Also, for the first time since the Renaissance, Raphael’s tapestries are reunited at the Sistine Chapel, artist Felicity Hammond denounces the Dutch art fair Unseen for not paying its artists, and more.
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Valentina Di Liscia is Co-Editor of News at Hyperallergic. Originally from Argentina, she studied at the University of Chicago and is currently working on her MA at Hunter College, where she received the Brodsky Scholarship for Latin American Art History. Send your inquiries, stories, and tips to valentina@hyperallergic.com.
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Prize at Armory Show Will Give 10K to a Woman Artist or Her Estate
The artists shortlisted for the prize, funded by French nonprofit AWARE, are Yuko Nasaka, Rina Banerjee, Aase Texmon Rygh, Alexis Smith, and June Edmonds.
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Genuine Rembrandt Revealed Under Layers of Varnish After Restoration
A restoration of “Portrait of a Young Woman” (1632), formerly credited to Rembrandt’s studio and residing at the Allentown Art Museum, revealed the work to be an original by the Dutch Master.
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Berlin Nightclubs Seek the Same Federal Protections as Theaters and Opera Houses
A nightclub advocacy group went before the German Parliament to request new laws that will protect the nation’s clubs from gentrification.
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After Artist Pens Open Letter, Unseen Art Fair Owners Promise Payment
Felicity Hammond penned an open letter saying she was never paid the fees owed to her by Unseen art fair after it declared bankruptcy.
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Week in Review: Anti-Oil Activists Occupy British Museum To Protest BP-Funded Exhibition; Chile Foregoes Participation In Spanish Art Fair, Prompting Backlash
Also, the Rothko Chapel in Houston will reopen this June, the US Department of the Interior has finalized plans to allow drilling, mining, and grazing in national monuments in southern Utah, and more.
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Photojournalist Arrested by NYPD While Filming Police Officers
In video footage captured by his friend, Amr Alfiky loudly and clearly repeats that he is a journalist and offers to show his press credentials while a group of police push him against a car and handcuff him.
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Margaret Liu Clinton on Closing Koenig & Clinton and Being a “Slow Gallerist”
“I think it is inevitable that the gallery system will go through a business restructuring, because otherwise small galleries are essentially incubating artists and employees for larger spaces that just brutally cherry-pick them,” Clinton tells Hyperallergic.
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Chile Declines Invitation to Spanish Art Fair Because of “Social Unrest,” Prompting Backlash
Chile’s artistic community is criticizing the country’s recent decision to forego ARCOmadrid in 2021, arguing the government wants to censor artists who would air its human rights transgressions abroad.
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Artists-In-Residence at the Studio Museum Open Their Doors to the Public
The open studios event offers a rare opportunity to see works in progress by E. Jane, Naudline Pierre, and Elliot Reed before their upcoming exhibition at MoMA PS1.
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Art Critic Destroys $20K Glass Sculpture at Zona Maco
The glass work shattered to pieces “as though it had heard my commentary and sensed what I thought about it,” according to Mexican art critic Avelina Lésper.
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Ernesto Neto Stimulates Bodies and Minds at MALBA
From the tactile joy of brushing our bare skin against fabric to the discovery of new architecture that yields to our touch, Neto’s work melds the pleasures of sight to the sensuality of material.