Morning Links from June 27, 2019 -ARTnews
Philip Guston, Untitled (Shoe), 1968–73. © THE ESTATE OF PHILIP GUSTON To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News The…
Morning Links From June 28, 2019 -ARTnews
Rome, Italy’s Contarelli Chapel, which houses pieces by Caravaggio. SHUTTERSTOCK/DIEGO FIORE To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News Robin…
Guggenheim Workers Vote to Unionize, Join Local 30 -ARTnews
The Guggenheim Museum. DAVE KING/DKIMAGES/SHUTTERSTOCK In yet another sign that calls for labor organizing and greater workplace transparency in the art world are bearing fruit, workers at the Guggenheim Museum…
Sotheby’s to Auction Recordings of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing -ARTnews
The Apollo 11 tapes. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S Conspiracy theorists: prepare your wallets. Next month, Sotheby’s will sell video recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. In a release, Sotheby’s…
SculptureCenter Appoints Christian Rattemeyer, Longtime MoMA Curator, as Director -ARTnews
Christian Rattemeyer. NOAH RABINOWITZ Christian Rattemeyer, who has spent 12 years as associate curator in the department of drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,…
Six-Year Challenge to Ownership of Art Historian Paul Westheim’s Modernist Art Collection Dismissed in New York Supreme Court -ARTnews
New York State Supreme Court building in Manhattan. GAGLIARDIPHOTOGRAPHY/SHUTTERSTOCK A six-year-long restitution battle concerning the rightful owner of several works by key modernist artists appears to have finally come to…
In Inaugural Pride Sales at Sotheby’s and Swann, Collectors Snatch Up Works by Peter Hujar, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe -ARTnews
Peter Hujar’s David Wojnarowicz: Manhattan-Night (III), 1985, sold for $106,250, a record for the artist. COURTESY SWANN Ahead of two concurrent Pride marches—the official (and corporatized, some have said) parade…
Nipsey Hussle reportedly killed over dispute about ‘snitching’ court documents claim
Court transcripts unsealed Thursday show that Nipsey Hussle and the man charged with killing him talked about “snitching” shortly before the rapper was shot, a conversation prosecutors said was the…
Attorney Ben Crump demands charges for officers caught on video brutalyzing Florida teen
Attorney Ben Crump speaks during a news conference. Now, he’s fighting for a young girl who says studying hard and better preparation are the reasons behind her improved SAT scores.…
Princess Diana almost starred in ‘Bodyguard’ sequel with Sarah Ferguson’s help, says Kevin Costner
Princess Diana of Wales almost made her debut as a movie star. Kevin Costner told PeopleTV’s “Couch Surfing” on Friday the late British royal was interested in appearing in the…