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• Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art

  20-06-2025 21:20 via artnews.com
  Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.More than a decade after Pussy Riot cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova was imprisoned in Russia for two years after performing a “punk prayer” inside of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the artist is putting herself back into a prison of her own making. For her installation Police State (202
  
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• Is the Rise of Trash Assemblage Art a Recession Indicator?

  20-06-2025 20:33 via artnews.com
  As spring turns to summer, the streets of New York become perfumed by the stench of trash, whose brownish liquids and rotting foods bake beneath the sun. But this season, you can find some of that rubbish not just outside museums and galleries but within them, too. Call these trash assemblages “gather art,” a kind of work made by foraging for tossed-out junk.The rise of gather art is most abundantly visible at MoMA PS1 in a group show called “The Gatherers,” a thought-pro
  
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• Top Spanish Court Orders Heirs to Return Cathedral Statues

  20-06-2025 20:15 via artnews.com
  Spain’s Supreme Court has ordered the heirs of former dictator Francisco Franco to return two religious statues to the city of Santiago, concluding a years-long legal dispute over their ownership. The two pieces, depicting biblical figures Isaac and Abraham, date back to the 12th century and were originally produced as decorative elements for the Portico of Glory, an entrance to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO World Heritage site.The decision stated that the sculptures we
  
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• ARTnews Polled 10 Digital Art Experts To Find Out Their Favorite Digital Art Works

  20-06-2025 19:52 via artnews.com
  While most art collectors focused on Art Basel this week, the Digital Art Mile—Basel’s first-ever digital art fair—opened its second edition on Monday. Launched last year by digital art adviser Georg Bak and ArtMeta founder Roger Haas, the fair is being held at Basel’s underground Kult Kino Camera cinema through Sunday.The event features a series of panels and conferences on the health and future of the digital art market, alongside the headline exhibition “Paintbox
  
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• The Best Booths at Liste, From an Eerie Sound Installation to Miniature Industrial Sculptures

  20-06-2025 18:57 via artnews.com
  While Liste Art Fair is known for showcasing younger galleries and more experimental artwork, the satellite fair is now 30 years old. It’s hardly the young upstart it once was—and yet, it still manages to surprise.In 2021, the fair moved from the Warteck Brewery to Hall 3 of the Messe, bringing it closer to Art Basel proper. But the newish surroundings have come with growing pains. Last year, the fair tested a circular layout that was criticized by dealers for stymying foot traffic t
  
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• Climate Activist Hurls Pink Paint at Picasso Painting at Montreal Museum

  20-06-2025 17:36 via artnews.com
  On Thursday, a Picasso painting on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was splashed with bright pink paint by an environmental activist, in the latest of such attempts to draw attention to the accelerating climate crisis. Footage posted on social media by the climate activist group Last Generation Canada shows the moment the protesters hurled the paint at the portrait, a 1901 work by Pablo Picasso titled L’hetaire. The protester is then seen being escorted out of the gallery b
  
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• Curtis Yarvin Details Proposed Titian-Centric ‘Art Hos’ US Pavilion for Venice Biennale

  20-06-2025 17:25 via artnews.com
  Two weeks after the New Yorker revealed that a “dissident-right art hos” US Pavilion was being floated for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Vanity Fair has now reported further details of the proposal, which hinges on the loan of a Titian painting from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.The proposal is the brainchild of Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer-turned-thinker beloved among the political far right who has called for an American monarchy. Per Vanity Fair, Yarvin is teamin
  
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• Why Is Velázquez’s Las Meninas So Important?

  20-06-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  Diego Velázquez’s 1656 portrayal of a Spanish princess and her entourage is one of the most important paintings in Western art history, if not the most conceptually complex by an old master. A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas comprises a nesting doll of paradoxes that play with pictorial space to ask, Just what is it you think you’re looking at?Related ArticlesSotheby's Landmark Old Masters Sale Disappoints, Yiel
  
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• Three Nights in Art Basel’s Ever-Vibrant Social Scene, According to ARTnews’s Correspondents

  20-06-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  It’s a well-worn truth by now—or maybe a tired cliché —to say that Art Basel is as much about what happens outside the Messe Basel as within it. Beyond the VIP days, the real action can be found at night over cocktails and private dinners, where collectors, dealers, artists, and advisors close deals, swap gossip, and forge relationships that ripple across the art world for months—sometimes years—to come.So, in the name of journalistic rigor, ARTnews sent corr
  
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• Takashi Murakami’s Serious Side

  20-06-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  “Is that a real Monet?” asks a visitor to Takashi Murakami’s new exhibition at Gagosian New York, “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige,” on view through July 11. The Japanese artist has subjected the French Impressionist to his characteristic screen-printing technique in Claude Monet’s “Water Lily Pond” And Me, Submerged in the Pond Like Gollum (2025), a slick copy that from a squinting distance might fool you. Convenient
  
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