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Lawsuit against art historian over fake Rothko settled out of court

April 12, 2017

The Art Newspaper - The Las Vegas billionaire casino magnate Frank Fertitta has settled his claims against the Swiss art historian Oliver Wick in one of the ten lawsuits brought against the now-defunct Knoedler...

Anselm Kiefer on the Existential Crisis Facing Humanity

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April 5, 2017

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Artsy - Anselm Kiefer is emphatically one of the world’s most successful and well-known living artists. His work has been described as “verging on the divine,” no less. But at 72, what does it all mean to Kiefe...

How the Rainbow Flag Became a Universal Symbol of Gay Rights

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April 5, 2017

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Artsy - It was 1978, and San Francisco’s gay community was on the hunt for a symbol that represented their fight for equal rights. So Gilbert Baker, a 27-year-old artist and drag queen, began brainstorming. He ...

DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND DEITY: PAINTING GUERNICA

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April 5, 2017

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The Art Newspaper - In the first week of January 1937, six months into the Spanish Civil War, Josep Renau, Republican Spain’s dynamic young director of Bellas Artes, approached Picasso to commission a large wor...

Art Basel Report Suggests Growing Inequality Is Endangering the Art Market

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March 22, 2017

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Artsy - Widening wealth inequality has been and likely will be blamed for a number of pernicious phenomena, such as rising populism, the election of a few unsavory characters, and decreased social mobility. Ine...

Van Gogh paintings snatched by mafia back in Amsterdam after 14 years

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March 22, 2017

Art and Society, Art and the Law

DW - Two works by Dutch post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh have been returned to the Netherlands after they were grabbed in a mafia heist 14 years ago. The two paintings were unveiled on Tuesday at the Van Gog...

Man charged with vandalising painting by Gainsborough at National Gallery

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March 22, 2017

Art and Society, Art and the Law

The Art Newspaper -The man charged with vandalising Thomas Gainsborough’s The Morning Walk (1785) is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today. On Saturday (18 March), just after 2pm, Keith Gregory,...

David Rockefeller, banker, philanthropist and lifetime MoMA patron, dies at age 101

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March 22, 2017

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The Art Newspaper -David Rockefeller, the New York banker, philanthropist and art collector, died at his home in the Pocantico Hills in upstate New York on Monday, aged 101. As well as the long-time chairman an...

Asia’s new rich help cushion global market’s fall, economist Clare McAndrew reports

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March 22, 2017

Art and Society, Art Market

The Art Newspaper- - Total sales in the global art market shrank by 11% in 2016 to $57bn, a more than $10bn fall from an all-time high of $68bn in 2014 – this is the headline finding of a report by the economi...

Queer artists revisit Berlin-Istanbul relations

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March 16, 2017

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DW - The exhibition, subtitled "Queer forms migrate," demonstrates how Germany helped shape the Turkish LGBTIQ* community, directly or remotely. Most of the participating artists were born in Turkey but lat...