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Dealer David Lewis Joins Hauser & Wirth as Senior Director After Closing His New York Gallery

David Lewis. Photo Axel Dupeux David Lewis, a taste-making New York dealer who recently shuttered his gallery in the city, has joined Hauser & Wirth, where he will now serve as senior director. Lewis’s eponymous gallery opened in 2013 and mounted shows for artists such as Trey Abdella, Barbara Bloom, Thornton Dial, Tomás Esson, Mary …

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Uzbekistan to Get a New Biennial, Set to Be One of Central Asia’s Biggest Shows

Bukhara, an Uzbek city home to famed madrasas and mosques, will soon host a biennial. Photo Ibrahim Erikan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Into the crowded field of biennials joins yet one more—this one in Central Asia, a region that generally lacks exhibitions with international visibility. In 2025, the Bukhara Biennial will launch in Uzbekistan, in …

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Paris Museum Attendance Down for Olympics, Lost Bronze Statue from the Titanic is Found, ‘After Rembrandt’ Portrait Discovered in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million, and More: Morning Links for September 4, 2024

The Louvre. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES TITANIC DISCOVERY. A believed lost bronze statue “Diana of Versailles” from the Titanic was found half buried at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in a recent expedition to the site of the …

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Rebranded London Museum Receives $65 M. Cash Injection as Construction Costs Swell by $130 M.

King Charles follows Sharon Ament (L), director of the Museum of London, as he tours the Smithfield Market site. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The new London Museum has been handed an extra $65 million to help get its construction to the finish line. The institution has now eclipsed its original budget of $445 million from …

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Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Goes on View for First Time in Nearly 400 Years at Texas Museum

Artemisia Gentileschi, Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1625–26. Kimbell Art Museum The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting that has been owned by private collectors for nearly 400 years. When the work goes on view today, it will be the first time the painting has been exhibited publicly since the …

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Rheim Alkadhi Offers a Path Toward Liberation in Palestine-Themed Artworks in London

Rheim Alkadhi’s ICA London show. Photo Rob Harris, ICA If you enter the lower galleries of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts right now, you’ll encounter a postcard-like image described by the museum as “an intervention.” The image’s front side shows “this beautiful portrait of probably a queer person,” the other side, “a very direct statement …

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