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Week in Review: David Hockney is the Most Expensive Living Artist, Glenn Lowry Extends MoMA Directorship
Leon and Debra Black will donate $40 million to MoMA's expansion, MASS MoCA extends Sol LeWitt exhibition until 2043, and more.
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Hockney Painting Becomes Most Expensive Work Sold by a Living Artist, and US Returns Bells of Balangiga to Philippines
Plus, the Smithsonian acquires an Arthur Jafa video, and a Nazi-looted painting is returned to its heirs.
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Steven Kasher Gallery will close, Hilton Als received the Langston Hughes Medal from The City College of New York, and more.
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Among Destruction Brought by California Fires, Famous Western Town Lays in Ruins
The old Wild West movie set served as the backdrop for Hollywood classics and was home to a short-lived alternative art fair, Paramount Ranch.
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Discover the Artist Community at the New York Studio School
The School offers a free lecture series, evening and Saturday classes as well as a full program of exhibitions, twelve months a year, free and open to the public.
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President of France Will Recommend Full Restitution of Looted African Works
The proposed guidelines would bristle the French art world, but they could also endear the French president to the African countries he's trying to build stronger economic partnerships with.
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Turkey Cracks Down on Cultural Workers and Academics Tied to Detained Philanthropist
As Osman Kavala, an acclaimed Turkish cultural philanthropist, enters his second year imprisoned in solitary confinement without charge, the arrests of 20 of his affiliates expose the double-standards of Turkey’s treatment of its own dissidents following the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashog
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One Year After Demanding Gender Equality in Argentina's Art World, Activists Reflect on Progress
Nosotras Proponemos (nP), Argentina's first organized activist group dedicated to fighting sexism in the art industry, has made waves, but much work remains to be done.
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Cal State Long Beach Students Protest Museum Director’s Firing
Since Kimberli Meyer was controversially fired from the University Art Museum, students have penned letters, staged a silent protest, and created artworks in response.
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Unionized Art Installers and Maintenance Crew Protest Low Wages at MoMA PS1
Local 30 union members gathered at the entrance of MoMA PS1 in Queens after “strained" contract renegotiations. Workers say they are paid significantly less than their counterparts at MoMA in Manhattan.
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Ron English Plans to Whitewash a $730,000 Banksy, and then Sell It
After buying it at auction, the American street artist says he will paint the Banksy mural white as a protest against the buying and selling of street art.
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Week in Review: Iranian Art Market Suffers After Oil Sanctions, Winnipeg Gallery Launches Indigenous Biennial
Also, Björk is planning her “most elaborate stage concert yet," the Souls Grown Deep Foundation sell a Thornton Dial Painting to fund their paid internship program, and more.