ArtNews
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New York’s Newest Art Fair Feels Like a Place to Hang Out, Not Shop—and That’s a Good Thing
New York is hardly in need of another art fair, but that’s what we got this week in the form of Esther, which feels more like an ambitious group...
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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...