ArtNews
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Digital Archaeology, Future Art Ecosystems, Virtual Fire Island
Chance Coughenour , program manager at Google Arts & Culture , joined me on Instagram Live yesterday to talk about his work in digital...
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New York Galleries Back in Action, the Mystery of Hans Holbein’s Bones, and More: Morning Links from July 17, 2020
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Tania Bruguera’s Most Famous Works: How the Artist Has Challenged Oppressive Forces with Incisive Performances
In 2016, the Museum of Modern Art acquired one of Tania Bruguera ’s most famous works, Untitled (Havana 2000), which debuted at the 7th Havana...
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California Man Sentenced in $6 M. Art Forgery Operation Involving Fake Warhol, Basquiat Works
A California man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for attempting to sell over $6 million worth of forged paintings he claimed...
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Monument Replacing English Slave Trader Statue by Artist Marc Quinn Gets Removed
On Wednesday, artist Marc Quinn made headlines by placing a statue of Black Lives Matter protestor Jen Reid on an empty plinth where a...
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France Takes Legal Steps to Restitute Objects to Benin, Senegal and More: Morning Links from July 16, 2020
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Aki Onda’s New Record Uses Radio to Channel the Ghost of Nam June Paik
The word “séance” tends to conjure an image of Belle Époque spiritualists: wealthy eccentrics holding hands around a drawing-room table in some...
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$17 M. Francis Bacon Portrait of Sole Heir Heads to Sotheby’s London Auction
Following the $85 million achieved for a monumental Francis Bacon triptych that led Sotheby’s marquee contemporary auction on June 29, the house...
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Courbet’s Most Controversial Paintings: Strange Eroticism, Socialism, and More
To those living in 19th-century France, Gustave Courbet ’s pioneering career could be divided into a series of scandals. “Since 1848 M. Courbet...