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Gagosian announced in passing Tuesday that the blue chip gallery will now be accepting the following cryptocurrencies for payment: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USD Coin. The news was included in the announcement of a new Murakami show, which will feature sculptures and paintings based off of his two NFT projects, CloneX, done in partnership with RTFKT, and his solo NFT venture Murakami.Flowers, a series of...

The Aichi Triennale, one of the most closely watched exhibitions of its kind in Asia, has announced the full list of artists that will participate in its upcoming edition, which is scheduled to run July 30–October 10 in the Japanese city. Since last August, the Triennale has been announcing participating artists piecemeal, and with the addition of five artists, the total number of artists...

When I called Emmet Gowin at his home in Pennsylvania he was in the middle of having a tree transplanted in the backyard. The dogwood that had stood there before had died and had to be removed, root and stem. The birds who had roosted there “didn’t like that at all,” Gowin said, and so a white rose tree was ordered. This seems typical...

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Friday, April 1. NEED-TO-READ Portland Museum Settles With Laid-Off Employees – The Portland Museum of Art in Maine has agreed to make one-time payments to more than a dozen ex-employees who were let go last year...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PATRICK DEMARCHELIER, the fashion photographer and portraitist, died on March 31 at the age of 78, his Instagram page announced. Shooting for leading magazines and brands, and serving as the personal portraitist for Princess Diana, Demarchelier was one of the most visible fashion photographers of his era. “The combination of ease and elegance...

Amanda Hunt, a star of the L.A. scene, will leave her post at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a forthcoming institution founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hodson. She is set to depart as that museum’s director of public programs and creative practice after less than two years for the Walker Art Center, a Minneapolis museum that ranks among the country’s top contemporary art...

New for 2022, Plymouth College of Art, an independent university-sector art school, has launched a full-time (12 month) MA in Creative Education, to explore the contemporary role of creativity and making in education, putting emphasis on the ways people understand and interact with the world: cognitively, emotionally, aesthetically and somatically. Also available as a part-time (24 month) route and appropriate for a wide range...

A new event for an arts festival will officially launch soon. Celebrating the native trees in the Eden Valley, it will launch on Sunday, April 3, for Appleby Art Festival, however, organisers unveiled the first tree early in response to the current war in Ukraine. The Peace Tree, which is a work in progress, was unveiled by the Mayor of Appleby, Gareth Hayes. Locals...

Workers at the Whitney Museum in New York handed out leaflets Tuesday night in below-freezing temperature calling for support of their union as VIP guests arrived at an invite-only opening of the 2022 Whitney Biennial, the institution’s hallmark exhibition that occurs every two years. About three dozen Whitney workers and allied workers from other museums stood in front of the Whitney to call attention...

Jeff Koons, the world’s most expensive living artist, has always had lofty goals for his art. Though he often uses everyday objects and pop-culture references as his inspiration—say, posing vacuum cleaners on pedestals and presenting them as sculpture, or rendering balloon animals in mirror-polished stainless steel—his genius is to elevate these humble referents icons. As Koons insists, “Art should be something really powerful.” Earlier this...