ArtNews
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A Look at the Financiers, Celebrities and Other Consignors Behind the May Auction Sales
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance , the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to...
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Phillips Evening Sale Features Noah Davis Painting Consigned by Actor Jesse Williams
One of the most notable lots of Phillips Modern and Contemporary evening sale on May 14, a small Noah Davis painting Untitled (Boy with...
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Seven Tribeca Shows to Catch This Week
As art fairs flood New York—starting with Frieze and followed by Independent—with a myriad of notable auctions, as well as the Whitney Biennial,...
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Jeff Koons and Non-Profit Startup Clever Noodle Release Children’s Literacy Game
Clever Noodle , a non-profit startup known for crafting educational children’s games, has unveiled its latest release in partnership with the...
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Petrit Halilaj Brings Kids’ Doodles—and Balkan Memories—to the Met’s Rooftop
A giant spider currently looms over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop, its face crumpled into a knowing smile. The arachnid would seem...
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Watch Belonging to Titanic’s Richest Passenger Sells for Record-Breaking $1.471 M.
A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor, the richest man on the Titanic, sold on Saturday at auction for a...
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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
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance , the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to...
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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...