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X’s Latest Viral Sensation Is a Venice Biennale Artwork About a Nonbinary God

Joshua Serafin’s VOID (2022– ), as seen at the Venice Biennale. Photo Andrea Avezzù/Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia There have been many talked-about works at the current Venice Biennale, from a Golden Lion–winning Mataaho Collective installation formed from tie-downs to an assortment of abstractions by under-recognized artists. But just one piece in the show has …

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O’Keeffe Among Highlights of Christie’s Auction, Dublin-NY Portal Shut Down, Artist Katherine Porter Dies, and More: Morning Links for May 17, 2024

Courtesy Christie’s To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES STEADY GROUND. Christie’s evening sales on Thursday fell firmly within estimates, bringing in $413 million, reports Daniel Cassady for ARTnews. While bidding was not as fast and furious as a few years ago, the event suggests the art market …

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A $5 M. Yayoi Kusama Painting That Has Never Been Exhibited Leads Bonhams Hong Kong Sale

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity (1995) Bonhams Infinity, a never publicly seen painting by Yayoi Kusama is coming to auction at Bonhams’ Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong next week. The red-and-black painting from 1995 comes with an estimate of over $5 million.  The painting is a rare example of Kusama combining two of her most well-known motifs, dots …

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DJ Sets and a Nightclub Screening Can’t Hide How Boring Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft Is

The screening of “Aggro Dr1ft” at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York. Photos by Mike Vitelli. Courtesy of EDGLRD. Context is everything, and filmmaker Harmony Korine is certainly building a lot of it around Aggro Dr1ft, the film he first premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, Korine took the film on tour, …

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In Five New Shows, Matthew Barney Turns His Abstract Football Film Into Sculptures and Paintings

Matthew Barney, Sanguine Atlas, 2024. Photo David Regen/Courtesy the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler Making his way through his new studio a few weeks back, Matthew Barney stopped to inspect a strange set of alchemical dumbbells and tried to describe the elements of stress, vulnerability, and frailty he …

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Rachel Martin’s Humorous Art Filters Indigeneity and Femininity into Sly Drawings Grounded in Centuries-Old Techniques

Rachel Martin at the Gochman Family Collection, where she is artist-in-residence and co-curator. Weston Wells for ARTnews In one of artist Rachel Martin’s earliest memories, her mother had asked her to draw the face of a bug. “I was about three years old, and I remember her saying to me, ‘Show me how it feels …

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Ownership of Egon Schiele Drawing Lost During Holocaust to Be Decided by New York Court

Egon Schiele’s Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, 1917. A 1917 drawing by Egon Schiele is at the center of a restitution case that will soon head to court in New York. The work in question, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1917), depicts Edith Schiele with her hands folded in her lap. The drawing was made …

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American Museum of Natural History Curator Cleared of Smuggling Claims, Turkish Judge Rules

Exterior view of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Courtesy flickr Editorial/Getty Images A Turkish judge cleared the American Museum of Natural History curator who was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle spider and scorpion samples from Istanbul. He was released from custody after spending a night in jail. “I was completely …

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