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Wet Paint: Ken Griffin Buys Barnett Newman Masterpiece, In-Demand Painter Opens Downtown Gallery, & More Art-World Gossip What artist got a studio visit from Drake? What actress has a painting show at a gallery in the California desert? Read on to find out. May 7, 2021 Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, testifying in front of a Senate committee. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Every week, Artnet News Pro brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]   Whatever happened to Tobias Meyer? It�...

Thurston Moore shares his formative firsts, from Sonic Youth’s first gig to the time he blew a paycheque on a Fender Jazzmaster guitar.

Patrick O’Connell, 67, Dies; Raised Awareness of AIDS With Art As the founding director of Visual AIDS, he helped develop campaigns including “Day Without Art” and, most notably, the ubiquitous red ribbon. Patrick O’Connell, the founding director of Visual AIDS, in his apartment in New York in 1994, wearing the red ribbon that became an international symbol of AIDS advocacy.Credit...Thomas McGovern/Getty Images May 3, 2021, 3:52 p.m. ET Patrick O’Connell, who as the founding director of Visual AIDS, an advocacy group that supports artists living with the disease, help...

To indulge our snarky side like this, however, represents a failure on our part to engage with the film on its own terms. Roger Ebert’s po-faced take on the film – “Doesn’t deserve one nanosecond of serious analysis” – sums up the problem. Longo’s film is at its heart a comic-book comedy, and belongs to a tradition of cinematic eccentricity of which Terry Gilliam’s best work might be exemplary. There are nods to the more serious, “cerebral” sci-fi of Strange Days and The Matrix, but each motif is heightened, given a touch of absurdity. Prophet...

Exhibition presents works that convey humanity's relationship with nature Jessica Houston (born in 1970), Ideas in Things (Antarctic Peninsula), from the series “Horizon Felt South,” 2018, ink-jet print, 4/5, 120.3 x 180.5 cm (sight). MMFA, Purchase, Hamelys Fund. MONTREAL .- Ecological issues are of crucial importance in our era of climate upheaval, and it is only natural for contemporary artists to take up these topics in their practice and thinking. Presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition Ecologies: A Song for Our Planet includes installations, videos, sculptures, p...