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Famed Gelman Collection Will Return to Mexico by 2028
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (460+ words) The Fundaci'n Banco Santander in Spain has announced that it will return the Gelman Collection, which includes several important works of 20th-century Mexican art, to Mexico by 2028, according to a report by dpa. The planned return comes after an open…...
How Josh Kline Wrote the Essay That the Art World Can’t Stop Talking About
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (334+ words) New York City itself now constitutes a core problem in American art," Kline writes. The answers for younger artists are likely not in New York and not in the American art industry, for which the art of the present and…...
Fair Warning Expands With Saara Pritchard, Doubling Down on ‘Conviction’ in a Crowded Art Market
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (1007+ words) In 2020, as the art market scrambled to move online, Lo'c Gouzer tried something smaller. After years staging blockbuster evening sales at Christie's as chairman of post-war and contemporary art, he launched the app Fair Warning. Its premise was simple: sell…...
The New Museum’s ‘New Humans’ Reckons With Human-Machine Relations in the Workplace
6+ hour, 39+ min ago (184+ words) By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei In the beginning, there was a lot of work to do." Let's skip forward a hundred years or so to see how these questions have developed as capitalism has produced new modes of production which, in…...
Five Essential Books About Marcel Duchamp
4+ hour, 58+ min ago (89+ words) See what to read for a crash course on the mysterious artist Marcel Duchamp. Few artists have sparked more critical response than Marcel Duchamp'the subject of a big MoMA retrospective on view April 12 through August 22 Even Picasso's legacy finds in…...
How the New Deal Treated Art as Essential to Democracy
1+ day, 39+ min ago (313+ words) By John P. Murphy Imagine a world where an artist is considered an essential worker. The government commissions murals and sculptures for schools, libraries, and hospitals. Taxes fund free classes in pottery and printmaking at a community art center. The president…...
Gisela Colón on Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny, and the Power Beneath the Island
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (749+ words) Gisela Col'n didn't plan to become an artist. "I studied law because I thought it would protect me," she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm…...
Why Filmmaker Ming Wong Is the Ultimate Shape-Shifter
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (392+ words) Saint Sebastian is a time and space traveler, a marvelous vision of a human whose gender and age also seem to shift," Wong told ARTnews during a recent interview. We will all be Sebastians. We will all be, in turn,…...
Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting, Now Owned by Ken Griffin, to Go on View in Miami This Summer
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (455+ words) 'Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,' featuring the record-breaking 'Untitled' (1982), will open at the P'rez Art Museum Miami in June. Titled "Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols," the exhibition will feature nine paintings and one sculpture by the artist and concentrate on his "implementation…...
Local Resort Reportedly Pays $45 M. for Rauschenberg’s Famed Captiva Island Property
3+ day, 39+ min ago (432+ words) South Seas, a resort located on Captiva Island, off the coast of Florida, is the buyer of Robert Rauschenberg's famed 22-acre property on the island, which had been home to one of the country's top artist residency programs following his…...