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Coronavirus Updates

Art Basel Hong Kong, which was canceled over coronavirus concerns, has revealed the list of galleries participating in its new online viewing rooms, about 90 percent of the fair’s original line-up. [ARTnews]

Hours after the World Health Organization declared the new coronavirus a global pandemic, two art fairs in the United States called off their upcoming editions. [ARTnews]

As the virus continues to force more closures and cancelations, wealthy New Yorkers are fleeing the city for the Hamptons and the Hudson Valley. [Bloomberg]

Collecting

Billionaire art dealer David Nahmad, who owns over 300 works by Picasso, gives a tour of his Monaco home, as he prepares to donate one Picasso for a charity raffle. [ABC News/The Associated Press]

The Hohenzollern family of Prussia is seeking compensation from the German state for thousands of artworks and expropriated property they lost during the postwar era. Their claims rest on whether or not the family helped the Nazis. [The Art Newspaper]

Artists

Ted Loos looks at two artists, Salman Toor and Christina Quarles, who have two different approaches to “the enduring—but continually evolving—style of the centuries-old art form known as figuration.” [The New York Times]

Maya Lin will plan a “ghost forest” in New York’s Madison Square Park this spring. [The Art Newspaper]

If you have 8 minutes, listen to a segment from KCRW’s Greater L.A. podcast on Luchita Hurtado and her first U.S. retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, titled “I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn.” [KCRW]

Exhibitions

Jonathan Jones reviews the National Gallery, London’s Titian exhibition, which brings together a cycle made for King Philip II of Spain. Jones writes, “The first thing you notice is that he is mocking his pious patron.” [The Guardian]

An “arresting” new exhibition, titled “Esther and the Dream of One Loving Human Family,” at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore aims to visualize the refugee experience. [The New York Times]

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