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18 Jun From Hunter Biden's Life as an Artist to a Brazen Theft at an Italian TV Station: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week | Artnet News

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Hunter Biden, Unfiltered – The first son spoke to Artnet News’s Katya Kazakina about his newfound love of painting, and how it’s helping him in his quest for “universal truth.” Robert Indiana Estate Reaches Settlement – The extensive lawsuits embroiling the late artist’s estate and financial backer came...

18 Jun 10 New Murals Will Pop Up Across the New York This Summer Thanks to a New Professional Development Initiative for Black Artists | Artnet News

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This weekend, on Juneteenth, a new mural celebrating the labor of Black women activists will be unveiled in Brooklyn. The work of Harlem- and Brooklyn-based artist and activist Helina Metaferia, the mural depicts a fellow young creator, Wildcat Ebony Brown, atop a picture of a plinth;...

18 Jun Wonder Which High-Tech Van Gogh Show to Gogh to? Here Are Photos From New York's Dueling Attractions to Help You Decide | Artnet News

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You cannot escape the spectacle of Van Gogh in New York right now. Indeed, if you’ve been out walking around Chinatown or the Lower East Side recently, you may have noticed big stickers on the sidewalk directing you to “Gogh This Way.” They are aiming wanderers...

18 Jun A New Book on Barkley Hendricks Shows How the Artist 'Made Everyone Feel Like a Photographer's Model'—See Images Here

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The late artist Barkley L. Hendricks was best known as a painter, often capturing the swagger and gravitas of everyday Black people. He set full-length portraits of figures against monochromatic backgrounds so that both the person’s expression and their clothing and accessories were on full...

18 Jun Hit the Road With These 4 Unforgettable Land Art Road Trips, From a Visit to the 'Lightning Field' to a Cruise Through the 'Ghost Ranch'

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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars,” Jack Kerouac wrote in On The Road, forever capturing the enduring mythic freedom of the American road trip. For art lovers, the perfect road-trip itinerary might be a little more...

17 Jun Trying to Remember What Life Office Is Like? Here Are Five Artworks That Will Bring the Memories Flooding Back | Artnet News

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Offices have been with us for centuries. In the 1600s, professionals in major European cities began to work in defined spaces, outside the home. A few centuries later, the modern open-plan offices emerged during the early decades of the 20th century. But over all those years, offices...

17 Jun 'My Whole Purpose Was to Break the Tradition': Watch Pakistani Artist Shahzia Sikander Subvert the Ancient Practice of Miniature Painting

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The Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander helped create a whole new genre of painting known as neo-miniature—all before she’d finished her art degree. The extremely time-consuming practice is based on Indian and Persian miniature painting, which are rooted in traditional manuscript and book illustration. For her BFA thesis...

17 Jun London's Royal Academy Has Pulled an Artist’s Work From Its Gift Shop After Online Backlash Over Her ‘Transphobic’ Views | Artnet News

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London’s Royal Academy has pulled a work by artist Jess de Wahls from its online shop after online critics denounced the institution for giving a platform to the artist, who has openly expressed her frustrations with contemporary gender identity politics, during Pride month. The institution was...

17 Jun 5 Outstanding Artists From 'Super-Rough,' the Experimental Exhibition Takashi Murakami Curated for the Outsider Art Fair

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“Super-Rough” is a pop-up, one-off extension of the Outsider Art Fair that displays a curated selection of highlights from galleries associated with the event. The hook for me is that I love this material. The hook from a broader cultural perspective is that the show was...

17 Jun Art Industry News: Seth Rogen's Acclaimed Pot Art Enters New Territory as One Dank Vessel Sells for $10,000 at Auction + Other Stories | Artnet News

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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 Thursday, June 17. NEED-TO-READ Looted Artifacts Returned to Ethiopia From U.K. Auction – A regional auction house in the...