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Ebony G. Patterson Wins Driskell Prize—and More Artist Awards – ARTnews.com

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has given its 2023 David C. Driskell Prize to artist Ebony G. Patterson, who is based in Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica. Named for the legendary art historian, curator, and artist who mounted the watershed exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750–1955” in 1976, the $50,000 prize goes to “an early- or midcareer scholar or artist whose work ...

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Art Theft Trial Underway in France—and More Art News – ARTnews.com

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines COURTROOM DISPATCH. A trial is currently underway in France of a Ukrainian man, Vadym Huzhva, who is accused of stealing a Paul Signac painting from the Musée de Beaux-Arts in Nancy, in the northeast of the country, in 2018, the Guardian reports. The canvas, Le Port de La Rochelle (1915), was recovered in 2019, when police in Kyiv raided a home in ...

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Cooper Union Postpones Exhibition About Pioneering Russian Art School – ARTnews.com

Last week, Cooper Union, a storied New York art school that has been attended by many famous artists, made the decision to indefinitely postpone an exhibition about Vkhutemas, a Moscow-based art and architecture school that was active between 1920 and 1930. Cooper Union said it had made the decision in light of the war in Ukraine. The decision was decried by a group of ...

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Bronzino, Van Dyck Found in a Shed Lead Sotheby’s Old Masters Sales – ARTnews.com

Two weeks ago, in the New York Times, Scott Reyburn made the pronouncement that “the art market, like pretty much everything else in our culture, has become all about the here and now”—a nod to how contemporary artists have overtaken the once-fashionable Old Masters on the auction block. Sotheby’s Old Masters sales this week did little to counter that statement, bringing in a modest ...

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Painter Huang Yongyu Designs Controversial Year of the Rabbit Stamp – ARTnews.com

Every Lunar New Year, several postal service companies around the world release stamps commemorating characters from the Chinese zodiac calendar. However, this year’s designs by the nearly-100-year-old artist Huang Yongyu for the China Post received especially harsh reviews online, with users hurling terms like “horrific,” “evil,” and “scary” at it. The China Post printed two designs by Huang to celebrate the Chinese New Year. ...

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Zadig & Voltaire Accused of Plagiarizing Artist for Fashion Week Ad – ARTnews.com

High fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire is under fire for a promotional video featuring a flaming fountain after social media users said it bore a striking resemblance to a work by artist Julian Charrière. The video was first posted to Z&V’s Instagram on January 19 to promote its Women’s Fall-Winter 2023 show for Paris Fashion Week. In the video, a fountain’s three rings are lit with ...

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Drag Queen Program at Tate Britain Under Fire from U.K. Politician – ARTnews.com

In an open letter to the Tate’s board of trustees, a controversial politician in the United Kingdom denounced Tate Britain’s decision to invite a drag queen to perform to a children’s group next month. Conservative party life peer Emma Nicholson described the planned February 11 appearance by Aida H Dee, the self-proclaimed “Storytime Drag Queen” and alias of Sab Samuel, as both “propaganda” and ...

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U.S. Museums, Universities Still Hold Remains of Indigenous People – ARTnews.com

ProPublica’s “Repatriation Project” has revealed that several museums and universities across the U.S. hold the remains of Indigenous people in their permanent collections three decades after a U.S. law was passed requiring their return. The project, conducted jointly with NBC News, includes a public database cataloging an estimated 100,000 Native American remains that are held in collections spanning museums, universities, and government agencies. The ...

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British Museums Will Avoid Using “Mummy” to Describe Mummified Remains – ARTnews.com

The British Museum in London, the National Museums of Scotland and the Great North Museum: Hancock have decided to stop using the term “mummy” as part of a broader re-examination of how exhibits are described, labeled, and presented to the public. Instead, they will use “mummified remains of” or “mummified person”, to describe the Egyptian artifacts. Related Articles “The word ‘mummy’ is not incorrect, ...

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