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Banksy’s Shredding Artwork Is Auctioned for $25.4 Million at Sotheby’s

October 18, 2021

NY Times - The Banksy painting that sensationally self-destructed three years ago after selling for $1.4 million at auction was resold by Sotheby’s Thursday for 18.6 million pounds, or $25.4 million, a record f...

At Frieze London, the Art World Inches Toward Normalcy

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October 18, 2021

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NY Times - It was “business as usual,” said the Russian art adviser and collector Alex Lachmann on Wednesday, as he made his way through the crowd of V.I.P.s at the opening of the first in-person Frieze London...

Thinking About Art on the 10th Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

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September 18, 2021

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I used to think that to be relevant as an artist was to participate in the logic of the market, but that changed in 2011. - read more ...

A Lesser-Known Photo of an Iconic 9/11 Moment Brings Shades of Gray to the Day’s Memory

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September 18, 2021

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Smithsonian - That morning, hijackers crashed two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. By half past ten, both skyscrapers had collapsed. Fires burned and toxic ash choked th...

Christo posthumously wraps Arc de Triomphe in Paris

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September 18, 2021

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Domus - These days, in Paris, the "packaging" operation of the Arc de Triomphe is taking place. It mixes art and engineering on a massive scale, fulfilling the dream that the famous couple of artists Christo an...

Exhibition Showcases How Artists Challenge Mythic Conceptions of the American West

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July 30, 2021

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Smithsonian Magazine - Now on tour! Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea, a collaboration among SAAM and four partner museums, offers counterviews of “the West” through the eyes of modern and contemporary...

The unseen masterpieces of Frida Kahlo

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July 30, 2021

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BBC - Lost or little-known works by the Mexican artist provide fresh insights on her life and work. Holly Williams explores the rarely seen art included in a new book of the complete paintings. - read more ...

The Olympic cauldron by Nendo is a flaming volleyball

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July 30, 2021

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Domus - Created by Oki Sato’s studio, one of the best-known Japanese design firms famous for its unique and extravagant design of everyday objects, it is a tribute to the sun and its energy, but also to Japanes...

MacKenzie Scott Distributes $2.7B to 286 Arts & Other Organizations

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June 26, 2021

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Hyperallergic - El Museo del Barrio, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Chinese in America are some of the dozens of art institutions that received grants from MacKenzie Scott, a writer and former spous...

For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show

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June 26, 2021

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NY Times - It’s hard to imagine Florence, cradle of the High Renaissance of early modern Europe, without its avaricious, venal, culture-conscious first family, the Medici. Crowned and uncrowned, during periods ...