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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- RVCA's "Now & Then" exhibit honors the artists and a movement that changed art.
- How Damien Hirst’s $200 million auction became a symbol of pre-recession decadence.
- Lévy Gorvy aims for “sweet spot” with a $400 million show.
- Three years on, we look at the strange legacy of Banksy’s Dismaland.
- ‘A critical juncture’: Richard Koshalek on MOCA’s future under Klaus Biesenbach.
- Could the art-finance industry offer museums some much-needed options?
- Christie’s is selling off $45 million in art from important west coast collectors ‘Hunk and Moo’ Anderson.
- Never publically seen Artemisia Gentileschi painting to be sold for the first time in Vienna.
- Why art loans are popular among the ultra-wealthy in good economic times and bad.
- You can now own a stake in a Warhol or Monet for as little as $20.
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strategies art dealers use to discount artists’ work.
- Chinese buyers are slow to pay for works sold at auction.
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Art Basel cities details program for Buenos Aires Event, which includes a giant
Barbara Kruger mural.
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Otani Workshop crafts new ceramic artworks for first show in South Korea.
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Dealer
Monique Meloche is thriving—even after a mega-gallery wooed away her biggest stars.
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An art leasing company is suing Paul Kasmin Gallery for ‘false invoices’ in the sale of a
Frank Stella.
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- "I Was Raised on the Internet" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago by Lee Ann Norman.
- GIPHY launches world's first film festival dedicated to GIFs.
- Are these artist-designed Instagram novels the future of reading?
- teamLab creates a "Massless" underground exhibition in Helsinki.
- Azuma Makoto's "Undersurface Flowers" reveals the wild side of perfect blossoms.
- Four artists unpacking black identity that you should know.
- Derrick Adams’s transmissions on art and black identity.
- Photographer Dario Calmese’s “Black Art Yearbook” is crucial to art history.
- Visitors in “Abolish ICE” t-shirts illegally turned away at the Statue of Liberty.
- A photographer documents America’s most heavily guarded prison, Guantanamo Bay.
- Sebastian Magnani's abstracted dual landscapes created using cleverly placed mirrors.
- Hong Kong’s M+ Museum acquires complete Young-Hae Chang heavy industries archive.
- These 16 women are breaking new ground in architecture.
- Yayoi Kusama joins MoMa for collaborative skate decks.
- The luminous effects of a light and space from painter Mary Corse.
- Jiří Kolář’s collages cut up reality to devastating effect.
- Tatjana Prenzel’s illustrated melancholic moments are textural triumphs.
- The mysteries of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s peasant paintings.
- Brussels gets a very surreal street name in honor of Magritte.
- The Italian painter who traveled to the Holy Land with John Singer Sargent.
- Overshadowed for years, Milton Avery became an icon of American painting.
- River of Time: Li Binyuan interviewed by Yuan Fuca.
- Alexander Calder made his own toaster and toilet-paper holder, and they’re incredible.
- 7 artists who created innovative mobiles—beyond Alexander Calder.
- The centuries-old Japanese tradition of mending broken ceramics with gold.
- Mary Heilmann talks Catholicism, ’60s counterculture, and her west coast roots.
- Martin Parr shows a different side to Hans-Ulrich Obrist in the latest issue of Sleek Magazine.
- How Op artists of the 1960s created their hallucinatory effects.
- Oslo tells Bjarne Melgaard he can’t build his Sci-Fi ‘Death House’ in the place where Munch died.
- Reevaluating Francesca Woodman, whose early death haunts her groundbreaking images.
- Trevor Paglen is about to launch a reflective sculpture into outer space, and astronomers are really pissed.
- This artist residency is specifically designed for artists with children.
- Meryl Streep and her artist husband are selling their art-filled penthouse for $24.6 million.
- USTA hopes to re-energize tennis with artist-designed courts in inner cities.
