18 Jan Art Industry News: Oops! A Crypto Collective Paid $3 Million for a ‘Dune’ Book Because of a Basic Misunderstanding + Other Stories

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, January 18. NEED-TO-READ Dispute Rages Over Villa With Caravaggio Fresco – Villa Aurora, a Roman villa with a ceiling...

18 Jan Oscar-Winning Artist Pierre Bismuth on Developing His Own Chocolate Bars to Poke Fun at the Art Industry | Artnet News

Brussels-based artist Pierre Bismuth is one of few artists who can boast an Oscar. Alongside Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman, Bismuth won the Hollywood award for co-writing the screenplay of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the early 2000s sci-fi about love and memory starring...

18 Jan Jerry Saltz Once Called Artforum Ads 'the Porn of the Art World.' A New Show Brings Together Some of the Best—See Them Here | Artnet News

In a 2014 article for New York magazine, critic Jerry Saltz described Artforum‘s ads as “the porn of the art world.” The glossy promotions comprised around 70 percent of the magazine’s pages. But these weren’t your typical ethereal, aspirational ads for perfume or jewelry. These are ads...

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18 Jan Filmmaker Gus Van Sant First Saw the Mona Lisa When He Was 11. Sixty Years Later, She's the Inspiration for His Paintings | Artnet News

In 1963, an 11-year-old Gus Van Sant traveled from Connecticut to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with his painter grandmother to see the Mona Lisa on its tour to New York. They waited outside the museum in the bitter cold, then faced the pushy crowds...

17 Jan The Louvre May Take Far-Right Politician Marine Le Pen to Court For Using the Museum in a Campaign Video | Artnet News

The Louvre may be taking legal action against politician Marine Le Pen, who leads the far-right National Rally party, for filming a presidential election campaign video with the Paris museum’s iconic architecture as a backdrop. The three-and-a-half-minute clip that went live on Saturday, January 15, saw...

17 Jan In Pictures: A New Exhibition Brings Together Maps From 'Lord of the Rings,' 'Game of Thrones,' and Other Fictional Worlds

Even authors who create elaborate fictional landscapes need directions sometimes. That much is clear in “Mapping Fiction,” a new exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in California, which examines the ways authors and cartographers have mapped out fantastical worlds both like...

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Art Industry News: Smoking Is Having a ’Sexy and Ethereal ‘80s Revival’ Among the Cool Art Crowd, Apparently + Other Stories Plus, a British art worker returns to the U.K. after a nearly four-year detention in Iran, and Prince Charles shows off his watercolors....

17 Jan Art Industry News: FIAC’s Scorched-Earth Battle for the Grand Palais Rages On + Other Stories | Artnet News

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, January 17. NEED-TO-READ Documenta Responds to Allegations of ‘Anti-Semitic’ Connections – The Kassel quinquennial exhibition is dealing with...

17 Jan Archaeologists Have Unearthed a 4,000-Year-Old Board Game. Now They Just Have to Figure Out the Rules | Artnet News

Archaeologists in Oman have found 4,000-year-old stone board game at a Bronze and Iron Age settlement site near the village of Ayn Bani Saidah in the northern Hajar mountains’ Qumayrah Valley. “Such finds are rare, but examples are known from an area stretching from India, through...