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6 days ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield
A stylised family portrait painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will lead Christie’s 21st century evening sale this May, the auction house revealed on Friday. Baby Boom was painted in 1982, considered the most important year of Basquiat’s career. Work from 1982 often fetches higher prices: seven of his ten most valuable works at auction were executed during this year, Christie’s notes. The auction house estimates Baby Boom will sell for between $20m and $30m.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Lisa Movius
Claude Monet’s Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule (1891) will be among the works leading Christie’s 20th-century evening auction next month during marquee spring sales in New York. Expected to sell for between $30m and $50m, it is among the highest estimates of the lots announced so far for the auction season. The painting is one of 24 in Monet’s Les Peupliers series, inspired by eight cottonwood trees along the banks of the Epte river just south of his house in Giverny.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Gareth Harris |Carlie Porterfield |Jason Foumberg
Kings and Queens of Africa: Forms and Figures of PowerThis exhibition claims to be the first major show of Sub-Saharan African art in the Middle East. With more than 300 objects, it is certainly wide in scope, covering multiple cultures and a millennium of history. All the exhibits are connected to the continent’s rulers, including royal attire, royal portraits, sculptures and ceremonial objects.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carolina Drake |Margaret Carrigan |Georgina Adam |Carlie Porterfield
Leslie Roberts, the owner and founder of Miami Fine Art Gallery in Florida, has been indicted for allegedly selling forged Andy Warhols. On 9 April, agents from the FBI's Art Crime Team entered Roberts’s gallery in Miami, removing art and hauling it away in cardboard boxes, covering the windows to prevent the public from peeking in. Roberts and an associate, Carlos Miguel Rodriguez Melendez, were arrested and charged. Their arraignment is scheduled for 21 April.
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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anni Irish |Carlie Porterfield
An open letter published last month calling for a boycott of Columbia University has since gained nearly 2,000 signatories, including many prominent artists and art historians. The letter is the latest response to the ongoing situation on the university’s campus in Manhattan stemming from student protests related to the war in Gaza.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield
The Dallas Art Fair, one of the largest and most established commercial fairs in the US between the East and West coasts, will hold its 17th edition this week (10-13 April). The fair will welcome 91 galleries from 53 cities and 21 countries—more than usual—with 30% being first-time exhibitors at the fair. Newcomers include Galería OMR, a heavyweight of the Mexico City art scene, Make Room from Los Angeles and Carvalho Park from New York.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield
Author and musician Patti Smith joined New Yorkers this week in a rally to protest city officials’ plans to destroy Elizabeth Street Garden, a sculpture garden tucked away in the busy Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Nolita, to make way for an affordable housing development for low-income seniors. After being denied protections under a law that grants artists the right to prevent the destruction of their work, the non-profit that manages the garden is preparing for the possibility of eviction.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Kabir Jhala
While on a cross-country trip paid for by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank made this image in Hoboken, New Jersey, during a parade to celebrate the city’s centennial. It went on to serve as the cover image for Frank’s book The Americans, first published in France in 1958 to some backlash abroad for being “anti-American”.
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4 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Anna Brady |Charlotte Burns |Kabir Jhala
On the opening evening of her solo show on the Lower East Side of New York, the painter Seung Ah Paik was surrounded by her husband, children, parents and other family members, some of whom travelled from South Korea for the exhibition. Her show Body Cartography (until 26 April) was inspired by traditional Korean painting techniques and uses her own figure as a map of her experiences, blending landscape and self-portraiture.
