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• Jack Shainman Gallery Fires Back at Odili Donald Odita, Claiming He Significantly Overpriced His Art

  01-12-2025 22:26 via artnews.com
  Jack Shainman Gallery has responded at length to a lawsuit brought by artist Odili Donald Odita, who previously sued the New York gallery, alleging that it wouldn’t return his artworks to him.In October, Odita, an artist whose work has appeared in exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, claimed that those artworks were worth $1.12 million. But in a filing from late November, Jack Shainman Gallery said those artworks were actually worth far less—$650,000, according to the document&md
  
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• A Museum Dedicated to Works from the Sonnabend Collection Opens in Mantua, Italy

  01-12-2025 22:08 via artnews.com
  A museum dedicated to works from art dealer Ileana Sonnabend’s legendary collection opened this past weekend in the Renaissance city of Mantua, Italy, thanks to a partnership with the Sonnabend Foundation. The nearly 100 artworks on display, valued at $270 million, include masterpieces by Pop artists, Arte Povera sculptors, and contemporary artists.With her second husband Michael Sonnabend, Ileana Sonnabend (1914–2007) opened Sonnabend Gallery in 1962 in Paris. They closed it in 1968
  
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• Rediscovered Rubens Painting Sells for $2.7 M. in France

  01-12-2025 21:43 via artnews.com
  A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, unseen for four centuries, has just sold at auction in Versailles for $2.7 million.Created in 1613, the painting shows Jesus Christ on the cross, a subject the Flemish Baroque Master returned to frequently. The work was discovered in a private Paris townhouse by auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat as he prepared the property for sale.His namesake auction house, Osenat, offered the painting on Sunday with an estimated value of €1 million&nd
  
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• Artist Sung Tieu Sells Work to Fund New Board Member for Berlin’s KW Institute

  01-12-2025 21:38 via artnews.com
  In a somewhat unusual move, artist Sung Tieu has agreed to sell the 2025 work Declaration of Donation for €25,000 with proceeds from the sale going to the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin to cover a five-year term for a new board member, curator Mi You, who was nominated by Tieu.Created for her exhibition “1992, 2025” at KW earlier this year, Declaration of Donation consists of a contract that has been engraved on four mirrors. The contract criticizes KW for charging a
  
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• Ancient Artifacts Help Archaeologists Identify When Egyptian Pharaoh Ruled

  01-12-2025 21:28 via artnews.com
  Two scholars used radiocarbon dating to determine when Pharaoh Nebpehtire Ahmose reigned over Egypt, providing scholars with the ability to better understand events described in the Book of Exodus and a volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea.The study, published in Plos One last month, was conducted by Hendrik J. Bruins from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and Johannes van der Plicht from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.It considers the timeline of the Thera-Santori
  
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• Antonio Canova’s Monumental Horse Sculpture Back on View After 50 Years in Storage

  01-12-2025 21:04 via artnews.com
  A monumental horse sculpture by Antonio Canova, one of the most well-known Italian Neoclassical sculptors, has undergone an extensive restoration project and is back on view, after spending half a century in storage at the Museo Civico di Bassano. According to Finestre sull’Arte, an Italian news site, the museum in Bassano del Grappa acquired the sculpture in 1849, courtesy of Canova’s brother, who arranged for many of his plaster casts, sketches, and other documents to be sent to th
  
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• High Art, Paris Gallery That Spun Emerging Artists Into Stars, Closes After 12 Years

  01-12-2025 18:38 via artnews.com
  High Art, a taste-making Paris gallery that brought artists ranging from Lucy Bull to Julien Creuzet into the eye of the broader art world, will close its physical space after 12 years in operation. Its last exhibition closed in July.“Entering a new chapter, we will reform and transition toward collaborations, offsite exhibitions and individual artworks,” the gallery wrote on Instagram on Friday. “How this will take shape in the coming years is still to be determined, but we re
  
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• Con Artist Charged for Fraudulent Sale of Courbet Painting

  01-12-2025 18:13 via artnews.com
  An American con artist has been charged for allegedly defrauding a London gallery owner over an early Gustave Courbet painting.Thomas Doyle, 68, was arrested on November 14 by members of the FBI’s Art Crime Team and charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum prison term of 20 years. According to court documents filed in a New York district court, London gallery owner Patrick Matthiesen bought the 1844 oil painting, Mother and Child on a Hammock, at a Frenc
  
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• After Long Legal Battle, Madrid Court Rules Spanish Count Must Pay His Brother Nearly $1 M. After Selling Goya Portrait

  01-12-2025 18:03 via artnews.com
  A portrait of a young aristocrat, painted ca. 1795–1800 by Spanish master Francisco de Goya, has been at the center of a long-running dispute between two aristocratic Spanish brothers. Now, a Madrid court has ruled that Fernando Ramírez de Haro, 10th Marquess of Villanueva del Duero and husband of Esperanza Aguirre, Spain’s former minister of education and culture and a leader in the conservative Popular Party, must pay his brother, author and playwright Íñigo Ra
  
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• Shows to See During Miami Art Week

  01-12-2025 18:02 via artnews.com
  During the first week of December, as the art world descends upon Florida’s Magic City, fairs such as Art Basel Miami, Untitled Art, and NADA Miami tend to be the main attraction. But those fairs are hardly the only places to see art in the city this week. Below, we’ve compiled a list of the gallery shows our editors are most excited to see in Miami, and we’ve partnered with See Saw to create a map of our picks.On the See Saw app, search #artnews in the Miami section to view ou
  
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• Louvre Museum Raises Ticket Prices for Non-European Foreigners

  01-12-2025 17:45 via artnews.com
  Following the heist of France’s crown jewels that captured global attention, foreign tourists will pay the cost.The Louvre Museum board voted on Thursday to raise its ticket prices by 45 percent for visitors outside the European Economic Area, the New York Times reported. The increase is part of a larger effort to raise funds to support infrastructure changes at the institution.Starting on January 14, tourists will pay €32 ($37) up from the current price at €22 ($25). This will i
  
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• Neolithic Pits Near Stonehenge Might Have Channeled the Underworld, Archaeologists Argue

  01-12-2025 17:40 via artnews.com
  An enormous pit circle near Stonehenge was created by Neolithic-era humans who might have conceived it as a portal to the underworld, according to archaeologists behind a newly published paper.“The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they built the great stone monument in Wiltshire,” the Guardian reports, “but the team believes the makers of the Durrington pit circle were more interested in an underworld.”The Durrington circle comprises some 20
  
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• FLAG Art Foundation Endows £200,000 Artist Prize at London’s Serpentine Galleries

  01-12-2025 16:51 via artnews.com
  The New York–based FLAG Art Foundation will give £1 million ($1.3 million) to the Serpentine Galleries in London to endow a new artist prize.The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, as it will be called, will be awarded every other year to an international artist who will receive £200,000 ($265,000), as well as an exhibition and programming at both institutions and an accompanying catalog.The winning artists in this decade-long partnership can be of any age and based anywher
  
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• Dealers Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen Split Up, Russia Moves to Label Pussy Riot an Extremist Organization: Morning Links for December 1, 2025

  01-12-2025 15:31 via artnews.com
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  AN AMICABLE SPLIT. Dealer Michael Werner, founder of Michael Werner Gallery, and his longtime partner Gordon VeneKlasen are calling time on their joint business venture. In a statement to ARTnews, they said that—after 35 years of collaboration—they have mutually decided to separate, though they will still work together on select artist projects and museum exhibitions involving the gallery’s roster of artists. Following the split, each dealer will pursue an in
  
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• Dealers Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen Will End Partnership, Operate Separate Galleries

  01-12-2025 13:00 via artnews.com
  Michael Werner, the founder of his eponymous gallery, and Gordon VeneKlasen, a longtime partner of that gallery, will dissolve their partnership at the beginning of next year.“After 35 years of collaboration, Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen announce their separation as partners in Michael Werner Gallery,” Werner and VeneKlasen said in a joint statement to ARTnews. “Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen will continue to collaborate on select artist projects, and museum exhib
  
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• Dealers Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen End Partnership, Will Operate Separate Galleries

  01-12-2025 13:00 via artnews.com
  Michael Werner, the founder of his eponymous gallery, and Gordon VeneKlasen, a longtime partner of that gallery, will dissolve their partnership at the beginning of next year.“After 35 years of collaboration, Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen announce their separation as partners in Michael Werner Gallery,” Werner and VeneKlasen said in a joint statement to ARTnews. “Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen will continue to collaborate on select artist projects, and museum exhib
  
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• The ‘Pressure’ of Richard Hunt’s Sculptures Take Center Stage in ICA Miami Survey

  01-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  “The material basis of my sculpture is metallic opportunities. Bringing pressure to the right points, I draw the aesthetic out of the industrial process,” Richard Hunt, one of the most prolific public sculptors in the United States, wrote in a notebook decades ago.This idea of pressure was central to Hunt’s theory about sculpture. Now that will be on full display in the late artist’s first institutional survey since his death at 88 in 2023, “Richard Hunt: Pressure,&
  
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• How Caravaggio Painted Class and Clothes

  01-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio by Elizabeth Currie. It releases in December from Reaktion Books.
  More than any other work by Caravaggio, closely observed fabrics and dress styles are fundamental to the narrative of The Cardsharps. The differences between the figures’ garments are juxtaposed to provide clues about their relationship and possible identities. Of the three, the naive youth on the left is shown in the
  
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