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Monthly Archives June 19, 2018

What It Costs Galleries to Go to Art Basel

Artery
June 19, 2018
Art and Culture
Artsy - Basel, Switzerland, is not a cheap city, and the bill to attend Art Basel in Basel starts adding up quick. One dealer told me a last-minute suite at the Grand Hotel Trois Rois, which is usually an alrea...

World Monuments Fund gives $1m for post-quake restoration of Mexican archaeological site

Artery
June 19, 2018
Archeology, Art and Culture
The Art Newspaper - Efforts to restore the earthquake-damaged Pre-Columbian archaeological site of Monte Albán in southern Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley received a major boost last month with a $1m award from the Worl...

Glasgow’s Artists Mourn After Fire Rips Through City’s Creative Heart

Artery
June 19, 2018
Art and Culture
The New York Times -  In the 1980s, Nathan Coley became transfixed by the Glasgow School of Art’s main building, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. - read more  ...

Rapper pays $18.5m for work at auction but the artist gets nothing

Artery
June 19, 2018
Art and Culture
The Art Newspaper  - Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit. - read more...

Christo’s Latest Work Weighs 650 Tons and It Floats

Artery
June 19, 2018
Art and Culture, Art and Society, Trending
The New York Times - Wearing a hard hat and a cargo jacket, the artist Christo stood on a platform looking over the Serpentine lake one April morning and watched his latest creation come to life. As ducks glide...

How Art Museums Can Remain Relevant in the 21st Century

Artery
June 19, 2018
Art and Society, Art and the Law, Trending
Artsy - Last Spring Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), spawned calls for the painting’s destruction, an on-air discussion on the daytime chat show The View, and a protest within the Wh...

British Museum show focuses on Assyrian antiquities

Artery
June 19, 2018
Art and Culture, Museums, Trending
The Art Newspaper -  A forthcoming British Museum exhibition on Assyria will draw attention to the recent destruction of antiquities in Iraq. The show, which opens in November, is to focus on King Ashurbanipal,...

Manifesta 12 makes the most of Palermo’s botanical backdrop

Artery
June 19, 2018
Art and Society, Trending
The Art Newspaper - On Saturday 16 June, the 12th edition of the nomadic art biennial Manifesta opened in the politically charged air of Palermo, Italy’s capital of culture for 2018. - Read More  ...

Sean Combs Is Revealed as Buyer of Kerry James Marshall Painting

Artery
June 1, 2018
Art Market, Theme Features, Uncategorized
NY Times - Ever since the sale at Sotheby’s on Wednesday night of “Past Times,” a monumental painting by Kerry James Marshall with a narrative centered on black experiences, many people have been speculating ab...

Amid Protests, Berkshire Museum’s Deaccession Sales at Sotheby’s Fall Short of Expectation

Artery
June 1, 2018
Art Market, Trending
Artnet - Despite another—albeit low-key—protest outside Sotheby’s this morning, the sale of selected works from the Berkshire Museum of Art collection continued apace on Wednesday. Critics gathered with signs i...
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