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Surprise in the sales room. Last week brought news that the Aboriginal Heritage Council of Australia has established a GoFundMe trying to raise money To compete for two jobs 19th century Wurundjeri artist William Barrack which was offered for auction in Sotheby’s In New York this week. This effort It brought in about 118,000 dollars (US$83,600) guardian Reports — in short, aggregated business estimates. But just before the sale yesterday, it was a file The Victorian government has agreed to provide an additional A$500,000 (about $354,000 USD), which is enough to win stakes. I feel pumped up, I tell you, ‘Descendant of Barak,’ Ron Jones, he told the newspaper. “We have brought the remains of our ancestors back to Australia where they belong.” that 1897 . painting He went for $378,000, and a shield From the same year he went 52,920 US dollars.
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HR. The Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington DC Randall Griffey to be its chief custodian, ARTnews reports. Griffey is coming from The Metropolitan Museum of ArtWhere he works as a coordinator in the Department of Contemporary and Modern Art. His credits include participation in organizing Alice Neal Show last year. The Palm Springs Museum of Art in California Luisa Heredia to have Senior Education and Community Engagement Officer; She currently holds a chair in public policy at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. and the Contemporary Art Museum In Los Angeles soon Principal Coordinator For the first time since 2018: just named Clara KimSenior Trustee of International Art at Tate Modern In London to office, Maximiliano Doron Reports in ARTnews . Starting on September 1.
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“We need a national monument to gun violence now,” art and art critic Philip Kennicott Write in a new column. One excerpt from his article: “Our poets will say it better, let them put on the words in this sense and inscribe them on the frieze: Here we mourn those who died because we were powerless to help ourselves. ” [The Washington Post]
Oka nightwho won praise in post-Franco Spain with her watercolor portraits, died Tuesday, after a long illness, at the age of 64. [The Guardian]
The Climate Alliance Exhibition And Lloyd’s Market Association They collaborate to make it cheaper to secure artworks shipped by sea, which has a fraction of the environmental side effects of air transportation. [Financial Times]
Thomas Heatherwick—The engineer behind vessel in New York and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in Africa In Cape Town — a 70-foot-high statue outside London Buckingham Palace for honor Queen Elizabeth IIPlatinum Jubilee. It’s called (in a somewhat self-explanatory way) tree trees.[Architectural Digest” href=”https://click.email.artnews.com/?qs=2fd19d93a8046ed235f59b83274387b0f0240f19d92416e8477f464f3a384a02ff04ef1ae564238adc259162b6e9374425192586c4e8934d” data-linkto=”https://”>[Architectural Digest and [BBC News]
This isn’t really an artistic element, admittedly, but if you’ve seen a novelist and wine Jay McInerney At a party, consider making friends with him. It turns out that he loves to bring drinks – and caviar! – For such things. “I often bring my wine to these events,” he said. “Always enough for the whole table.” very predictable. [Page Six]
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The NFT market is not doing well now, And so on Washington Post talk to each other People who overpay for huge sums for those deceptive symbols. A nobleman spent $600,000 on a photo from a series called crypto cats. For now, he’s holding it, rather than potentially selling it for a lower price. “It’s more wait and see,” Tell The mail. “If it becomes a historical artifact, it will be extremely precious. If not, it may vanish to where no one knows or cares about it.” Only time will prove it. [WP]
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