“I was a little bit tired of making conventional pictures”: The artist on recreating his bittersweet installation, first seen in 1970, for the Museum of Modern Art.
After it fired a worker for theft and its director stepped down, the museum faces renewed calls to give back contested objects and an uphill battle to raise funds for refurbishment.
By Alex Marshall
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Creditvia Sung Neung Kyung and Daejeon Museum of Art, photo Jang Junho
In its indictment of a collector accused of helping the militant group, U.S. prosecutors presented evidence of how easily art sales can be used to evade sanctions and launder money.
The decision follows a backlash from Jewish organizations after the auction house generated $202 million in a spring sale from the jewelry collection of Heidi Horten.
Forest Lawn’s museum director and resident art historian, James Fishburne, has re-envisioned a storied panorama painting, with a theatrical show and slick animations.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said the headless bronze, valued at $20 million, is a depiction of the Roman emperor and was looted from Turkey.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out diagrammatic paintings in Chelsea or Catharine Czudej’s fun house on the Upper East Side. And don’t miss Lap-See Lam’s first U.S. solo show on the East Village.
By Holland Cotter, Jason Farago, Jillian Steinhauer, John Vincler, Martha Schwendener, Travis Diehl, Seph Rodney and Will Heinrich
Under the leadership of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Berlin’s once dowdy House of World Cultures now throbs with D.J. sets and transformative ideas.
Scions of their family businesses are embracing legacies, whether lost or lasting, while tackling a future that their forebears would barely recognize.
The artworks in “Spora,” a long-term exhibition in Manhattan, are easy to overlook, but they bring an acute awareness to the environment beyond the gallery doors.
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