the State of the Market

  13-06-2023 22:16 via artnews.com
  
  If you want to know how the art market is performing, one easy benchmark is the number of big-ticket artworks up for sale at Art Basel, and how they did on the fair’s first day.Acquavella had several million-dollar works on offer across its booth, with the highlight being Mark Rothko’s 1955 Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange) for $60 million. By day’s end, the work, which was mounted on its own wall, was still held on reserve. The gallery also had two works by
  
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• LACMA 2023 Art+Film Gala to Honor Chicana Muralist Judy Baca

  13-06-2023 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced the 2023 Art+Film Gala will honor Judy Baca and David Fincher.“Through his award-winning films, David Fincher tells compelling stories and sheds light on human psychology. His unique vision pulls the audience deeper into his cinematic world,” LACMA CEO Michael Govan said in a statement Tuesday morning.Fincher has remained a fixture in contemporary cinema, helming “Mank,” “Se7en,” “
  
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• Art Basel Rides the Picasso Wave with Masterpieces and Some Critique

  13-06-2023 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  The museum world has made it all but impossible for forget that this year marks the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death. There are the 50-some exhibitions organized by the governments of Spain and France, and then there are offbeat events like “It’s Pablo-matic,” the polarizing show at the Brooklyn Museum co-curated by standup comedian Hannah Gadsby.To say that Art Basel has gotten the Picasso memo is a bit redundant—there are Picassos of varying quality and value a
  
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• Basel’s Schaulager Takes Key Video and Film Installations ‘Out of the Box’ and Into Its Galleries

  13-06-2023 19:37 via artnews.com
  
  Many artworks spend a lifetime unseen, sitting in storage facilities after they have been acquired—but not at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland. Founded under the Laurenz Foundation in 2003, the museum combines storage with showcases for contemporary art. Fittingly, its name could be imprecisely translated from the German to “showroom.”While the Schaulager primarily serves as an institution for scholars, researchers, and students, the space occasionally mounts public exhibitions
  
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• Italian Climate Activists Sentenced to Pay More Than $30,000 In Restitution By Vatican Court

  13-06-2023 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  Two environmental activists have been convicted of aggravated damage by a Vatican court and ordered to pay more than $30,000 (€28,148) in restitution after gluing their hands to an ancient statue in the papal museums during a climate change protest last August. On August 18, Guido Viero and Ester Goffi, members of the Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) environmental activist group, glued their hands to the base of the statue Laocoön and His Sons and held up a pink banner that said &l
  
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• Alessio Antoniolli, Director of London Gallery Gasworks, to Depart After 25 Years

  13-06-2023 18:52 via artnews.com
  
  Alessio Antoniolli, director of the London nonprofit visual art organization Gasworks for twenty-five years, will step down.The Italy-born curator said in a statement that he will be devoting his energy to The Triangle Network, a community of more than 90 artist-run spaces across 41 countries. (Gasworks serves as the hub of The Triangle Network.) He will also continue his work with the Fondazione Memmo, a private museum in Rome established by collector Roberto Memmo.Gasworks, located in south Lo
  
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• Letter to the Editor: What the ‘Inconsistencies’ Among Degas Bronze Casts Really Mean, According to a Sculpture Specialist

  13-06-2023 18:18 via artnews.com
  
  Walter Maibaum is a sculpture specialist who, in 2001, brought to light a previously unknown plaster cast of Degas’ Little Dancer. In 2004, he uncovered 73 additional Degas’ plasters. The below letter is a response to a Patricia Failing article published by ARTnews on May 22 that addressed a recent donation of Degas bronzes to Purdue University. With Carol Conn, he runs the Degas Sculpture Project.In her article, Patricia Failing pointed out the “inconsistencies” of Degas
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over Banana Sculpture

  13-06-2023 17:39 via artnews.com
  
  A Miami federal judge ruled this weekin favor of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who, for a few weeks in 2019, was the talk of the art world after his work Comedian, a banana duct-taped to a wall, sold at Art Basel Miami Beach for $120,000. Joe Morford, an artist who claims he pioneered the act of duct tapping fruit to walls in 2000, has sued Cattelan, claiming that Cattelan based the work on his piece Orange and Banana, in which plastic versions of these fruits were affixed
  
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• Sky Hopinka, Sin Wai Kin Win Art Basel’s $33,000 Baloise Art Prize

  13-06-2023 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  Sky Hopinka and Sin Wai Kin are this year’s winners of the Baloise Art Prize, a CHF 30,000 ($33,000) award given out annually to an artist showing in the Statements section of the Swiss edition of Art Basel.Hopinka’s work, the four-channel film Just a Soul Responding, is being shown by New York’s Broadway gallery. The film features images of landscapes with text overlaid referring to colonization and Indigenous histories. “I tell stories that are relevant to an Indigenous
  
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• The Best Booths at Liste, Art Basel’s Satellite Fair

  13-06-2023 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  Ahead of Art Basel, the satellite fair Liste opened to VIPs on Monday. The fair has made the move to the Messe, in Hall 3, around the corner from the main fair in an aim to be more accessible. Bringing together 88 exhibitors, the fair is a place to see work by emerging artists from galleries on the rise, primarily hailing from Europe.Below a look at the best on view.
  
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• David Castillo Makes the Jump to Art Basel’s Swiss Fair, a Rarity for a Miami Gallery

  13-06-2023 16:41 via artnews.com
  
  The Art Basel brand is a powerful thing. Its presence in Miami has arguably helped transform the city into a thriving arts hub. In the nearly two decades since the fair descended on the South Florida, Miami’s museums have matured, its collectors have pioneered a new model of private museums open to the public, and its galleries have developed strong programs.Despite Art Basel’s impact on the city, the influence doesn’t seem to run both ways: the last time a Miami-based gallery
  
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• Artist Shuang Li Embraces Digital Technology’s ‘Wrinkles’ to Combat Corporeal Alienation

  13-06-2023 15:30 via artnews.com
  
  The phenomenon know as mukbang, one of the stranger internet trends to emerge in the past decade, was popular with Korean YouTubers before Shuang Li and many others became fascinated with it during the pandemic. The format is simple: a person eats a meal before a camera, letting their food slop and squish while describing how it tastes using the hushed tones of ASMR. Feeling as though so much greasy food were oozing through the screen, Li began to think about leakage in various forms. She rememb
  
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• U.S. Plans to Rejoin UNESCO, Japan Makes 2024 Venice Biennale Pick, and More: Morning Links for June 13, 2023

  13-06-2023 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE DIPLOMATS. After pulling out of UNESCO in 2017, the United States said that it will rejoin the group, which runs diverse international scientific, cultural, and educational programs, like the World Heritage Sites initiative, the Associated Press reports. Diplomatic leaders from the country have framed the decisio
  
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• On Eve of Basel Unlimited’s Debut, Artist Radcliffe Bailey Has His Sights Set on Bigger Things

  13-06-2023 00:24 via artnews.com
  
  About eight miles from downtown Atlanta sits the Cascade Nature Preserve where, a little over 159 years ago, during the Civil War, Union Army soldiers under General William Sherman launched an offensive against the Confederate railroads in the Battle of Utoy Creek. Artist Radcliffe Bailey lives close by. Over the course of his thirty-plus year career, he has made work similarly entwined with that history, the railroads, the idea of movement across unknowable terrain, and the history, fate,
  
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