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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.
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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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• 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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• Sotheby’s to Auction $30 M. Monet Painting in May Evening Sale

  25-04-2024 20:17 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will auction Claude Monet’s Meules à Giverny (1893) in its modern art evening auction on May 15. The house has has estimated that the work sell for a sum “in excess of $30 million”.The sunny landscape painting features a haystack in a tree-filled field. It was brought to the United States in 1895 by its first owner, the American landscape painter Dwight Blaney. According to Sotheby’s, the painting was immediately lent to the Museum of Fine Arts in B
  
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• 5 Must-See Shows at Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024

  25-04-2024 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Like clockwork, springtime in Berlin brings brighter skies, warmer temperatures, and a wave of must-see exhibitions for Gallery Weekend Berlin. This year, the event celebrates its 20th anniversary edition, taking place April 26–28, with over 90 presentations at more than 60 locations across the city.Even as one of Berlin’s most important art events reaches an important milestone, its new director, Antonia Ruder, said the key to Gallery Weekend Berlin’s continued success is high
  
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• Venice Residents Protest New Entry Fee to the City

  25-04-2024 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  A week after the Venice Biennale opens to thousands of art world VIPs, journalists, curators, and arts workers, the city has launched a fee program aimed at curbing the effects of “excessive tourism” that will require visitors and tourists to pay a €5 (about $5.36) in order to enter the city, the Guardian reports.The trial program is unprecedented among major cities in the world, and despite Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro’s announcement that the fee will make the ci
  
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• Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Lawrence Weiner in New York

  25-04-2024 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The estate of Lawrence Weiner, the Conceptualist artist who molded language into a means of visual expression, has new representation with Gladstone Gallery, which now represents the artist’s estate in New York. Pace Gallery will continue to represent the estate in Asia, with a focus on South Korea. Lisson Gallery will also continue to represent Weiner, as will galleries Marian Goodman Gallery, Mai 36, and Regen Projects.“I feel incredibly grateful for this opportunity to work a
  
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• Lawsuit Over ‘Irreversible’ Damage to Donald Judd Sculpture Is Tossed Out by Court

  25-04-2024 17:53 via artnews.com
  
  A lawsuit by an artist’s foundation against two galleries alleging “irreversible” damage to a Donald Judd sculpture was tossed out by New York’s Supreme Court in March.The Judd Foundation had sued Kukje Gallery and Tina Kim Gallery in 2022, claiming that the two galleries had been responsible for fingerprints left on an untitled 1991 sculpture worth $850,000.The Judd sculpture, the foundation said, had been consigned to the galleries in 2015 and was sent back in 2018 to M
  
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• The Eight Most Essential Books About Surrealism

  25-04-2024 16:05 via artnews.com
  
  This year marks the centenary of Surrealism, or more specifically the publication of its founding manifesto and attendant journal. The title of the latter, La Révolution surréaliste (issued from 1924 to 1929), made plain the movement’s ambition: nothing less than a social and political revolution, a radical synthesis of unconscious desire and waking reality. Hamstrung both by Communist resistance to its “interior model” and by the rise of fascism and a new World W
  
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• Eight Essential Books About Surrealism

  25-04-2024 16:05 via artnews.com
  
  This year marks the centenary of Surrealism, or more specifically the publication of its founding manifesto and attendant journal. The title of the latter, La Révolution surréaliste (issued from 1924 to 1929), made plain the movement’s ambition: nothing less than a social and political revolution, a radical synthesis of unconscious desire and waking reality. Hamstrung both by Communist resistance to its “interior model” and by the rise of fascism and a new World W
  
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• Klimt Portrait Sells for Low Estimate, Residents Protest Venice Entry Fee, Art Institute of Chicago Rebuffs Accusations Schiele Drawing Was Looted, and More: Morning Links for April 25, 2024

  25-04-2024 15:28 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESLOW ESTIMATE. The mysterious Gustav Klimt Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917) sold for €30 million, €35 million with fees, ($32.15 million, $37.51 million with fees), on the lower side of its presale estimate of €30 to €50 million. The sale was still a record for Austria, where the auction took place in Im Kinsky, Vienna. Previously
  
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• 18 Must-See Impressionism Shows Around the World in 2024

  25-04-2024 15:04 via artnews.com
  
  On April 15, 1874, a group of some 30 painters, many rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, were invited by the photographer Nadar to showcase their works in his former Paris studio. The daring display, a radical departure from the accepted academic conventions in place, included Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1872). The landscape, depicting the port of Le Havre, prompted art critic Louis Leroy to coin the term Impressionism, which now refers to the work of a group of indep
  
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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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