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Week in Review: SF Art Institute Announces Closure; Artists Create Masks for Healthcare Workers
Also, mega-galleries report strong sales from Art Basel Hong Kong online, and more.
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Swann Galleries Sees Highest-ever Presence of Online Bidders; Schomburg Acquires Harry Belafonte Archive
Also, Art Basel viewing rooms open to the public on March 20, and more.
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Robert Indiana “LOVE” Painting Sells for $1.3M; Van Gogh Breaks Record at TEFAF
Also, the Cleveland Museum of Art receives largest donation since 1958, Alma Thomas’s “Flash of Spring” (1968) sold for $819,000, and more.
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Sotheby's 2019 Private Sales Near $1B; San Antonio Museum Acquires Contemporary Latin American Art
Also, Armory Week 2020 moves forward in New York, ARCOmadrid closed with strong sales, and more.
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Sotheby's Moves Hong Kong Art Sales to New York; First-edition Jane Austen Novels Go to Auction
Also, the collection of a former president of the Museum of Modern Art — valued at $450 million — will be sold, and more.
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Strong Sales at Frieze Los Angeles; Billionaire Donates $3M to James Turell's Roden Crater
Also, the Library of Congress acquired nearly 100,000 photographs, negatives, and transparencies by Kamoinge photographer Shawn Walker, and more.
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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.