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Tate Modern Reprises Its Groundbreaking Zanele Muholi Survey

Zanele Muholi, Julie I, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2016, from the series “Somnyama Ngonyama” (2015–ongoing) Copyright © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York. Among the personas photographer Zanele Muholi adopts in their self-portraits, two defining features tie the images to the artist: their darkened skin tone and the brightness of their eyes. …

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France’s Culture Minister Proposes Charging Notre-Dame Visitors Five-Euro Entry Fee

French culture minister Rachida Dati wants to save her country’s churches by making people pay to enter Notre-Dame. Corbis via Getty Images Rachida Dati, France’s culture minister, has suggested charging an entry fee for visitors to Notre-Dame de Paris when the cathedral reopens in December following its five-year restoration. Dati told Le Figaro that forcing …

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Clark Art Institute Gets $45 M. Trustee Gift to Establish New Gallery and 331 Works for Collection

Facade of Clark Art Institute via Google images. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has received a significant posthumous donation from the foundation of one of its former trustees, Bulgarian-American software developer Aso O. Tavitian, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 80. The donation includes 331 artworks and a $45 million …

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Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and Environment Prize

MOCA Grand Avenue. Elon Schoenholz/Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña as the winners of its inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize. The award comes with a $100,000 purse and institutional support from the museum to develop …

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Dealers at The Art Show Weigh in on a Soft Market: ‘A Great Picture Always Sells’

An installation view of Charles Moffett’s booth at ADAA’s The Art Show. Silvia Ros/Courtesy of Charles Moffett Gallery Not even an hour into the opening of The Art Show, the annual fair of the Art Dealers Association of America, New York dealer Charles Moffett had sold half of the seven egg tempera on wood New …

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The $1 B. Grand Egyptian Museum Next to the Giza Pyramids Finally Opens But Tutankhamun’s Mask Not Yet on Show

Workers clean the base of GAM’s giant statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. courtesy picture alliance via Getty Image The long-awaited – and much-delayed – state-funded Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) next to the Giza Pyramids is finally open, but only partially. GEM houses the largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including treasures from the tomb of …

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Llyn Foulkes’s Art About American Rot Is More Eccentric and Urgent Than Ever

Llyn Foulkes, Lifeboat, 2016. Acrylic and found objects on luan JENNY GORMAN “Maybe I have this stupid feeling that art can save the world,” the Los Angeles–based artist Llyn Foulkes said in an oral history conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. That was in 1997. Now, in 2024, Foulkes, one of the original …

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A Massive Gustave Caillebotte Retrospective Offers a Comprehensive and Touching Portrait of French Impressionist

Gustave Caillebotte, Partie de bateau [Canotier au chapeau haut de forme], 1877–78. Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Photo Sophie Crépy For around a century, Gustave Caillebotte was the most discreet of the Impressionists, only coming back into the spotlight in 1994, when the Grand Palais in Paris celebrated the centenary of his death in 1894 through a …

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Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev Cleared in Swiss Investigation, Swiss Dealer Yves Bouvier Faces $830 M. Tax Bill

Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2018. NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images) Swiss prosecutors this week dismissed a criminal case against Dmitry Rybolovlev, clearing him of allegations related to the arrest of Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier in Monaco. The case, initiated by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) in 2017, accused the Russian billionaire …

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