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Istanbul Gallery Targets Domestic Abuse At Art Basel Hong Kong
Six hundred sixty-six women, dead. All of them victims of domestic abuse, all of them Turkish.
Zeren Goktan "Counter" (2013)
Art, Politics, Identity: Aernout Mik’s “Communitas” At Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum
Aernout MIk installation for "Communitas"
Checking In At The Stedelijk As Amsterdam’s Art Season Takes Off
Stedelijk Museum view of the original building (A.W. Weissman, 1895) and new building designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects. Photo John Lewis Marshall
Contemporary Arab And Iranian Art Shines In Upcoming Sotheby’s And Christie’s Sales
Mounir Fatmi "Save Manhattan 01"; Books, strings, spotlight and table 68.5 by 150 by 90cm.; 27 by 59 1/8 by 35 1/3 in. 2004-2010
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Renaissance: Three Experts Weigh In
Rarely, if ever, has the opening of a museum generated so much excitement and enthusiasm as the
opening celebration of the Rijksmuseum
You Don’t Have To Be A Lauder To Do Good. Paul Andriesse Gives Collection To Stedelijk Amsterdam
On the heels of Leonard Lauder’s magnanimous gift of his Cubist art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dutch art dealer and collector Paul Andriesse has made a donation of his own — smaller, to be sure, but no less heartfelt, I’m certain — to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. According to a statement from the Stedelijk, “The gift encompasses work on paper, painting, photography, and design by artists including Jean-Marc Bustamante, René Daniëls, Charles and Ray Eames, Marlene Dumas, Joep van Lieshout, Jean Prouvé, Wilhelm Schürmann, Thomas Struth, and James Welling. Selections from the Andriesse donation will be on view from 3 May through September 1, 2013.”
Here We Go Again: Auction House Superlatives Test The Art Market
Do they ever stop? I mean, if the sale of this year’s Francis Bacon portrait of lover Peter Lacy is “the greatest,” what will Sotheby’s say when they try to sell another one? “Second-greatest”? Who wants to buy that? Yet Sotheby’s London has announced an invitation to photograph “1/4 Billion [sic] Dollars of Impressionist, Modern, & Contemporary Art” at its London headquarters, including the above-mentioned Bacon, along with a “Sensational Modigliani portrait” and “one of the most famous sculptures of all time” — Rodin’s “Thinker” — not to mention “one of Cezannes’ most perfect still lifes” (as opposed to one of his “less-perfect” ones?).
Artists Come Together To End Female Genital Mutilation Across The Globe
Amnesty International Art for Action (installation view). Photo courtesy Amnesty International/Sven Dauphin
TEFAF Treasures (The Ones You Won’t See Everywhere Else)
Fernand Leger, pencil study for "Femme au Vase" 1927. photo Peter Madden
Art As Cluster Bomb: The Geert Wilders Project
Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries, "Geert Wilders" limited edition poster (2012)
