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More stories below from this week (click on bolded words for more information):
- The best public art of 2018 - Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Mastaba (seen above).
- Here are 32 inspiring museum exhibitions to see across the US over the holidays.
- Here are 11 remarkable, witty, and utterly unique holiday gifts you can buy from museum shops across the US.
- Hoarding and spending at Art Basel Miami Beach.
- 5 Art Basel-featured women artists you need to collect in 2019.
- The 2018 auction market—price is right for pale males.
- David Hockney’s double portrait of a legendary Met curator and his partner could fetch almost $40 million.
- Judge orders collectors Harry and Linda Macklowe to sell their $700 million art trove and split the proceeds.
- How Barbara and Aaron Levine Became two of America’s most committed collectors of conceptual art.
- Why you can’t always buy a work of art just because you have the cash.
- US anti-money-laundering bill could reappear early next year.
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5 essential
tips for collecting street art.
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World Trade Center Performing Arts Center
receives $89 million grant.
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- Anonymous donor gives Virginia Museum of Fine Arts an Asher Durand painting worth $40 million.
- Tasmanian museum expands with £230 million luxury hotel that includes a Marina Abramović-designed spa.
- PODCAST: We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018.
- PODCAST: Should looted colonial art be returned?
- PODCAST: Art and power with New Museum director Lisa Phillips.
- Hammer Museum in Los Angeles appoints new board members.
- As art institutions explore new frontiers in South L.A., communities brace for change.
- First woman director appointed to US national gallery of art.
- Released from jail, artist Tania Bruguera vows to stay in Cuba to continue her fight against new censorship law.
- Tracey Emin to bring emotional major new show to the White Cube in early 2019.
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Inside the
effort to write women into art history.
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- Women in the arts—Lisa Panting and Malin Ståhl are pushing to make the most of it.
- Artist Betty Tompkins explains why the vile words used to describe women are worth painting.
- New York Gallery, Yours Mine & Ours to close, leaving Lower East Side with one more void.
- Joy Labinjo’s show at Tiwani Contemporary draws on the intimate atmosphere of rediscovered photographs.
- Victor Vasarely retrospective at Städel Museum, Frankfurt, sheds new light on the op artist's styles.
- Is China censoring art about biotechnology? Last-minute cuts at the Guangzhou Triennial suggest it is.
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- Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Ice Watch’ confronts Londoners with the realities of climate change.
- What goes on in the darkness at Sweden’s northernmost biennial.
- Inside the “Phallus Palace,” Charles Leslie’s trove of queer art.
- Jerry Saltz put Michelangelo’s David in an NYC Subway—here’s what happened.
- Cubism shattered convention to alter the course of art history.
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How artists can master dealing with
rejection.
- What it takes to live as an artist in New York.
- How Stanley Whitney became an icon of contemporary abstraction in his seventies.
- Revealed online for the first time is a photograph showing Van Gogh painting slashed in 1978.
- Cataloguing Egon Schiele using an online database is a digital work in progress.
- Nendo turns MC Escher’s optical illusions into reality in immersive exhibition.
- An exhibition at Standard (Oslo) explores cartooning and its historical appropriation in the name of pop art.
- The way we talk about art shouldn’t be impossible to understand.
- Strolling through Ilse D'Hollander's becalmed landscapes.
- How one artist’s running routine helps her think more creatively.
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A simple
guide to working with models for artists.
