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‘Home Life’ at Matthew Marks Gallery is Unpacking What Home Means Now

“Home Life” is helping to rethink banal domestic spaces and the elements that make it up.

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A $6.6 Million Sale of Beeple’s NFT Art Raises Expectations for Christie’s...

Nifty Gateway is reporting that this makes the Beeple piece the most expensive work of digital art ever auctioned.

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Curator K.O. Nnamdie Wants to Personally Welcome You to the Art World

Curator K.O Nnamdie's next project is with Greenhouse Auctions, continuing his vision of mentorship and inclusion in the art world.

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Lutte Collective’s Hayley Cranberry Talks Art and Disability Justice

Lutte has existed solely online since its inception. It is meant to be accessible to people who are unable to go out to art shows or experience art because of their disabilities.

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How Covid-19 Led to the Further Repression of Working Artists Worldwide

According to a new report from the human rights organization Freemuse, artists have been detained, killed and imprisoned in droves in 2020.

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Banksy’s Latest Work May Have Appeared on the Side of a U.K. Prison Wall

Although the artist has not yet confirmed authorship, the piece, which shows an escaping prisoner, certainly fits his style.

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Two Nazi-Looted Flemish Paintings are Being Returned to Their Home in Poland

The Museum of Pontevedra in Spain discovered that two paintings in its collection were stolen by the Nazis from a Polish family in 1939.

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Keith Haring’s Genie-Like Tarpaulin Figure is the Star of This Christie’s...

Haring enjoyed working with tarpaulins because they could be ordered in bulk, and translated the gritty aesthetic he was going for.

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The Man Ray Trust Claims Christie’s Auctioned Works That Were Stolen

On Tuesday, Christie's went ahead with a successful auction of hundreds of works by Man Ray that the artist's trust attempted to halt.

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Birmingham Jail Logbooks Signed by Martin Luther King Jr. Sold for Over $130,000

The documents were reportedly saved by a Birmingham Jail employee who had refused to destroy them.

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Allison Glenn, the Curator of a New Breonna Taylor Exhibition, On...

In putting together the exhibition, Glenn made sure to honor the wishes of Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer.

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Scenes of a Bohemian Life: Mirka Mora at the Jewish Museum of Australia

That is what most defines Mirka's art and herself: her extraordinary and immediate presence that is so feminine in its nurturing, creative force.

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music Gave Its Former President a $968,000 Housing Bonus

This news comes during a time in which many arts institutions are considering deaccessioning work due to a supposed lack of resources.

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Becky Kolsrud’s ‘Elegies’ Explores The Poignancy of Pandemic Grief

Ultimately, her work poses questions about how we can cope with grief constructively, even when communal displays of it continue to be lethal. 

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Today’s Google Doodle Honors Innovators on International Women’s Day

The Doodle was drawn by Hélène Leroux, who said that her great grandmother had never been allowed to pursue art professionally.

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Celebrate Women Photographers this Women’s History Month

What better way to celebrate feminism than with the female gaze in photography?

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Jack Dorsey Has Jumped On the NFT Train and Is Selling Twitter’s First Tweet

Already, a CEO has bid $2.5 million on the unique non-fungible token version of the 2006 tweet.

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The Louvre Has Been Sued for Making Changes to a Gallery With a Cy Twombly...

The Cy Twombly Foundation is incensed about paint and floor changes made to a Louvre gallery that features a Twombly ceiling.

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Banksy’s Painting for Health Care Workers Will be Auctioned to Benefit the NHS

Christie's estimated that the painting will sell for between £2,500,000 and £3,500,000.

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Feel Pieces: Hannah Baer On ‘Trans Girl Suicide Museum’ and Memes

Hannah Baer’s book is a maze of thinking through “being a trap,” whiteness, memes, class, ketamine, and transitioning.

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