Also, the Library of Congress acquired nearly 100,000 photographs, negatives, and transparencies by Kamoinge photographer Shawn Walker, and more.
Cassie Packard
Cassie Packard is an NYC-based writer and cultural critic with bylines at publications including Artforum, BOMB, frieze, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic.
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MoMA Purchases 56 Gordon Parks Photographs; David Hockney’s “The Splash” Sells for $29.8M
Also, a donation agreement between Spain and Cuban collector Ella Fontanals-Cisneros went sour, Art Basel Hong Kong was canceled, and more.
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Christie’s Brings in $81.7M for Impressionist and Modern Art; Cybercriminals Scammed Dutch Museum Out of $3.1M
Also, a sale of the Johnson Publishing Company’s art collection saw 100% of lots sold at Swann Auctions Galleries, New York’s Film Forum received a $1 million gift, and more.
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Activist Art With a Personal Touch
Songs in the Dark offers socially engaged vignettes on issues that are of clear personal importance to their makers, some of whom are activists outside of the art world as well.
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Sotheby’s Old Masters Painting Sale Garners $61M; Christie’s Cancels Annual Spring Auction in Dubai
Also, the Denver Art Museum received 44 works on paper, a stolen Marc Chagall painting sold for its low estimate of $130,000 in Tel Aviv, and more.
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Museu de Arte São Paulo Acquires 296 Artworks by Women; Howard University Receives Donation Worth $2.5M
Also, the Getty Museum purchased a Joseph Wright of Derby painting after the UK failed to find a buyer, the Aaron Siskind Foundation donated over 8,000 photographs to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and more.
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Sotheby’s Auctions Impressionist Paintings Recovered From Nazi Looting; Watercolors by JFK Also Go to Auction
Also, the Metropolitan Museum of Art became the first US museum to acquire work by the late Pakistani artist and activist Lala Rukh, and more.
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France Blocks Export of Cimabue Found in Kitchen, Smithsonian Acquires Two Kusama Infinity Rooms
Also, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired over 700 rare photographs from the William L. Schaeffer Collection, and the Baltimore Museum of Art announced its fall 2019 acquisitions.
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Artists Find Power in Erasure
In Otherwise Obscured, effacement, redaction, and illegibility are positioned as tactics that artists can employ to combat, highlight, or heal sociopolitical invisibility.
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National Gallery Raises $25.5M to Purchase Orazio Gentileschi Painting; Miami Museum Acquires 16 Christo Works
Also, Sotheby’s grossed $2.8 million at an auction of Aboriginal contemporary art, the V&A received a gift of Auguste Rodin’s bronze sculpture, and more.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana Sold Three Editions Before It Was Eaten; Rijksmuseum Receives 24 Mapplethorpe Photos
Also, the top-grossing painting at Art Basel Miami Beach was a Marc Chagall sold by Hammer Galleries for over $2 million, and more.
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Paul Gauguin Goes for $10.5M; Sotheby’s Sells Space Photographs for Apollo 11 Anniversary
Also, the Dallas Museum of Art created a Works on Paper department thanks to a gift from a former curator and trustee, and more.