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This November, $1 K. Can Buy You a Visit to the Studio of Blue-Chip Artists like Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Gibson

Sharon Coplan, curator of STUDIO VISIT, and Jenny Gibbs, executive director of the IFPDA Foundation and Print Fair at the 2024 IFPDA Foundation Benefit hosted by Christie’s. Jason Lowrie/BFA.com. © BFA 2024. Courtesy IFPDA Foundation. A host of top tier New York-based artists are opening the doors to their studios to benefit the International Fine …

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Warhol Called Trump ‘Cheap’ in His Diary, Arrest Warrant for Antiquities Dealer Edoardo Almagià Issued, and More: Morning Links for November 1, 2024

Tantastic: Former President Donald Trump was called ‘cheap’ by Andy Warhol. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TRUMPED UP AND ‘CHEAP.’ Artnet News reports about how a “cheap” Donald Trump, per Andy Warhol ’s description of the former president in 1981, failed to pay for paintings he commissioned from the artist …

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France’s Culture Minister Proposes Charging Notre-Dame Visitors Five-Euro Entry Fee

French culture minister Rachida Dati wants to save her country’s churches by making people pay to enter Notre-Dame. Corbis via Getty Images Rachida Dati, France’s culture minister, has suggested charging an entry fee for visitors to Notre-Dame de Paris when the cathedral reopens in December following its five-year restoration. Dati told Le Figaro that forcing …

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Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and Environment Prize

MOCA Grand Avenue. Elon Schoenholz/Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña as the winners of its inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize. The award comes with a $100,000 purse and institutional support from the museum to develop …

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The $1 B. Grand Egyptian Museum Next to the Giza Pyramids Finally Opens But Tutankhamun’s Mask Not Yet on Show

Workers clean the base of GAM’s giant statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. courtesy picture alliance via Getty Image The long-awaited – and much-delayed – state-funded Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) next to the Giza Pyramids is finally open, but only partially. GEM houses the largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including treasures from the tomb of …

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Sotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-taped Banana, Art Basel and UBS Report Looks for Positives: Morning Links for October 25, 2024

Visitors take pictures of ‘Comedian’ by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. courtesy Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GOING BANANAS. Maurizio Cattelan’s famously provocative duct-taped, yellow plantain sculpture will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York on November 20. Has the piece managed to retain its …

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Clark Art Institute Gets $45 M. Trustee Gift to Establish New Gallery and 331 Works for Collection

Facade of Clark Art Institute via Google images. The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has received a significant posthumous donation from the foundation of one of its former trustees, Bulgarian-American software developer Aso O. Tavitian, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 80. The donation includes 331 artworks and a $45 million …

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Dealers at The Art Show Weigh in on a Soft Market: ‘A Great Picture Always Sells’

An installation view of Charles Moffett’s booth at ADAA’s The Art Show. Silvia Ros/Courtesy of Charles Moffett Gallery Not even an hour into the opening of The Art Show, the annual fair of the Art Dealers Association of America, New York dealer Charles Moffett had sold half of the seven egg tempera on wood New …

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Far-Right German Politicians Denounce Bauhaus Movement, Calling It ‘The Wrong Path of Modernism’

The Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany. Photo John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images Politicians with the far-right Alternative for Germany party have criticized the Bauhaus movement of the early 20th century, claiming that its emphasis on austerity and minimalism led modernism in the wrong direction. According to the German publication Middeldeutsche Zeitung, members of the party, …

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