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• Hard Truths: Should an Artist Surrender to the System to Avoid Being an “Outsider”?

  17-09-2024 17:19 via artnews.com
  
  With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide.I consider myself an artist even though I didn’t go to art school. Nothing is more soul satisfying than losing myself while painting and sculpting. Supportive friends and family tell me I should be showing in galleries or museums, but I read art magazines and websites
  
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• Yemen Signs International Treaty Denouncing Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Artifacts

  08-11-2024 21:31 via artnews.com
  
  Yemen recently agreed to an international treaty on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects. The treaty is aimed at remedying one of the main weaknesses of the 1970 UNESCO Convention against illicit trafficking of cultural artifacts.On October 7, the Republic of Yemen acceded to the UNIDROIT Convention, along with the compulsory declarations. The UNIDROIT Convention seeks to fight the illegal sale and purchase of cultural property by encouraging buyers to do their due diligence during the
  
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• ‘Wizard of Oz’ Ruby Slippers Up for Auction for $800,000 Decades After Being Stolen

  08-11-2024 20:16 via artnews.com
  
  Judy Garland’s iconic ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” are being auctioned by Heritage Auctions for over $800,000, years after they were infamously stolen by a mobster from a museum. The slippers were recovered by the FBI thirteen years after they went missing. The auction runs through Dec. 7, with the current bid set at $812,000 and the next minimum amount set to $825,000.  The slippers were taken by ex-mobster Terry Jon Martin from the Judy Garland Museum in 20
  
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• Guggenheim Foundation Rebrands With Arabic Typeface as It Prepares to Open Abu Dhabi Branch

  08-11-2024 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation unveiled the new “visual identity” for its growing network of museums, a custom-designed, open-source typeface including both Latin and Arabic characters.The new Sans font is now protocol for the branding of the foundation’s museums in New York, Venice, Bilboa, and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.“Created in collaboration with the renowned design firm Pentagram, the visual identity reinforces the Guggenheim’s po
  
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• Guggenheim Foundation Rebrands and Adopts New Latin and Arabic Typeface as It Prepares to Open Museum in UAE

  08-11-2024 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  On Thursday, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation unveiled the new “visual identity” for its growing network of museums, a custom-designed, open-source typeface including both Latin and Arabic characters.The new Sans font is now protocol for the branding of the foundation’s museums in New York, Venice, Bilboa, and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.“Created in collaboration with the renowned design firm Pentagram, the visual identity reinforces the Guggenheim’s po
  
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• Kate Hepburn obituary

  08-11-2024 19:23
  
  Designer and artist who worked for Spare Rib, the Monty Python team and Pink FloydIn a career that spanned half a century, the graphic designer Kate Hepburn, who has died aged 77 of multiple system atrophy, displayed great versatility. While an artist aims to develop a distinctive and recognisable style, a designer must be able to alter their approach and technique according to the situation. Hepburn was adept at this, working in fields including leftwing causes, music, comedy and publishing.In
  
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• Mucha Museum to Relocate to Renovated Palace in Prague

  08-11-2024 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  The Mucha Museum, a new institution centered on Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, a key figure behind the Art Nouveau movement, will open a new space in Prague near the city’s historic Old Town Square after ending a long-term agreement with its former operator.Located within the restored Baroque Savarin palace on Na Prikope street in central Prague and recently renovated by the Prague-based real estate developer Crestyl, the space will house Mucha’s works, including lithographs and poster
  
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• Pompeii Victims Weren’t Who Archaeologists Thought They Were, DNA Analysis Reveals

  08-11-2024 18:13 via artnews.com
  
  A new DNA analysis suggests that archaeologists were previously wrong about how they understood the relationships between certain victims of Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 CE.At Pompeii, there is, for example, an adult wearing a bracelet with a child in their lap. The pair was long thought to be a mother and her offspring. But the new DNA analysis suggests that the adult is actually a man and that the kid is not his son.Moreover, there are two women who died while holding one another at Pompeii
  
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• Barbara Probst’s Photographs Make You Feel the Limits of Knowing

  08-11-2024 17:18 via artnews.com
  
  Sculpture was Barbara Probst’s first medium, but, by her own admission, “somehow, I got sidetracked in photography and got stuck there.” In Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts, she studied the peculiarities of late 20th-century space that later, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, got mixed up with a notion of time as so many discordant shards. As she would write in 2014, “the reality that becomes image… is to photography as clay is to modelled sculpture or paint is
  
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• Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury review – tinsel treasures from a polyamorous bohemian

  08-11-2024 16:30
  
  Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
  Her famous friends and avant garde love life can threaten to overshadow her work, but some of it is amazing – although it almost gets lost in the galleryA challenge for anyone confronting the art of the Bloomsbury Group is the way the magnetic chaos of their interpersonal drama can overpower the art. At Pallant House, the curators strike a tenuous balance between the two. Though Dora Carrington, who preferred to be known simply as Carrington, wasn’t
  
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• AI Robot’s Painting Smashes High Estimate at Sotheby’s, Pompeii Victims Not Who Previously Thought, and More: Morning Links for November 8, 2024

  08-11-2024 15:40 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesPAINTING BY AI HUMANOID ROBOT SMASHES AUCTION PREDICTIONS. In a historic first, Sotheby’s sold a painting by an AI robot for $1,084,800 on Thursday. The house said 27 bidders battled for the portrait by the humanoid Ai-Da Robot depicting the computer science luminary and World War II decoder Alan Turing, titled A.I. God. Turing is considered the
  
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• Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI Algorithms Sells for $1 M. at Sotheby’s

  08-11-2024 14:29 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s recently sold the first artwork made by a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for $1 million, blasting past its estimate of $120,000 to $180,000.On November 7, the artwork A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the humanoid robot artist Ai-Da sold for $1,084,800 during the auction house’s Digital Art day sale. There were 27 bids for the portrait of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, which was created using Ai-Da Robot’s AI
  
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• A Spanish drunkard, exploding punks and a Renaissance showdown – the week in art

  08-11-2024 13:00
  
  Leonardo and Michelangelo face off, the lucid art of the Mughal empire eclipses the Taj Mahal, and the Punjab comes to Compton Verney – all in your weekly dispatchThe Great MughalsThis exhibition is both beautiful and lucid in its introduction to the aesthete rulers who built the Taj Mahal.• V&A, London, from 9 November to 5 May Continue reading...
  
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• A Sonia Boyce–Lygia Clark Double Feature at Whitechapel Offers an Exhilarating Proposition 

  08-11-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  For its fall programming, London’s Whitechapel Gallery decided to present an intriguing pairing of exhibitions of two artists who at first may seem an unlikely duo: Sonia Boyce and Lygia Clark. But their work, this double bill of shows argues, shares compelling synergies such as an emphasison touch and play. Moreover, both artists shifted from making object-based art to focusing on participatory practice during their careers. The relational grounding of both their practices is even conveye
  
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• Giant flowers, a buried chariot and temples in the sand: the art show in the shadow of Giza pyramids

  08-11-2024 08:00
  
  Egypt hopes the Forever is Now exhibition of contemporary artists, now in its fourth year, will bring even more visitors to the Unesco heritage siteA dismantled chariot, recreated in the form of two unruly metallic horses next to half-submerged wheels, and giant flowers popping out of the sand: visitors to the pyramids of Giza are being greeted by a series of artworks as Egypt stages its annual contemporary art exhibition at the 4,500-year-old Unesco world heritage site.The Race by Khaled Zaki,
  
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• First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1m

  08-11-2024 04:05
  
  Portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing was created by Ai-Da, one of the most advanced robots in the worldA portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing has become the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching US$1.08m (£566,000, A$1.63m) in New York on Thursday.The 2.2 metre (7.5 feet) portrait, titled A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, was created by Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist. It smashed pre-sale expectations between $120,0
  
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• Two Major Art Collectors Have Made Billions of Dollars Since Donald Trump’s Reelection

  07-11-2024 23:27 via artnews.com
  
  Two of the world’s richest people—Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison, both of whom are notable art collectors—have made billions of dollars since Donald Trump won his reelection bid as President of the United States earlier this week.According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos, the founder of Amazon, made $7.1 billion between Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing his total net worth to $228 billion. Ellison, cofounder of the software company Oracle, saw his net worth jump by $9.9
  
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• National Archives Accused of Censoring Images of Civil Rights Leaders and Forced Relocation of Indigenous Peoples

  07-11-2024 22:18 via artnews.com
  
  The Biden-appointed Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, directed the National Archives to alter photographic exhibits to obscure certain parts of US history, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal.According to the Wall Street Journal, since taking office in May 2023, Shogan has ordered changes to displays of photographs to make the exhibits more widely appealing to the D.C. institution’s audiences. Among the displays reportedly altered were ones featuring image
  
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• Copyright Case Between Artists Deborah Roberts and Lynthia Edwards Continues Without a Victory for Either Side

  07-11-2024 20:51 via artnews.com
  
  A copyright infringement lawsuit between two collage artists, Debroah Roberts and Lynthia Edwards, has been handed down a decision that mirrors the decoupage of a collage artist’s practice.In September 2022 Roberts sued Edwards, her dealer Richard Beavers, and his eponymous gallery accusing them of “willful copyright infringement.” The two artists both work with collage, often using young Black girls as focal points in their work.Early the following year, Edwards filed a counte
  
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• UNESCO Calls Emergency Session for Lebanese Heritage Sites Imperiled by Israeli Bombing

  07-11-2024 18:49 via artnews.com
  
  UNESCO’s Special Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property will hold an emergency session on November 18 dedicated to heritage sites in Lebanon as Israel intensifies its bombing of Baalbek, a historic city in eastern Lebanon home to one of the world’s best-preserved Roman ruins. Lebanon’s U.N. ambassador, Moustapha Adib, told the Beirut-based newspaper L’Orient Today that he, along with the director general of antiquities, Sarkis Khoury, will represent Lebanon&rsq
  
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• Daniel Spoerri, Risk-Taking Artist Who Made Eating an Art Form, Dies at 94

  07-11-2024 15:26 via artnews.com
  
  Daniel Spoerri, an artist whose experimental work involved offering bizarre meals, unappetizing foods, and generally confusing culinary situations, died in Vienna on Wednesday at 94. His death was announced by Ausstellungshaus Spoerri, a museum devoted to him in Hadersdorf am Kamp, Austria.Spoerri gained a following during the 1960s with works that involved the act of eating, often as a means of bridging the gap between art and life. His jokey, risk-taking art was often intended to upend bourgeo
  
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• 20 Must-See Masterworks at the National Gallery, London

  07-11-2024 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  This year marks the 200th anniversary of London’s National Gallery. From humble beginnings it has grown into a cultural icon of the United Kingdom, housing some 2,400 works and now attracting several million visitors a year.The concept of a National Gallery was born after the death of John Julius Angerstein, a banker and marine insurance broker who founded the insurance company Lloyd’s of London and amassed a splendid art collection from across Europe. When he died in 1823, his heirs
  
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• Sotheby’s to Host Saudi Arabia’s First-Ever International Auction, Australian Museum Stokes Debate After Buying Vandalized Glass Cover for Painting, and More: Morning Links for November 7, 2024

  07-11-2024 14:59 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesKINGDOM COME FOR SOTHEBY’S AND ART BASEL TO MANAGE ABU DHABI ART? ARTnews‘ Daniel Cassady looks at Sotheby’s finally closing its deal with Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund ADQ for a cool $1 billion. Cassady also writes that multiple sources told him that Art Basel is in negotiations to receive $20 million in exchange f
  
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• Legacies: new exhibition aims to expand ideas of Asian American art

  07-11-2024 11:03
  
  With more than 100 works, a new look into New York City’s Asian American art movements reveals a wide variety of styles, themes and viewpointsIt may be widely used now but the term “Asian American” is only a few decades old, being coined in 1968 by UC Berkeley activists Emma Gee and Yuji Ichioka, as they sought an umbrella identity for their student organization, eventually hitting on the Asian American Political Alliance. The term caught on in part because it replaced the term
  
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• Using Photography and AI, Song Lu Renders the Everyday Uncanny

  07-11-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Song Lu: Tomato, from the series “Still Life,” 2018. A red and ripe tomato wedges tightly between the door and the doorjamb, illuminated by a light source from the right. A perfectly round onion sits atop layers of pamphlets in a vaulted safe, its skin just beginning to unravel, a spotlight shining from above. These are some of the scenes in Song Lu’s 2018 photographic series, “Still Life,” depicting common food items in her home studio. They are oddly satisfying,
  
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• Cady Noland, an Art World Recluse, Has Officially Come Back into the Fray

  07-11-2024 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Even just five years ago, it was unthinkable to imagine a sizable Cady Noland exhibition ever opening during her lifetime in the US, the country whose damaged national identity she has so incisively explored since the late 1980s. Her ramshackle installations composed of American flags, tossed-out Budweiser cans, and car parts have earned plenty of admirers and institutional cachet, but that appears to have mattered none to Noland, who at the time seemed to have essentially stopped showing new wo
  
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• Sotheby’s Will Host Saudi Arabia’s First-Ever International Auction in 2025 as the House Cements a Foothold in the Kingdom

  07-11-2024 10:34 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s will host the first-ever international auction in Saudi Arabia on February 8 2025, the house announced on Thursday.The exact location of the two-part evening sale has not yet been disclosed but it will be somewhere in the historic town of Diriyah on the outskirts of the capital, Riyadh.Diriyah is the original home of the Saudi royal family and has a Unesco heritage site.Artworks by international and Saudi artists – including a diptych from Ahmed Mater’s The Illuminati
  
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• Ashmolean Museum raises £4.48m to keep rare Fra Angelico work in UK

  07-11-2024 09:40
  
  The Crucifixion, painted in 1420s, was due to be sold to overseas buyer before deferral granted in JanuaryThe Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has raised £4.48m to prevent a rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the country after two centuries.Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion was going to be sold to an overseas buyer last year, but due to the work’s value and importance to the UK, the culture secretary granted a deferral of nine months in January to keep the painting in the UK
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped ‘banana’ artwork estimated to fetch up to US$1.5m at New York auction

  07-11-2024 07:10
  The viral artwork, involving a banana stuck to a wall, is once again in the spotlight, as Sotheby’s prepares to auction it for an eye-watering sumItalian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s notorious installation involving a banana duct-taped to a wall is once again putting the slippery value of art in the spotlight.This month, international auction house Sotheby’s will put one of the artwork’s three editions up for sale in New York, with an estimated price of between US$1m and US
  
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• Sotheby’s Just Got A $1 B. Lifeline from Abu Dhabi — Art Basel Could Be Next

  06-11-2024 23:40 via artnews.com
  
  Last week, when Sotheby’s finally closed its deal with the Abu Dhabi–based sovereign wealth fund ADQ for a $1 billion cash injection, the sense of relief was palpable. The investment will not only go a long way toward helping the debt-laden auction house clear the red out of its ledger, but also perhaps help position Sotheby’s for a more robust future. CEO Charles Stewart has been pushing to evolve Sotehby’s into a globally-recognized luxury brand beyond the art world. Ma
  
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