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MORE OLIVE OIL IN DOCUMENTA. The German program had announced, on Saturday, that its board of directors and its general manager, Sabine Schurmann“mutually agreed” on that you will leaveWhere it faces scrutiny in its handling of allegations of anti-Semitism, Alex Greenberger Reports in ARTnews . “Unfortunately, I have lost great confidence,” the board said in a statement. “The Supervisory Board considers it necessary that everything be done to restore this confidence.” The crisis centered on an artwork containing anti-Semitic images and the inclusion of a Palestinian group said to support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions a movement. The council said it would convene a panel of experts on “contemporary anti-Semitism, the German, global and post-colonial context as well as art,” and that it would no longer issue statements on its handling of controversies.
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Do-it-yourself medicine specialist and collector, Laila Safra, who plowed their fortunes in art, jewels, and charitable works, He passed away on July 9 At her home in Geneva at the age of 87 The New York Times reports. With her fourth husband, a banker Edmond J. Safrawho died in 1999, built a formidable art collection, which, in 2010, became including Alberto Giacometti that you bought from Sotheby’s in 2010 for $103 million, the highest ever paid for a sculpture at auction. regular on ARTnews Top 200 collectors List, she was an active donor to art institutions, and in 2011 pick up $21 million Gerhard Richter painting to give Israel MuseumThe financial times reports.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara In California, which opened in 1976, it said it would close in late August, citing financial difficulties. “Despite our best efforts to expand our donor base within the region, we have not been able to achieve the fundraising objectives necessary to maintain operations,” its chairman said in a statement.[Santa Barbara Independent” href=”https://click.email.artnews.com/?qs=8cc992a96966b84a134ffbed7ea02da83dc76c0582f22bc6edfda356d0522e120796f19f92dab4b74f5a09ca2fd6f3a849f7ed91292609de” data-linkto=”https://”>[Santa Barbara Independent and [San Francisco Chronicle]
Jerome M. EisenbergThe “Dean of Antiquities Dealers in New York” has died at the age of 92. Sam Roberts reports. Eisenberg estimated that he sold more than 40,000 through his Royal Athena Galleries, running from 1954 to 2020, and emphasized the objects’ moral sources as a hallmark of his practice. [The New York Times]
A much-loved economist Adam Toze visited the artist Hito SterlGallery in National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art In Seoul, she described her video installation animal instincts (2022) “The Most Strange Show I’ve Seen in Keynes, Featuring Wolves, Spanish Shepherds, Reality TV, Cryptocurrency, and the 1936 Olympics!” [@adam_tooze/Twitter]
A Catalog Guide to the Late Artist (and Antiques Dealer) Betty Parsons It was launched online. The site is an initiative of The Betty Parsons and William B. Rayner FoundationIn cooperation with Alexander Gray Associates An exhibition displaying her work. [ArtDaily]
tennis star Maria Sharapova And her fiancé, entrepreneur and auctioneer Alexander GilkesShe recently announced the birth of her first child, Theodore. [Page Six]
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The artist is present. performance legend Marina Abramović he is Click Because she’s about to give up her first NFT, and in guardian she She participated in some of her cultural landmarksLike the Azn omen Restaurant in SoHo and a Ross Segur I attended the concert. The lead singer of this show said, Jonesy, “He went into a trance and created this kind of energy vortex – a volcanic energy cyclone – the audience became a part of it and he couldn’t escape it.” This emotive description sounds terrifying and exciting! Maybe someone could sign Abramovich as a music columnist? [The Guardian]
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