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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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Anonymous Was A Woman Reveals 2024 Grantees in Milestone Year for the Celebrated Program

Jen Liu, The Land at the Bottom of the Sea, 2023 (still). Courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery with generous support of the 2023 Taipei Biennial and Creative Capital Anonymous Was A Woman has revealed the 2024 recipients of its celebrated grants, which are awarded to women-identifying artists over the age of 40 in support …

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Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ Sold for $121 M. Who Else Has Passed the $100 M. Mark at Auction?

Rene Magritte’s L’empire des lumières ( 1954). Christie’s Images Limited, 2024 On Tuesday night during Christie’s 20th century evening sale, after eleven or so tense minutes of hushed phone conversations behind cupped hands and quick currency conversions, Rene Magritte’s paintng L’empire des lumières (1954) sold for $121 million. At a press conference after the sale Alex Rotter, Christie’s …

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