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Michael Jordan’s Game-Worn Autographed Nike Air Jordan 1 shoes from 1985 sold in an online sale at Sotheby’s for $560,000, setting a new auction record for any pair of sneakers. [Art Market Monitor]
As part of a plan approved by the Los Angeles City Council, developers’ fees for L.A. cultural events that have been cancelled as a result of the pandemic will now serve as emergency grants for artists and institutions. [Los Angeles Times]
An online database called Digital Benin aims to consolidate images and information related to the Benin Bronzes, which were looted from West Africa in the 19th-century and have been scattered to museums around the world. [The Wall Street Journal]
Museums
Though the coronavirus crisis remains palpable in New York, a crop specialist continues to tend to the tomato plants part of the Guggenheim Museum’s temporarily closed exhibition “Countryside, The Future.” [The New York Times]
R.I.P.
Artist Louis Delsarte, who is best known for his large-scale murals throughout New York City, has died at age 75. [The New York Times]
Photographer and artist Astrid Kirchherr, who captured iconic images of the Beatles in the 1960s, has died at age 81. [The Guardian]
The Talent
Ulrike Lunacek, the Austrian culture minister, has stepped down from her position following criticism of the government’s handling of pandemic-related financial fallout in the arts. [The Art Newspaper]
Pandemic Dispatches
Dealer Larry Gagosian has been practicing social distancing in the Hamptons while his 18 galleries remain closed amid the pandemic. “By nature, I’ve been a survivor and a scrappy businessman, which maybe in these times it suits me well,” Gagosian said. [Bloomberg]
Artists
Here’s a look at Giorgio de Chirico’s life, career, and distinctive paintings of eerily empty plazas. [ARTnews]
And here’s a Q&A with the artist Naomi Safran-Hon, who creates paintings and assemblages depicting abandoned dwellings.”It’s meant to hold hold space with you, to have a relationship,” the artist said of her work. [The New York Times]
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