WORLD ART
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Rare ‘Inverted Jenny’ US Postal Stamp Sells for Record-Breaking $2 M. At Auction
A rare ‘Inverted Jenny’ stamp recently sold at auction for just over $2 million with fees, setting a record for a single US stamp....
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Earthquakes Decimate Western Afghanistan’s Ancient Villages and Historic Monuments
A number of ancient structures have been damaged in Afghanistan’s rural countryside following four deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquakes and...
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Frick Pittsburgh Apologizes for Postponing Exhibition of Islamic Art in Response to Israel-Hamas War
The director of Pennsylvania’s Frick Pittsburgh museum apologized on Friday for postponing a show about Islamic art across the...
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Nicholas Galanin’s Pointed Public Sculpture Inspires Glorious Noise in New York
Editor’s Note: This essay originally appeared in Reframed , the Art in America newsletter about about art that surprises...
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Christie’s Robust 20th Century Sale Nets $640.8 Million, with Six Auction Records
Christie’s New York staged a marathon two-and-a-half-hour sale of 20th-century art on Thursday night that netted $640.8 million and notched new...
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The Met’s Costume Institute Unveils Sensory-Themed Exhibition and Gala for 2024
Anticipation surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition has come to a close with the reveal of its latest...
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Nan Goldin Cancels New York Times Project Over Newspaper’s ‘Complicity with Israel’
The photographer Nan Goldin said on Thursday that she had called off a project for the New York Times Magazine , accusing the newspaper of a...
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Bitter Family Feud Revealed in Lawsuit Against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Accuses Board of ‘Grabstract Expressionism’
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York State’s Supreme Court reveals blistering criticisms against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s board...
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Video Artist Pipilotti Rist on Centering the Body With Dazzling Furniture-Sculpture Hybrids
IN HER FIRST YEAR of graduate school, Pipilotti Rist made an iconic and influential video that landed her a debut exhibition invitation after...
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Sotheby’s White Glove $406 M. Fisher Landau Sale Sets New Benchmarks for Agnes Martin, Mark Tansey
Second in line launching the fall auction season in New York on Wednesday evening, Sotheby’s highly anticipated sale of works amassed by the...