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Inspired by the exporters’ ingenuity, Rakowitz—whose grandfather had run an import/export business too—thought to turn “bad business into good art,” as he put it in his video Return (2004), on view in his survey “Allspice” at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. He wanted to see what it would take to import a product clearly labeled “product of Iraq,” so he opened a New York company to import an entire ton of Iraqi dates. Rakowitz told his proprietor that theirs would be the first product on US shelves to plainly list “Iraq” as its country of origin in three decades. If you have a message to American consumers, he told them, put it on the box. To his delight, the message they chose was a sort of art history lesson: they printed photographs of the lion of Babylon, and of a reconstructed Ishtar gate (the original was by then long gone, looted by Germans for Berlin’s Pergamon Museum). As for Rakowitz’s survey at the Acropolis Museum: the Greek city-state was founded several millennia after the world’s first, Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Yet Athens nevertheless gets disproportional credit for its foundational contributions, owing to whitewashed narratives of history. A large chunk of [...]

To what extent Brexit may have played a role in Rech’s decision was unclear based on Gerlis’s report. But in 2023, some London dealers told ARTnews that the British art market remained strong, even as the one in France grows in prominence. The last exhibition staged at its London gallery, a Gregor Hildebrandt solo show, closed on July 26.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will close as a result of the government shutdown, the museum said on Saturday. “Beginning tomorrow, October 5, the National Gallery will be temporarily closed and all programs will be canceled until further notice,” a brief statement from the museum read. It is the first major museum in D.C. to shutter because of the shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs an array of museums in D.C. and beyond, is using its own funds to remain open at least through Monday.Related ArticlesMuseum Director Fired After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King CharlesStatue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to Washington, D.C. It’s not clear when the shutdown will end. The last shutdown, the longest in US history, stretched on for 35 days beginning in December 2018, leaving many Smithsonian workers without pay. If this shutdown lasts much longer, it could impact programming at the National Gallery. On October 18, the museum is set to open what is being billed as largest survey of Australian Indigenous art ever staged beyond the continent. The 200-work show features pieces on loan from the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Whi

She added that “his passing marks the end of an era, for art magazines and for art journalism.” A staple of that packet was a 1957 essay on the avant-garde by the art historian Meyer Schapiro published by ARTnews. Esterow once said was “probably the only genius I’ve known.” After taking over, Esterow tried to convince Schapiro to agree to a profile, but always received the answer that he was too busy. “Esterow repeated the request every year or two, and the response was always the same,” according to a 2007 article on ARTnews’s top 10 articles. Schapiro finally agreed after nearly a decade, and Esterow published the article by journalist Helen Epstein in 1983. Esterow’s approach, an unusual one for its era, involved treating art stories as occasions for investigative journalism. While others at the Times looked on at his work with befuddlement, Esterow plugged away and proved himself quite adept. In 1964, he published a story on plundered art in Europe during the years after World War II. The report made the front page of the Times—a rarity for an art story both during its time and now. He was promoted to assistant to the director of cultural news at the Times in [...]

than 50 years, such as:  - La Passerelle Debilly – a historical painting by Paul Signac (€4-6M);- Le Ciel passe dans a subsequent selection dedicated to the great names of Italian art in the Avant-Garde(s) including Thinking Italian sale, establishing a consacrées à l'art des 20 et 21ème siècles, organisées durant la foire Art Basel Paris. Composée d'une quarantaine d'œuvres, issues d'une même

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