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• Did Sturtevant Invent the Meme?

  12-12-2019 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  Sturtevant: Dark Threat of Absence, 2002, two-channel video, 14 minutes and 37 seconds; at Freedman Fitzpatrick.
  Sturtevant didn’t copy, appropriate, or forge; Sturtevant repeated. The artist, who died in 2014, at age eighty-nine, is best known for paintings and sculptures that redo the signature works of other artists, ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Felix Gonzalez-Torres. When she took up video in the new millennium, Sturtevant often repeated the juicy burgers and waving flags of commerci
  
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• The First Malta Biennale Draws Visitors to a Surreal Fortress

  24-04-2024 22:52 via artnews.com
  
  Gozo, the second largest of the Maltese islands in the Mediterranean Sea and located between Northern Libya and Southern Italy, was the latest site of Mexican artist Pedro Reyes’s collaborative project “Artists Against the Atomic Bomb.” For years, Reyes has commissioned artists to produce posters calling for nuclear disarmament. In its latest iteration, he hung them from industrial wires running across the island’s narrow streets. The installation was one of more than 80
  
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• Centre Pompidou’s Economic Model is Unstable, France’s Court of Auditors Reports

  24-04-2024 20:05 via artnews.com
  
  An audit report conducted by France’s Court of Auditors revealed that the Centre Pompidou’s economic model is unsustainable. The museum faces financial strain from an ongoing renovation project of its primary institution in Paris and the creation of a new branch in Massy, France.“At the moment, let us say, the Centre Pompidou does not have the means to finance its development and investment projects on its own,” president of the Court of Auditors Pierre Moscovici told Le
  
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• For Paris Olympics, the Louvre will Host Yoga Classes

  24-04-2024 19:57 via artnews.com
  
  Apart from the canvases that line the Louvre’s walls, there typically isn’t much stretching in France’s most famous museum. But with the 2024 Summer Olympics on the horizon, the Louvre is embracing the atmosphere and has announced it will host dance, yoga, and workout classes in the galleries while surrounded works of art, according to the Guardian.The program, called “Run in the Louvre”, launched on Wednesday with visitors enjoying 10-minute sessions incl
  
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• As Surrealism Turns 100, a Look at Its Enduring Legacy

  24-04-2024 18:15 via artnews.com
  
  Few movements in art history have had as lasting a legacy as Surrealism, which utterly transformed our manner of thinking and seeing. In its time, it garnered a remarkable degree of public recognition, and its influence on artists continues to be felt today.This year marks the centennial of the birth of Surrealism with the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto in October 1924. Actually, make that manifestos, plural, as two tracts appearing within weeks of each other vied for the title. The fir
  
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• Turner Prize Names Four Nominees for 40th Edition

  24-04-2024 17:22 via artnews.com
  
  The Turner Prize, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious visual arts honor, has named the four nominees for this year’s edition, which marks 40 years of the program.The nominees are Claudette Johnson, a Black British artist whose feminist figurative work has won renown for decades; Manila-born, London-based Pio Abad, who often examines the legacies of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines; Glasgow-native Jasleen Kaur, who often employs sound and sculpture to reflect on the UK&rsq
  
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• Forge Project Transitions to a Nonprofit, Welcomes Indigenous-led Governance

  24-04-2024 16:10 via artnews.com
  
  Forge Project, an Indigenous-determined cultural organization, has proved ever-evolving since its founding in 2021. Under the leadership of Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation) and Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktityutityu yaktiłhini [Northern Chumash]), Forge now operates a two-building campus located in the Hudson Valley that hosts artists-in-residence and classes on art, music, medicine, and agriculture. In 2021, Forge established a lending collection of Indigenous art, the fir
  
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• Learning from Lagos: Lessons from the Megalopolis’s Growing Art Scene

  24-04-2024 16:09 via artnews.com
  
  When the Lagos Biennial debuted in 2017 at a railway terminal, there was a sense that the event was remarkable for the way it captured the do-for-self disposition of Nigerian artists, who’d been starved for years of institutional support. Directed by the artist Folakunle Oshun, the mood of that edition was makeshift—with scant concern for charting easy paths to navigate a weed-strewn place, or for presenting artworks with any kind of pristine veneer.Oshun’s choice of an unconve
  
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• Centre Pompidou Gets Audit Verdict, Vivienne Westwood’s Wardrobe to Auction, Getty Acquires Major Bartolomeo Manfred and More: Morning Links for April 24, 2024

  24-04-2024 15:55 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESMOVING MONA. Should the Mona Lisa just get a room? That is the question the Louvre is seriously asking. In a meeting earlier this month, Louvre President Laurence des Cars pointed to a photo of the typically jam-packed gallery where Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait sits at the end of a lengthy, switch-back line. “We host visitors poo
  
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• Denver Art Museum Denies Repatriation Requests from Native Alaskan Tribes: Report

  23-04-2024 23:03 via artnews.com
  
  The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has denied repatriation requests from two federally-recognized Native Alaskan Tribes despite the submission of three formal claims and numerous delegation visits. A report in the Denver Post earlier this month detailed the different barriers for Indigenous and Native groups to recover funerary objects and ancestral remains held by museums and prestigious universities in the US, even after the passing of NAGPRA.“They have control of these objects, and they can ma
  
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• First Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Statue Unveiled, with a Smile and Three Corgis, in England

  23-04-2024 21:56 via artnews.com
  
  How does a country honor their longest-serving monarch? The first memorial statue to Queen Elizabeth II, unveiled in England, remembers the queen’s softer side with her favorite dogs.In the quaint English town Oakham, the seven-foot tall bronze statue by Hywel Pratley shows the queen in elegant robes with three corgis at her feet.“What most of us remember about Queen Elizabeth is her warmth,” local dignitary Sarah Furness told the New York Times. “By showing Queen Elizabe
  
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• Sotheby’s to Sell Works from the Collection of Art Director and Steve Jobs Collaborator Tamotsu Yagi

  23-04-2024 21:07 via artnews.com
  
  This summer, Sotheby’s will sell works from the collection of Tamostsu Yagi, the art director that helped cement the fashion-forward reputation of the San Francisco-based apparel company Espirit with the introduction of their signature “graphic look” of the mid 1980s.The sale, which will take place live at Sotheby’s New York on June 5, will be led by Cy Twombly’s 1962 canvass Death of Giuliano de Medici, which carries as estimate in the region of $1 million.Tit
  
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• In Montreal, Two Modernist Giants, Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, Are Put in Unlikely Conversation

  23-04-2024 18:55 via artnews.com
  
  Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, the great naturalists of modernism, both died in 1986, an ocean apart. They were apart nearly every moment of their lives, too. The Wisconsin-born O’Keeffe graduated from art school and moved to New York, where a career whirlwind awaited; Moore, a Brit and eleven years her junior, had his studies interrupted by a draft into the first World War. O’Keeffe eventually left the city for the desert; Moore made his studio in the dewy English countrysi
  
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• Legal Defense for Man Accused of Killing Dealer Brent Sikkema Resigns

  23-04-2024 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  The Brazilian legal team for the man accused of killing New York gallerist Brent Sikkema in Rio de Janeiro in January has resigned.As first reported by Artnet News, attorneys Greg Andrade and Edna de Castro were representing Alejandro Triana Prevez, the 30-year-old Cuban who confessed to a role in the murder of Brent allegedly arranged by the galleriest’s ex-husband, Daniel Sikkema. Following a visit with Prevez at the Bangu 8 prison, where he is awaiting trial, the attorneys sai
  
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• K-Pop Powerhouse ATEEZ on Making History at Coachella, Record Store Day and the Grammy Museum

  23-04-2024 17:59 via artnews.com
  
  Just a day before their second performance at Coachella, K-Pop group ATEEZ gathered at the Grammy Museum for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The eight-piece outfit and its fellow KQ Entertainment boy group xikers are the subject of a pop-up exhibit that opened to the public on April 10.The exhibit spotlights costumes and props worn and used by the group (consisting of members Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho) from their most
  
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• Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger Just Tore Down This Stunning Midcentury Modern Home

  23-04-2024 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  Last year, preservation-minded fans of midcentury modern architecture were devastated when another one of L.A.’s historic gems was surreptitiously demolished with little warning. Located on one of Brentwood’s most prestigious streets, the so-called Zimmerman House by modernist architect Craig Ellwood was razed in a matter of days. In its place, a new and much larger mansion is currently rising.According to the USModernist nonprofit, the Zimmerman house was commiss
  
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• Enigmatic Klimt Portrait Heads to Auction, Union Protests at Guggenheim, a David Lynch Installation, and More: Morning Links for April 22, 2024

  23-04-2024 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESREQUEST PENDING. The Denver Art Museum in Colorado (DAM) has denied a repatriation request from the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Lingít tribal members have submitted three formal claims to the museum since the early 2000s and, in 2017, delegates traveled to the museum from Alaska in pursuit of five cultural objects, including a 170-yea
  
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• Hard Truths: Can a Closing Gallery Get a Little Respect from the Press?

  23-04-2024 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide.It was with a heavy heart that I closed my gallery last fall. Proud of all that the gallery had accomplished over the years, I noted some highlights in a closure announcement that I sent to our mailing list. I was flooded with warm responses, yet it saddened me that no art p
  
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• Houston’s Long-Awaited Rothko Chapel Expansion Breaks Ground

  22-04-2024 23:06 via artnews.com
  
  A $42 million expansion project aimed at adding new buildings, landscaping, and accessibility to the site of the iconic Rothko Chapel recently broke ground in Houston, Texas. Over the next two years, there will be construction of an administration and archives building, a new program center, a guest bungalow for visiting speakers and fellows, a plaza for events, as well as a meditation garden named after Kathleen and Chuck Mullenweg. Work onsite began on April 17.These additions follow a $30 mil
  
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• Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art over Disputed Artwork

  22-04-2024 18:55 via artnews.com
  
  The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has become musea non grata to the Italian government after a years-long dispute over a Pentelic marble copy of a lost bronze by the ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos depicting “the spear-bearer” Doryphoros, The Art Newspaper reported Friday.The over-six-foot-tall sculpture is currently at the MIA, but Italy claims it was looted in the 1970s from the archaeological site at Stabiae and, in February 2022, it requested that the Doryphoros
  
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• Historic Wallace Neff–Designed Home Hits the LA Market for $10.8 M.

  22-04-2024 17:20 via artnews.com
  
  Back in the late 1920s, as he was easing into a lengthy architecture career that would endure for over six decades, Wallace Neff crafted this suburban Los Angeles retreat for early Montgomery Ward leader and Occidental College trustee Charles H. Thorne and his wife Belle. Now, after having been lovingly maintained by the same family for half a century, the alluring Spanish Colonial Revival-style home is on the market in Pasadena for $10.8 million.Sited in the foothills of the
  
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• The Five Most Essential Books About Impressionism

  22-04-2024 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  Any art lover can conjure images of Impressionism, a mode of painting beloved for its lush landscapes and dazzling plays of light. But as these five texts show, the movement now celebrating its 150th anniversary was diverse in its reckoning with changing social dynamics.
  
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• Italy Bars Loans to Minneapolis Museum, Elusive Star Trek Prop Resurfaces, Yoko Ono Wins Award for Lifetime Achievement, and More: Morning Links for April 22, 2024

  22-04-2024 15:20 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESMUSEUM EMBARGO. Italy’s culture ministry has barred any further art loans to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), because it claims the institution refuses to return a Roman marble statue of Doryphoros, which Italy believes was looted near Pompeii in the 1970’s. The MIA feels differently, and has argued the first or second-century sculpture
  
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• Indigenous Artists Take Venice Biennale’s Top Prizes as Mataaho Collective, Archie Moore Win Big

  20-04-2024 12:48 via artnews.com
  
  With the 2024 Venice Biennale now officially open to the public, the massive Italian art festival announced the winners of its three juried prizes during a press conference this morning.Related ArticlesOur Critics Predict the Golden Lion Winners at the 2024 Venice Biennale In the Venice Biennale's Historical Sections, Overlooked 20th-Century Figures Come into Focus The exhibition’s top prizes both went to Indigenous artists, with the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition going t
  
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• Stolen Salvator Rosa Painting Returned To Oxford University Gallery After Four Years

  20-04-2024 04:14 via artnews.com
  
  A 17th-century painting stolen from an art gallery at the University of Oxford more than four years ago was recently recovered in Romania. Salvator Rosa’s Baroque landscape work A Rocky Coast, with Soldiers Studying a Plan was stolen from the Christ Church Picture Gallery on March 14, 2020. The two other works stolen that day, Anthony van Dyck’s A Soldier on Horseback (ca. 1617) and A Boy Drinking (ca. 1580) by Annibale Carracci , are still missing. They had been on display at the re
  
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• Venice Diary Day 3: The Biennale’s Best Pavilions Capture the Absurdity of Art in this Moment

  19-04-2024 23:52 via artnews.com
  
  I have a favorite pavilion—if you’ll permit me a superlative, despite not having seen every single one. For five days, I ran around Venice pounding cappuccinos, my step count uptick fueled by FOMO. Still, this was not enough time to see everything I wanted. (Is it just me, or are there more good collateral shows than ever before?)Never mind—I can’t get the Austria pavilion out of my head. There, in the Giardini, the Ukrainian ballet dancer Oksana Serheieva rehearses at th
  
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• In the Venice Biennale’s Historical Sections, Overlooked 20th-Century Figures Come into Focus

  19-04-2024 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  If you take a look at a given artist list for a recurring exhibition over the past hundred years, you’ll most certainly find yourself recognizing quite a few names (several if it was a consequential show), while also wondering to yourself who are some of these artists you’ve never heard of and what about their work drew the curators to them, only for them to become a footnote in art history.In many ways, resurrecting artists like those is the central concern of one half of the 2024 V
  
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• Sylvain Amic Named President of Musée d’Orsay and Musée de L’Orangerie in Paris

  19-04-2024 21:05 via artnews.com
  
  Art curator Sylvain Amic has been named the new president of the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie museums in Paris. The 56-year-old Amic will succeed art historian Christophe Leribault, who was asked to lead the Chateau de Versailles. Leribault has already started his new job as president of the former royal residence nearly 12 miles west of Paris. Pierre-Emmanuel Lecerf was the interim president of the Musée d&r
  
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• Man Faces 14 Months in Prison for Selling 145 Fake Peter Max Paintings

  19-04-2024 20:42 via artnews.com
  
  On Wednesday, a Connecticut man was sentenced to 14 months in prison for selling 145 fraudulent paintings by Pop artist Peter Max, the Art Newspaper first reported.Nicholas P. Hatch was arrested for selling counterfeit art in May 2023 and plead guilty to mail fraud. He was sentenced in US District Court in Connecticut and ordered to restitute the $248,600 he made from selling fake paintings to 43 buyers.Per a the criminal complaint filed upon his arrest, Hatch executed his scheme through his com
  
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• Christoph Büchel Returns with Another Venice Provocation, Addressing the War in Gaza, NFTs, and More

  19-04-2024 17:19 via artnews.com
  
  One thing is for sure, and it’s that Christoph Büchel knows how to piss off Venice Biennale attendees.In 2015, for the Icelandic Pavilion, the Swiss artist opened a functioning mosque, billing it as the first religious site of its kind in the city. It was shut down after two weeks, apparently for safety concerns, but by that time, the pavilion had gotten a good deal of negative press. (There were also a few defenders in the wake of the decision to shutter the pavilion.)His contributio
  
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