David Byrne Deonté Lee/BFA.com The Pioneer Works Village Fete, an exuberant herald for New York’s spring benefit season, began with a toast to patriotism—preceded by a recontextualization of the term. “It was not good to be called a patriot when America was started because it meant that you did not want to be ruled by …
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KKK wedding in Tennessee, 2015. The newlyweds went back several generations in the Ku Klux Klan. They were unemployed and impoverished, eating their wedding dinner of soggy roast beef sandwiches at a fast-food chain. They got married in a backyard barn, decorated with a Confederate flag and a poster of a smiling Anne Frank with …
Gabriel Florenz (second from left at the table) at the 2023 Creative Time Gala in New York City. Nina Westervelt/WWD Mara Manus is leaving her role as CEO of Pioneer Works, the Brooklyn arts and science-focused non-profit space founded by artist Dustin Yellin. That wraps up a brief tenure that began in 2023 and marked …
The Modern Wing of the Art Institute Of Chicago, 2013. Photo Raymond Boyd/Getty Images The Art Institute of Chicago is contesting a New York court order to restitute Russian War Prisoner (1916), a drawing by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, to heirs of it’s original owner. The museum has secured a temporary stay while it pursues …
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Exterior view of the Getty Center, 1997, Los Angeles, California. Photo Getty Images/Bob Riha, Jr. The Getty Research Institute announced an update to its index of provenance-related research today. The remodeled version now offers more than 12 million records available to the public. The Getty Provenance Index (GPI) initially launched in the 1980s to keep track …
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An image of the contested sculpture, Nevelson Estate Inventory #30006, from the 1993 O’Toole-Ewald Appraisal. Court documents/Beloff Complaint Days before a Louise Nevelson sculpture was scheduled to hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in May 2022, one of the most powerful figures in the late artist’s market, Arne Glimcher, declared it inauthentic. Now the consigner …
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Cranes and workers board up the windows of the Transfiguration Cathedral damaged as a result of a missile strike in Odesa. AFP via Getty Images A group of arts professionals has called on the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a non-governmental organization that sets industry standards for participating museums, to eject Russia for violating the …
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The 2024 edition of Frieze New York. The fair’s upcoming edition opens next week. Photo Casey Kelbaugh/Courtesy Frieze and CKA A long-suspected game of musical chairs for the ownership of Frieze, the group that includes an influential London-based magazine and several art fairs around the world, has come to an end. Endeavor Group Holdings, the …
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The NEH building in Washington, D.C. Photo Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Three humanities-focused organizations have filed a lawsuit against both the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the “dismantling” of the former organization. Filed on May 1 in United States District Court for the Southern District of New …
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The 2024 Venice Biennale. Simone Padovani/Getty Images As President Donald Trump systematically guts the United States’ art programs and funding to roll out an aesthetic program of his own making, questions around the country’s participation in the forthcoming 2026 Venice Biennale loom large. In a new piece for Vanity Fair, culture correspondent Nate Freeman tried …
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