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London’s Groucho Club to Reopen Following Alleged Rape on its Premises

A rape is being investigated at the Groucho Club on Dean Street in Soho. In Pictures via Getty Images London’s Groucho Club will reopen in January following an allegation of rape on its premises. The members-only had its license temporarily suspended last month amid a police investigation into the claim. Artfarm, a hospitality company set …

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Phillips Chairman and Deputy CEO Step Down Amid Leadership Reshuffle

Phillips CEO Martin Wilson. Courtesy Phillips. Phillips has named Martin Wilson as the house’s new chief executive officer amid another leadership shuffle, succeeding Ed Dolman, who held the dual position of CEO and executive chairman over the last year, and is now departing from the house after ten years. Wilson previously served as Phillips’ chief …

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Samantha Box’s Still Life Collages Look at How the Caribbean Is Exported to Its Diaspora

Samantha Box. Photo Farrah Skeiky After 12 years of photographing queer youth in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, photographer Samantha Box came to the realization around 2018 that this sort of documentation was not work that appealed to her any longer.  “I don’t believe in documentary photography anymore,” she told ARTnews during a visit to …

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Niki de Saint Phalle Biopic Is a Convincing Portrait of an Artist in Transformation

Still from Niki, 2024. Courtesy Wild Bunch In 1952, Niki de Saint Phalle moved from the United States to France with her husband Harry Mathews and her infant daughter. Dark childhood memories, including ones involving her incestuous father, started to resurface, moving her to commit herself to a mental institution, where she received electroshock treatment. …

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Women-Only ‘Ladies Lounge’ Artwork Returns to Australian Museum After Supreme Court Win

Kirsha Kaechele’s Ladies Lounge at Mona, Australia before the works were moved in to the women’s restroom. COURTESY MONA Following the successful reversal of a Tasmanian court case, a women-only art installation will reopen at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Australia. Artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele’s work, titled Ladies Lounge, made headlines when Jason Lau …

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Iconic David Hammons Work to Be Restaged by Hauser & Wirth During Frieze LA

Hauser & Wirth’s Los Angeles gallery. Photo Joshua Targownik/targophoto.com As part of its programming for the upcoming Frieze Los Angeles fair, Hauser & Wirth will restage David Hammons’s iconic work Concerto in Black and Blue (2002) for the first time since its debut more than 20 years ago. The only time Concerto in Black and …

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Banksy Posts Mysterious Madonna and Child Mural on Instagram, Stirring Speculation

The location and meaning of Banksy’s new mural is not yet known. via Instagram On December 16, British street artist Banksy posted on Instagram an artwork referencing the Madonna and Child, stirring speculation to its meaning. The painting on a metal panel in an unknown location shows the woman’s breast with a rusting hole for …

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