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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines AUCTION ACTION. What a moment for Piet Mondrian fans! An acclaimed bio was just published. A retrospective is up at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland for a few more days. And now Sotheby’s will sell a prime painting, Composition No. II (1930), next month in New York with a low estimate of $50 million, the Financial Times reports. The artist’s current auction record is $50.6 ...

After showing her work at the Venice Biennale in Italy, painter Allison Katz has new representation with Hauser & Wirth, one of the biggest galleries in the world. She will leave her New York gallery, Luhring Augustine, though she will continue with her other representatives, Antenna Space, Giò Marconi, and dépendance. Katz will have her first show with Hauser & Wirth in 2023 at ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HEADING TO AUCTION. Melanie Gerlis at the Financial Times reports on two forthcoming sales. First, major works from the collection of Roger Sant and his late wife Vicki Sant will head to Christie’s this November. While the couple has promised its stellar holdings of Les Nabis to the Phillips Collection, these 30 works are “pieces we bought just because ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE ARTISTS SPEAK. Jayson Musson, who shot to fame as the wise art YouTuber Hennessy Youngman, has his first museum show up at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, and is in the New York Times. “Jokes can be powerful, but it’s not easy to tell a good joke,” he said. Feminist great Suzanne Lacy has a ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines INSIDE JOB? Officials in New York have obtained an arrest warrant for antiquities collector Georges Lotfi on charges of possession of stolen property, the New York Times reports. They have seized two dozen items from Lofti’s holdings that they say were looted, most of them mosaics from Syria and his native Lebanon. The collector, who had tipped ...

A giant egg sculpture at Shrewsbury Castle has turned heads. Picture: Andy HughesGiant sculptures by Andrew Logan have been brought to the Shrewsbury by the town's business improvement district, in partnership with Shrewsbury Arts Trail. Also on the trail are pieces by the likes of Banksy, Andy Warhol and Damian Hirst.They are on display until the end of August and have now been featured ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines READY YOUR PADDLES! Back in May, Ernie Barnes’s exhilarating The Sugar Shack (1976) painting soared past its $150,000 low estimate at Christie’s to finish at $15.3 million with fees. His estate subsequently signed on to work with Andrew Kreps and Ortuzar Projects in New York. Now another one of his works is coming up for sale. Bonhams will feature his Solid Rock Congregation (1993)—an action-packed scene at ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHA-CHING! On Monday night in New York, Sotheby’s sold 30 lots from the fabled collection of New York real estate developers Harry and Linda Macklowe for $246.1 million, Angelica Villa reports in ARTnews. Added to the $676.1 million that the house rang up last November from sales of their art (all ordered by a court as part of a divorce settlement), their collection ...

At this year’s Independent Fair in New York, there are the requisite “rediscoveries,” like Birgit Jürgenssen, straight from the Venice Biennale to Galerie Hubert Winter’s booth, and the semi-unexpected oddities, like Renate Druks’s perplexing paintings of cats, now on view in a showcase courtesy of the Ranch. But nothing makes an impression in quite the same way as a pair of outstretched alien hands ...

Maurizio Cattelan’s sculptures have made headlines worldwide for their controversial subjects and their attention-grabbing gestures. Now, they have become the subject of scrutiny in France for a new reason: their authorship, which is at the heart of a lawsuit that is headed to a Paris court next week. In that suit, the French sculptor Daniel Druet claims that he is the creator of nine ...