India Art Fair (IAF) in Delhi, South Asia’s largest commercial art event, has chosen Jaya Asokan as its new director. She will replace Jagdip Jagpal, who has led the fair since 2017. Asokan previously served as IAF’s deputy director and director of exhibitor relations. Prior to that she worked as senior manager, client relations at…
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An 1887 painting by Vincent van Gogh, which has never before been exhibited, has sold for €11.2m (€13m with fees) at Sotheby’s Paris. Although the work was fresh to auction, this was its second time under the hammer, having been nearly sold less than an hour before. Scène de rue à Montmartre (Impasse des deux…
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A coalition of activist groups has announced a 10-week “strike” against the Museum of Modern Art with the ultimate goal of “disassembling” the institution, arguing that it is tainted by elitism, racism and misogyny. The new alliance, called the International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings, says it plans a series of protests, writing projects and…
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Ernesto Mallard, one of the leading figures of the Mexican Op-art movement and an early proponent of Kinetic art, has died, aged 89. Latin America in the 1960s was generously endowed with Modern artists but Mallard—who did more than anyone else to engage audiences and invite them to explore his three dimensional creations—was the first…
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Germany is moving towards full restitution of the looted Benin bronzes in its public collections, a Foreign Ministry official said, putting it on course to be the first country to commit to returning them to Nigeria permanently. Andreas Görgen, the head of the Foreign Ministry’s culture department, visited Benin City last week for discussions with…
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Art theft typically conjures pieces ripped from the walls of world-class museums, and while art heists take place frequently, they are not the only means by which priceless treasures are taken. Throughout history, masterpieces have plundered, looted, and stolen, and taken far away from the original locales. For the former owners of such stolen works,…
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Damien Hirst has made a foray into the fast-rising crypto art market. The British artist is selling a series of eight prints called “The Virtues,” which depict cherry blossoms in bloom, and for those interested in buying them, he is willing to accept cryptocurrency—an unusual gesture for a blue-chip artist. “It’s hard for any of…
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Do artists have a duty to directly confront the injustices and inequalities around them? Anyone who’s read this magazine over the past four years knows that one of the things we’re most interested in here at T is what an artist’s relationship is to the world around her. Is there a line between who she…
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The Museum of Pontevedra in northwest Spain will return two paintings that experts said were looted by the Nazis during World War II. El País reports that, before it restitutes the works, the museum has put them on view one last time in a special presentation focused on how the institution resolved the claim that…
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Just months after experts discovered a work from a Jacob Lawrence series that currently forms the basis of a traveling survey, curators have authenticated another painting from that body of work that was long thought to be missing. Panel 28 of Lawrence’s 30-work painting series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” has been located in the holdings…
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