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Judge Orders Part of African Art Collection Discovered in Houston Shed Sold to Settle Debt
A Texas judge has ordered the owner of a controversy-riddled African art collection to surrender one or two valuable objects to settle an outstanding legal debt of nearly $1 million. The court-order follows two temporary restraining orders issued by the same Harris county judge halting planned auctions of the mysterious collection, which has been at the center of a years-long police investigation that’s involved Houston taxpayers and the county commissioner. The U.S. Returns Wooden Sarcophagus Looted From Egypt The collection of 1,400 African artifacts of unclear provenance is owned by real estate agent Sam Njunuri. The auctions were planned to settle debts...
Three Major Art Collectors Lose Billions as Tech Shares Fall
Three of the world’s richest people—Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Bernard Arnault, all of whom are also notable art collectors—collectively lost over $20 billion in net worth amid a stock selloff that sent tech shares plummeting Monday.A $100 M. Warhol 'Mao' at Gagosian Could Signal More Selling from China Bezos, the founder of Amazon, saw his net worth drop by $15.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. And Ellison, head of software giant Oracle Corp, saw his net worth fall by $4.4 billion. Arnault, head of luxury conglomerate LVMH, lost $1.2 billion earlier this week. The change puts his net worth...
New Banksy Artwork of Black Goat Appears in London and Leaves Public Guessing
A mysterious new Banksy artwork has sprung up near London’s Kew Bridge, alongside a cryptic Instagram post by the artist that has left people speculating over its meaning.Second Banksy Artwork Appears in London in 24 Hours The mural shows a silhouette of a mountain goat precariously perched on a structure supporting the wall of a building. A real security camera is pointed at the animal, which looks like it’s moments away from slipping and falling. A Banksy fan who raced to the artwork’s location as soon as it was revealed on social media said she thinks it’s a commentary on humans destroying...
Vatican Says That ‘Last Supper’–Like Olympics Drag Performance Was an ‘Offense’ to Christians
The Holy See is the latest religious entity to denounce a drag queen performance staged during the Paris Olympics’s opening. Compared by many to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, the performance was an “offense” to “many Christians and believers of other religions,” the Vatican said this week.Paris Olympics Start with a Bang, Bernini's Dark Side Revealed, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2024 The statement came roughly a week after the performance itself, which involved a group of performers voguing a catwalk. Some observers said that the lengthy catwalk and the formation of the dancers were references to the Leonardo...
Renaissance Blockbuster Set for Buckingham Palace, Reclusive Artist Henrik Orlik Enters the Spotlight, and More: Morning Links for August 5, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.French Art World Seeks Funding to Preserve Studio Where School of Paris Movement Began THE HEADLINES TITIAN NOT BURYING HIS HEAD IN THE SAND. Buckingham Palace’s King’s Gallery has announced that it will host a blockbuster exhibition of Italian Renaissance works on paper next year, including a dozen artworks never seen before in the UK. One of them depicts an ostrich created around 1550 and attributed to Old Master heavyweight Titian. The show, titled “Drawing the Italian Renaissance,” will run from November 1 to March 9, 2025 and will comprise more than 150 works by 81 artists made...
Actor and Art Collector Steve Martin Organizes a Love Letter to LA with Hauser & Wirth
L.A. Story is the name of a 1991 movie written by Steve Martin that the Los Angeles Times once voted the greatest Los Angeles–set film of the 20th century. It will also be the name of a Hauser & Wirth show co-organized by Martin with curator Ingrid Schaffner and senior director Mike Davis. The show will kick off the fall season in LA this year.Vilhelm Hammershøi's Paintings Still Thrum with Uneasy Tension More than a Century Later The show, due to open September 12 at the gallery giant’s West Hollywood location, will feature landscapes, abstractions, and more that all contain...
Pace Gallery Lets Go of Global Sales VP Hired Six Months Ago, Loses Two More Senior Staffers
Three senior staffers no longer work at Pace Gallery, one of the biggest galleries in the world, ARTnews has learned.Pace Gallery Takes on Jiro Takamatsu, a Giant of Postwar Japanese Art History Gary Waterston has left the gallery, just six months after he was hired for the newly created position of executive vice president of global sales and operations. Pace’s senior director , curatorial, and artist management – Sarah Levine – and curatorial director Mark Beasley have also both departed.When Waterston, a former director at Gagosian, was hired earlier this year, Pace said he was “among the most senior level of the leadership...
Johnny Cash Statue to Replace Racist Politician in US Capitol
Country music legend Johnny Cash will receive a statue in his honor in the United States capitol. It will be unveiled next month, House speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries announced on Thursday, NBC reported.After Viral 'Embrace,' Hank Willis Thomas Is Tapped for Boston's Next Public Art Program Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, a small town roughly 60 miles south of Little Rock, Arkansas. During his lifetime, he sold 90 million records worldwide. His music spanning the genres of country, blues, rock, and gospel, Cash was inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980, and...
Russian Artist Included in Historic Prisoner Swap Between Russia and the West
An artist from St. Petersburg who was arrested in 2022 for protesting against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was included in the biggest prisoner exchange since the Cold War between Russia and the West.Curator Konstantin Akinsha on Saving Ukrainian Modernism from Russia's Missiles The swap happened on Thursday when 16 people from the US, Germany, and Russia—including the American journalist Evan Gershkovich—were exchanged for eight Russian prisoners, hit men and spies among them. The deal came after years of complex negotiations between Washington and Moscow, and culminated in emotional scenes as the prisoners walked free on a runway in the Turkish capital of...
Golf Course on Native American Earthworks to Move, Ending a Long-Running Legal Battle
An Ohio golf course situated atop a set of Native American earthworks will close, bringing an end to a legal battle over the land that has stretched on for years.Actor and Art Collector Steve Martin Organizes a Love Letter to LA with Hauser & Wirth The private course, located in the city of Newark, opened in 1910, and ever since, golfers have been allowed to play on earthworks that are thought to have been built somewhere between 2,000 and 1,600 years ago. The Ohio Historical Connection, a historical society that manages cultural heritage in the state, acquired the deed to the...
Church Makeover Goes Wrong, Giant Pigeon Lands on NYC High Line, BM & AG to Reopen Partially, and More: Morning Links for August 3, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Galerie Perrotin Will Debut New Lower East Side Space With Show From Iván Argote THE HEADLINES THE IRE OF RESTORERS. The Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón, an 18th-century Spanish church in the northeastern city of Soria, was given a bold makeover that has left the building’s cherubim looking startled and local architecture lovers outraged. Professional restorers in Spain have even demanded explanations. The online newspaper El Confidencial, which describes the makeover as “a crime against heritage,” picked up on the concerns of a group, Soria Patrimonio (Soria Heritage) that had...
Aspen ArtWeek Is the Anti–Art Basel Miami Beach
Ask any veteran of Aspen ArtWeek what to expect when attending for the first time and, after a few sentences about the community’s philanthropic ideals and the caliber of collectors, you’re sure to be told about the nature. “I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the nature, the landscape” is a constant refrain, always said without cynicism or irony. It was no surprise then that, less than an hour after an expectedly turbulent flight on a model airplane from Denver, I was invited to a cold plunge early the following morning in the nearby Roaring Fork River with a...
David Zwirner Cuts Digital Team After Reorganizing E-Commerce Business Platform
David Zwirner has eliminated around ten staffers from a team of engineers and web developers hired in March last year to revamp the gallery’s online presence.SFMOMA Acquires Yayoi Kusama 'Infinity Mirror Room' Featured at David Zwirner “We have significantly reorganized our digital team,” a gallery spokesperson told ARTnews in a statement. The change to its workforce comes more than four years after the gallery made expanding online a primary goal during the pandemic in 2020. In July of that year, the mega-dealer laid off 20 percent of its staff to make up for a shortfall in sales. A gallery spokesperson said the...
Bonhams Auction House Announces Chabi Nouri as Global CEO, Based in London
Bonhams recently announced Chabi Nouri as its new CEO. Nouri will be based at the auction house’s headquarters in London and start in October. Bonhams Modern Design Auction in LA Includes 35 Lots Consigned by Actor Jim Carrey “I am delighted to be joining Bonhams, which has a long heritage, rich history and strong values as an auction house, as well as a reputation as an innovator,” Nouri said in a press statement. “Its focus on digital transformation, global reach and passion, nurtured by its extraordinary talents, makes it an exceptionally exciting and dynamic company. I look forward to building on...
Marcel Breuer’s Modernist Cottage in Cape Cod Sold to Trust, Clearing the Way for Renovations
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust has purchased the summer home of modernist architect Marcel Breuer near the Massachusetts town of Wellfleet.Free Form The deal was completed last week after nearly a year of fundraising and negotiations, and transfers ownership from Breuer’s son Thomas to the trust. A press release published last year said the purchase price was $2 million, with donations needed for at least $1.4 million. The building will undergo restoration work before the trust plans to expand programming, including annual residency fellowships for artists, architects, students and scholars focused on the preservation of modern buildings. “It’s been a long campaign,...
Pharrell’s Call to Include the Arts in the Olympics Highlights a Lost Tradition
In light of the 2024 Paris Olympics buzz, musician and designer Pharrell Williams recently called for reviving the arts competition at the games.Drag Queen Performance at Paris Olympics Draws Comparisons to 'Last Supper' Williams announced his wishes to reinstate the arts competitions for the 2028 edition at his star-studded Louis Vuitton event on Thursday, the night before this year’s opening ceremony, in the city of lights. While this revelation may seem out of left field, some in living memory may recall the inclusion of arts in the modern adaptation of the Olympics from 1912 to 1948. The Olympics started as an ancient...
French Museum Invites Visitors to Get Naked for New Nudist Exhibition
A museum in the southern French city of Marseille is celebrating its tenth anniversary by giving visitors the chance to see its current show in the nude.Virtual Sketchbook Sanford Biggerss Conundrum “Naturist Paradises” at The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem) is dedicated to “living naked” and charts the history of nudism over the last century, particularly in France. According to Outforia, a wilderness travel website, the country is the world’s most nudist-friendly, boasting 397 public nudist beaches and 212 naturist campsites. The US is apparently the second-most welcoming place to get naked in public. In the spirit of the “Naturist Paradises,”...
Suspect Arrested in Connection With Vandalism of Brooklyn Museum Director’s Home
A suspect has been arrested in connection to the June 11 vandalism of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak home, police announced Wednesday. The news was first reported by New York Daily News.Israel Approves Bill to Expand Presence of Antiquities Authority in West Bank Taylor Pelton, 28, has reportedly been charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime. Pasternak’s Brooklyn Heights residence was splashed with red paint in an apparent protest of the museum’s ties to Zionist organizations. The residences of several Brooklyn Museum board trustees were also targeted. Five suspects are still sought by police in connection to the crime. At...
Independent Names 32 Exhibitors for 20th-Century Art Fair in September
The Independent art fair has named the 32 exhibitors that will take part in the third edition of its Independent 20th Century, dedicated to showcasing art made between 1900 and 2000. The fair returns to Cipriani South Street, running September 5–8.ADAA Names 75 Exhibitors for 2024 Art Show Nearly half of the exhibitors will be showing at this iteration of Independent for the first time, including London’s Alison Jacques, São Paulo’s Gomide&Co, and New York’s Ippodo Gallery, as well as Fair Warning, the auction platform founded by Loïc Gouzer, a former chairman for postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s. Among the solo...
American Museum of Natural History Repatriates Remains of 124 Native People
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is repatriating the remains of 124 Native ancestors and 90 Native cultural items. LA's Fowler Museum Returns 20 Artifacts to Warumungu People of Australia On July 25, AMNH president Sean Decatur sent the museum’s staff a letter on the institution’s repatriation efforts so far. Decatur said in the letter that the AMNH “has held more than 400 consultations, with approximately 50 different stakeholders, including hosting seven visits of Indigenous delegations, and eight completed repatriations.” The repatriations include the ancestral remains of three individuals to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of...
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