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• KAWS Pays $17 M. for Brooklyn Building, Contested Banksy Sculpture Withdrawn from Auction, and More: Morning Links from November 19, 2019

  19-11-2019 15:00 via ARTnews.com
  
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• Kerouac waited by a newsstand all night for a forthcoming review of his book. “Its publication is a historic occasion,” the review began. It only got better

  14-12-2019 16:41 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Kerouac waited by a newsstand all night for a forthcoming review of his book. “Its publication is a historic occasion,” the review began. It only got better
  
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• The hipster cometh. Behind the “language of hip” you’re likely to find white people appropriating black aesthetics. Lauren Michele Jackson explains

  14-12-2019 03:32 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  The hipster cometh. Behind the “language of hip” you’re likely to find white people appropriating black aesthetics. Lauren Michele Jackson explains
  
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• Meritocracy is ruining everything, writes a Yale Law professor. But take a step back: Does that merely reflect the elitism of academia?

  14-12-2019 03:32 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Meritocracy is ruining everything, writes a Yale Law professor. But take a step back: Does that merely reflect the elitism of academia?
  
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• Kerouac waited by a newsstand all night for a forthcoming review. “Its publication is a historic occasion,” it began. It only got better

  14-12-2019 03:32 via Arts & Letters Daily
  Kerouac waited by a newsstand all night for a forthcoming review. “Its publication is a historic occasion,” it began. It only got better
  
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• See Inside a $18.5 M. New York Townhouse Decorated by Julian Schnabel and His Former Wife

  14-12-2019 00:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  A five-story townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate townhouse at 132 West 11th Street has been in the Schnabel family since the 1990s. Though the artist and his first wife, art collector Jacqueline Schnabel, did not reside there—they lived a few blocks away—the i
  
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• See Inside a $18.5 M. New York Town House Decorated by Julian Schnabel and His Former Wife

  14-12-2019 00:32 via ARTnews.com
  
  A five-story town house in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate town house at 132 West 11th Street has been in the Schnabel family since the 1990s. Though the artist and his first wife, art collector Jacqueline Schnabel, did not reside there—they lived a few blocks away—the interior
  
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• View an $18.5 M. New York Townhouse Designed by Julian Schnabel

  14-12-2019 00:30 via ARTnews.com
  
  A five-story townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate townhouse at 132 West 11th Street has been in the Schnabel family since the 1990s. Though the artist and his first wife, art collector Jacqueline Schnabel, did not reside there—they lived a few blocks away—the i
  
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• New Court Filing Reveals Further Details in Case of Embattled Dealer Inigo Philbrick

  14-12-2019 00:17 via ARTnews.com
  
  Rudolf Stingel’s 2012 painting Untitled which sold at Christie’s New York in May for $6.5 million but has not been paid for in full, remains under lock and key at the auction house while a battle over its ownership unfolds in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Today, one of the vying parties filed a fresh memorandum of law that further unpacks the murky nature of who exactly holds clear title to the painting.
  The selling agent behind the disputed painting, a 95-by-76-inch bl
  
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• A Look into $18.5 M. New York Townhouse Decorated by Julian Schnabel and His Former Wife

  13-12-2019 23:22 via ARTnews.com
  
  A five-story townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate townhouse at 132 West 11th Street has been in the Schnabel family since the 1990s. Though the artist and his first wife, art collector Jacqueline Schnabel, did not reside there—they lived a few blocks away—the i
  
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• See Inside $18.5 M. New York Townhouse Decorated by Julian Schnabel and His Former Wife

  13-12-2019 23:08 via ARTnews.com
  
  A five-story townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood that was decorated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has hit the market for the first time in 30 years—with a price tag of $18.5 million. Roughly 6,600 square feet, the Italianate townhouse at 132 West 11th Street has been in the Schnabel family since the 1990s. Though the artist and his first wife, art collector Jacqueline Schnabel, did not reside there—they lived a few blocks away—the i
  
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• Saskia Noor van Imhoff on Materials with Contradictory Functions

  13-12-2019 20:57 via ARTnews.com
  
  Saskia Noor van Imhoff is an Amsterdam-based artist whose photographs and sculptures explore systems of perception. She often takes apart familiar objects and recontextualizes them, always building on her own previous works. Her show of new pieces at Grimm gallery in New York, titled “#+40.00,” incorporates colored plexiglass, neon tubing, plaster molds, and aluminum casts, as well as parts of a museum climate control system. These last components are from the humidifier van Imhoff u
  
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• Brent Wadden’s Abstract Weavings Are Equal Parts Anni and Josef Albers

  13-12-2019 17:45 via ARTnews.com
  
  Anni and Josef Albers did not have children. If they had, the kids might have grown up to make work like Brent Wadden’s. The Canadian artist uses Anni’s medium, weaving, to create abstract “paintings” whose color interactions would have made Josef proud.
  Wadden trained as a painter, but he has been working exclusively as a weaver for almost a decade now, producing textiles by hand. Ten new examples were on view in his recent exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, &ldquo
  
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• 50 Art Collectors to Watch, Schnabel-Designed Home Lists for $18.5 M., and More: Morning Links from December 13, 2019

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  Sotheby’s New York will stage an auction of contemporary Indigenous art today, marking the first such sale outside of Australia and Europe by a major international house.The Sydney Morning Herald
  A Greenwich Village townhouse designed by Julian Schnabel and his former wife, Jacqueline Schnabel, is on the market.The Wall Street Journal
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• 50 Art Collectors to Watch, Onetime Schnabel Home Lists for $18.5 M., and More: Morning Links from December 13, 2019

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  Sotheby’s New York will stage an auction of contemporary Indigenous art today, marking the first such sale outside of Australia and Europe by a major international house.The Sydney Morning Herald
  A Greenwich Village townhouse once home to the Schnabel family has listed for $18.5 million. Property records show its current owner is Julian Schnabel&r
  
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• 50 Art Collectors to Watch

  13-12-2019 14:10 via ARTnews.com
  
  Looking to the future of collecting, ARTnews consulted our expert sources—top dealers, curators, auction house specialists, collectors, and other art-world players—to round up the 50 most promising, up-and-coming collections being built today around the world. (For more on the field of art collecting, view our 30th-anniversary Top 200 list.)
  Alireza Abrishamchi
  LondonTelecom and investmentsOld Masters; postwar and contemporary art
  Troy CarterLos AngelesEntertainmentContemporary art,
  
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• The long, glorious history of beer. Consider the epic Gilgamesh: After seven jugs, our hero “was suddenly joyful, and sang aloud”

  13-12-2019 03:26 via Arts & Letters Daily
  The long, glorious history of beer. Consider the epic Gilgamesh: After seven jugs, our hero “was suddenly joyful, and sang aloud”
  
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• Jean Genet put the idea of evil at the heart of his thinking. He inhabited the dualistic universe of monotheism even as he inverted its core values.

  13-12-2019 03:26 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  Jean Genet put the idea of evil at the heart of his thinking. He inhabited the dualistic universe of monotheism even as he inverted its core values.
  
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• In praise of Grace Paley: “In Paley you hear America singing, yes, but also: belly-aching, kvetching, teasing…”

  13-12-2019 03:26 via Arts & Letters Daily
  
  In praise of Grace Paley: “In Paley you hear America singing, yes, but also: belly-aching, kvetching, teasing…”
  
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• Sources: George Condo, Whose Paintings Sell for Up to $6 M. at Auction, In Talks to Join Hauser & Wirth Gallery

  12-12-2019 22:52 via ARTnews.com
  
  The art market has been rife lately with news of artists leaving one gallery for another. On Thursday, news broke that the young painter Avery Singer would head to Hauser & Wirth. But that is not the only new painter that the international heavyweight may be taking on. George Condo, 62, whose work has sold for as much as $6 million at auction, is in talks to join Hauser & Wirth, according to several credible sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
  Reached Thursday afternoon, a re
  
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• Hirshhorn Staffer Nabs ‘Registrar of the Year’ Award, Gives $5,000 Prize to Smithsonian Internship Program

  12-12-2019 22:41 via ARTnews.com
  
  Rajshree Solanki, who is responsible for managing the 12,000 works held by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., as its chief registrar, received the first annual Registrar of the Year award at a ceremony at Artist’s Space in New York on Wednesday. The newly created prize, which was established by the fine-art logistics company Atelier 4, comes with $5,000, and was presented after a multi-part nomination and judging process.
  However, Solanki will not be taking home
  
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• Portland’s Artist-Run Spaces Thrive Under the Radar

  12-12-2019 22:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  Last fall I moved back to Portland after a decade-long absence. When I lived here from 1998 to mid-2009, the national DIY trend of that era often manifested itself in Portland’s art scene as a series of ambitious, sprawling curatorial projects. For example, 2003 saw the debut of both Modern Zoo, a scrappy summer-long exhibition series in a 120,000-square-foot warehouse under the St. Johns Bridge, as well as Core Sample, a ten-day 140-artist series of exhibitions produced by volunteers as a
  
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• Recently Discovered Cave Paintings May Be World’s Oldest Figurative Artworks

  12-12-2019 21:00 via ARTnews.com
  
  The archaeologist Hamrullah may have discovered the world’s earliest narrative and figurative artwork in the Maros-Pangkep limestone cave system of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island. According to the New York Times, the painting, which depicts eight figures approaching wild pigs, dates back some 44,000 years, and a scientific paper published this week reports that the work is “the oldest pictorial record of storytelling and the earliest figurative artwork in the world.” Hamrullah,
  
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• Stolen Gustav Klimt Painting May Have Been Discovered in an Italian Gallery’s Wall

  12-12-2019 20:21 via ARTnews.com
  
  Earlier this week, a gardener clearing ivy at the Ricci Oddi Modern Art gallery in Italy made an astonishing discovery: behind a metal panel adorning the gallery’s exterior wall was a painting half-hidden by a black trash bag. Immediately, staff at the gallery began to wonder if the vivid picture they found was Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady (1916–17), a painting valued at a $66 million and stolen from the space almost 23 years ago.
  Now, police have confiscated the canvas as
  
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• Criminal Charges Against Swiss Dealer Accused of Fraud Dropped in Monaco, as Bouvier Affair Continues to Churn

  12-12-2019 20:14 via ARTnews.com
  
  Never let it be said that the “Bouvier affair” is a dull one.
  A criminal case in the Principality of Monaco against Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier was dismissed on Thursday, according to court documents reviewed by ARTnews, marking the latest twist in a long-running legal affair that has seeped into the highest echelons of the art world.
  In 2015, Bouvier was charged with fraud and money laundering in Monaco. (He denied the allegations.) He had sold more than $2 billion in artwork to D
  
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• As Arts Institutions Expand Digital Programming, Rhizome Names New Editor and Curator

  12-12-2019 19:57 via ARTnews.com
  
  While museums have been rapidly expanding their digital programming in recent years, the New Museum in New York has been at it longer than most, thanks to its 2002 acquisition of the art-and-technology nonprofit Rhizome. Now that closely watched organization has tapped one of its staffers for a new leadership position.
  Rhizome has named Aria Dean as its new editor and curator. Dean, who also works independently as an artist, was previously the organization’s assistant curator of net art an
  
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• The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors at 30 and Beyond

  12-12-2019 19:37 via ARTnews.com
  
  Times have changed since ARTnews started the Top 200 Collectors list 30 years ago. Back then, the artworks breaking records at auction tended to be Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which sold for $82.5 million in 1990, held the record for the highest-priced painting at auction for 14 years, and the people who bought art at such scale tended to come from small and rarefied circles.
  As the recession of the mid-1990s wore off, the mark
  
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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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• For Dealer Friedrich Petzel, a Successful Gallery Is About Precision, Not Expansion

  12-12-2019 17:19 via ARTnews.com
  
  One morning a couple weeks ago, the art dealer Friedrich Petzel was sitting in a backroom of his Upper East Side space—on the third floor of an elegant townhouse—and discussing his gallery’s future. His downstairs neighbor, the veteran dealer of American modernism Vivian Horan, had told him earlier this year that she was retiring, he said, and she asked him if he might be interested in taking over her space. “Absolutely it’s of interest to me because it’s the
  
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• Art Berlin Cancels Future Fairs, Venice Conservation Efforts, and More: Morning Links from December 12, 2019

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  These are the art controversies that defined the 2010s. [ARTnews]
  According to a survey by an advocacy group, 31 percent of solo shows at 20 top museums in Spain were by women. [El País]
  After three editions, Art Berlin, a prominent fair in the German capital, will no longer take place. A location for its 2020 edition wasn’t secured, and the
  
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