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One of the few Paul Gauguin paintings from his time in Tahiti still held in private hands sold at an auction in Paris for $10.5 million. [Yahoo! Finance]
Who is Inigo Philbrick? Meet the man behind a huge potential art scandal. [ARTnews]
The Turner Prize
Last night, the 2019 Turner Prize nominees made history by winning the award as a collective, after asking the judges to consider them together in a gesture of solidarity. [ARTnews]
Critic Adrian Searle praised the Turner Prize winners’ choice to take the award as a collective, writing that the fierce sense of competition that once pervaded the honor now seems “absurdly quaint and a long time ago.” [The Guardian]
Museums
Restauranteur Monetta White will be the next executive director of the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. [San Francisco Chronicle]
A solo show by Meryl McMaster, who is of Plains Cree and European descent, at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, is one of several exhibitions “aiming to wake the U.K. up to indigenous and Native American art.” [The Guardian]
Artists and Writers
Forbes has revealed its 2019 “30 Under 30” list, which this year includes artists Farah Al Qasimi, Louis Fratino, and Ilana Harris-Babou, among others. [Forbes]
With museums undergoing new scrutiny from protestors, artist Andrea Fraser, whose work has long questioned institutional ethics and politics, got the profile treatment. [T: The New York Times Style Magazine]
In a new project by the New Red Order collective, users are encouraged to become “informants” who “report on the efforts of non-Indigenous people everywhere to claim indigeneity.” [Triple Canopy]
The Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital have revealed the 19 winners of its 2019 Arts Writers Grants, including Aruna D’Souza, Jillian Steinhauer, and Mimi Wong. [ARTnews]
The storied gourmet grocer Dean & DeLuca has closed in SoHo after more than 40 years in business. Artists and dealers share their memories of the place. [ARTnews]
Antiquities
A rare artifact found in Jordan may be the oldest chess piece in the world. [Le Figaro]
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