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• Tate to Cut 40 Roles, or 7 Percent of Staff, in Response to Lingering Covid Deficit

  14-03-2025 19:48 via artnews.com
  
  The Tate museum network will dramatically slim its workforce as institutions and galleries worldwide seek to reduce costs amid forecasts of a far-reaching financial recession.The Financial Times reports that around 40 roles, or 7 percent of its staff, are expected to be eliminated through voluntary departures and hiring freezes. In a statement to the Financial Times, a Tate spokesperson said the decision would “eliminate the deficit that many museums like Tate have borne since the pandemic
  
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• Sotheby’s and Pace Gallery In Talks For Significant Partnership: ‘A New Model’

  14-03-2025 21:52 via artnews.com
  
  Sotheby’s and Pace Gallery are currently negotiating over a deal that would see the auction house make a significant investment in the mega-gallery. While nothing has been inked yet, and the details appear to be very much in flux, a source close to the negotiations told ARTnews that it was not an acquisition, but a “joint venture between Pace and Sotheby’s that will be multifaceted and has many elements. Let’s call it a ‘new model.'”The news, while potentially
  
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• Christie’s Names New Regional President of the Americas

  14-03-2025 21:18 via artnews.com
  
  Julien Pradels has been named the new regional president of the Americas at Christie’s.Pradels has held leadership positions across Christie’s global operation over 14 years, with tenures Europe, Asia, and now the Americas. He spearheaded Christie’s first auction sale in Shanghai.“I am so please to have such a wonderful and dedicated colleague in this role,” Brennan said in a statement, adding that he would be “leading a world-class team of specialists and sta
  
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• Vice President JD Vance Booed at a Kennedy Center Concert in D.C.

  14-03-2025 20:28 via artnews.com
  
  Vice President JD Vance was booed while attending a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Thursday evening, the New York Times reported.It was Vance’s first time there since President Donald Trump installed himself as chair of the institution, with Second Lady Usha Vance recently appointed by Trump to serve on the board. This comes after Trump let go of financier David M. Rubenstein as the longtime chairman, along with the center’s presi
  
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• Artist Jo Messer Involved in 2021 Theft of Beloved Elvis Sculpture in New York

  14-03-2025 19:59 via artnews.com
  
  There are thefts of paintings worth millions, and then there are thefts of objects of lesser monetary value whose worth cannot be entirely quantified. The mysterious taking of a sculpture of Elvis Presley at the New York restaurant Jolene in 2021 falls into the latter category, but it’s of art-world interest because it involves a painter of note.This bizarre heist is the subject of a new investigation in the New Yorker, and it turns out that artist Jo Messer took part, reportedly aiding he
  
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• Hilma af Klint’s Art Should Be for Everybody—Even If Her Descendants Don’t Think So

  14-03-2025 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  It’s tough to remember there was a time when museums didn’t show Hilma af Klint’s work widely, when she wasn’t the subject of retrospectives and biopics and merchandise. And it remains tougher still to remember that there very nearly was an entire museum for af Klint’s work during her lifetime.In 1940, the Swedish painter deepened her friendship with Tyra Kleen, a Symbolist artist whose rich life led her from Sweden to Java and back again. Kleen proposed a collabora
  
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• Mickalene Thomas Brings Trompe L’oeil Sculptures, Collages, and Silkscreens to a Site-Specific Installation at This Year’s IFPDA Print Fair

  14-03-2025 17:01 via artnews.com
  
  The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair returns this spring to the Park Avenue Armory in New York from March 27–30, bringing together more than 70 international galleries and publishers to showcase fine art prints ranging from Old Masters to the ultra-contemporary.Related ArticlesThis November, $1 K. Can Buy You a Visit to the Studio of Blue-Chip Artists like Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Gibson Returning to Park Avenue Armory Next Month, IFPDA Print Fair Names Ex
  
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• Getty Acquires Raymond Pettibon Archive, Google Gives $1.5 M. to Ruth Asawa Exhibit, and More: Morning Links for March 14, 2025

  14-03-2025 15:13 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!The Tate has cut 7 percent of staff via voluntary departures and a hiring freeze, due to a post-pandemic deficit. Raymond Pettibon has gifted his archive to the Getty museum in Los Angeles.JD Vance was booed at Kennedy Center when he took his seat in the auditorium for a concert.The Headlines TATE CUTS. The Tate has cut back almost a tenth of its staff via voluntary departures and a hiring freeze, as it tackles deficit woes, reports the Financial Times. About 40
  
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• 9 Iconic Artists Discuss What Women’s History Month Means to Them in 2025

  14-03-2025 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  In a landmark 1971 essay published by ARTnews, the art historian Linda Nochlin pointedly asked, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Her piece was “an encouragement, an announcement of an arrival, a gift to women artists of a shared but previously little-known past, and a declaration of a future,” wrote artist Mira Schor in a recent message to ARTnews. For this year’s Women’s History Month, ARTnews contacted Schor and eight other women artists who exp
  
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• Who Was Mary Reynolds? A Two-Person Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago Celebrates Her Life and Artistry

  14-03-2025 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  The business cards that Mary Reynolds had made were in all capital letters and simply read: MARY REYNOLDS / RELIURE / 24 R. HALLÉ / PARIS XIV. It’s unclear why she wanted them, since her reliure (French for “bookbinding”) was mostly for herself. The address was semi-accurate. Reynolds had a place there but also lived down the street, in a two-story house at 14 rue Hallé with a big enough backyard to accommodate Brancusi sculptures, a gang of cats, and nightly gath
  
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• Emily Kam Kngwarray’s First European Retrospective to Open This Summer

  14-03-2025 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  In a photograph from 1994, the Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray sits cross-legged on the ground wearing a purple sweater and a black beanie. Though the canvas stretching out before her is enormous, she is absorbed in a small section, carefully dabbing at the material with a long brush dipped in yellow paint. Kngwarray’s deep concentration in this image embodies the care she poured into all her work. “No gestural mark was ever a mistake,” says Kelli Cole, a curator of Abori
  
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• Hilma af Klint Descendant Seeks to Make Her Paintings Accessible Only via Private Temple

  13-03-2025 22:03 via artnews.com
  
  The plot has thickened in a power struggle over Hilma af Klint’s legacy, with her great-grandnephew, the chair of the late artist’s eponymous foundation, now seeking to keep her paintings in a private temple accessible only to spiritual seekers.Af Klint’s great-grandnephew, Erik af Klint, publicly opposed to an agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and mega-gallerist David Zwirner last year, saying that the deal went against the artist’s own wishes not to commer
  
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• Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities Departs at Trump’s ‘Direction’

  13-03-2025 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  The chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Shelly Lowe, has left her position “at the direction of President Trump”.Agency chairs are appointed for four-year terms. However, the New York Times reported that Michael McDonald, the NEH’s general counsel, was named the agency’s acting chairman on March 12. “I can confirm that, at the direction of President Trump, Shelly Lowe has departed her position as chair of N.E.H.,” a spokesman for the agency, Pa
  
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• In Maastricht, Danielle Mckinney’s Figures Come Out of the Dark

  13-03-2025 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  At the opening of TEFAF Maastricht on Thursday morning, there were a few galleries that had traveled to the remote Dutch university town for the first time. While the fair is best known for Old Masters works and antiquities, first-timer exhibitor Marianne Boesky bucked that trend by bringing a group of small-scale paintings by New York-based artist and photographer Danielle Mckinney.Mckinney, 42, has seen her following surge over the last couple of years. Her paintings, many completed this year,
  
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• At TEFAF, First-Time Exhibitor Marianne Boesky Pairs Danielle Mckinney’s Nude Figures with Edward Hopper

  13-03-2025 19:38 via artnews.com
  
  At the opening of TEFAF Maastricht on Thursday morning, there were a few galleries that had traveled to the remote Dutch university town for the first time. While the fair is best known for Old Masters works and antiquities, first-timer exhibitor Marianne Boesky bucked that trend by bringing a group of small-scale paintings by New York-based artist and photographer Danielle Mckinney.Mckinney, 42, has seen her following surge over the last couple of years. Her paintings, many completed this year,
  
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• A New Proposal to Improve Penn Station Means Demolishing Madison Square Garden

  13-03-2025 19:10 via artnews.com
  
  A new proposal for the renovation of Pennsylvania Station is officially on the table, and it includes returning to the train station to its pre-demolition Beaux Arts style and relocating the Madison Square Garden (MSG) arena.The historic Penn Station was designed by McKim, Mead, and White, and was completed in 1910. It spanned Manhattan’s Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets, and was modeled after the Roman baths of Caracalla, a grand space intended for all.The new ren
  
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• A Stolen 16th Century Madonna Painting Is at the Center of Dispute Between Widow and Small Italian Museum

  13-03-2025 18:24 via artnews.com
  
  A 16th-century painting stolen from an Italian museum more than half a century ago has resurfaced—not in a grand gallery or a private collection, but at the center of a bitter dispute between an English widow and a small-town museum in northern Italy.The work in question, Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario, was stolen in 1973 from the civic museum in Belluno, a picturesque town in the Dolomites. Some years later, it found its way to the English countryside, purchased by the lat
  
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• Refik Anadol’s Guggenheim Bilbao Show Is an Architectural AI Overload

  13-03-2025 18:10 via artnews.com
  
  Refik Anadol had Mark Rothko on his mind last week as he unveiled “Living Architecture: Gehry,” an AI-powered reimagining of Frank Gehry’s architectural legacy at the Guggenheim Bilbao. “I’m hoping that this artwork not only talks about technology but really talks about where we are going,” Anadol shared during the exhibition’s opening press conference. “Rothko said, ‘My work is a place.’ I feel that Gallery 208 [where the work is
  
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• Defending Works Left on the Cutting Room Floor of Our ‘Best Artworks of the 21st Century’ List

  13-03-2025 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Our list of the best artworks of the 21st century features 100 pieces and 15,000 words of copy, but for the editors of ARTnews and Art in America, it was still not enough.Left on the cutting room floor were many, many pieces we still cared a lot about. Some didn’t end up making the final list because the editors couldn’t agree on their merits. Some didn’t make it because they occurred to us only late in the process, once the list had been settled upon. And some didn’t mak
  
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• Delacroix Oil Study Discovered in Living Room of French Home, Estimated at $325 K.

  13-03-2025 16:56 via artnews.com
  
  An oil study depicting a lion has officially been attributed to Eugène Delacroix, a key figure of the Romanticist movement of the 19th century, and will now head to sale in France.The Daguerre Val de Loire auction house announced the attribution this week, saying that the owners of the oil study didn’t previously know that they held a Delacroix. The study now could sell for as much as $325,800.According to auctioneer Malo de Lussac, the study had long been displayed in the living ro
  
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• Patti Smith’s Poetic Voice Mixes the Sounds of the Amazon’s Destruction for an Ongoing Collaboration

  13-03-2025 16:45 via artnews.com
  
  Crickets in Ibiza, traditional Georgian music, sounds of the Amazon River recently filled the cavernous Chelsea outpost of Kurimanzutto. Across sound pieces, eight two-channel films, mixed-media collages, drawings, and sculpture, Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective contemplated our current environmental crisis through the lens of demise, rebirth, and chance.“I look at places that hold invisible stories and memories,” Soundwalk Collective founder Stephan Crasneanscki told ARTnews. Hi
  
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• Trump Removes NEH Chair, Experts ID Rare Delacroix Oil Study of Lions, and More: Morning Links for March 13, 2025

  13-03-2025 13:40 via artnews.com
  
  Good morning!Trump has fired Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American Chair of the National Endowment for Humanities. Experts have positively identified a rare Delacroix study of lions in a private home, now headed to auction.Archaeologists unearthed a 12th or 13th century torso of a Buddha in Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex.The Headlines TRUMP REMOVES NEA CHAIR. Shelly C. Lowe, the Chair of the National Endowment for Humanities, has stepped down from her position, “
  
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• Pandemic-Era Art Tech Startups Are Here to Stay—But No Thanks to VC Funding

  13-03-2025 09:18 via artnews.com
  
  When former Christie’s co-chairman Loic Gouzer launched his auction app Fair Warning in 2020 as pandemic lockdowns halted art sales, it was an experiment. Last year, after a short break, he recommitted to the concept and, a few months ago, secured $5 million in a ten-day Series A funding round. In recent weeks, he has offered for sale two meditative landscape paintings by Lucas Arruda and Sterling Ruby from 2015 and 2013, respectively.
   
  Fair Warning and several other major
  
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• There Were More Contemporary Art Transactions in 2024—But Far Fewer Lots Sold for Above $1 M.

  12-03-2025 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  In the 2023–24 financial year, as global art sales returned to pre-pandemic levels, there were fewer auction records but far more lower-priced transactions, according to a new report.Additionally, that report said, there were far fewer works available in a category known as Ultra-Contemporary, which refers to art of the past couple decades, much of it by young artists.Even Trump’s implemented new tariffs this year, buyers were already becoming more sensitive about pricing and more se
  
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• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Sabado por la Noche to Lead Christie’s Hong Kong Evening Sale, with $13 M. to $16 M. Estimate

  12-03-2025 21:09 via artnews.com
  
  A punchy hot pink and maroon painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will be the top lot at Christie’s upcoming 20th/21st century evening sale in Hong Kong on March 28. Titled Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night), the 6.5 foot by 7.5 foot work was painted in 1984 and comes with an estimate of HK$95 million to HK$125 million (about $13 million to $16 million). For the first time, Christie’s will hold the auction at the same time as Art Basel Hong Kong.Sabado comes from a perio
  
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• Trump Moves to Fire Caretakers of Federal Art Collections

  12-03-2025 19:55 via artnews.com
  
  The Trump administration has moved to fire federal employees who care for the more than 26,000 artworks and artifacts owned by the US government, potentially imperiling the collection, which contains pieces dating back to the 1800s.According to the Washington Post, fine arts and historic preservation workers at the General Services Administration (GSA) said that at least five regional offices were closed last week and over half of the agency’s roughly three dozen workers were put on leave,
  
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• Far-Right Greek Politician Detained After Vandalism of ‘Sacrilegious’ Artworks in Athens

  12-03-2025 16:38 via artnews.com
  
  Greek authorities arrested Nikos Papadopoulos, a far-right MP with the Niki party, after artworks in Athens’s National Gallery were vandalized. Papadopoulos has been released from custody since his arrest on March 10, according to Ekathimerini.Papadopoulos was accused of damaging four artworks by Christoforos Katsadiotis, three of them resembling religious icons. On X, Papadopoulos denounced the artworks, writing that he attempted to take down “four sacrilegious images” when he
  
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• Dib Bangkok, Thailand’s First Contemporary Art Museum, to Open this December

  12-03-2025 16:14 via artnews.com
  
  Thailand’s highly-anticipated Dib Bangkok museum and based on the collection of late businessman Petch Osathanugrah, has announced a December 2025 opening date.Related ArticlesPatron Marisa Chearavanont Hopes to Transform Thailand’s Art Scene with an ‘Art Forest’ Top 200 Collectors Alice Walton, Jeff Bezos, and Bernard Arnault Lose Billions Due to Stock Market Selloffs The museum, the first in the country dedicated to global contemporary art, will be housed in a
  
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• Major Cuts to Public Art Preservation Units, Indian Artist Himmat Shah Has Died, and More: Morning Links for March 12, 2025

  12-03-2025 14:51 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!A majority of workers at the General Services Administration, which maintains and preserves public artworks, were put on sudden leave pending terminations. An anonymous donor has gifted the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago $10 million to support the performing arts.The Indian sculptor and multidisciplinary artist Himmat Shah has died.The Headlines PUBLIC ARTWORKS IN LIMBO. The Trump administration has fired most workers in the General Services Administration’s fine
  
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• Top 200 Collectors Alice Walton, Jeff Bezos, And Bernard Arnault Lose Billions Due to Stock Market Selloffs

  12-03-2025 14:19 via artnews.com
  
  ARTnews Top 200 collectors Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Alice Walton lost billions on March 7 and March 10 after stock market sell-offs motivated by investor concerns about the new Trump tariffs and a potential global recession.By the end of the trading day Friday, the major US indices had fallen by more than 2 percent for the week and the S&P 500 fell 3.1 percent, the largest drop since September, according to NPR. On March 10, the Wall Street Journal reported the Nasdaq Composite fell
  
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