WORLD ART
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New Legal Filing Deems Bombing of Gaza’s Saint Porphyrius Church a ‘War Crime’
Chicago-based human rights organization Justice For All has deemed the bombing of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza by Israel a...
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New Fair Founders Are Testing What Gallerists (and Collectors) Want in an Alternative
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Esther Mahlangu’s South African Retrospective Asks: Whose Abstractions Count as “Modern”?
In 1989 Esther Mahlangu (b. 1935) participated in “Magiciens de la terre” at the Pompidou Center in Paris. One of the first exhibitions to...
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10 Museum Shows to See in New York This Week
May is undoubtedly a market-oriented art month in New York, with Frieze quickly followed by another fair, Independent, and then a succession of...
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Senegal Postpones Dakar Biennale by Six Months amid Widespread Protests
The 15th edition of the Dakar Biennale, in Dakar, Senegal, will not open on May 16 as originally scheduled: it has been postponed to November,...
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Who Was Mary Cassatt and Why Was She So Important?
One of the notable distinctions of the first exhibition of the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. (later known as the...
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale, Dakar Biennale Postponed, Vienna Actionism Show Protested, and More: Morning Links for April 29, 2024
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Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna
A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold for $32 million in a...
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Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75
Dani Levinas, an art collector who gained a following for interviewing other collectors, has died at 75. The Phillips Collection in Washington,...
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Moscow’s Garage Museum Is Reportedly Searched by Police Amid Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Literature
Various Russian publications reported on Friday that Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art was being searched by local police,...