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melanie wrote a new post, From a Burnt-Up Banksy to the Trump Sculpture at CPAC: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week 9 hours, 41 minutes ago

Second Time’s a Charm – A second long-lost painting by Jacob Lawrence, hidden for decades in a nurse’s uptown apartment, was discovered in Manhattan.
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melanie wrote a new post, Dealer Rachel Lehmann Is Showing New Ashley Bickerton Works and Daydreaming About an Extra Day in the Week 16 hours, 5 minutes ago

Nearly 25 years ago, art dealers Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin founded their eponymous gallery in New York. Their goal was to focus on contemporary artists and estates from around the world, which […]

melanie wrote a new post, Signaling an Enduring Appetite for Young Art, Phillips's 'New Now' Sale Brings in a Record $9.5 Million 1 day, 10 hours ago

Phillips’s marathon sale of contemporary art, “New Now,” proved that the appetite for new art—even if it doesn’t come in the form of an NFT—is strong.
The five-hour sale, which featured nearly 200 […]

melanie wrote a new post, Dr. Fauci Has Donated the 3-D Coronavirus Model He Used to Explain the Pandemic to the Public to the Smithsonian's American History Museum 1 day, 15 hours ago

The coronavirus is heading to the Smithsonian—but don’t be alarmed. It’s actually a 3-D printed model of the virus that Anthony Fauci donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, […]

melanie wrote a new post, One of the Artists Behind That Golden Trump Statue at CPAC Says He Didn't Get Credit for the Work Because He's Mexican 2 days, 10 hours ago

One of the biggest stars of last weekend’s Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference was a golden idol of Donald Trump. It was at least the shiniest. The stainless-steel sculpture is a […]

melanie wrote a new post, The UK Government Is Infusing Its Struggling Arts Sector With More Than $600 Million in Its 2021 Budget 2 days, 16 hours ago

The struggling UK culture sector is getting another lifeline. Today, the government announced £485.8 million (around $677 million) in additional financial support for the arts as part of a broader […]

melanie wrote a new post, For Six Years, Experts Have Been Repairing the Iraq Museum That ISIS Sought to Destroy. Here's a Look Inside 3 days, 6 hours ago

Six years ago last week, the world watched in horror as ISIS forces took sledgehammers to archaeological treasures at Iraq’s Mosul Cultural Museum, smashing historic Assyrian sculptures to sm […]

melanie wrote a new post, 15 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons to a Virtual Visit With Kenny Scharf 3 days, 15 hours ago

Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as […]

melanie wrote a new post, A Wildlife Habitat Has Cancelled Judy Chicago's Smoke Sculpture for Desert X After Environmental Activists Raised Alarms 4 days, 7 hours ago

Desert X, the open air biennial staged in California’s Coachella Valley, has run into roadblocks with another one of its projects. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert has cancelled pl […]

melanie wrote a new post, Artist Says His Golden Sculpture of Trump With a Magic Wand at CPAC Is 'Definitely Not an Idol' + Other Stories 4 days, 17 hours ago

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, March 1.
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melanie wrote a new post, Art Historian Sarah Lewis on Why Black Artists Have Been 'Over-Exhibited and Under-Theorized' 1 week ago

This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Bridget R. Cooks, and […]

melanie wrote a new post, In Pictures: See Highlights From the Brooklyn Museum's KAWS Extravaganza, From Early Graffiti to Sneakers and Sofas 1 week ago

KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, is one of the hottest artists in the world. Which means that the Brooklyn Museum has the hottest ticket in town with the opening of “KAWS: What Party,” a career-spanning ret […]

melanie wrote a new post, The Victoria and Albert Museum Will Cut a Fifth of Its Curatorial Staff as Part of a Sweeping Round of Layoffs 1 week ago

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is making drastic cuts to its workforce as cultural institutions around the globe struggle amid extended and repeated closures.
Unions learned that the V&A’s “recov […]

melanie wrote a new post, Debating the Troubled Legacy of Brazil's Cannibalist Art Movement + 4 Other Great Art Essays Worth Reading From This February 1 week ago

It’s been 90-some years since Oswald de Andrade’s “Manifesto Antropófago” (“Cannibalist Manifesto”), a document that was a watershed in defining a Brazilian art outside of European influence, and extremely inf […]

melanie wrote a new post, The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week 1 week ago

The Crypto Craze Rages On – An NFT work by Beeple sold for $6.6 million, while bidding for the artist’s work Everydays skyrocketed up to $2.3 million at Christie’s—and the sale doesn’t close for tw […]

melanie wrote a new post, ‘It’s All Happening’: As an NFT Artwork by Beeple Sells for $6.6 Million, Market Observers Are Torn Between Jubilation and Alarm 1 week ago

The buzz was deafening following Christie’s recent announcement that it would offer the first-ever purely digital artwork at auction: Everydays—The First 5000 Days by Mike Winkelmann, an artist who go […]

melanie wrote a new post, New York City Lost Two-Thirds of Its Arts and Entertainment Jobs in 2020, a New Report Finds 1 week, 1 day ago

New data is shedding a harsh light on how hard New York City’s arts and culture has been hit by the pandemic.
Between December 2019 and December 2020, employment in the city’s arts, entertainment, and […]

melanie wrote a new post, Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits, and Why Seeing Great Art is Like a Reading a Book 1 week, 1 day ago

Alteronce Gumby spends his days in his Bronx studio engaged in an intricate process of setting small pieces of broken glass into his jewel-like abstract paintings. Sometimes shaped like plinths or […]

melanie wrote a new post, A French Appeals Court Has Found Jeff Koons Guilty of Copyright Infringement Again—and Hiked Up His Fines 1 week, 2 days ago

In a double hit of bad news for art star Jeff Koons, a French appeals court not only upheld a 2018 decision that found him and the Pompidou Centre guilty of copyright infringement, but also increased […]

melanie wrote a new post, Art Dealers Are Shocked to Realize That 2020 Was Actually a Historically Good Year for Business + Other Stories 1 week, 2 days ago

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, February 2 […]