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US Tech Company May Have Tried to Exhibit Unauthenticated Basquiat Painting at Major Museums
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.H&M Collaborates with Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate for New Clothing Line An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York without the institution’s permission. Co2Bit privately exhibited another painting of dubious provenance as genuine in a major museum. ARTnews reported last month that the company helped to show a painting with disputed attribution to Russian modernist Kazimir Malevich at...
Heat Waves and Mega Storms Are Creating New Challenges for Art Storage and Logistics
Unless you’ve been trapped in an air-conditioned room since May, summer this year has been pretty miserable. Temperatures have been so high that the global heat record was set two days in a row. The heat waves start earlier, last longer, and don’t break in the evenings. And now, here comes hurricane season.Uovo Is Expanding the Definition Of Art Storage--and Rapidly Growing Its Operations Fine art storage companies are hyper-aware of extreme temperatures and high humidity levels—not to mention hurricane conditions—due to strict industry standards, new climate-control systems, and the mounting expenses and logistical challenges from growing demand for client services. “Frankly,...
Andy Warhol’s Long-Lost Portrait of Blondie Singer Debbie Harry Resurfaces in Delaware
An Andy Warhol portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry that was thought to be lost has resurfaced in rural Delaware. The 1985 portrait, along with a signed disk of 10 digital image files by Warhol, is now being made available for sale, although the New York Post, which first reported the news, did not specify where.Warhol Portrait of Debbie Harry Resurfaces, French Artist to Spend 10 Days in a Bottle, Student Buys a 'Chagall' for $2, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2024 When Warhol was a brand ambassador for the now defunct tech company Commodore, he created the artworks...
London’s White Cube Axes Nearly 40 Monitors and Replaces Them with Security Guards
White Cube has axed 38 monitors and replaced them with security guards. The London gallery said the move was due to “operational processes.”White Cube Now Represents Howardena Pindell, Pioneering Artist and Curator, in Europe and Asia According to the Art Newspaper, most of the monitors, whose primary job was to make sure people didn’t touch exhibited artworks, are students and artists who were on zero-hours contracts, which stipulate that White Cube wasn’t obliged to provide any minimum working hours. The gallery informed the workers of its decision in May during a meeting which they believed was for discussing “the upcoming schedule.” Only...
Shahzia Sikander Says She Won’t Repair Beheaded Sculpture in Texas: ‘A Testament to Hatred’
After a Shahzia Sikander sculpture was beheaded in Houston, Texas, the artist said this week she would not repair it, explaining that the work in its current form speaks to what she called “the hatred and division that permeate our society.”Shahzia Sikander Sculpture Beheaded at the University of Houston Although Sikander had previously stated that she planned to leave the sculpture as is, she addressed her decision at length on Tuesday in a Washington Post op-ed. She once again called on the work’s exhibitor, the University of Houston, to make another statement about the beheading and speculated that the decapitators may...
Warhol Portrait of Debbie Harry Resurfaces, French Artist to Spend 10 Days in a Bottle, Student Buys a ‘Chagall’ for $2, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Andy Warhol's Long-Lost Portrait of Blondie Singer Debbie Harry Resurfaces in Delaware THE HEADLINES GENIUS IN A BOTTLE. French artist Abraham Poincheval (b. 1972), who is known for locking himself up in unexpected structures—an armor, a stuffed bear, a rock—has decided to repeat the experience inside a giant bottle, moored to the dock of the Saint-Denis canal, in Paris. Some find the idea genius; others ludicrous, reports Beaux Arts. How long will the intrepid artist stay on the River Seine? Ten whole days, for the entire duration of the Olympic Games!...
LA’s Fowler Museum Returns 20 Artifacts to Warumungu People of Australia
The University of California, Los Angeles’s Fowler Museum returned 20 objects “of significant cultural importance” to the Warumungu community of Australia’s Northern Territory on July 24, the university has announced. American Museum of Natural History Repatriates Remains of 124 Native People Overseeing the official handover ceremony were university officials, two Warumungu elders, and representatives of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), a government agency dedicated to the repatriation of local cultural heritage. “It’s very important that a lot of these artifacts are coming back for Warumungu people,” Warumungu elder Jones Jampijinpa, who worked closely with the Fowler on...
Stonehenge Tunnel Project Halted by New Labour Government as It Tries to Fill $2.5 B. Fiscal Black Hole
The UK’s newly formed Labour government has wasted no time in trashing plans laid down by the Conservatives in 2020 to build a two-mile tunnel near Stonehenge.UNESCO Decision on Whether Stonehenge Is in Danger Delayed Amid Controversy Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, told Parliament on Monday that the tunnel “would not move forward.” Scrapping the project, which had a proposed budget of $2.5 billion, is part of Labour’s mission to fill a fiscal hole that’s $30 billion deep. A policy paper, also published on Monday, confirmed that the tunnel will not be built. “The government is cancelling the A303 Stonehenge tunnel...
Brancusi’s ‘Endless Column,’ a Modernist Icon, Joins UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Five iconic sculptures by Constantin Brancusi located in the Romanian town of Târgu Jiu have joined the UNESCO World Heritage list, a distinction that will afford them legal protection going forward.UNESCO Adds Historic Monastery in Gaza to List of Endangered Sites The list, which also includes sites such as Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, and Chichén Itzá, is intended to recognize places of cultural importance. It currently includes more than 1,200 sites globally. Brancusi’s five sculptures were grouped together in one entry. The most famous work of the five, the 98-foot-tall sculpture Endless Column (1937–38), resembles a tower of cast-iron forms that rise...
New Aspen Art Fair Opens, the World’s Best Art Destinations, Paris Olympics Fail to Reconcile France, and More: Morning Links for July 30, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Bonaparte Letter Goes to Auction, Vandalized Works in Austria, Picasso Drawing Recovered by US Officials, and More: Morning Links for July 25, 2024 THE HEADLINES HITS DON’T LIE. If the Olympics opening ceremony, which tended to promote cultural diversity and inclusion, seems to have conquered the hearts of most people and papers, The Art Newspaper sees it as proof that France is actually fractured. In light of the country’s recent parliamentary elections—during which ten million citizens voted for the xenophobic National Rally (RN) party—the event can be read as an expression of...
New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery Sues Art Collector, Claiming He Owes Nearly $300,000
New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery has sued collector James R. Hedges IV, alleging that he owes nearly $300,000 for the sales of 19 artworks that the gallery had consigned to him.Jack Shainman Gallery Takes On the Estate of Emanoel Araújo, a Giant on the Brazilian Art Scene The lawsuit, which was filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on Friday, claims that Hedges and his gallery, the Santa Monica–based Hedges Projects, were consigned these works via invoices dated between June 2022 and May 2024. Hedges and his gallery are accused of owing $298,772.72. Hedges has called himself “the...
UNESCO Adds Historic Monastery in Gaza to List of Endangered Sites
UNESCO has added the ancient Saint Hilarion Monastery, also known as Tell Umm Amer, in Gaza to its endangered sites list as a result of the ongoing war with Israel. The decision was announced during the 46th iteration of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in New Delhi, India.Brancusi's 'Endless Column,' a Modernist Icon, Joins UNESCO's World Heritage List One of the oldest, largest, and most complex monasteries, the monastery dates back to the 4th century CE. The site was home to the first monastic community in the Holy Land. Though it has been on the organization’s tentative heritage list since 2012,...
An Uproarious Survey in Seattle Brings Together the West Coast’s Artist-Heretics
Wrapping together art-historical revisionism and kid-friendly displays, the Seattle Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture,” flashes back to artistic rebellions of the 1960s and ‘70s associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Funk art, and Northwest studio ceramics. Each group is well known for harboring its own gang of cultural heretics, but this ambitious show illustrates their shared objectives and visual techniques.At the Ford Foundation Gallery, an Exhibition Imagines the Possibilities of Femme-Centered Knowledge Bruce Nauman’s 1985 sculpture, Double Poke in the Eye II, depicting two human heads outlined in neon inspired the...
‘Mona Lisa’ Was Not Stolen from Italy, Leonardo da Vinci Expert Says: ‘We Need to Get the History Right’
After a prominent archaeologist said he would launch a campaign to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy, one of the foremost Leonardo da Vinci experts said the painting should, in fact, remain in France.Drag Queen Performance at Paris Olympics Draws Comparisons to 'Last Supper' In an Art Newspaper op-ed last week, Martin Kemp, a British art historian who has written frequently on Leonardo, dismissed the idea that the painting had been taken from Italy by the French, as some Italians have contended across the centuries. “If we are to have a measured discussion of restitution, we need to get the...
Paris Olympics Start with a Bang, Bernini’s Dark Side Revealed, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2024
The Headlines'Mona Lisa' Was Not Stolen from Italy, Leonardo da Vinci Expert Says: 'We Need to Get the History Right' EPIC, UNIQUE, OLYMPIC. After giving his blood, sweat, and tears for 18 months, Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of Paris’s Olympics opening ceremony, the first one not to take place in a closed stadium, can be proud. His intention was to capture France in all its diversity, and it was widely applauded in France . The extravagant four-hour show, inspired by a 4.5-mile stretch of the River Seine, was divided into 12 tableaux, juxtaposing tradition and modernity. One scene, with a group of drag queens sitting along...
At the Ford Foundation Gallery, an Exhibition Imagines the Possibilities of Femme-Centered Knowledge
For 605 days, the Nicaraguan activist and historian Dora María Téllez Argüello was incarcerated for her political opposition to the country’s presidency turned dictatorship. While confined to solitary, Téllez Argüello sang to herself in “a low tone” as a form of self-preservation amid the dehumanizing conditions she was subjected to during her imprisonment from June 2021 until her release and exile in February 2023.An Uproarious Survey in Seattle Brings Together the West Coast's Artist-Heretics The echoes of Téllez Argüello’s resolute voice serve as both metaphor and metronome for the aptly titled year-long, multipart exhibition, “Cantando Bajito” (“singing at a low tone”...
Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time
Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers.Supreme Court Rules Against Civil Liability Protections for the Sackler Family On October 14 of2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw soup at the painting, housed at the at the National Gallery of Art in London, before super-glueing their hands to the nearby wall. BBC News reported that Judge Christopher Hehir told Plummer and Holland they “came within the width of a pane of glass of destroying one of the most valuable artworks in the world” and to...
To Celebrate 60 Years of Andy Warhol’s Silent Film ‘Empire’, MoMA will Screen it from the Empire State Building
On the night of July 25, 1964, Andy Warhol and filmmaker Jonas Mekas stood on the forty-fourth floor of the Time-Life Building and for six hours, trained a camera on the Empire State Building. 1,200-foot rolls of film later, they had Empire, an eight-hour-long stationery shot of the Art Deco masterpiece shifting beneath light and shadow, giving New York what Claude Monet gave Rouen in his famous studies, a monument to a monument. It’s worth a watch on any screen, but is best caught this weekend, when it plays from the Empire State Building itself.Isaac Julien Reinvents the Biopic Genre...
In MIT Exhibition, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Literalize the Disjointed Palestinian Experience
In April 2019, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme were in the West Bank filming their latest installation. For the work, the artist duo, who are both of Palestinian descent, spent three years filming the dancer Rima Baransi and electronic musicians Makmakkuk, Haykal, and Julmud performing—and remixing—traditional Palestinian or Arab songs and dances while standing primarily on land under threat of annexation by Israeli settlers. The performers were encouraged to select their own bits of Palestinian culture to “sample” into fragmentary movements or melodies. But when two of the performers opted to use the same mourning song, something inexplicable happened. As...
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