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The Museo Nacional de Costa Rica in San José said that it had received 1,305 Pre-Columbian artifacts from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, in a bulk repatriation that officials at the museum said would significantly augment its holdings.
Though the return was announced only last week, it took place in October 2020. Rocío Fernandez, the director of the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, said that some of the works would go on view in a gallery devoted to Pre-Columbian art that is current

Less than a year after it was stolen, a Sigmar Polke painting of flowers in a vase has been found in a private residence in Mainz, Germany.
The police in Germany’s Rheinland-Pfalz region, where Mainz is located, said that the work had been taken from a Cologne gallery in November of last year. German police did not name the art space where the work had been held, however, and details of the theft have “not yet been conclusively clarified,” the police said in the release announc

Wednesday, July 7
Art Basel Miami Beach to Open a Day EarlyArt Basel Miami Beach, which is scheduled to host its first in-person edition in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, will open a day early for its 2021 edition. The fair will now launch with two VIP preview days on Tuesday, November 30, and Wednesday, December 1, and it will run until Saturday, December 4. The fair’s Meridians section, which launched in 2019 and is for large-scale installations, will now open on

Wednesday, July 7
Art Basel Miami Beach Adds Extra Day for 2021 EditionArt Basel Miami Beach, which is scheduled to host its first in-person edition in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, has added a day to its 2021 edition as a way to reduce crowding at the event. The fair will now open with two VIP preview days on Tuesday, November 30, and Wednesday, December 1, and it will run until Sunday, December 4. The fair’s Meridians section, which launched in 2019 and is for la

Tuesday, July 6
Aga Khan Museum Names New DirectorUlrike Al-Khamis has been named the director and CEO of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, which focuses on Islamic art. Al-Khamis has been director of collections at the museum since 2017. Prince Amyn Aga Khan, chairman of the museum’s board, said in a statement, “She is a passionate advocate for the arts and culture of the Muslim world and their potential to bridge cultures—a task that is more urgent than ever

Tuesday, July 6
Aga Khan Museum Names New DirectorUlrike Al-Khamis has been named the director and CEO of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, which focuses on Islamic art. Al-Khamis has been director of collections at the museum since 2017. Prince Amyn Aga Khan, chairman of the museum’s board, said in a statement, “She is a passionate advocate for the arts and culture of the Muslim world and their potential to bridge cultures—a task that is more urgent than ever

Glenn Kaino, a Los Angeles–based artist known for his collaborative works focused on pressing social issues, will now be exclusively represented by Pace Gallery. The artist had previously shown with Honor Fraser in Los Angeles and Kavi Gupta in Chicago.
Kaino’s work, which often takes the form of large-scale sculptures, has focused on a plethora of topics, from racial equity to climate change. With his art, Kaino often looks at structures of power that have created inequalities and c

A 17th-century painting by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck that was recovered at the end of World War II by the Monuments Men will be auctioned this week. Expected to fetch a price of £1 million–£1.5 million ($1.4 million–$2 million), the work will be offer during an Old Masters evening sale at Sotheby’s London on July 8.
Made when van Dyck was just 20 years old, the large-scale family portrait depicts Dutch artist Cornelis de Vos with his wife Suzanna Cock and two

For a survey of what lies ahead as the art world looks forward to the future, ARTnews devoted part of the June-July 2021 issue of the magazine to 10 cities to watch: Philadelphia, Atlanta, Vancouver, Guadalajara, Bogotá, Oslo, Tallinn, Casablanca, Abu Dhabi, and Taipei. Stay tuned as each city joins related reports from Seoul and Paris online in the weeks to come.
Over the past three decades, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reestablishment of the Rep

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Building on the success of last year’s Trespassing sale—which brought together street art, collaborations between artists and luxury brands, and other multi-category works—Christie’s is launching a second Trespassing auction that will take place online July 9-22. Last year’s edition delivered 210% of its pre-sale estimate, and brought in nearly $2.4m in the traditionally dead month of August. Curated by Ronnie K. Pirovino and Lindsay Griffith, Trespassing aims

Sequestered down a private lane with sweeping ocean and rugged coastline views, the roughly 7,500-square-foot cottage was built for husband-and-wife art dealers Adam Lindemann and Amalia Dayan by architect Sir David Adjaye in 2004. The traditional shingled exterior, familiar across the Hamptons in New York, disguises sophisticated contemporary interiors.
Adam Lindemann, the investor and owner of the Upper East Side art gallery Venus Over Manhattan, and wife Amalia Dayan formerly of the gallery L

Alive within Shary Flenniken’s two decades of Trots and Bonnie comic strips are the experiences and politics of late twentieth-century sexuality. Flenniken’s cuttingly funny and empathetic narratives examine menstruation, intercourse, circumcision, porn, rape, genitalia, objectification, masturbation, and even skinny-dipping with the goal of understanding the bare facts that inform our behavior. Flenniken employs a vernacular linear 1920s cartoon style that cloaks the difficulty of h