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	Sotheby’s on Wednesday announced a string a changes among the leadership of their Global Fine Arts Division in both Europe and Asia. The announcement comes on the heels of significant shake ups at the auction house, including the departure of Brooke Lampley, who was arguably Sotheby’s most formidable specialist in the Impressionist and Modern department, and up to 50 layoffs in there London offices.London's June Auction Season Is Under the Microscope after Mixed Sales Performances




	According to a press release signed by Sebastian Fahey, Sotheby’s managing director of global fine art, Helena Newman, who has served as chairman of Sotheby’s Europe since 2016, has been...

Sotheby’s Shuffles Its Deck with Multiple Promotions and Title Swaps in Europe and Asia













	Sotheby’s will relocate its Paris headquarters to 83 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, once the home of the famed Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. Sotheby's Shuffles Its Deck with Multiple Promotions and Title Swaps in Europe and Asia 




	That puts the Paris auction house three blocks from its current location. The move is scheduled for mid-October, and is part of a larger strategy to expand Sotheby’s presence in France.




	The house has previously announced plans to relocate two of its other spaces. In July, it will open a new Hong Kong location, and in 2025, Sotheby’s will move its New York space to the Marcel Breuer–designed Brutalist structure...

Sotheby’s Relocates French Headquarters to Former Home of Famed Paris Gallery













	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.A First Look at the Big Ticket Artworks that Galleries Are Bringing to Art Basel




	Before Sotheby’s contemporary art evening sale in London on Tuesday, the omens weren’t good. There was a stuttering UK economy, an impending election, and a cooling art market. Plus, the headline lot, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict, was listed with a $20 million–$25 million estimate, a noticeable drop from the $30 million estimate Christie’s gave the piece in 2022 before...

As Middling Sotheby’s Sale Nets $105 M., Market Watchers Ward Off Talk of London’s Waning Importance

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CJ Coombs

According to Shakey's website, this pizza parlor is only in California, North Carolina, and Washington state in the U.S. now. This was my family's go-to pizza joint when my father was stationed with the Air Force outside of Omaha, Nebraska. We liked it so much, that when we were transferred again, it was hopeful we'd find another one.

Shakey's Pizza Parlor and nostalgia: the first franchised pizza restaurant also landed in Missouri

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Have you ever met someone who is wise beyond their age? Such people are often referred to as old souls. They understand life and the world better than many zodiac signs. A soul’s age doesn’t necessarily match a person’s actual age. Instead, it advances based on the life experiences someone has.

3 Zodiac Signs Who Are Old Souls

The first time my family walked into a Ponderosa Steakhouse was in the late 1960s. It was new and the experience was great. Like other new restaurants, if the management doesn't stay on top, the quality of service can decline. The location we went to did change through the years, but in the beginning, it was great.

The 1960s: the Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses are still around in some states

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	In 2005 the Judy Garland Children’s Museum lost a pair of ruby-red slippers worn by its namesake in the iconic movie The Wizard of Oz. The slippers were stolen by a career burglar after breaking one of the institution’s windows and smashing a display case.'Titanic' Door that Saved Rose (But Not Jack) Fetches Six Figures at Auction




	The FBI found them in 2018, but Dorothy Gale’s slippers have never gone back to the museum. 




	The Grand Rapids, Minnesota, institution is now trying to bring them back to Garland’s hometown by raising enough money to buy the famous shoes when they go...

Judy Garland Museum Aims to Raise $3.5 M. to Buy Back Dorothy’s Stolen Ruby Slippers At Auction













	Model, beauty entrepreneur, and reality television star Kendall Jenner recently uploaded photographs on Instagram documenting a recent visit to the Louvre Museum in Paris at midnight while it was closed to the public. She was barefoot, a detail many have highlighted on social media.Christie's Recovering from Security Breach, Vatican Museums Staff Launch Legal Dispute, a 'Mona Lisa' Discovery, and More: Morning Links for May 13, 2024




	The rich and famous star of Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been in the city of Paris for the past week. In addition to visiting the Louvre, she rode a horse in a Vogue...

Kendall Jenner Walks Around the Louvre Barefoot During Private Visit

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California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

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Cripple Creek, CO

Colorado Jill

(Colorado) Colorado has many gems - Pikes Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Maroon Bells, and two of Thomas Dambo's wooden trolls. Dambo is a Danish artist, and his trolls are worldwide. Each troll serves as a unique tribute to the place they inhabit, honoring the history and culture of the location.

"Rita the Rock Planter" should be on your Colorado summer bucket list













	Multiple works by Pablo Picasso are now featured on the walls of a women’s bathroom stall at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia, ABC News reported Monday. Climate Activists Target Stonehenge, Justine Trudeau Urges Pope to Return Indigenous Artifacts, German Politicians Call for Boycott of Exhibition, and More: Morning Links for June 20, 2024




	The Picasso paintings were originally featured in American artist Kirsha Kaechele’s “Ladies Lounge” installation, which offered an opulent retreat for female guests only, with champagne served by male butlers; the lounge also features some of the museum’s most notable works, by Picasso and such other...

Australian Museum Installs Toilet as a Loophole to Anti-Discrimination Ruling against Women-Only Exhibition













	Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri has made a point of including women artists in her runway shows, shining a light on works by Judy Chicago, Joana Vasconcelos, Isabella Ducrot, and others while premiering her newest designs. The latest artist to receive such a treatment is Faith Ringgold, the beloved painter who died earlier this year at 93.New York May Auctions Get Off to a Slow Start as Pricey Bacon Misfires During Sotheby's $267.3 M. Sale




	Many of Ringgold’s paintings center African American women, whose subjectivities she explored with precision and passion. In her painted quilts of the 1980s and ’90s,...

Dior Pays Homage to Faith Ringgold in Runway Show at Paris’s Musée Rodin













	Kimiyo Mishima, a Japanese artist whose ceramic sculptures of newspapers that have begun to gain an international audience, has died, according to the Japan News. She was 91.Anton van Dalen, Artist Who Lovingly Chronicled New York's East Village, Dies at 86




	Having initially begun as a painter, Mishima started producing her newspaper sculptures in the 1970s. Later, she would make ceramic pieces resembling waste baskets containing balled-up papers, boxes, and more, rendering them with such realism that they did not immediately distinguish themselves as elements of an artwork. 




	With these works, she said she had depicted “breakable printed materials,” effectively making...

Kimiyo Mishima, Japanese Sculptor of Ceramic Newspapers, Dies at 91

Kansas City, MO

Cats of Kansas City

All of these cats are currently looking for a place to call home and have heard it through the grapevine that you've got some pretty nice digs. If you fancy any of them, consider clicking on their links and getting in touch with their respective shelter. All of these cats are in the greater Kansas City area.

Five cats that would love to move in with you

New York City, NY

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	The HeadlinesNew York's Mitchell-Innes & Nash to Close Chelsea Space, Transition to 'Project-Based Advisory'




	UARTS’S ABRUPT CLOSURE has continued to generate discontent, with union representatives now alleging that the Philadelphia art school doesn’t have the money owed to employees who were abruptly terminated this month, Karen K. Ho reports for ARTnews . The school’s attorney and associate vice president of human resources allegedly didn’t offer union workers any proposals on health insurance, severance, or other benefits, and are reported to have said information about the school’s finances “does not exist.” In a statement, union officials said the school “lacks the cash flow to comply with laws...

Rubens Sketch Returns 80 Years After Theft, Ontario Rejects Plan to Build Spa on Modernist Island Complex, and More: Morning Links for June 24, 2024













	In Bertille Bak’s five-part video installation Mineur Mineur (2022), children from Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Thailand pretend to get dressed to go for work in the mines. Then these kid performers act out their labor, getting dressed in mining gear before heading off to their jobs and waving their tools in the air. Bak superimposes all this over lo-fi, childlike backgrounds, including a piece of cardboard with a rainbow painted on it. The footage acts as a reminder that there are real-life minors in these countries who have been forced by their circumstances to become miners.Outed as an LGBTQ...

Artist Bertille Bak’s Video Portraits of Workers Are Turning Heads in Europe

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Scituate, MA

Dianna Carney

The Scituate Animal Shelter of Massachusetts recently introduced Willow, a shy 10-month-old Dachshund mix with a "cute little personality and lots of love to give," as described by the local animal shelter. Despite being unsure of the world and a bit nervous, Willow "bonds quickly and loves a lot when she trusts her people." She has made numerous human friends at the shelter, indicating her potential to make an amazing companion for the right person.

Meet The Shy Little Lady Looking For Love

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	One of the many different kinds of development underway in Bozeman, Montana—a small city that since the pandemic began has been a staple of stories about ongoing urban exodus and rampant population growth—is a patch of land grown over with early sprouts of grain. Such a sight might not seem out of place in Big Sky country, where wheat is a leading commodity crop, but this little field evokes a masterpiece from the legacy of Land art—and marks a new beginning for Tinworks Art, an upstart enterprise that aims to reimagine the past and future of art in the everchanging...

In Booming Bozeman, Montana, Tinworks Art Aims to Reimagine the American West

Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, recently introduced Bagel, who they describe as a “deliciously petite” French Bulldog. According to Sandy Paws Rescue, Bagel, who is only 22 lbs, is a medium energy dog who "enjoys a good run around the yard chasing squirrels, or a nice walk, but also loves to snooze away the day."

Meet Bagel: A "Deliciously Petite" French Bulldog Looking For Love

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Basquiat Triptych to Sell at Sotheby’s London for Half Its Price from Two Years Ago













	Later this month, at a Sotheby’s modern and contemporary sale in London, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 triptych Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict will head to auction...

Basquiat Triptych to Sell at Sotheby’s London for Half Its Price from Two Years Ago

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