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The Headlines
READY YOUR PADDLES!  Back in May,  Ernie Barnes ’s exhilarating  The Sugar Shack  (1976) painting soared past its $150,000 low estimate at  Christie’s   to finish at $15.3 million  with fees. His estate subsequently  signed on  to work with  Andrew Kreps  and  Ortuzar Projects  in New York. Now another one of his works is coming up for sale.  Bonhams  will feature his  Solid Rock Congregation  (1993)—an action-packed scene at a Black church service—in  a single-lot sale  on September 9 at its New York branch,  Barron’s  reports. It is estimated to sell for $500,000 to $700,000. The work was commissioned by gospel singer  Margaret Bell , who can be seen wielding a mic in it.
BINDING AGREEMENTS.  At some point this is going to  stop being news , but climate activists with  Just Stop Oil  alighted at another art museum in the United Kingdom on Tuesday and glued themselves to the frame of  another famous artwork . This time it was the copy of  Leonardo da Vinci ‘s  The Last Supper  at the  Royal Academy of Arts  in London that is attributed to  Giampietrino  and  Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio  and dated to around 1515–20, CNN  reports. The action also involved spray-painting “No New Oil” on a gallery wall. One protestor was quoted saying, “If the directors of this gallery really believe that art has the power to change the world then I demand that they claim that power, close, and refuse to open until the government commits to no new oil.”
The Digest
Philadelphia officials are facing criticism for selecting  Wesley Wofford , a white male artist, to create a statue of  Harriet Tubman  without holding an open call, which protestors said would have drawn a diverse array of applicants. “If it was an open call and Wesley was chosen, it would be fine,” artist  Dee Jones  said. “But because the process wasn’t open, that’s the big issue.”  [The Philadelphia Inquirer]
British abstract painter  Jadé Fadojutimi , a star of the current  Venice Biennale , has come aboard the  Gagosian  gallery. Fadojutimi will still be repped by  Galerie Gisela Capitain , of Cologne, Germany, and  Taka Ishii Gallery , of Tokyo, and is leaving London’s  Pippy Houldsworth  gallery.  [ARTnews]
Sotheby’s  will offer a 76 million-year-old  Gorgosaurus  skeleton later this month in New York with a $5 million low estimate.  [The Associated Press/Bloomberg]
Chanel ’s latest runway show in Paris featured set design by artist  Xavier Veilhan , who installed a large silver mobile as part of the affair. “It had guests—including  Marion Cotillard  and  Keira Knightley —gawping,”  Thomas Adamson  writes.  [The Associated Press]
More than 200 masks that the artist  Ruth Asawa  made of members of her community in  San Francisco  are going on view today at the  Cantor Arts Center  at  Stanford University , which acquired them two years ago. They look great.  [The Art Newspaper]
The Kicker
PUSHING SOME BUTTONS.  After a  Banksy  mural that was affixed to his home in Lowestoft, England, was removed and sold, graphic designer  Joe Thompson  decided to replace it with  a piece that depicts a vending machine  stocked with copies of the vanished work,  BBC News  reports. “Part of me thought, well, if that’s what they want, maybe we need a vending machine where they can just press a few buttons and Banksys can just keep coming out,” he said. That sounds like just the kind of artwork that the wily street artist would love.  [BBC News]