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The Art Market
Watch the trailer for a new documentary, titled Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, about the Knoedler forgery scandal. [Deadline]
From the archives: read ARTnews’s in-depth report about how the forgery scandal caused the downfall of the Knoedler & Co. gallery. [ARTnews]
David Hammons’s sought-after African American Flag will be offered on Phillips’s online private sale platform, with an asking price of $1.5–2 million. [Art Market Monitor]
Artists
Mary Weatherford’s abstractions, which often include neon strips over painted canvases, are “rooted in a sense of place.” [Art in America]
Jason Farago rounds up five artists to follow on Instagram. [The New York Times]
The Art Newspaper asks, “Was Duchamp’s Fountain a misogynist vaginal pun?” [The Art Newspaper]
Andrea Joyce Heimer was to have a solo show of her paintings in New York this month. Now under lockdown, the artist has turned to drawing as her supply to materials has been cut off. [The Wall Street Journal]
Commentary
As the Los Angeles County Museum of Art begins to demolish its old buildings to make way for a new one, Carolina A. Miranda asks, “Where are the gallery plans?” [Los Angeles Times]
The Guardian has an interview with the creator of ArtActivistBarbie, who has deemed some famous paintings as nothing more than “pre-Raphaelite wet T-shirt competitions.” [The Guardian]
The biographer of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington reflects on how studying the artist’s life and work prepared her for the coronavirus lockdown. [The Art Newspaper]
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