The new exhibition features 47 works by KAWS and Andy Warhol. Photo by Bryan Conley There are no shortage of exhibitions dealing with KAWS and Andy Warhol individually, but there haven’t been many that contend with the two artists together. This unusual focus forms the subject of a new exhibition that recently opened at the …
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The Main Building at CalArts. Photo: Scott Groller/Courtesy CalArts Citing an enrollment crisis that threatens to shutter its doors forever, the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier has forged a partnership with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles that will allow its students to fulfill short-term residencies on the CalArts …
Street view of Christie’s auction house in New York, 2017. Photo Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The Christie’s website and app are now up and running again, the auction house confirmed. This comes following a 10-day outage that sparked concern among art advisers and collectors amid a busy season of sales. The website reportedly went down on …
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Ai Weiwei. Photo Gao Yuan/Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio Ai Weiwei, the Chinese provocateur who ranks among the world’s most popular artists, will have his first US retrospective in a decade at the Seattle Art Museum next year. His last retrospective, held first at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. in 2012, was …
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The 1928 winners of the William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes collecting their awards. Photo UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images During the 1920s and ’30s, a cohort of Black artists, writers, and intellectuals, many of whom were based in Harlem, ushered in what was then known as the New Negro Movement. Today, the …
George Rouy. Photo Kemka Ajoku George Rouy, a fast-rising British painter, is the latest artist to join the roster of Hauser & Wirth, the mega-gallery which operates 18 spaces worldwide. The 29-year-old painter is now the youngest artist represented by the gallery. Rouy will continue to be represented by London’s Hannah Barry Gallery, the space …
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Brooke Lampley Emma Marie Jenkinson Brooke Lampley, the global chairman and head of global fine art at Sotheby’s, will leave the auction house at the end of May for a Senior Director position at Gagosian, ARTnews has learned. Lampley joined Sotheby’s in 2018 after having worked as a specialist at Christie’s where, in 2015, she began leading …
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Ophelia Arc: i love beginnings!, 2023, latex, thread, Arcoroc Canterbury Dinner Plate impression, silicone, 100 pieces of human hair, rusted razor blade, scan of journal spread (6/24/15), photo (5/14/13), photo (6/29/15), scan of letter (7/1/15), scan of note (2015), ripped out page of Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son, 32 by 40 inches. Courtesy 81 …
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Sotheby’s art handlers hold Leonora Carrington’s “Les Distractions de Dagobert” during a media preview for Sotheby’s upcoming “New York Marquee Evening Sales” on May 3, 2024, in New York City. AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES CARRINGTON’S SURREAL NIGHT. The Surrealist artist Leonora …
Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Musuem and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana on May 12, 2024. Getty Images Repatriation ceremonies tend to be bureaucratic affairs done for show—the deal to return a looted artwork is conducted long before the object is …
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