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The Little Ivory Chess Piece That Sold for Almost $1 Million
Plus, last week's case of who bought the maybe-Caravaggio painting has apparently been solved, and the Fyre Festival island is up for sale.
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This Disputed Caravaggio Is a Centuries-Long Mystery and Was Sold for an Undisclosed Price
Plus, a painting by Toyin Ojih Odutola achieved the highest-ever price for work by a Nigerian artist.
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The Gun that May Have Killed Vincent van Gogh Sold for Over $180,000
Plus, Sotheby's has gone private to the tune of $3.7 billion, LA's Broad Museum has acquired a work by David Hammons, and the world's largest of visual and concrete poetry has moved.
Art
The Role and Responsibility of Public Art in the Modern Day
The Innovating Public Art symposium will consider a bevy of questions around public art through discussions with artists like Martin Puryear, Leonardo Drew, and others.
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Phillips Collection Acquires Nabi Paintings and Portfolios, and Tintin Cover Sold for Over $1M
Plus, Aretha Franklin portraits find a new home, and the sales of Leonard Cohen's letters to Marianne, famous works by Dorothea Lange and other photographers, and an Andy Warhol riff on Botticelli's "Birth of Venus."
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A More Inclusive Future for Digital Art (With GIFs, Too)
Molly Soda, Claudia Hart, and Faith Holland will discuss their work at a panel this week, The Artist Isn't (Physically) Present: Women in Digital Art.
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This Gentileschi Painting Spent Some Time in a Prison, and a Nicolas de Staël Painting Sold for $3.3M
Plus, classic cartoons from The Peanuts change hands, and the mysterious case of an $88.8 million Rauschenberg may be solved.
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A Manga Artist Breaks Down The Tale of Genji
The legendary novel has been reinterpreted hundreds of times over the centuries, and Yamato Waki will discuss her adaptation in New York City this weekend.
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A Night of Poetry to Honor the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
“Riots in Writing,” co-presented by the Brooklyn Museum and PEN America, recalls the Stonewall Riots with a night of intergenerational poetry readings.
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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Philadelphia, Austin, Troy, and New York City.
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5,000 Drawings by Architect Michael Graves Go to Princeton Museum, Virus-Ridden Laptop Sells for $1.3M
Plus, Scotland's Aberdeen Art Gallery takes £1 million from Big Oil, Hungary's Museum of Fine Arts has a new Renoir and a new Van Dyck, and pieces by Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, and more go for millions in Hong Kong auctions.
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A Dive Into Medieval Knighthood in Art
This gallery talk at the Met Cloisters in New York will focus on knighthood and its hidden secrets in art from medieval times.