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Pritzker Prize Goes to Arata Isozaki, Designer for a Postwar World

March 8, 2019

The New York Times - NAHA, Japan — He has been called the “emperor of Japanese architecture” by his peers and “visionary” by critics. Now, the internationally renowned architect Arata Isozaki can add yet anoth...

A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture

Artery

February 20, 2019

Art and Society, Trending

Hyperallergic - In April 2011, when a US Ambassador traveled to Azerbaijan, on the southwestern edge of the former USSR, he was denied access to the riverside borderland that separates this South Caucasus natio...

Fake Marsden Hartley found in medical giant’s collection points to a larger scandal

Artery

February 20, 2019

Art and Society, Art and the Law

The Art Newspaper - The US medical giant Abbott Laboratories is suing a 91-year-old woman in Manhattan, Carol Feinberg, to recover a painting which has not yet been officially named in court proceedings. The Ar...

Art dealer Mary Boone claims early-life trauma prompted her criminal tax evasion

Artery

January 12, 2019

Art and Society, Art and the Law, museum watch, Trending

The Art Newspaper - Lawyers representing the New York-based art dealer Mary Boone, who faces criminal sentencing this month after she plead guilty to two counts of tax fraud in September 2018, have asked that s...

New Museum Pushes Back Against Staff’s Efforts To Unionize

Artery

January 12, 2019

Art and Society, Museums, Trending

ART FORUM - Earlier today, more than forty employees wearing T-shirts that read “We deserve a fair contract” gathered in the lobby of the New Museum in New York in a show of solidarity with their fellow colleag...

Trump’s “beautiful” Steel Slat Barrier for Mexican border lampooned by designers

Artery

December 27, 2018

Art and Society

dezeen - The image in Trump's tweet showed a row of tall columns with gaps between them and pointed tops. A car, identified by some as a Chevrolet Tahoe, featured in the drawing to illustrate the scale. - read ...

What happened to all the art in Mexico’s presidential palace?

Artery

December 27, 2018

Art and Society

The Art Newspaper - In the weeks since Mexico’s popular new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador made good on his promise to open the official residence to the public after taking office on 1 December, hundred...

Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race

Artery

December 27, 2018

Art and Society

Hyperallergic - Santa, poised over the mission control center, peering at a gleaming satellite on the screen. Santa, gaze turned cheekily back, zooming over the Earth in a blazing rocket ship. - read more ...

This Artist Sued Museums for $100 Million for Declining to Show His Work. But a Judge Isn’t Buying It

Artery

December 27, 2018

Art and Society

artnet news - A judge has thrown out an antitrust case brought by artist Robert Cenedella—also known as the “Art Bastard”—against the Metropolitan Museum of Art and four other major New York museums for alleged...

Jerusalem Criticizes Berlin’s Jewish Museum for ‘Anti-Israel Activity’

Artery

December 27, 2018

Art and Society

The New York Times - This city’s Jewish Museum prides itself on stirring things up. In recent exhibitions exploring Jewish stereotypes and attitudes to circumcision, the museum pushed visitors to question what...