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13 Apr Art Industry News: Adrian Piper Says Paris's Slavery Memorial Risks Becoming an 'International Embarrassment' + Other Stories

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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 Tuesday, April 13. NEED-TO-READ Cambodia Condemns Artist Who Edited Smiles Onto Khmer Rouge Victims – Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and...

12 Apr Google Will Celebrate the Met's 151st Anniversary With a Special 'Doodle' Highlighting Some of Its Most Beloved Artworks | Artnet News

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Two of America’s biggest institutions are teaming up for one special day, as Google honors the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 151st anniversary with a custom “doodle” marking the occasion. On Tuesday, April 13, Google’s main page will feature an array of images culled from the two...

12 Apr Editors' Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Celebration of Maurice Berger to a Talk With Wade Guyton

Posted at 22:11h in Uncategorized by Sarah Cascone

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 well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from...

12 Apr The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Will Restitute Two 17th-Century Tapestries of Moses Looted by the Nazis in the 1930s | Artnet News

Posted at 18:29h in Uncategorized by Taylor Dafoe

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel has begun the process of restituting two 17th-century Flemish tapestries looted by the Nazis during the German Reich. The objects will be returned to the heirs of Rudolf Mosse, a prominent German publisher who amassed an impressive personal...

12 Apr An Explosive Netflix Documentary About the $500 Million Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Names the Gangsters Who May Have Done It

Posted at 14:30h in Uncategorized by Sarah Cascone

“This was a solvable crime,” Colin Barnicle, director of the new Netflix documentary series This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist, told Artnet News. But more than three decades after the most expensive art theft in U.S. history, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s stolen...

12 Apr Art Industry News: Murakami Pauses His NFT Sale So He Can Have More Time to Figure Out How They Work First + Other Stories

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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 Monday, April 12. NEED-TO-READ Another Museum Commits to Returning the Benin Bronzes – The National Museum of Ireland...

12 Apr Author Roxane Gay Wants Galleries to 'Stop Being Terrible.' They’ll Probably Sell More Art That Way | Artnet News

Posted at 06:30h in Uncategorized by Noor Brara

Roxane Gay has run out of wall space. The award-winning author and essayist, for whom art collecting is a newish venture, has, in just three years, amassed a formidable collection that inspires and delights. Last week, I called Gay at home to talk about her collection,...

12 Apr What I Buy and Why: Juan Yarur Torres on Spotlighting Chilean Artists, and Running Out of Space to Display His Collection

Posted at 05:00h in Uncategorized by Naomi Rea

As the son of a textile magnate, Juan Yarur Torres’s appreciation for beautiful things led to his art-collecting addiction. The 36-year-old’s collection includes works by Tracey Emin and Andy Warhol, but also leading Chileans such as Cecilia Vicuña and Claudio Bravo. He is the head of...

09 Apr The Art Collective That Nike Sued for Pouring Human Blood on its Sneakers Has Agreed to Recall the Shoes | Artnet News

Posted at 20:44h in Uncategorized by Taylor Dafoe

The battle between Nike and the art and design collective MSCHF has finally been settled. Last month, the collective teamed up with rapper Lil Nas X to release “Satan Shoes,” a series of modified Nike Air Max 97s sneakers with drops of human blood mainlined into the soles. Priced...

09 Apr From a Mesmerizing Mummy Parade to the Resolution of a 'Salvator Mundi' Mystery: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week

Posted at 20:12h in Uncategorized by Artnet News

What’s Behind the KAWS Phenomenon? – On this week’s Art Angle podcast, Ben Davis discusses his theories behind the metoric rise of the street artist. A Could-Be Caravaggio – Authorities stopped the sale of a painting that experts now believe is a genuine work by the...