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• Masterpieces Saved in Notre Dame Cathedral Fire to be Exhibited in Paris

  17-04-2024 22:20 via artnews.com
  
  A new exhibition at the Mobilier National in Paris will showcase masterpieces that have been restored since the devastating fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in 2019. The national furniture collection’s exhibition, opening on April 24, includes paintings, tapestries, liturgical furniture, and a 82-foot-long rug commissioned by the 19th century French monarch Charles X. Of the 22 paintings set for the show the Mobilier National exhibition, 13 works are from the series titled “the Mays&
  
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• Seven Tribeca Shows to Catch This Week

  01-05-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  As art fairs flood New York—starting with Frieze and followed by Independent—with a myriad of notable auctions, as well as the Whitney Biennial, the scene is definitely bustling this spring.Though there are a sizable amount of well-planned museum shows to add to that mix too, galleries have slowly been taking over the Tribeca neighborhood and their presence has not gone unnoticed. As such, below is a list of six must-see shows during Frieze week in New York.
  
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• Jeff Koons and Nonprofit Startup Clever Noodle Release Children’s Literacy Game

  30-04-2024 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  Clever Noodle, a nonprofit startup known for crafting educational children’s games, has unveiled its latest release in partnership with artist Jeff Koons. The innovative phonics-based game titled Popped! marks a significant stride in merging art and education to cultivate literacy.Designed to transform the task of learning to read into an immersive adventure, Popped! features Koons’s Balloon Dog as its visual centerpiece. Developed in tandem with national literacy experts, the game e
  
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• Jeff Koons and Non-Profit Startup Clever Noodle Release Children’s Literacy Game

  30-04-2024 23:20 via artnews.com
  
  Clever Noodle, a non-profit startup known for crafting educational children’s games, has unveiled its latest release in partnership with the artist Jeff Koons. The innovative phonics-based game, titled “Popped!”, marks a significant stride in merging art and education to cultivate a journey toward literacy.Designed to transform the task of learning to read into an immersive adventure, “Popped!” features Koons’s Balloon Dog as its visual centerpiece. Developed
  
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• Nino Mier Gallery Accused of Underpaying Artists in New Investigation

  30-04-2024 23:17 via artnews.com
  
  Nino Mier Gallery, a fast-expanding operation with spaces in Los Angeles, New York, and Brussels, underpaid some artists that it showed, according to a new investigation published by the Art Newspaper on Tuesday.Julia Halperin reports that documents dated to 2018 and 2019 show that some artists were underpaid by anywhere between 20 percent and 54 percent. Her article centered around transactions involving works by multiple artists, four of which were named: Jana Schröder, Andreas Breunig, T
  
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• Sotheby’s Sees Increasing Shift to Private Sales and MoMA Director Needs to Find Money Annually, Among Top Insights From Talking Galleries

  30-04-2024 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  On the 66th floor of the Spiral office building in Hudson Yards, Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowery told a crowd of art industry insiders he does in fact “sweat bullets” and lose sleep over how much money he has to raise every year. “For sure!” Lowery said to laughs in the crowd, noting the large shifts in the museum’s endowment, building space, size of its collection and annual budget since he joined in 1995. “That $1.75 billion endowment produces $74
  
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• Petrit Halilaj Brings Kids’ Doodles—and Balkan Memories—to the Met’s Rooftop

  30-04-2024 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  A giant spider currently looms over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop, its face crumpled into a knowing smile. The arachnid would seem terrifying if it didn’t also play host to a friendly companion: a tiny bird who is perched atop one crooked leg, arms outstretched as though it were about to take flight.Together, the two form quite the duo. But depending on where you stand, they may both melt away into the skyline behind them, rendering them just another bizarre footnote in th
  
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• Watch Belonging to Titanic’s Richest Passenger Sells for Record-Breaking $1.471 M.

  30-04-2024 19:18 via artnews.com
  
  A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor, the richest man on the Titanic, sold on Saturday at auction for a record–breaking £1.175 million ($1.471 million). It is the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia.The watch was sold by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, England, to a private collector in the United States.Astor, a renowned businessman who made his fortune in the fur trade, was 47 years old when the Titanic sank in 1912. According to accoun
  
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• Two Arrested at the Musée d’Orsay for Attempted Damage to Classified Property

  30-04-2024 19:12 via artnews.com
  
  Two people were arrested on Sunday morning at the entrance of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for being suspected of attempting to damage classified property.The pair were arrested around 11:30am local time and placed in police custody as part of a preliminary investigation. When they were arrested, they were “in possession of a white liquid – glue and a viscous whitish mixture – and were wearing flocked ‘Food Response’ t-shirts,” Le Figaro reported. T
  
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• New Legal Filing Deems Bombing of Gaza’s Saint Porphyrius Church a ‘War Crime’

  30-04-2024 17:41 via artnews.com
  
  Chicago-based human rights organization Justice For All has deemed the bombing of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza by Israel a “war crime” in a new legal filing submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The group has called for an investigation in response.The church is the oldest active church in Gaza, and the third oldest in the world. Its structure was initially built in the 5th century, though the current iteration was built in the 12th century. It was n
  
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• New Fair Founders Are Testing What Gallerists (and Collectors) Want in an Alternative

  30-04-2024 15:54 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.In September 2021, when Rachel Mijares Fick and Rebeca Laliberte launched the first iteration of Future Fair, they intended it to be a cooperative space where they could minimize the hierarchies so conspicuous at the major fairs. Their first in-person edition, held at the Starrett-Le
  
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• Last Hours of Plato’s Life Revealed, Controversy at Nino Mier, Iranian Artist Arrested, and More: Morning Links for April 30, 2024

  30-04-2024 15:11 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESPLATO’S LAST NIGHT. Researchers using new imaging techniques have made groundbreaking discoveries about the life and final hours of the Greek philosopher Plato, narrated in a papyrus scroll that was buried under the volcanic ash of the CE 79 Mount Vesuvius eruption. The scroll found in Herculaneum, a town near Pompeii, recounts how Pla
  
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• Esther Mahlangu’s South African Retrospective Asks: Whose Abstractions Count as “Modern”?

  30-04-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  In 1989 Esther Mahlangu (b. 1935) participated in “Magiciens de la terre” at the Pompidou Center in Paris. One of the first exhibitions to mingle artists from across the globe, it remains influential—largely for the troubling issues it raised. One critic, Rasheed Araeen, pointed out the “biases of the way in which the organizers of the exhibition selected artists—searching for the ‘authentic,’ bypassing anything truly modern in Third World cultures.&rdqu
  
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• 10 Museum Shows to See in New York This Week

  30-04-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  May is undoubtedly a market-oriented art month in New York, with Frieze quickly followed by another fair, Independent, and then a succession of big-ticket auctions to boot. But even as moneyed dealers and collectors flex their might, the city’s museums have plowed forward, mounting some of their most high-profile shows planned for this year.The polarizing Whitney Biennial continues its run at the Whitney Museum; the debate over its curatorial framework is sure to be a mainstay at gallery d
  
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• Senegal Postpones Dakar Biennale by Six Months Amid Widespread Protests

  29-04-2024 22:31 via artnews.com
  
  The 15th edition of the Dakar Biennale, in Dakar, Senegal, will not open on May 16 as originally planned and has instead been postponed to November, the country’s ministry of culture has announcement, citing “the national and international context, and the desire for new authorities in the sector to organize the Biennale under optimal conditions” that match its standards. The exhibition will now run from November 7 to December 7.The late-stage announcement confirms recent
  
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• Who Was Mary Cassatt and Why Was She So Important?

  29-04-2024 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  One of the notable distinctions of the first exhibition of the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. (later known as the Impressionists), held 150 years ago this year, was that women artists were welcome. The Impressionist exhibitions gave women—largely excluded from official contexts—the opportunity to show their work to a public audience, and the American artist Mary Cassatt took full advantage, participating in four out of eight of them. This year Cassatt&rsq
  
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• 18 Impressionist Artworks that Capture the Spirit of the Movement

  29-04-2024 19:11 via artnews.com
  
  Between 1853 and 1870 under Emperor Napoleon III, Paris saw a radical transformation from medieval city to modern metropolis. This renovation saw old buildings razed and narrow streets erased in favor of wide boulevards and more open space for a cleaner and safer city.Just as the city of Paris—not to mention society itself—was transforming radically in the latter part of the 19th century, so too were the styles and subjects of some of the painters of the time. Bucking academic conven
  
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• The Five Most Essential Books About Indigenous Art

  29-04-2024 18:37 via artnews.com
  
  Indigenous arts of North America are expressions of deep cultural traditions as diverse as the lands with which they are inextricably linked. Here are five key texts that survey the subject.
  
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• Pope Visits Venice Biennale, Dakar Biennale Postponed, Vienna Actionism Show Protested, and More: Morning Links for April 29, 2024

  29-04-2024 14:55 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESDAK’ART POSTPONED. The 15th edition of Dak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain in Dakar, Senegal has been postponed at the last minute from its original May 16 opening date, to November 7. Reasons are due to “the national and international context, and the desire for new authorities in the sector
  
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• Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna

  26-04-2024 23:04 via artnews.com
  
  A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold for $32 million in a buzzy auction in Vienna, per Der Standard. The individual, a Munich-based architect, is not a relative of the Leiser family, but lodged a claim after learning last week that the painting missing for a century had resurfaced at im Kinksy auction house.Titled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917), the work was purchased by an anonymous Hong Kong de
  
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• Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75

  26-04-2024 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  Dani Levinas, an art collector who gained a following for interviewing other collectors, has died at 75. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., where he formerly served as board chair, announced his death on Wednesday.“Dani Levinas’s passion and enthusiasm for art by living artists will have an enduring impact on The Phillips Collection,” said current board chair John Despres in a statement. “We will truly miss his inspiration and guidance.”With his wife Mirel
  
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• Postwar and Contemporary Art from Iowa Business Leaders to Be Sold at Christie’s Spring Sales

  26-04-2024 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  Works from the art collection of Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Pappajohn and his wife Mary will be offered as a group of highlights during Christie’s Spring sales in New York next month, the auction house announced Friday. The Pappajohns were a mainstay of ARTnews’s Top 200 collector list from 1998 to 2014. John passed away last year on April 26 at 94. Mary, aged 88, died in 2022.The collection, which is comprised of works by post-war and contemporary luminaries i
  
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• Post-War and Contemporary Art From Iowa Business Leaders To Be Sold at Christie’s Spring Sales

  26-04-2024 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  Works from the art collection of Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Pappajohn and his wife Mary will be offered as a group of highlights during Christie’s Spring sales in New York next month, the auction house announced Friday. The Pappajohns were a mainstay of ARTnews’s Top 200 collector list from 1998 to 2014. John passed away last year on April 26 at 94. Mary, aged 88, died in 2022.The collection, which is comprised of works by post-war and contemporary luminaries i
  
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• Moscow’s Garage Museum Is Reportedly Searched by Police Amid Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Literature

  26-04-2024 16:54 via artnews.com
  
  Various Russian publications reported on Friday that Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art was being searched by local police, potentially in connection to LGBTQ+ literature that is thought to be housed at the institution.On the social media platform Telegram, Ostorozhno Novosti, a local news channel, said that police officers were at a building that holds the Garage Museum’s archives. The museum’s leaders and curators were reportedly being kept from using their phones and
  
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• Surrealism in the Age of AI

  26-04-2024 16:46 via artnews.com
  
  In 1924 the French poet and critic André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto. The 4,000-word document marked both the birth of the eponymous movement and the moment when its dogmas were codified, effectively laying the groundwork for the countless derivations of the form that would follow—in the 15 years before World War II, certainly, but also after, up to, and including today. The Surrealist movement may have waned, but its ideas have not.Now, exactly one century removed fro
  
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• At Americas Society, Artists Look at the Myth That Started Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America

  26-04-2024 15:28 via artnews.com
  
  In Colombian artist Carlos Motta’s 2013 video, Nefandus, an indigenous man and a Spanish man travel down Colombia’s Don Diego River telling stories of the violent sodomization against natives by the Spanish during the conquest in Latin America. “The landscape does not confess what it has witnessed; the images are out of time and veil the actions that have taken place there,” the narrator explains.This question of colonial violence against the land and the passage of time
  
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• Getty Returns Bronze to Turkey, Man Claims Ownership of Buzzy Klimt Portrait, ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ Exhibit to Open, and More: Morning Links for April 26, 2024

  26-04-2024 15:12 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESNEW KLIMT CLAIM. A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser came forward with a claim they own the Gustav Klimt portrait of Fraulein Lieser, right before it sold at auction for a low estimate of $32 million, according to Der Standard. The potential heir, a Munich-based architect who is not a relative of the Lieser family, learned last week abo
  
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• In the Early 20th Century, Jean Cocteau’s Queer Art Was Notably Cocksure

  26-04-2024 12:00 via artnews.com
  
  This essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday.The French polymath Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was never content to work in one mode—and was ostracized for it. His retrospective at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is titled “The Juggler’s Revenge”: it makes a case for this versatility, showing a cohesive spi
  
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• John Cage’s Frequently Misunderstood 4’33” Remains a Masterpiece

  25-04-2024 22:50 via artnews.com
  
  John Cage’s 1952 work 4′33″ has proven a touchstone for artists, composers, and thinkers of all kinds, spawning conceptual artworks, experimental gestures, and even an iPhone app. But even as almost everyone agrees on its importance, misunderstandings about the work proliferate. For one, 4′33″ is sometimes affectionally known as Cage’s “silent piece,” since the work calls for its enactor to stop using their instrument for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
  
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• Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber To End ‘Public Disappointment’

  25-04-2024 20:19 via artnews.com
  
  When I took my mother back to Paris for her first visit in nearly five decades, there was no question we would go to the Louvre. I was more surprised that she wanted to stand in the long line to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) for the few seconds we would get to take pictures and selfies with the famous painting.This experience is often annoying and disappointing for tourists, with one recent analysis of 18,000 reviews deeming the Renaissance portrait “the world’s most
  
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