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(L-R) David Geffen, Donovan Michaels, Lady Jemma Mornington and Arpad Busson at the Vogue World: Paris 2024. Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Entertainment mogul and renowned art collector David Geffen was sued on Tuesday morning by his estranged husband, model Donovan Michaels, for alleged breach of contract, Variety reported earlier this week.  The …

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Alex West, CEO of ArtCloud, and Mike Profit, CEO of Artlogic. Photo Benjamin Brooks In the latest sign of consolidation sweeping the art-tech sector, inventory management giant Artlogic and gallery software firm ArtCloud will merge in an attempt to reshape the digital infrastructure that underpins the global art market. The move combines Artlogic’s long-established strength …

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Wesley M. LePatner. Via LinkedIn Wesley M. LePatner, a newly elected trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was among the four people killed by a gunman in a Midtown office building on Monday. LePatner was senior managing director at Blackstone, the headquarters of which are located at 345 Park Avenue, where …

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Portrait of Raymond Saunders, 1981, by Mimi Jacobs. Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Raymond Saunders, who created enigmatic paintings often infused with sociopolitical undertones, has died at 90. Casemore, Andrew Kreps, and David Zwirner galleries, all which co-represented the artist, announced his passing in a joint statement on Instagram on Monday. Saunders’s work …

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Maurizio Cattelan Comedian (2019) Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images. A visitor to France’s Pompidou-Metz last week took a bite of an iteration of Comedian (2019), Maurizio Cattelan‘s infamous conceptual artwork that involves a banana duct-taped to a wall, the museum announced on Friday. Exhibitors said the visitor ate the fruit on display at the museum …

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The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2018. Photo Michael Perez Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, in partnership with the Penn Museum, is expanding its online learning technology this fall. The Visual Experience Platform (VXP), which was developed by the Barnes to teach visual material to K-12 students as well as adults, will host the Penn Museum’s “Deep Dig” …

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An archaeologist excavating the tomb’s stone enclosure. Photo courtesy the Complex of Landscape Parks of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship. Archaeologists recently discovered two megalithic tombs built 5,500 years ago in Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park in west-central Poland. The tombs are considered among the largest sepulchral structures built in prehistoric Poland and commonly known as “Polish pyramids”, …

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Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters. Getty Images A planned research facility by Weill Cornell Medicine at 1334 York Avenue—the former headquarters of Sotheby’s—is moving forward despite a federal funding freeze that has disrupted hundreds of research projects across the university. A story published on July 22 in Crain’s, citing data from S&P, claimed the auction house was “exposed to the turmoil” …

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Migrant Child (2019), by British street artist Banksy in Venice. VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images A fading Banksy mural in Venice has been removed from the side of a palazzo for restoration, according to The Associated Press, two years after officials first sparked debate by introducing the unconventional option. Titled Migrant Child, the piece shows a child in …

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A mosaic depicting an erotic bedroom scene has made its way back to Pompeii. Photo Eliano Imperato/Anadolu via Getty Images An ancient mosaic that may have been looted by a Nazi officer has returned to its home in Italy decades after being stolen. The mosaic depicts a bedroom scene and probably originated somewhere in the …

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