The exterior of the Rothko Chapel is pictured behind the Broken Obelisk sculpture by Barnett Newman. Courtesy the Rothko Chapel. After closing due to hurricane-related damage earlier this year in July, the landmark Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas reopened to the public on Tuesday. The chapel boasts a suite of 14 massive paintings by the …
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Zilia Sánchez. Photo Raquel Perez Puig Zilia Sánchez, an artist known for her shaped canvases that bulge outward, has died at 98. The San Juan–based aritst’s death was announced on Thursday by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, which did not state a cause. Sánchez’s erotically tinged paintings alluded frequently to the female body, …
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Ahmed Salameh, ‘On the Shores of Gaza No.2’, (2020). Courtesy the artist and Zawyeh Art Gallery Zawyeh Art Gallery, the organizer and sole venue of the Ramallah Art Fair, wants it known that the name of the event is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, the works in its newly opened fourth edition are for …
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The Thomas Hart Benton mural “Independence and the Opening of the West” is a fixture in the lobby of the south entrance to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence. It depicts the role Independence played in changing the American West. TNS The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene …
Hilma af Klint: Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk. A potential agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and mega gallerist David Zwirner stands to separate the artist’s work for profit. The family of the Swedish artist oversees her foundation, which is responsible for the preservation of …
The painting at the center of the legal battle – ‘Cut Melon.’ COURTESY CHRISTIE’S Christie’s has filed a lawsuit in Paris against Italian real estate investor Nanni Bassani Antivari, who the house asserts is refusing to pay for a work purchased at Christie’s France in June. In legal filings obtained by the Art Newspaper, Christie’s …
Lorraine O’Grady. Photo Marc Dimov/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Lorraine O’Grady, an artist who bravely used her conceptual pieces and performance art to critique systems of power, incisively underlining the ways that class, race, and gender influence one another, died at her home in New York on Friday. Her death was announced by a trust …
‘Challenging’: Guillaume Cerutti, Christie’s CEO, gave his end-of-year presser on Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images Christmas is almost here, which means Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti did his best to bring festive cheer by crunching the auction house’s 2024’s numbers during his end-of-year press conference Tuesday. Cerutti said the house’s projected sales for this year total …
OpenAI officially launched the AI video generation model Sora in Suqian, Jiangsu, China, on December 10. Photo Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images The UK government is considering an upgrade of its “right to personality” law that could gain artists new safeguards against generative artificial intelligence models capable of mimicking their styles. Per the Financial Times, the …
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A rape is being investigated at the Groucho Club on Dean Street in Soho. In Pictures via Getty Images London’s Groucho Club will reopen in January following an allegation of rape on its premises. The members-only had its license temporarily suspended last month amid a police investigation into the claim. Artfarm, a hospitality company set …
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