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Women and Minority Artists Flourish Amid Elite Indulgence at the 2019 Armory Show

March 9, 2019

Hyperallergic - About halfway through my tour of Armory Show 2019, I encountered the gigantesque and hollowed-out sculpture “Plastic Bags” (2019) by Cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou. Nearby, an overeag...

There are Millions of New Millionaires, but Not at Art Sales

Artery

March 9, 2019

Art and Society

New York Times - An estimated $67.4 billion of art was sold worldwide last year, an increase of 6 percent on 2017, according to an influential report released on Friday. Yet growth in the art market remains ...

Activists Demand MoMA Divest from Private Prisons and Weapons Manufacturers

Artery

March 9, 2019

Art and Society

Hyperallergic - Why is the Museum of Modern Art honoring Bank of America’s CEO Brian Moynihan when his company is a top funder of private prisons? That’s one question protesters were asking the Midtown museum’s...

IKEA teams up with top African designers to launch Överallt furniture collection

Artery

March 8, 2019

Art and Society

Launched this week at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, the Överalltcollection features products by creatives from five African countries, including Sengalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane, South Af...

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

Artery

March 8, 2019

Architecture, Art and Society

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 ...