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“You always feel better after looking at a Milton Avery painting,” says Edith Devaney, the curator of the first comprehensive exhibition in Europe dedicated to the American painter (1885-1965). “He’s one of those artists—and there aren’t many of them—for whom there’s an element of joy in every work. There’s something life-affirming about them, and I hope people respond to that.”Devaney felt compelled to bring ...

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 on this Wednesday, June 8. NEED-TO-READ $360,000 Stolen in Yuga Labs’s Latest Server Breach – The NFT company Yuga Labs’s server was compromised in yet another a phishing attack on Saturday, which resulted in the theft of ...

The crypto slump isn’t slowing down Pace’s Web3 ambitions. The blue-chip gallery announced a partnership with leading generative art NFT platform Art Blocks on Tuesday in an effort that promises to give each organization access to each other’s very different collector bases. “Our priority is to connect our artists to new collecting communities, and this is one of them,” Marc Glimcher, President ...

The eclectic Canadian trio General Idea, who attained international acclaim during their 25 years of practice (1969-94), are about to hit the heights again as the subject of a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The show, opening this week, will feature around 200 works, including major installations, publications, videos, drawings, paintings and sculptures.Although the exhibition’s curator Adam Welch admitted ...

Days after releasing Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, his first new album in five years, rapper Kendrick Lamar has unveiled a music video featuring two Texas cultural landmarks as backdrops. Fort Worth’s Kimbell Museum of Art and the city’s namesake Phillip Johnson-designed downtown Water Gardens appear as settings throughout the visual short for the recently released song “N-95,” co-directed by Lamar and music ...

Julian Sander called The August Sander 10K Collection a “pioneering step” into a “brave new world”. Now, he says, “it’s turned into a shit-show.”The collection was supposed to be historic. It would mark the first time the archive of a major figure in the history of photography would be made available as NFTs (non-fungible tokens), allowing a historically significant photography collection to be communally ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines MARCUS LEATHERDALE, A SHARP-EYED AND SENSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHER of the 1980s counterculture in Manhattan, died last month at the age of 69, of suicide, Penelope Green reports in the New York Times. Though Leatherdale’s name is not as well known as his onetime lover, Robert Mapplethorpe, he also produced some of the most indelible portraits of the era, ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.  The Headlines COLLECTION MANAGEMENT. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, said that it has received a gift from an anonymous local couple of 70 artworks by major American and European figures, including Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt, and Alberto Giacometti, the Associated Press reports. The Bruce’s director, Robert Wolterstorff, termed the donation “unprecedented in its scale and quality. The museum is currently undergoing a ...

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 Tuesday, April 5. NEED-TO-READ Critics Slam Grammy’s Description of Virgil Abloh  – Critics took aim at the Grammy Awards, which took place this weekend, for describing the late Virgil Abloh as a “hip hop fashion designer” in ...

The Matisse Museum in northern France, has canceled its loan of 280 works to the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing for an exhibition on the French artist that was due to open there later this month, before traveling to the UCCA’s other space in Shanghai. With the cancelation of the loan, the Matisse show is on hold until further notice. The news, ...