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• Our Picks of the Best Cyber Monday 2022 Deals on Gadgets Gear, and More

  28-11-2022 15:00 via artnews.com
  If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. Today is Cyber Monday, when many US retailers post deep discounts on gadgets, gear, and other products for artists and photographers. To help you parse the offerings, here are our staff picks of the best deals on artists’ tools and studio essentials, from laptops to air purifiers, to give as gifts or to keep for yourself. A word of advice: Move fast, as
  
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• Paul McCartney’s Rarely Seen Photography Gets a Big Museum Show in New York

  02-05-2024 22:42 via artnews.com
  
  During the early 1960s, at the height of “Beatlemania,” New York City was taken by storm as The Beatles kicked off their visit to the US. Tens of thousands of fans hurried to the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Fab Four, and band member Paul McCartney was ready to greet them. But McCartney did more than simply posing for pictures—he also shot photographs himself, using his Pentax 35mm film camera.Six decades later, McCartney has returned to New York, where he is now s
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci to Get the Hollywood Treatment from ‘All of Us Strangers’ Director

  02-05-2024 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  Leonardo da Vinci is coming soon to a movie theater near you. The Renaissance artist will become the latest artist to receive a biopic, Variety reports, in the form of a new film from Andrew Haigh, the director most famous for making last year’s All of Us Strangers.The film will be based on Walter Isaacson’s acclaimed Leonardo biography, though it remains unclear whether it will touch on just one aspect of the artist’s life or the whole thing. It seems likely, however, that Hai
  
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• In Collection Hangs, Major Museums Remix the Classics

  02-05-2024 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  Until it reopened in a $230 million new building this past June, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum was an anomaly among United States institutions: it held a world-class collection of modern and postwar art with nowhere to properly exhibit the bulk of it at once. Now, a 50,000-square-foot space allows masterpieces like Picasso’s 1906 La Toilette to return to view, along with showstoppers from the likes of Chaim Soutine, Andy Warhol, and a whole lot more.The way these pieces are displayed, however
  
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• Multimillion-Dollar Frank Auerbach to Be Sold by the UK’s National Crime Agency

  02-05-2024 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  A painting by the British artist Frank Auerbach from his lauded “Albert Street” series is slated to hit the auction block after having been recovered by UK authorities from money launderer Lenn Mayhew-Lewis, according to the Guardian.Mayhew-Lewis bought the picture, which the UK’s National Crime Agency says could be worth “millions of pounds,” in 2017 for £1.6 million. Later, another unidentified person used the work as collateral to secure a &p
  
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• Are We Supposed to Believe Maurizio Cattelan Is Sincere Now?

  02-05-2024 19:23 via artnews.com
  
  Maurizio Cattelan is usually “dismissed as a prankster,” per the press release for his new show at Gagosian in New York. That’s because he duct-taped a banana to a wall and sold it for $120,000, made a sculpture of an asteroid hitting the pope, and—for his last New York show, a 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum—dangled his art from the rotunda’s ceiling, making it hard to get a good look and leaving viewers wanting more.The same press release insists
  
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• At Frieze New York, Young Galleries Reveal Untold Narratives and Spotlight Overlooked Talents

  02-05-2024 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  The most coveted commodity at an art fair, beside the wares themselves, is attention. At a blue-chip bazaar like Frieze New York, where the crowd churns ceaselessly, and every wall aspires to be a show-stopper, a curator can’t leave discovery to chance. You might fear that Focus, the section of Frieze dedicated to enterprises 12 years and younger and to emerging talent, would be swallowed by the din. You’d be wrong. The section, curated by Lumi Tan, is an intergenerational showc
  
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• Tao Siqi’s Baudelaire-Inspired Erotic Paintings Stun at Frieze New York

  02-05-2024 15:40 via artnews.com
  
  A common result of walking through any art fair is realizing that, after two hours, no more than a handful of works remain in your memory. And the ones that are on view at Capsule Shanghai’s Frieze New York booth are likely to be among that handful this time around. In the Focus section for young galleries, Capsule is showing work by Tao Siqi. Upon passing the booth, a double take is almost compulsory. Sensual, violent scenes—bondage, asphyxiation, and other kinky activities&mda
  
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• Asante ‘Crown Jewels’ Displayed, Biden Forgives $6.1 Billion Art Student Debt, Stolen Frank Auerbach Work to Auction, and More: Morning Links for May 2, 2024

  02-05-2024 14:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESGOLDEN DISPLAY. The Asante golden “crown jewels,” looted by British troops have gone on display in Ghana’s Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, to jubilant celebrations, reports the BBC. The 32 items are on loan from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum to the Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for three
  
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• Asante ‘Crown Jewels’ Displayed, Biden Forgives $6.1 Billion Art Student Debt, and More: Morning Links for May 2, 2024

  02-05-2024 14:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESGOLDEN DISPLAY. The Asante golden “crown jewels,” looted by British troops have gone on display in Ghana’s Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, to jubilant celebrations, reports the BBC. The 32 items are on loan from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) and the British Museum to the Asante King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for three
  
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• Five Shows to See in Chelsea During Frieze New York 2024

  02-05-2024 14:13 via artnews.com
  
  After the frenzy of the Venice Biennale, the art world will now shift its attention to the Frieze art fair in New York, which opens its doors to VIPs today. It returns to the Shed in Hudson Yards, and will this year have 68 exhibitors.This location means Frieze attendees will be just a 10-minute walk away from the nearby galleries in Chelsea. While the area’s buzziest show might be the one at Gagosian for Maurizio Cattelan, who is fresh off of his participation in the Venice Biennale&rsquo
  
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• The Best Booths at Frieze New York, From a Pouncing Tiger to a Meta Reflection on Consumerism

  02-05-2024 05:10 via artnews.com
  
  For its 12th edition, Frieze New York has once again returned to the Shed, the arts center in Hudson Yards. With 68 exhibitors, the fair, which opened to VIPs on Wednesday morning, was the first held since Frieze acquired the Armory Show, its main New York competitor. That should have lent the event some extra excitement, but the preview felt a bit subdued—perhaps due to post–Venice Biennale fatigue has now made its way across the Atlantic. Still, there was a steady stream of visitor
  
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• Biden Administration Forgives $6.1 Billion in Debt of Former Art Institutes Students

  01-05-2024 23:32 via artnews.com
  
  President Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration will forgive $6.1 billion in debt owed by 317,000 students of the now-defunct Art Institutes.  The for-profit art school system, which had locations across the United States, shuttered last year. Students who were enrolled at any Art Institute branch from January 1, 2004 through Oct. 16, 2017, when the Education Management Corp. (EDMC) oversaw the organization, are eligible for debt forgiveness.  During this perio
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Signs Cultural Agreement with Thailand

  01-05-2024 20:26 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently signed a memoradum of understanding (MOU) with Thailandformalizing collaborative efforts to study and display Thai art.A signing ceremony took place on April 25 at the museum in New York with Phnombootra Chandrajoti, director-general of Thailand’s Fine Arts Department, and Max Hollein, the Metropolitan Museum’s director and CEO. Thailand’s consul general in New York, Somjai Taphaopong, and the Ministry of Culture’s executive directo
  
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• Nazi-Looted Monet Painting Held by FBI Expected to Be Returned to Owner’s Descendants

  01-05-2024 20:21 via artnews.com
  
  A small pastel drawing by Claude Monet that was seized by Nazis during World War II is expected to be returned to the descendants of its previous owners by the the FBI, the Times-Picayune reported last week.Monet’s Bord de Mer is currently in storage at the New Orleans Field Office of the FBI after being seized last June. The work was last sold by New Orleans-based antiquities dealer M.S. Rau. to Bridget Vita and now-deceased husband Kevin Schlamp in 2019. Schlamp died in March. The F
  
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• New York’s Newest Art Fair Feels Like a Place to Hang Out, Not Shop—and That’s a Good Thing

  01-05-2024 19:59 via artnews.com
  New York is hardly in need of another art fair, but that’s what we got this week in the form of Esther, which feels more like an ambitious group show than a selling event. That’s something to be thankful for, since the art market in this city tends to be pretty risk-averse. And, despite the fact that Esther is designed to peddle art, this show has character, which is more than you can say for all the other interchangeable fairs that pass through the Big Apple annually.For starters, t
  
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• A Look at the Financiers, Celebrities and Other Consignors Behind the May Auction Sales

  01-05-2024 15:45 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.The annual May auction sales in New York are always an important indicator of the market’s health, and next month’s sales appear all the more notable after a year most art dealers would rather forget. And you can add to that more than a little pearl-clutching that the art market is
  
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• 25 Artworks Not to Miss at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

  01-05-2024 15:15 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the place to be if you want to learn about modern and contemporary art. For nearly a century, the museum has played a major role in the collection of modern architecture, design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, and digital media.MoMA was founded by art patrons Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who sought in the late 1920s to challenge the conservative policies of traditional museums and to establis
  
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• Art Students and Faculty Join Pro-Palestine College Protests, Lawsuit Ends Over ‘Fearless Girl’ Sculpture, Saudi Artist Arrested, and More: Morning Links for May 1, 2024

  01-05-2024 15:14 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESUNIVERSITY PROTESTS. As pro-Palestinian student protests intensify today, art students and faculty continue to join in demonstrations across US campuses and cities. Late last week, Rhoda Rosen, a curator and adjunct art history professor at the SAIC told gathered demonstrators: “We support your vision of the School of The Art Institute of Chicag
  
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• Phillips Evening Sale Features Noah Davis Painting Consigned by Aryn Drake-Lee

  01-05-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  One of the most notable lots of Phillips Modern and Contemporary evening sale on May 14, a small Noah Davis painting Untitled (Boy with Glasses), belongs to Aryn Drake-Lee, the ex-wife of actor Jesse Williams.The small 10-inch by 10-inch figurative portrait was included in an exhibition of work by Davis and his older brother, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph called “Young Blood” at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA in 2016. In installation photos of the exhibition, a photo credit
  
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• Phillips Evening Sale Features Noah Davis Painting Consigned by Actor Jesse Williams

  01-05-2024 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  One of the most notable lots of Phillips Modern and Contemporary evening sale on May 14, a small Noah Davis painting Untitled (Boy with Glasses), belongs to the actor Jesse Williams and his ex-wife Aryn Drake-Lee.The small 10-inch by 10-inch figurative portrait was included in an exhibition of work by Davis and his older brother, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph called “Young Blood” at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA in 2016. In installation photos of the exhibition, a photo cre
  
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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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