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• Seattle Artist Who Falsely Claimed Native American Ancestry Sentenced to 18 Months of Probation

  25-05-2023 20:35 via artnews.com
  
  Seattle-based artist Jerry Chris Van Dyke, who falsely advertised his carvings as Native American art, has been sentenced to 18 months of federal probation. In March, Van Dyke, who has no tribal enrollment or heritage, pleaded guilty to violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act—a federal truth-in-marketing law administered by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) to curtail the proliferation of counterfeit Native American artworks. The Indian Arts and Crafts Board received a tip
  
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• ‘They’re Trying to Erase Us’: Chevron Takes Down Public Art Piece

  08-06-2023 22:36 via artnews.com
  
  In the middle of the night on May 15, a public art project in Richmond, California, disappeared without a trace. The project, titled Fencelines – A Collective Monument to Resilience, was a collection of slats onto which community members wrote their hopes and wishes for the future of the city and its environment. The slats were installed on a fence that cordons off the Chevron refinery, which sits along the waterfront of the San Francisco Bay. On Wednesday, Chevron admitted that it took do
  
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• Gang Members Arranged Return of Stolen Gottfried Lindauer Paintings from New Zealand Gallery In Secret Prison Deal

  08-06-2023 20:25 via artnews.com
  
  Two paintings by Gottfried Lindauer, valued around $490,000 US ($800,000 NZD) that were stolen in 2017 were returned to police through a secretive deal arranged by senior gang members, the New Zealand Herald reported Wednesday.The Māori portraits, Chieftainess Ngatai-Raure and Chief Ngatai-Raure, were painted by the Czech-New Zealand artist in 1884. The art works were stolen from the International Art Centre gallery and auction house in a “smash-and-grab” incident
  
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• Justin Chance’s Wool Quilts are Catchalls for Curiosity

  08-06-2023 19:39 via artnews.com
  
  My pieces begin as titles. Titles come to me when I’m washing dishes, or running, or showering. A recent example is Aloha Sadness (2023): I thought, That’s so dumb, but also so real. Aloha means goodbye, but also hello. I asked what would Aloha Sadness look like? I did a little research—looked up tiki culture, watched Lilo & Stitch, played that song “Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride” in the studio.I’m driven by curiosity, and I can get interested in literally
  
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• A 6,000-Year-Old Slab of Carved Wood Predating Stonehenge Has Been Found in Berkshire, England

  08-06-2023 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  A crew of builders in Boxford, Berkshire, England stumbled upon a large chunk of carved oak over 6,000 years old while digging foundation trenches for a new building, Historic England announced Wednesday.The ancient slice of decorative oak, which was carved 2,000 years before Stonehenge and more than 4,000 years before the Romans set foot on the British Isles, is believed to be the oldest piece of carved wood in Britain.The wood, which measures just about three-feet-long, one-and-a-half feet wid
  
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• Artist Julien Creuzet Wants Us to Question What We Know and Free Ourselves

  08-06-2023 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  “Forgotten, buried at the bottom of insomnia,” a woman’s soft, high-pitched voice repeatedly sang out against slow, ethereal music as you descended a staircase into a recent basement installation by Julien Creuzet, one of today’s most closely watched artists who earlier this year clinched the commission for the French Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.   Creuzet’s exhibitions typically carry paragraph-length titles that point to the show’s underly
  
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• Fiber Is the New Painting: A Younger Generation of Artists Is Weaving and Sewing Personal Histories

  08-06-2023 16:50 via artnews.com
  
  South African artist Igshaan Adams trained as a painter at the Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town. Amid financial struggles in his mid-20s, he decided to stop buying pricey oil paints. Instead, with his grandparents’ permission, he cut up clothing and other fabrics from their home and stitched them together to create a figurative image. Soon after, in 2010, he got a job teaching painting and composition to weaving artisans at an NGO called the Philani Maternal, Child Health and Nutriti
  
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• Sukanya Rajaratnam, Taste-Making New York Dealer, Joins White Cube

  08-06-2023 16:25 via artnews.com
  
  Sukanya Rajaratnam, a New York dealer known for mounting historically significant exhibitions of Black artists, will join White Cube as global director of strategic market initiatives in September.Earlier this year, Rajaratnam announced that she would leave her role as partner at Mnuchin Gallery after 15 years. During her tenure there, she was known for staging groundbreaking exhibitions of Black artists who had long been overlooked by the mainstream art world, including Sam Gilliam, Ed Clark, A
  
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• White Cube Heads to Seoul, Canada’s National Gallery Gets New Director, and More: Morning Links for June 8, 2023

  08-06-2023 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesON THE PENINSULA. In recent years, galleries from the United States and Europe, like Gladstone and König, have been opening outposts in Seoul, hoping to tap into South Korea’s burgeoning art market. Now, Melanie Gerlis reports in her weekly Financial Times column, White Cube is joining them. It&n
  
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• National Gallery of Australia Postpones Major Exhibition of Aboriginal Art Due to Ongoing Investigation Over Provenance

  07-06-2023 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  The National Gallery of Australia has officially postponed a major exhibition of Aboriginal artwork currently undergoing review after allegations of interference from white studio assistants.On June 7, the museum issued a statement about the exhibition Ngura Pulka – Epic Country officially being postponed. Scheduled to open this month, the show featured the work of Aboriginal artists from the APY Art Center Collective (APY ACC) and was billed as one of the largest community-driven art proj
  
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• National Gallery of Australia Postpones Major Exhibition of Aboriginal Art amid Ongoing Investigation of Provenance

  07-06-2023 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) has officially postponed a major exhibition of Aboriginal artwork currently undergoing review after allegations of interference from white studio assistants.On June 7, the museum issued a statement about the exhibition Ngura Pulka – Epic Country officially being postponed. Scheduled to open this month, the show featured the work of Aboriginal artists from the APY Art Center Collective (APY ACC) and was billed as one of the largest community-driven ar
  
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• Egypt Bans Dutch Archaeologists from Excavations in Response to Museum’s ‘Afrocentric’ Egyptian Exhibition

  07-06-2023 22:30 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists from the Leiden National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands have been barred from carrying out future excavations in the necropolis Saqqara after Egyptian authorities took offense to its depiction of ancient Egypt in the exhibition “Kemet: Egypt in Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk.” The head of Foreign Missions of the Egyptian Antiquities Service accused the museum in a leaked email of “falsifying history” due to the “Afrocentric” lens
  
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• Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painting Restituted to the Heirs of a Jewish Banker Fleeing Nazi Persecution and Repurchased by a German City

  07-06-2023 20:57 via artnews.com
  
  A landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was restituted to heirs of its original Jewish owner and then re-purchased by the northern German city of Hagen, the Art Newspaper reported Wednesday. The painting, View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes (ca. 1910), was originally owned by Jakob Goldschmidt, one of the most influential bankers in Weimar Germany and a major collector of Old Masters and Impressionist art in the 1920s. He was also a major patron of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. In 1933
  
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• Brookfield Properties Is Betting Art Will Draw Workers Back to the Office

  07-06-2023 20:01 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.Earlier this week, Brookfield, by most measures the largest real estate company in the world, unveiled its latest project, Manhattan West, in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that lacked ribbon. What it did have were two major works of public art, a sculpture by Charles Ray and a mosaic piece by Christopher Wo
  
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• Art World Grifter Anna Delvey Owes Her Immigration Lawyer $150K, Lawsuit Says

  07-06-2023 19:02 via artnews.com
  
  A lawyer hired by art world grifter Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, to fight her deportation and appeal her conviction in a $270,000 fraud case has sued Sorkin for over $150,000 in legal fees, according to court documents filed last week in the New York State Supreme Court.Sorokin hired Audrey Thomas in 2020, after a string of fraud charges against Sorokin led to a conviction for grand larceny and theft of services. According to the complaint, while Sorokin paid Thom
  
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• Art Advisors Should Add Value To Collecting, Not Extract It

  07-06-2023 17:33 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: Alex Glauber is an art advisor, curator, and educator based in New York. He is the founder of AWG Art Advisory and, as of last month, the president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors.How do you navigate a profession where the title is offered before the skillset? A career that for many starts with nothing more than a business card and email address. Throughout history, art collectors have relied on counsel when it comes to determining what to spend their mo
  
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• Art Advisers Should Add Value to Collecting, Not Extract It

  07-06-2023 17:33 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: Alex Glauber is an art adviser, curator, and educator based in New York. He is the founder of AWG Art Advisory and, as of last month, the president of the Association of Professional Art Advisors.How do you navigate a profession where the title is offered before the skillset? A career that for many starts with nothing more than a business card and email address. Throughout history, art collectors have relied on counsel when it comes to determining what to spend their mo
  
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• Gagosian to Represent the Photographer Francesca Woodman

  07-06-2023 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, will now represent the estate of enigmatic photographer Francesca Woodman, who before her death, at 22, helped define a style of contemporary photography through her inward reflection that drew from Gothic, Victorian, and Surrealist influences. Gagosian will be showing a selection of these prints at Art Basel next week, with an exhibition on the artist’s work planned for next spring in New York. Woodman’s estate had previously been jo
  
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• Gagosian to Represent Photographer Francesca Woodman

  07-06-2023 16:16 via artnews.com
  
  Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, will now represent the estate of enigmatic photographer Francesca Woodman, who before her death, at 22, helped define a style of contemporary photography through her inward reflection that drew from Gothic, Victorian, and Surrealist influences. Gagosian will be showing a selection of these prints at Art Basel next week, with an exhibition on the artist’s work planned for next spring in New York. Woodman’s estate was previously represe
  
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• Reina Sofía Gets New Director, J. Paul Getty Trust Gets New Board Chair, and More: Morning Links for June 7, 2023

  07-06-2023 14:02 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesTHE TOP JOB. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid has a new leader, curator Manuel Segade, the Art Newspaper reports. He is currently the director of the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in the Spanish capital; his curatorial credits include helming Spain’s pavilion at the 20
  
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• Sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud Heads to Hauser & Wirth After Acclaimed Survey Exhibitions

  07-06-2023 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Barbara Chase-Riboud, a sculptor who has seen a new level of interest following two survey exhibitions and a memoir last year, has joined Hauser & Wirth, one of the world’s biggest galleries, with more than a dozen locations across the globe.Chase-Riboud will be the featured artist in the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s latest space, in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, which is expected to open in October. That month also marks the end of a small show at the Museu
  
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• Climate Protestors Assemble Outside MoMA Party, Calling on Museum to Drop Its Board Chair

  07-06-2023 03:28 via artnews.com
  
  As the sky above Manhattan turned a murky yellow from smoke carried down from wild fires in Canada, climate protestors set up their signs, banners, and a miniature oil rig outside the Museum of Modern Art on the evening of its annual Party in the Garden, a major fundraising event for the museum. Protestors with groups like Climate Organizing Hub, New York Communities for Change, and Reclaim Our Tomorrow came to call on MoMA to drop its board chair, Marie-Josée Kravis. Kravis is married to
  
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• Climate Protesters Assemble Outside MoMA Party, Calling on Museum to Drop Its Board Chair

  07-06-2023 03:28 via artnews.com
  
  As the sky above Manhattan turned a murky yellow from smoke carried down from wildfires in Canada, climate protesters set up signs, banners, and a miniature oil rig outside the Museum of Modern Art on Thursday evening during its annual Party in the Garden, a major fundraising event for the museum. Protesters with groups like Climate Organizing Hub, New York Communities for Change, and Reclaim Our Tomorrow came to call on MoMA to drop its board chair, Marie-Josée Kravis. Kravis is married
  
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• Germany Returns 14 Stolen Artifacts to Italy, Including Ancient Gold Coins Stolen from Archaeology Museum

  06-06-2023 22:54 via artnews.com
  
  Germany recently returned 14 artifacts to Italy after they had been stolen from Italian museums or illegal excavations. The items included a Corinthian bronze helmet from the 3rd or 4th century BCE and an Attic kylix bowl from 550–40 BCE, ceramics, as well as four gold coins that were stolen from the National Archaeological Museum in Parma in 2009. “The condition of the helmet indicates that it was stored in the ground for a very long time,” said a press release from the Bavari
  
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• A Crystalline Show at Opera Gallery Defies the Divide Between Art and Design

  06-06-2023 21:40 via artnews.com
  
  Sunlight appears elastic in the lobby of Upper Manhattan’s Opera Gallery. It shoots through the glass facade and collides with a row of crystalline resin armchairs; some blue, amber, and black. The spring light passes in and out of the transparent objects in wild, refracting rays. Everything about the furniture reads as a contradiction: They’re delicately dyed like blown glass, but capable of carrying great weights. They’re in a gallery—that supposed sacred space—bu
  
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• Four New Nazca Lines Identified by Artificial Intelligence in Peru

  06-06-2023 20:20 via artnews.com
  
  Using a form of artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered four new Nazca geoglyphs in Peru, according to a new study recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. The Nazca lines are UNESCO-protected geoglyphs dating from between 100 BCE and 300 CE that depict humans, camelids, birds, orcas, felines, and snakes. There are a range of theories surrounding their purpose, including that the Nazca geoglyphs depict deities, are a form of irrigation, or are a calendar with ast
  
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• Françoise Gilot, Artist Who Fearlessly Chronicled Her Relationship with Picasso, Dies at 101

  06-06-2023 20:14 via artnews.com
  
  Françoise Gilot, a painter who wrote a famed 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso, has died at 101. The New York Times reported that she died in New York on Tuesday.Long dismissed as one of Picasso’s “muses,” Gilot has in recent decades been reappraised as an artist in her own right. She had energetically worked alongside Picasso, however, and even maintained a contract with Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, the same dealer who represen
  
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• Penis-Shaped Stone Used for Sharpening Weapons Found in Spain

  06-06-2023 18:21 via artnews.com
  
  In the Ria de Vigo, a river estuary in the southern part of the Spanish autonomous state Galicia, archaeologists have discovered a six-inch stone penis that dates to the 15th century that may have been used as a tool for sharpening weapons, according to the archaeologist group Arbore S.Coop.Galega.In 1476, Galicia was embroiled in the Irmandiño revolts, during which peasants tried to assert their freedom from the state’s nobility. Roughly 130 castles and forts were de
  
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• Smithsonian Names Architect for Bezos Learning Center, Tim Griffin to Lead L.A. Arts Group, and More: Morning Links for June 6, 2023

  06-06-2023 14:02 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesSTARMAN. The Wende Museum in Los Angeles is currently showing rarely seen photographs that Geoff MacCormack took while traveling across the Soviet Union in 1973 with David Bowie, riding the Trans-Siberian Express and spending a couple days in Moscow. The Los Angeles Times has published a few of those images
  
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• Pace Gallery Hires König Partner to Lead New Berlin Office

  06-06-2023 10:00 via artnews.com
  
  Laura Attanasio will leave her post as partner of Berlin’s influential König Galerie to join Pace Gallery, a sprawling operation that has spaces in seven locations across three continents. At Pace, Attanasio will lead a new Berlin office with the aim of furthering Pace’s reach in Germany and Austria.Attanasio became a partner at König in 2022, just a few months before allegations of sexual misconduct against its founder, Johann König, were reported by Die Zeit. (He den
  
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