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Artists speak. Jason Mawsonwho is famous for being the wise art on YouTube Hennessy YoungmanHis first museum appeared in textile workshop in Philadelphia, which is in The New York Times. “Jokes can be powerful,” he said, “but it’s not easy to tell a good joke.” great feminist Susan Lacey surveyed in Queens Museum In New York, she is in art newspaper. “Activity influences change,” she said. “I am not convinced that art does anything profound and unique in itself, but it does work to support and advance a general, social, and political idea.” And the T: The New York Times Style Magazine They spoke with artists who are fighting mass incarceration through their work. “I’m not only interested in telling the story of the innocent,” Sable Elise Smith He said. “I am interested in confrontation.”

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Conduct the auction. entertainment giant quest‘s IMG she has Acquired the majority stake In the combined car auction company Barrett Jackson In a deal worth $261 million, Limit reports. The company’s many other holdings include frieze art gallery and New York Fashion Week. Meanwhile, the writer’s legacy Joan Didion he is Heading to auction Later this year in Stair Lounges in Hudson, New York, Architectural Digest reports. Items coming to the block are said to include art, furniture, and of course, books. Catalog of offers arrives October 31; It will go on sale November 16th.

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French photographer Jean-Jacques SimbeYesterday, he provided sketches for the book series “Little Nicholas,” which sold 15 million copies north, at the age of 89. [The Guardian]

The Department of Archives and History of Alabama She said she is making efforts to return Native American remains and funeral objects she keeps to the tribes, as required by federal law. [The Associated Press]

Midtown Manhattan Crown BuildingHistorically, The site of many art galleriesIt is now home to the most expensive hotel in the city. New York safety. Corner suites cost $20,000, and some areas are open to members only. (The current start-up fee is $200,000.) [Bloomberg]

Speaking of luxury, Vanity Fair Dive deep in Carbon Restaurant empire, which opened its main branch in New York in 2013 with artistic sponsorship by a dealer Vito Schnabel. Its owners have captured the spirit of the age “not with it Momofuku Ko‘s Donald Juddminimalism inspired or WD ~ 50Something that seems like something else new to surrealism, but with a new pour of self-conscious nostalgia,” Nate Freeman Writes. [Vanity Fair]

vacancies. Three elements of the staff, via everyday art: Giampaolo Bianconi join The art institute of chicago As Associate Coordinator for Modern and Contemporary Art, coming from Munich Brandhurst Museum; The The Joan Mitchell Foundation eavesdropped Solana Shehtmanwho was the Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at shed in New York, to be Director of Artists Programs; and Baltimore Walters Museum of Art hired Gina Borromeo as Senior Director of Acquisitions and Curatorial Affairs (and Chief Curator of Ancient Art) and Earl Martin Curator of decorative arts, design and material culture. Borromeo is coming from Rhode Island School of Design‘s art museumMartin from cool alumni center.

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A man with a lot of advice. british artist John Gilroy Probably the most famous for drawing animals for advertising Guinness Beer (toucan, especially). But according to one legend, he was quite drunk, and ran such a colossal bill in a bar Moret Arms Hotel In Greta Bridge, England, it He painted a mural in 1946 to cover the chargesOne of the employees said BBC News . Now that mural – a lively festive scene – has been restored. Artist Sarah Hodgkins, who led the effort, said, “I would absolutely love it if he came in, asked for a drink, and looked at the walls and said, Oh, it went on so well.” Sadly, Gilroy passed away in 1985, at the age of 86, but his mural remains. [BBC News]

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