ArtNews
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Man Pleads Guilty to Making Fake Basquiats Seized from the Orlando Museum of Art
A former auctioneer has pled guilty to helping create and sell dozens of fake Basquiat paintings that were seized by the FBI last year from the...
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Gallery 1957 Is Expanding Ghana’s Art Scene—and Bringing It to the Rest of the World
Upon entering the Accra office of the Lebanese-born British gallerist, art collector, and curator, Marwan Zakhem, one immediately notices Self...
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Air Jordans Worn by Michael Jordan Become the Most Expensive Sneakers Ever Auctioned
A pair of Air Jordans worn by Michael Jordan during the famed 1998 NBA finals sold at Sotheby’s for $2.2 million on Tuesday, becoming the...
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Man Gets Trapped Inside Public Art in Canada After Easter Mischief
Public art can be engrossing. But for a man who tried to climb the Talus Dome sculpture in Edmonton, a city in Alberta, Canada, it became...
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The Met Awards Prestigious Commissions to Nairy Baghramian and Jacolby Satterwhite
This fall, new, cutting-edge commissions will take over two of the most visible stages contemporary art has to offer: the façade and Great Hall...
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Bispo do Rosário’s Posthumous US Debut Sidesteps Disputes In Brazil Over Whether His Compulsive Creations Were “Art”
Seven angels visited Rio de Janeiro on the night of December 22, 1938, to announce the second coming of Jesus Christ. The angels claimed that...
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Music Executive Mo Ostin’s $125 M. Collection to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s, With Works by Magritte, Twombly, Basquiat, and More
A collection of more than 30 works amassed by American music executive Mo Ostin will be offered at Sotheby’s this spring, where it is expected...
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Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Giving Away 10,000 Tickets to Its Blockbuster Kusama Show
In the rare interviews that she has given, Yayoi Kusama has described art as a lifeline through a lifetime of crisis. Plagued by visual and...
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Conceptual Artist Adrian Piper Ends Relationship with LGDR, a Power Player in the Art Market
Adrian Piper, a famed artist and philosopher known for her performances, writings, and conceptual artworks dealing with racism and rationality,...
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Water World: At a Charismatic and Incisive Gwangju Biennale, Artists Navigate Crises
On Thursday night in Gwangju, South Korea, as hundreds took their seats on a plaza for the opening ceremony of the city’s storied art biennial,...