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. But Bonnie, the real estate agent with whom my father remained friendly over the years, had made it possible. That she took my father on as a client was a wonder itself, and I thanked her by throwing up in her car. * For reasons that are unclear to me, I have always understood that for my parents, rules are arbitrary, their application necessarily specific. They grew up under martial law in Taiwan. As schoolchildren, they wrote essays their teachers then combed through to ensure correct thoug...

LACMA CEO and director Michael Govan. Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA. 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 Tuesday, March 16. NEED-TO-READ A German Prince Wants His Family Treasures Back From Germany – Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, a descendant of the Hohenzollern dynasty (which reigned over the former Prussian empire), is on a quest to recover his f...

Art Gallery of Ontario appoints Xiaoyu Weng as Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art In addition to her curatorial work, Weng is an active writer, editor and educator. Photo: Alexei Ponomarchuk. TORONTO .-The Art Gallery of Ontario today announces that Xiaoyu Weng has been appointed Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art. Currently The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Weng assumes the role t...

Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America Nadja Sayej At a time when black Americans are twice as likely to die of Covid-19 as their white counterparts while a reckoning continues over ongoing police brutality, a new group exhibition is opening to tell the story of black grief in America, from the 1960s to present day. Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America opens 17 February at the New Museum in New York City, featuring 37 artists whose wor...