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Sally Mann. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In her new memoir Art Work, photographer Sally Mann writes that she now has reservations about one series featuring Black men—and reveals that she even removed some of these works from her 2018 National Gallery of Art exhibition because of those concerns. For that series, titled “Men” and …

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Sylvain Amic. Photo Luc Castel/Getty Images Sylvain Amic, an art historian who took the helm of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay last year, died on Sunday in southern France at 58. Rima Abdul Malak, the former French culture minister, told the New York Times that Amic died of heart failure. His death has been treated with shock, …

Sylvain Amic, Recently Named Head of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, Dies at 58 Read More »

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, …

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Jota Mombaça’s 2022 Kadist show in San Francisco. Courtesy Kadist Kadist, a Paris-based nonprofit known for commissioning works by key artists, will shutter its San Francisco space after 14 years, bringing an end to one of the city’s richest non-commercial art venues. The organization announced the closure on social media late on Thursday evening, writing …

Kadist, Internationally Minded Art Organization, Shutters San Francisco Space After 14 Years Read More »

Rosalyn Drexler at ringside, 1972. Photo Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images Rosalyn Drexler, whose paintings of the 1960s about Hollywood actors, on-screen violence, and gender subversion have in recent years gained widespread praise, died in New York on Wednesday at 98. A spokesperson for New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery, which represents her, confirmed her death but …

Rosalyn Drexler, Indefatigable Painter Who Wrestled Her Way into the Pop Canon, Dies at 98 Read More »

Shafrazi with Keith Haring and Leo Castelli. Courtesy Tony Shafrazi / Gallery Without Walls Things had a way of just happening in the small, tight-knit New York art world of the 1960s and ’70s. Artists introduced other artists to dealers, who in turn introduced them to more artists. Tony Shafrazi arrived in New York in …

Legendary Dealer Tony Shafrazi Returns to the Art Fair After More than a Decade Away—He Remains Exactly Himself Read More »

The opening bid for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Red Man One was $2.975 million. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Four artworks by Jean-Michael Basquiat, Diane Arbus, and Pablo Picasso surrendered to the US Department of Justice in connection with the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal collectively netted some $36 million in an online auction conducted by the US Marshals …

Basquiat, Picasso Works Linked to Global 1MDB Scandal Net $36 M. in Auction by US Marshals Read More »

DeepTime Collective (Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer): Embodying the River (stream)” 2022, performance art with custom T-shirts and an installation with plastic, projections, and sound. Photo Allyn Griffin Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have named this year’s recipients of the AWAW Environmental Art Grants program. …

Anonymous Was A Woman and the New York Foundation for the Arts Award Over $500,000 in Environmental Art Grants Read More »

A Roman mausoleum discovered in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, France. Photo Julien Bourreau, Musée Gallo-Romain A well-preserved Roman mausoleum, modeled after the famous Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, was discovered by archaeologists in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near Lyon, France. Constructed around 50 CE, the interior of the structure measures more than 50 feet in diameter and is thought to have had …

A Well-Preserved Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Roman Mausoleum Unearthed in France Read More »

Life’s a beach: the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort will form the backdrop of the auctions. Courtesy sotheby’s. Sotheby’s will stage its first series of luxury marquee auctions in Abu Dhabi this December. Dubbed Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week, the sales will run from December 3 to 5 and span cars, watches, jewelry, and real estate, …

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