Jenna Segal Rita Carmo In the mid-1990s, film producer Jenna Segal‘s life changed during a European backpacking trip. All it took was a visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice with her best friend. “This was before smartphones,” Segal told ARTnews from her office on West 57th Street in Manhattan, which, not coincidentally, was once …
University of North Texas campus. via Google images. A Texas lawmaker urged university administrators to cancel a planned lecture, remove a student art exhibition, and review campus free speech policies, citing alleged antisemitism, according to NTdaily, the school’s news outlet. In a letter addressed to University President Harrison Keller and UNT System Chancellor Michael Williams, …
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The exterior of Bank’s New York outpost, at 127 Elizabeth Street. Courtesy Bank Shanghai’s Bank gallery, one of China’s leading art spaces, will open in New York as its leaders brave an uncertain global art market. From March 21 until mid-August, Bank will operate a “pilot” space at 127 Elizabeth Street, the current home of …
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Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a portrait in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images Good Morning! Amid an ongoing investigation into the mysterious death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, the actor’s less-famous art practice comes to light. Artist Andil Gosine’s exhibition based on his book about queer theory …
Good bank? $TRUMP has shed billions. AFP via Getty Images The value of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly called $TRUMP, has fallen off a cliff – and its investors have lost around $12 billion. (A cryptocurrency is typically labeled a meme coin if it has no intrinsic function but originates from an internet …
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Views of the Elizabeth Street Garden on a crowded Sunday afternoon on September 9, 2024 in the Soho. Corbis via Getty Images A nonprofit overseeing Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden is suing New York City, arguing that the coveted public space qualifies for legal protection art under the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) of 1990. The …
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Beachgoers crowd the shore of Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria during the hot summer season on August 29, 2024. AFP via Getty Images Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt’s absorption into Greco-Roman culture. …
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Jenny Holzer, Installation for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1989/2024. ©2024 Jenny Holzer/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Photo Ariel Ione Williams and David Heald, ©Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Another round of layoffs has hit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as the institution struggles to balance its books in an era …
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The 2024 Venice Biennale. Simone Padovani/Getty Images The central attraction at the Venice Biennale is its main exhibition, a curated show meant to pinpoint a dominant theme in art as it stands right now. But all around it are pavilions staged by countries, with each nation selecting one or more artists to mount their own …
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The Orlando Museum of Art. TNS The Orlando Museum of Art and the family of former museum director and CEO Aaron De Groft have agreed to drop their lawsuits against each other, signaling the end of the years-long legal dispute over a suite of fake Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings. De Groft died last month due to …
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