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Artist Robert Longo presents a new exhibition at Pace Gallery, featuring his signature large-scale, hyperrealistic drawings that address themes of brutality, conflict, and protest. The show is a revised version of a 2023 exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, with works based on media images of events such as the war in Ukraine, Black Lives Matter protests, and migrant crises. The article critically examines several pieces, including "Untitled (Ferguson Police, August 13, 2014)" and "Untitled (Refugees at Mediterranean Sea, Sub-Saharan Migrants, July 25, 2017)," arguing that Longo's manipulations of source photographs result in melodramatic and dishonest representations.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 15, 2025 visibility 5 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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The Hollywood Hills home of the late filmmaker, musician, and artist David Lynch has been listed for sale at $15 million. The 2.3-acre compound, originally built in 1963 by Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright), was expanded by Lynch over his 35 years of residence to include two neighboring lots. It features 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, an art studio, a workshop, and a private screening room. The property served as both living quarters and workspace, and was even used as a film set for Lynch's 1997 movie *Lost Highway*. The listing shows that the home survived the recent destructive fires in the area, from which Lynch had evacuated shortly before his death in January 2025.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 12, 2025 visibility 17 link 39 artists, 14 galleries

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The fourth edition of Frieze Seoul opened with strong collector turnout and solid first-day sales, despite a turbulent global art market. High-profile attendees included MoMA PS1 director Connie Butler, Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 cocurator Wassan Al-Khudhairi, and Top 200 Collectors Lonti Ebers, Yassmin Ghandehari, and Qiao Zhibing, alongside K-pop stars Lisa (BLACKPINK), RM (BTS), and The8 and Vernon (Seventeen). Major sales included Hauser & Wirth’s $4.5 million sale of Mark Bradford’s triptych "Okay, then I apologize" (2025) and a George Condo painting for $1.2 million, while White Cube, Thaddaeus Ropac, Pace Gallery, and others reported significant transactions. International blue-chip galleries with Seoul spaces are doubling down, presenting top-tier shows of star artists like James Turrell, Antony Gormley, and Lee Bul, with Korea’s private museums also mounting blockbuster exhibitions.

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article news schedule Sep 11, 2025 visibility 13 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

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Photographer Sally Mann reveals in her new memoir *Art Work* that she now has reservations about her series “Men,” which features Black men photographed between 2004 and 2018. She writes that she removed 14 of those images from her 2018 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art after the 2017 Whitney Biennial controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till’s open casket, which made Mann reconsider the ethics of a white artist representing Black subjects. Mann describes the series as “problematic” and acknowledges that historically marginalized people should tell their own stories. She currently has 150 unshown works from the series, which will not appear in a planned 2027 survey.

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article local schedule Sep 4, 2025 visibility 8 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

kadist san francisco gallery closes 1234750754

Kadist, a Paris-based nonprofit art organization, announced the closure of its San Francisco gallery after 14 years of operation. The space, which opened in 2011, was known for commissioning and exhibiting works by international artists such as Hank Willis Thomas, Jota Mombaça, and Ad Minoliti. Joseph Del Pesco, Kadist’s Americas director, stated that the closure was not due to funding issues but rather a strategic shift toward international collaborations with museums across the Americas and beyond. The organization will continue to operate its original space in Paris and maintain its collection of over 2,000 artworks.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 28, 2025 visibility 17 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

claire oliver gallery expands new york 1234750054

Claire Oliver Gallery is expanding its Harlem townhouse location in New York, adding the upper floors to its existing street-level space. The new areas will be dedicated to a more intimate, salon-style presentation, moving away from the traditional white cube model. The expansion will be inaugurated on September 5 with a solo exhibition by BK Adams on the ground floor and a group show upstairs featuring represented artists including Barbara Earl Thomas, Carolyn Mazloomi, Gio Swaby, and others.

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trending_up market schedule Aug 6, 2025 visibility 9 link 2 artists, 2 galleries

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Los Angeles-based painter Lauren Quin has joined Pace Gallery, following the closure of her previous gallery Blum & Poe earlier this summer. Her first exhibition at Pace's Los Angeles space is scheduled for 2026, and her work will also appear in the gallery's booth at Frieze Seoul next month. Quin, known for densely layered abstractions, has been on a rapid ascent since earning her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2019, with her paintings held by major institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center, and the Hirshhorn Museum. Pace founder Arne Glimcher, a longtime supporter, gave Quin a solo show at Pace-affiliated 125 Newbury in 2024, which she credits as a turning point in her practice.

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article culture schedule Aug 2, 2025 visibility 11 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

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A new two-volume collection of Okwui Enwezor's writings, titled "Okwui Enwezor: Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse" and "Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition," has been published by Duke University Press in 2025, edited by Terry Smith. Spanning over a thousand pages and covering the years 1994 to 2019, the collection gathers Enwezor's catalog essays, exhibition reviews, and analyses, tracing his evolution as a poet, writer, curator, theorist, educator, and museum director who died in 2019 at age 56.

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article policy schedule Jul 31, 2025 visibility 10 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

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France's government has introduced a bill aimed at accelerating the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their countries of origin, covering items acquired through theft, looting, or forced transfers between 1815 and 1972. The legislation, set for Senate debate in September, seeks to bypass current French laws that have slowed restitution processes. Separately, a new book by Gareth Harris titled 'Towards the Ethical Art Museum' argues that museum ethics codes are often insufficient and calls for a shift in mindset around restitution and provenance.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 30, 2025 visibility 8 link 6 artists, 5 galleries

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The article reports on a generational shift in the art world, with younger gallerists (millennials and Gen Z) redefining success away from the traditional empire-building model. It highlights the recent closures of Venus Over Manhattan and Tim Blum's gallery, but notes that emerging dealers like Bridget Donahue and Matthew Brown are prioritizing collaboration, transparency, and a sustainable pace—attending fewer art fairs and building tight-knit communities rather than large client bases. Separately, the article covers Hauser & Wirth's announcement of a new gallery in Palo Alto, California, set to open in spring 2026, marking the mega-gallery's first Bay Area location and its third in California.

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multimedia artist raymond saunders dies at 90 1234747890

Raymond Saunders, a multimedia artist known for his enigmatic, sociopolitical paintings and assemblage style, has died at age 90. His passing was announced jointly by his representing galleries—Casemore, Andrew Kreps, and David Zwirner—on Instagram. Saunders's work often explored the Black American experience through extensive use of black paint and complex narratives, as articulated in his influential 1967 essay "Black Is a Color." His first career-spanning retrospective, "Flowers from a Black Garden," recently closed at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, his hometown. Saunders had a long teaching career in the Bay Area and received numerous honors, including a Rome Prize Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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rate_review review schedule Jul 18, 2025 visibility 12 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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Christian Marclay's latest supercut film, "Doors," is now on view at the Brooklyn Museum after stops in Boston and Europe. The 50-minute looped video compiles scenes of famous actors opening and closing doors from various movies, following the success of Marclay's 2011 hit "The Clock," a 24-hour video-clock that synchronizes on-screen timepieces with the viewer's actual time. The article critiques "Doors" as a less profound, more self-obsessed work that lacks the emotional resonance of its predecessor.

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article news schedule Jul 16, 2025 visibility 4 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posted a video on social media showing off a new tequila bottle, but the backdrop featured a painting from Rashid Johnson's "Anxious Red" series. The artwork, confirmed by Hauser & Wirth as an authentic Johnson piece purchased on the secondary market, sparked criticism online due to the irony of Lutnick—a Trump appointee whose administration has cut public health funding—owning a work born from pandemic-era anxiety. The series originally supported the WHO's Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund through a 2020 charity auction, the same organization Trump withdrew the U.S. from on his first day in office.

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article culture schedule Jun 21, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists, 8 galleries

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ARTnews sent correspondents Daniel Cassady and George Nelson to cover the social scene at Art Basel, documenting their experiences across three nights of parties, dinners, and cocktail hours. Cassady's journey was marred by travel delays, but he eventually attended a dinner hosted by Thaddaeus Ropac at Safran Zunft, a garden party by Sean Kelly Gallery, and a late-night gathering organized by multiple galleries. Nelson arrived smoothly and joined Cassady for drinks, noting the challenges of street noise and cabbage smells near their Airbnb.

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candle obituary schedule Jun 19, 2025 visibility 8 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

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Joel Shapiro, the acclaimed Post-Minimalist sculptor known for his playful yet conceptually rigorous works in bronze, aluminum, and wood, died on Saturday at age 83 due to acute myeloid leukemia. His death was announced by Pace Gallery. Shapiro's career spanned decades, with his work appearing at major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United States Holocaust Museum. He began at Paula Cooper Gallery in the 1970s, creating tiny cast-iron houses and chairs that subverted Minimalist monumentality, before evolving toward large-scale figural sculptures made from beams of metal. His 2024 exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York featured towering works, though he resisted calling them colossal.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 18, 2025 visibility 5 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

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Jordan Wolfson's new virtual reality artwork "Little Room" at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, immerses participants in a multi-stage experience that begins with a full-body scan and proceeds to a VR encounter designed to be "morally and emotionally challenging." The piece combines elements from Wolfson's earlier puppet-based works with his notorious VR piece "Real Violence" (2017), which sparked controversy at the Whitney Biennial for depicting a brutal beating. Participants are paired, scanned, and guided through the experience by assistants, with early reactions suggesting the work provokes strong emotional responses.

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trending_up market schedule Jun 16, 2025 visibility 11 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

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Christie's June 2025 design sales totaled $23.6 million across two auctions, led by the 'American Avant-Garde: The James D. Zellerbach Residence by Frances Elkins' single-owner sale ($8.1 million) and the broader Design sale ($15.4 million). The top lot was the Goddard Memorial Window by Tiffany Studios, which sold for $4.285 million with fees to an online bidder, marking the second-highest price ever for a Tiffany Studios work. Other highlights included two Alberto Giacometti bird sculptures selling for nearly $2.9 million each, a Claude Lalanne chandelier at $1.865 million, and her sculpture 'L'Enlèvement d'Europe' at $1.134 million.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 5, 2025 visibility 15 link 21 artists, 46 galleries

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Frieze has announced the exhibitor lists for its two concurrent October fairs in London: Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which will run from October 15 to 19 in Regent's Park. Frieze London will feature around 160 galleries, including blue-chip names like Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner, alongside 58 London-based galleries. Frieze Masters, with some 120 exhibitors, will be the first edition under the direction of Emanuela Tarizzo. Curated sections include Artist-to-Artist at Frieze London, where artists nominate peers, and Spotlight at Frieze Masters, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver. Frieze Sculpture, curated by Fatoş Üstek, will run from September 17 to November 2 in the English Gardens.

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article news schedule Jun 3, 2025 visibility 9 link 12 artists, 4 galleries

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Hauser & Wirth has announced global representation of Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias, who will depart Marian Goodman Gallery after over two decades. The gallery will feature her new work "Entwined VI" at Art Basel this month and host a solo exhibition at its London gallery in October. Separately, Rio de Janeiro's National Museum of Brazil is temporarily reopening three galleries seven years after a devastating fire destroyed 90% of its collection, showcasing surviving artifacts like the Bendegó meteorite. Meanwhile, staff at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art have been protesting daily since April over the war in Gaza, reflecting broader protests across Israel.

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rate_review review schedule May 23, 2025 visibility 9 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

lorna simpson met museum painting survey review 1234743323

Lorna Simpson's paintings are the subject of a new survey exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, titled "Source Notes," on view through November 2. The show features over 20 paintings created between 2014 and 2024, marking the first exhibition to survey Simpson's output in this medium. Curated by Lauren Rosati, the exhibition aims to provide an overview of her painterly practice while connecting it to her collage work, with two vitrines displaying her collages to illustrate the fluidity between the two practices. Simpson, best known for her photography from the 1980s, debuted her paintings at the 2015 Venice Biennale organized by the late curator Okwui Enwezor.

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trending_up market schedule May 20, 2025 visibility 7 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

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Hauser & Wirth, the mega-gallery with locations across three continents, has announced its representation of the estate of Susan Rothenberg, the influential painter who died in 2020. Rothenberg, known for her psychologically charged works featuring horses, disembodied limbs, and uncanny landscapes, was previously represented by Sperone Westwater gallery from 1987 until her death. The gallery will debut Rothenberg's work at Art Basel in June 2025, followed by her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York in September 2025.

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trending_up market schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 9 link 8 artists, 4 galleries

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The tenth edition of Photo London opened at Somerset House, marking a decade of growth for the UK's largest photography fair. The fair, running through May 18, has become a key event for the photography market, which has shown resilience despite broader art market declines. While global auction sales for photography dropped 5.6% in 2024 to $59 million, this was far less severe than the 27% overall art market decline, and sales volumes remained near record highs. New director Sophie Parker and cofounder Michael Benson highlighted growing interest from young collectors, though challenges remain as established galleries face an aging collector base and market uncertainty.

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article news schedule May 18, 2025 visibility 6 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

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The Pioneer Works Village Fete, held on May 6 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, raised $1.4 million for the nonprofit arts institution. The event featured speeches by Austin Hearst (filmmaker and grandson of the media baron, whose wife Gabriela Hearst was lead sponsor) and founder Dustin Yellin, who also celebrated his 50th birthday. Attendees included Claire Danes, Darren Aronofsky, Fred Wilson, Maggie Rogers, and Moses Sumney, with a performance by David Byrne. The benefit auction included works by Derrick Adams and Nate Lewis, and party favors were provided by Gotham, a cannabis company.

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trending_up market schedule May 16, 2025 visibility 11 link 24 artists, 1 gallery

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Sotheby's three-part evening sale in New York on Thursday generated $186.1 million across 68 lots, landing near the high end of its $141 million to $204.9 million estimate. The sale included a focused 12-lot offering from the collection of late gallerist Barbara Gladstone, which sold all works without guarantees and totaled $18.5 million, and a 15-work guaranteed sale from dealer Daniella Luxembourg featuring postwar Italian artists, where Lucio Fontana's 'Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio' (1963) achieved $14.5 million and Michelangelo Pistoletto's 'Maria Nuda' (1969) sold for $2.7 million after a five-minute bidding war.

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rate_review review schedule May 14, 2025 visibility 8 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

michael armitage david zwirner new york gallery review 1234742248

Michael Armitage's solo exhibition "Crucible" at David Zwirner's new Annabelle Selldorf-designed gallery in New York features paintings centered on migration, including the work *Path* (2024), inspired by a 2015 Vice News story about an Eritrean teenager's harrowing journey to Europe. The show also includes *Raft (ii)* (2024), a blurry homage to Théodore Géricault's *Raft of the Medusa*, and new sculptures that resemble wood carvings. The gallery itself, a single-story 18,000-square-foot space, opened after a larger planned venue fell through due to financial headwinds during Covid.

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trending_up market schedule May 12, 2025 visibility 12 link 36 artists, 23 galleries

nada new york independent art fairs sales report 1234741712

Two major New York art fairs—NADA New York and Independent—opened this week alongside Frieze and TEFAF, marking a crowded spring fair season. Despite a recent market downturn, both fairs reported strong attendance and early sales. NADA's executive director Heather Hubbs noted high-quality visitors and positive feedback on the new venue, while Independent founder Elizabeth Dee cited a 20% increase in opening-day attendance and robust buying from collectors and institutions. Sales ranged from lower-priced works under $50,000 to six-figure transactions, with galleries like Vielmetter Los Angeles, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery reporting significant sales.

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trending_up market schedule May 10, 2025 visibility 13 link 13 artists, 5 galleries

tefaf new york 2025 sales report 1234741687

TEFAF New York 2025 opened with 91 exhibitors, featuring a mix of blue-chip and emerging artists. Galleries reported sales including a €250,000 relief by Anne Imhof at Sprüth Magers, a $500,000 Sean Scully painting at Lisson Gallery, and multiple Ruth Asawa works at David Zwirner ranging from $50,000 to $2.8 million. Thaddaeus Ropac sold works by Daniel Richter for €840,000. The fair aims to attract younger buyers while maintaining its prestige, with fewer objects priced above $10 million than in previous years.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 7, 2025 visibility 9 link 19 artists, 6 galleries

pace gallery berlin space opening 1234741010

Pace Gallery and Judin Gallery have opened a shared exhibition space in a converted 1950s gas station in Berlin's Schöneberg neighborhood, just ahead of Gallery Weekend Berlin. The venue, known as Die Tankstelle, was previously a museum dedicated to German artist George Grosz. Pace rents half the space from Judin founder Juerg Judin, with both galleries sharing operational costs. For the inaugural shows, Judin is exhibiting works on paper by Tom of Finland downstairs, while Pace shows works by Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Nava upstairs. The galleries will alternate exhibitions, each mounting about three per year.

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article news schedule Apr 30, 2025 visibility 6 link 19 artists, 7 galleries

hauser and wirth new york museum mega gallery shows 1234740036

This spring in New York, major museum surveys at MoMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art feature artists all represented by the mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth: Jack Whitten, Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, and Lorna Simpson. The article notes that this concentration has been dubbed "Hauser spring" by some observers, and questions the increasingly blurred line between commercial galleries and museums, especially as Hauser & Wirth has provided financial support for at least three of the four shows.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 29, 2025 visibility 7 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

ruth asawa retrospective sfmoma review 1234740060

Ruth Asawa's first retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1973 featured a communal "dough-in" where children made art from baker's clay, a practice that drew skepticism from some onlookers. Now in 2025, SFMOMA presents a larger retrospective of Asawa's work, showcasing her wire sculptures, drawings, and playful, community-oriented art. The exhibition, organized by SFMOMA's Janet Bishop and MoMA's Cara Manes, will travel to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Fondation Beyeler.

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