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• ‘He Was Constantly Creating’: Little-Seen Barkley Hendricks Photos Get a New York Showcase

  16-06-2023 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  The artist Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in 2017, was known for his sleek, large-scale paintings of his friends. He was less widely known for the photographs taken while he was producing those paintings. Only recently did researchers and family members overseeing his archives begin to organize and dissect this understudied part of his career focused on images. After his death, his widow and Jack Shainman, his longtime New York dealer, worked to 60 photographs he’d taken and printed betwee
  
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• Huang Yongyu, Chinese Artist Behind Controversial Zodiac Stamp, Dies at 98

  16-06-2023 23:06 via artnews.com
  
  Huang Yongyu, a Chinese artist known for his playful ink paintings of animals and flowers, has died at the age of 98. His family announced he had passed on June 13 due to an unspecified illness, and that no farewell or mourning ceremonies were scheduled in accordance with his last wishes.The self-taught artist also produced woodblock prints, ink-wash paintings, sculpture, poetry, autobiographical novels, and three zodiac stamp designs. Born in Hunan province in 1924, Huang never attended art sch
  
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• Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum Is Reviewing Its Collection of Human Remains. Here’s Why That Matters for Disability Representation.

  16-06-2023 21:18 via artnews.com
  
  Riva Lehrer is a Disabled artist and writer based in Chicago. She teaches Medical Humanites at Northwestern University.A few days ago, I received a barrage of messages about the mysterious kerfuffle at the Mütter Museum. The Philadelphia institution has long collected, preserved, and displayed human specimens in order to “help the public appreciate the mysteries and beauty of the human body while understanding the history of diagnosis and treatment,” per their website.Recently,
  
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• 5 Art Novels to Read This Summer

  16-06-2023 20:45 via artnews.com
  
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. This summer, catch up on the best five art novels published this year. They range from a beguiling dive into the psyche of a late performance artist shattering the barrier between fact and fiction, to a hilarious portrait of creativity and class.
  
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• Suspects Charged in 20-Year-Old Museum Theft of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol Artworks

  16-06-2023 20:28 via artnews.com
  
  Federal charges have been brought against nine people accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of sports memorabilia and fine art, including an Andy Warhol silkscreen and a Jackson Pollock painting, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Gerard M. Karam announced Thursday.The thievery ring operated for more than two decades at 20 museums and stores across the East Coast United States and parts of the Midwest. According to Karam’s statement, prosecutors believe silve
  
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• Rembrandt’s ‘The Standard Bearer’ Debuts at the Rijksmuseum with Free Entry

  16-06-2023 18:38 via artnews.com
  
  Following a nationwide tour, Rembrandt’s The Standard Bearer (1636) was unveiled at the Rijksmuseum on Thursday. Entrance fees to the museum will be waived to mark the event on Saturday.The Standard Bearer is one of the first canvases the 17th-century Dutch artist made after moving to Amsterdam. Painted right after the Rembrandt turned 30 years old, it is considered the final major work by the artist to change hands from private owners to a public institution.The painting comes with a
  
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• Banksy is Back: Elusive Artist’s First Official Show in 14 Years to Open in Glasgow

  16-06-2023 18:24 via artnews.com
  
  For the first time since 2009, an exhibition of Banksy works authorized by the mysterious maestro of street art will be on view to the public, according to a story published by The Guardian.The show, titled “Cut & Run”, will not only feature Banksy’s paintings, but many of the stencils used in his practice which have—until now—been held under lock and key in order protect the artist from police. “I’ve kept these stencils hidden away fo
  
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• Who Was Charmion von Wiegand and Why Is She Important?

  16-06-2023 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  What would she do if she could do anything, Charmion von Wiegand’s psychoanalyst asked her in 1927. “Why, paint, of course,” she answered. When he asked why she wasn’t doing that, she lamented, “It’s too late in life to be a painter.” At the time, Von Wiegand was a 31-year-old writer living in Connecticut who had already started establishing herself as a journalist. She would still write, mostly about art and social issues, for a few more decades. But de
  
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• Elena Filipovic Becomes Director of Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Basel

  16-06-2023 14:18 via artnews.com
  
  Kunsthalle Basel curator Elena Filipovic will become the director of the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland, where she will start in that new position on June 1, 2024. The museum’s current leader since 2016, Josef Helfenstein, is set to retire.At the Kunsthalle Basel, Filipovic has developed a closely watched program that has featured an array of celebrated shows, including ones for Michael Armitage, Anicka Yi, Dora Budor, Deana Lawson, Wong Ping, and many more. The two current shows she cur
  
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• Elena Filipovic Becomes Director of Switzerland’s Kunsthalle Basel

  16-06-2023 14:18 via artnews.com
  
  Curator Elena Filipovic will once again become the director of the Kunsthalle Basel, the taste-making Swiss contemporary art institution where she is currently curator. She will start in that new position on June 1, 2024. The museum’s current leader, Josef Helfenstein, the current director since 2016, is set to retire.Filipovic also briefly led the Kunstmuseum Basel between 2014 and 2016, becoming the first woman to do so at the time. Since 2016, she has been a driving force at the Kunstha
  
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• Elena Filipovic Becomes Director of Switzerland’s Kunsthalle Basel for a Second Time

  16-06-2023 14:18 via artnews.com
  
  Curator Elena Filipovic will once again become the director of the Kunsthalle Basel, the taste-making Swiss contemporary art institution where she is currently curator. She will start in that new position on June 1, 2024. The museum’s current leader, Josef Helfenstein, the current director since 2016, is set to retire.Filipovic also briefly led the museum between 2014 and 2016, becoming the first woman to do so at the time, and has remained a driving force there as curator. She has develop
  
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• Nine Charged in Art and Memorabilia Thefts, Artist Huang Yongyu Dies at 98, and More: Morning Links for June 16, 2023

  16-06-2023 14:07 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE LONG ARM OF THE LAW. On Thursday, nine Pennsylvania residents were charged by federal officials with stealing art, sports collectibles, and more from various places over two decades, the Associated Press reports. Eight of the suspects have surrendered to law enforcement, and some have taken pleas agreements. The alleged crimes
  
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• Sotheby’s 3AC Bankruptcy Auction Nets $11 Million In What Might Be Final Hurrah for NFTs

  16-06-2023 02:39 via artnews.com
  
  After the founders of a crypto firm called Three Arrows Capital purchased a coveted Dmitri Cherniak NFT for $5.8 million in August 2021, they kept a printed version of the digital artwork in their Singapore offices — behind the billiards table and slightly left of the coffee creamer.That carefree attitude appeared to have extended to the doomed hedge fund’s portfolio, as the world realized last year when Three Arrows Capital declared bankruptcy and its founders, Kyle Davies and Su Zh
  
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