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This post was originally published on artnews.com A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold for $32 million in a buzzy auction in Vienna, per Der Standard. The individual, a Munich-based architect, is not a relative of the Leiser family, but lodged a… Continue reading Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna

This post was originally published on artnews.com Dani Levinas, an art collector who gained a following for interviewing other collectors, has died at 75. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., where he formerly served as board chair, announced his death on Wednesday. “Dani Levinas’s passion and enthusiasm for art by living artists will have an… Continue reading Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75

This post was originally published on artnews.com Works from the art collection of Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Pappajohn and his wife Mary will be offered as a group of highlights during Christie’s Spring sales in New York next month, the auction house announced Friday.  The Pappajohns were a mainstay of ARTnews’s Top 200… Continue reading Postwar and Contemporary Art from Iowa Business Leaders to Be Sold at Christie’s Spring Sales

This post was originally published on artnews.com Various Russian publications reported on Friday that Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art was being searched by local police, potentially in connection to LGBTQ+ literature that is thought to be housed at the institution. On the social media platform Telegram, Ostorozhno Novosti, a local news channel, said that… Continue reading Moscow’s Garage Museum Is Reportedly Searched by Police Amid Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Literature

This post was originally published on artnews.com In 1924 the French poet and critic André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto. The 4,000-word document marked both the birth of the eponymous movement and the moment when its dogmas were codified, effectively laying the groundwork for the countless derivations of the form that would follow—in the 15… Continue reading Surrealism in the Age of AI

This post was originally published on artnews.com In Colombian artist Carlos Motta’s 2013 video, Nefandus, an indigenous man and a Spanish man travel down Colombia’s Don Diego River telling stories of the violent sodomization against natives by the Spanish during the conquest in Latin America. “The landscape does not confess what it has witnessed; the… Continue reading At Americas Society, Artists Look at the Myth That Started Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America

This post was originally published on artnews.com To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES NEW KLIMT CLAIM. A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser came forward with a claim they own the Gustav Klimt portrait of Fraulein Lieser, right before it sold at auction for… Continue reading Getty Returns Bronze to Turkey, Man Claims Ownership of Buzzy Klimt Portrait, ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ Exhibit to Open, and More: Morning Links for April 26, 2024

This post was originally published on artnews.com This essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday. The French polymath Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was never content to work in one mode—and was ostracized for it. His retrospective at the… Continue reading In the Early 20th Century, Jean Cocteau’s Queer Art Was Notably Cocksure

This post was originally published on artnews.com John Cage’s 1952 work 4′33″ has proven a touchstone for artists, composers, and thinkers of all kinds, spawning conceptual artworks, experimental gestures, and even an iPhone app. But even as almost everyone agrees on its importance, misunderstandings about the work proliferate. For one, 4′33″ is sometimes affectionately known… Continue reading John Cage’s Frequently Misunderstood 4’33” Remains a Masterpiece

This post was originally published on artnews.com When I took my mother back to Paris for her first visit in nearly five decades, there was no question we would go to the Louvre. I was more surprised that she wanted to stand in the long line to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) for… Continue reading Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber To End ‘Public Disappointment’