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Artist Violette Bule and Art Historian Michel Otayek Talk About Their Recent Exhibition and the Political Crisis in Venezuela

Installation view of “Una Luz: Photography Under Confinement in Venezuela” at the Visual Arts Center, 2024. Photo: Alex Boeschenstein Between 2010 and 2012, artist Violette Bule held a series of free photography workshops in penitentiaries in her home country of Venezuela. Over 3,000 images were created by the workshops’ incarcerated participants. That archive remained out of public …

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Yale Peabody Museum to Repatriate Native American Remains and Artifacts to Maine Tribes

The Yale Peabody Museum Courtesy Yale Peabody Museum The Yale Peabody Museum has flagged human remains and eight funerary objects in its collection for repatriation to Native American tribes of the Wabanaki Nations in Maine. These remains and objects were removed from burial sites and shell mounds in Maine and donated to the museum in …

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Emily Carr Painting Bought for $50 Auctioned for $250,000, San Francisco’s Museums Struggle Financially, and More: Morning Links for November 22, 2024

Exterior view of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FROM BARN SALE TO AUCTION. After being picked up earlier this year at a barn sale in the Hamptons for just $50 dollars by an eagle-eyed art dealer, a …

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Gucci, Valentino, Versace, and Balenciaga Are Among Fashion Brands On View in Rome Exhibition

The MAXXI museum’s “Memorabile.Ipermoda” (2024–25) fashion exhibition in Rome. Giovanni Giannoni / WWD “What has fashion become today?” That is one of the key questions fashion theorist, professor and curator Maria Luisa Frisa asked herself when planning the “Memorabile.Ipermoda” exhibition at the MAXXI Museum here. “These are challenging times and the exhibition generates questions and issues that …

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Artist Inci Eviner Says Qatari Museum Censored Her Work About a 19th-Century Harem

Inci Eviner, Harem (still), 2009. Courtesy the artist Inci Eviner, an artist whose work has appeared in biennials across the globe, from Venice to Sharjah, accused Qatar’s Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art of censorship after it removed one of her videos from an exhibition at the last minute. The video, titled Harem (2009), revisits …

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Justin Sun Eats the Banana He Bought for $6.2 M. at Sotheby’s in New York Last Week

“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun told reporters. “It’s really quite good.” COURTESY Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images On Friday, Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur who purchased Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, the banana duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 last week – made good on his promise to eat it. Immediately after buying the controversial artwork at …

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Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ Mural Will Soon Be Sold with the Building It is Painted on

Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ was painted on the side of a sexual health clinic in Bristol in 2006. Andrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it …

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A Groundbreaking Show on the African Diaspora Raises Pressing Questions About Portugal’s Colonialist Past

Installation view of “Black Ancient Futures,” 2024, at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. Photo Bruno Lopes In 2008, Danish Trinidadian artist Jeannette Ehlers traveled to Ghana, where she visited Fort Prinzenstein, which was built by Danish traders in 1784 and used in the transatlantic slave trade. Located in Keta, in the West …

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