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By: AO Art Observed on Monday, January 17th, 2022 at 6:06 pm
A Camille Pissarro work looted by the Nazis will head to US Supreme Court to hear a case over its ownership, as the descendants of Lilly Cassirer Neubauer sue for the painting’s return. “This has been three generations of the Cassirer family trying to take back what is theirs,” says attorney Stephen Zack of the […]... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Monday, January 17th, 2022 at 6:06 pm
Employees at the Jewish Museum in New York have voted to unionize. “The Jewish Museum is aware that staff have petitioned for a union election,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “The Museum greatly values its staff and will respectfully engage in any process that transpires.” Read more at Art Newspaper... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Friday, January 14th, 2022 at 3:11 pm
A long unseen Marsden Hartley painting has been discovered in a bank vault in Maine. “Hartley is increasingly recognized as one of the most significant American modernists of the 20th century,” says Bates College Museum of Art director Dan Mills. “He is also one of the few of his generation and stature who does not […]... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 at 5:32 pm
London’s Serpentine Galleries have formally removed the Sackler name from its North Gallery. The museum had faced criticism over its sluggishness to remove the name after fierce criticism and similar moves at other major institutions.... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 at 11:02 am
On view at GRIMM this month in New York, artist Arturo Kameya presents a body of works unified under the title En esa pulga se mezcla nuestra sangre / In that flea, our blood mixes. Featuring a range of new works that expand beyond the narratives explored in the artist’s multimedia presentation currently on view in Soft […]... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 at 11:00 am
In 1976, the artist Lutz Bacher was approached to be interviewed for a volume of artist interviews, a young artist who had adopted a masculine, German-sounding pseudonym that covered her work in an air of conceptual mystique. Accordingly, the interview proved to be something of a challenge, breaking apart the artist’s concepts and motives in […]... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Thursday, January 6th, 2022 at 6:09 pm
Over the course of a lifetime that spanned almost a century, Etel Adnan expressed her prodigious creative and intellectual vision in many forms. In addition to being a visual artist, she is a renowned poet, a prominent journalist, and the author of one of the defining novels of the modern Arab world. Adnan’s biography is […]... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 at 11:35 am
On view this month in New York, the ever-enigmatic Darren Bader has put on a new show of work at Harkawik, continuing his playful repositions and deconstructions of his materials and their cultural assumptions. Continuing his plundering and extraction of the meanings and understandings of the objects he selects and suspends in a constellation of […]... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Thursday, December 30th, 2021 at 12:13 pm
The director of the Uffizi in Florence has called on museums to take an active role in reconciling the “toxic” past actions of society. Read more at The Guardian... |
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By: AO Art Observed on Thursday, December 30th, 2021 at 11:00 am
On view this month at Karma in New York, painter Keith Mayerson introduces his most recent entry in his ongoing series This Land is Your Land, a body of work that sees the artist reflecting on American history and culture as a way to look for new horizons and possibilities. According to the artist, the work […]... |
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