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Gurlitt will restitute some art, Perry Rubenstein files for bankruptcy, India asks for sculpture repatriation, a new Astoria arts district, and more from the week in art news.
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Guggenheim Spoof Site Targets Abu Dhabi Controversy
A spoof Guggenheim website, globalguggenheim.org, went live this morning with a satirical "Sustainable Design Competition" for the museum's embattled Abu Dhabi branch.
Books
The Portrait in the 21st Century
The National Portrait Gallery in London has published a compendium of what portraiture means for the 21st century. While the media may be more tech-heavy than previous centuries, the examination of self remains, perhaps with even more questions of what that means than before.
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An Art Wedding Full of Strangers
CHICAGO — A passerby looking through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Conaway Center in Chicago's South Loop last Friday night would have assumed she was witnessing a wedding.
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Art Dubai Modern: Historical Fragments
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the realms of art history still felt geographically suffocating.
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The Nomadic Arctic Landmass that Became a New Nation
Back in 2012, a curious landmass journeyed around the coast of England, broken free from the Arctic, where it had long been invisible under a glacier. Nowhereisland, as it was anointed by its discoverer, artist Alex Hartley, became land art on a massive scale.
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The Hedge Fund Manager and the Auction House: A Brief Sotheby's Explainer
In October, we noted activist investor Dan Loeb's opening salvo in his battle with Sotheby's: a public letter that sought reforms, sane and otherwise, at the auction house. Within two days of receiving Loeb's screed, Sotheby's adopted what is called a "poison pill" provision. Two days ago, Loeb file
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Tallying Art World Inequality, One Gallery at a Time
I've been thinking a lot recently about counting. Counting can feel lonely sometimes, like you against the world, so I'm always grateful when I encounter other people doing the same. Like artist Micol Hebron.
Performance
An After-Midnight Murder Mystery Takes Place in a Cemetery
How do you get people to see theater in a Bronx cemetery at three in the morning? Don't tell them where they're going.
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The Mayapple Center in North Stamford, Connecticut, Offers Five-Day Summer Programs in the Arts
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Delaware Museum Plans Art Sale to Pay Debt
The Delaware Art Museum will sell at least three, possibly four artworks, to raise money to pay off its debt, the News Journal has reported. The move would violate the rules of both the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Alliance of Museums, likely bringing sanctions on the Delawar
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Code Art at the Intersection of Data, Space, and Time
Lisa Gwillam and Ray Sweeten form the code-art creating duo DataSpaceTime. Engaging in the aesthetics, the politics, and various undersides of contemporary backend technology, their pieces break down digital images, investigate how visual data interacts with other visual data, and look at how new te