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Art Industry News: A New Study Says Museums Are More COVID-Safe to Visit Than Grocery Stores and Offices + Other Stories Plus, White Cube launches a secondary market online sales initiative and a British investor is named in the ongoing Inigo Philbrick saga. February 25, 2021 The atrium of the new Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Photo by Peter Molick. Image courtesy MFAH. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world ...

Adriana Varejão. Photo by Vicente de Mello, courtesy the artist and Gagosian. 3. “Artist Spotlight: Adriana Varejão” at Gagosian, New York Gagosian continues its weekly Spotlight series, highlighting one work from one artist, with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, ahead of her May show at the gallery’s 522 West 21st Street location. On Wednesday, the gallery is releasing a new time-lapse video of the artist creating one of her tile paintings, inspired by the Portuguese art of azulej...

Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 15.06 EST Museum and gallery leaders in England have expressed anger, disappointment and bafflement at why commercial art galleries – which count as non-essential shops – can open five weeks before them. “It is just nuts,” said Rebecca Salter, the president of the Royal Academy of Arts which, like other public galleries, has been told it can reopen no sooner than 17 May. Shops, meanwhile, can open on 12 April. Salter said it meant people would not be abl...

Philip Guston, a new book about her father’s life and work, Musa Mayer reflects on the controversial postponement of a major Guston retrospective at four museums. She maintains the institutions pushed back the show out of fear, and that it was a mistake. The “paintings are essentially about white culpability—the culpability of all of us, including himself,” Mayer says. “That is why he referred to some of them as self-portraits. He wasn’t just pointing the finger at others, he was p...

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Architecture news & editorial desk The schedule of curated events released by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation for MPavilion reveals a packed program inspired by ‘Space: Experiments in Time’. Beginning Monday 1 March until Thursday 1 April, the program promises to push concepts of space and time to the limit with several curated events including Hair Salon, Melbourne Design Week featuring documentary films, panel discussions, workshops and exhibitions, Empty Spaces Summit, yoga sessions and a s...

Share In 2012 Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman, Sinophile and, eventually, his country’s ambassador to China, agreed to donate 1510 pieces from his collection of Chinese art to the yet-to-be constructed M+ Museum for Visual Culture in Hong Kong. It was an announcement with a heavy degree of synchronicity. Sigg, who started collecting in the 1990s, has amassed what is believed to be the biggest collection of contemporary Chinese art in the world, numbering 2600 pieces. M+ building, courtesy of M+...

© Katherine Hardy This article was featured in our Art Market Eye newsletter. For monthly commentary, insights and analysis from our art market experts straight to your inbox, sign up In the 1950s the leading saleroom in the world was…Paris’s auction house, l’Hôtel Drouot. Its turnover regularly beat Sotheby’s and Christie’s combined, while on a broader level the French capital revelled in its status as the art capital of the world. How things have changed. According to...

The Rare Print Show includes artwork from leading artists including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Robert Indiana. The virtual showcase is being hosted by the Enter Gallery in Bond Street, Brighton, on Friday, January 29. Queen of Mass Contamination by James Cauty Tracey Emin’s poignant drawing I Kept Thinking of You is among the pieces being put on display. Created for her 2016 exhibition at the White Cube in Hong Kong, Tracey described the artwork as a personification of “the dull...

Auctioneer Simon de Pury. Courtesy of Jerome Favre/Getty Images. Every month in The Hammer, art-industry veteran Simon de Pury lifts the curtain on his life as the ultimate art-world insider, his brushes with celebrity, and his invaluable insight into the inner workings of the art market.   There has always been a healthy rivalry between the primary market and the secondary market, and between the biggest art fairs and the main auction businesses. The galleries had their big rituals in Art Bas...