Jadé Fadojutimi. Photo Dave Benett/Getty Images for Make-A-Wish UK In a new profile published this week by the New Yorker, Jadé Fadojutimi, a fast-rising painter, explained her reasons for departing Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the London-based gallery that made her famous, for the mega-gallery Gagosian. The move, she told Rebecca Mead, was meant to ensure she …
Art scene: Seoul’s art market is set to get a boost from new legislation. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines KOREAN ART MARKET TO BENEFIT FROM EASED REGULATIONS. The South Korean art market is expected to get a welcome boost due to new legislation, …
Archaeologists at work in Regio IX, Pompeii, Italy. Courtesy Pompeii Archaeological Park The ancient city of Pompeii, it seems, has taken a liking to the recently implemented “day tripper” tax in Venice, or at least the theory behind it, and will soon put in place restrictions on the number of visitors allowed to visit the well-preserved city …
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The exterior view of the Guggenheim Museum designed by architect Frank Gehry in Bilbao, Spain. Photo Joaquin Gomez Sastre / NurPhoto via Getty Images Art historian and curator Miren Arzalluz has been appointed director general of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the institution announced in a statement. She begins her tenure on April 1. …
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Andra Matei (L), the free-speech lawyer representing ODEE (R), says they will “take the fight to the very end.” COURTESY Andra Matei On Thursday, a judge in the UK ruled in favor of Iceland’s largest fishing company, Samherji, after it sued an Icelandic artist who, posing as the company, apologized for its alleged role in …
Walter Dahn. Photo Andrea Stappert Walter Dahn, an artist whose paintings reacted against Minimalism and Conceptualism with humor and grace, earning him a cult following both within Germany and abroad, has died at 70. His death was announced on Wednesday by his gallery, Sprüth Magers, which did not state a cause. Dahn was a member …
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View of Jeffrey Gibson’s “WE’RE POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT” at MASS MoCA. Greg Nesbit There was a lot of talk about portals earlier this month at MASS MoCA, the enormous art space in Western Massachusetts now playing home to an eye-popping, shape-shifting installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson through the winter of next year. Gibson …
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Installation view of “Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature,” 2024, at the Broad, Los Angeles. Photo Joshua White/JWPictures.com/Courtesy The Broad “If you have all my multiples,” Joseph Beuys once said, “then you have me completely.” The polymathic German sculptor was referring to the editioned objects that bore the intellectual and emotional freight of his artistic …
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Installation view of “Osman Khan: Road to Hybridabad,” 2024–25, at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, featuring Mohammed’s flying horse, Buraq, as a coin-operated kiddie ride. Photo Jon Verney/Courtesy the artist, made with MASS MoCA Drone-operated flying carpets held captive inside a Taj Mahal–shaped cage; a mammoth head of the British colonialist Sir Cyril Radcliffe moonlighting …
Ai-Da Robot (Aidan Meller), A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, 2024. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. 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 …
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