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Art Industry News: The Locked-Down Super Rich Are Impulse-Buying Jewelry Through Online Auctions Like There’s No Tomorrow + Other Stories

Plus, Gerhard Richter's donated art raises $700,000 for the homeless and experts wonder whether any art fairs will return in 2020.

By Artnet News, Apr 23, 2020

People

The Art World Works From Home: Glass-Art Impresario Dale Chihuly Is Stuck Working on Drawings and Rewatching ‘The Sopranos’

Here's how the Seattle-based artist is spending his time in isolation.

By Artnet News, Apr 22, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: Marina Abramovic Speaks Out About the Emotional Toll of the Bizarre Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Targeting Her + Other Stories

Plus, JR creates a work of street art about isolation for TIME and Drew Barrymore recruits her daughter to photograph a cover shoot.

By Artnet News, Apr 22, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: A Third of Los Angeles’s Art Galleries May Be Forced to Close This Year, a New Survey Says + Other Stories

Plus, the Berlin Biennale is postponed and Judy Chicago and Swoon team up with Jane Fonda for an Earth Day art project.

By Artnet News, Apr 21, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: Damien Hirst Has Created a Rainbow of Butterfly Wings to Raise Money for the National Health Service + Other Stories

Plus, François Pinault’s Paris museum won't open until 2021 and Christie's teams up with the Andy Warhol Foundation for a charity sale.

By Artnet News, Apr 20, 2020

Art World

Austria Will Allow Museums to Reopen in Mid-May, Making It Among the First European Countries to Ease Restrictions on Art Institutions

Meanwhile, museums in China have been gradually reopening their doors as well.

By Artnet News, Apr 17, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: Gagosian Gallery Furloughs Part-Time Staffers and Cuts Pay for Everyone Else Amid Market Struggles + Other Stories

Plus, Art Paris exhibitors agitate for better refunds and there's a wild new theory about Duchamp's famous urinal.

By Artnet News, Apr 17, 2020

Art World

Pets of the Art World! Meet 15 of the Adorable (Yet Edgy) Furry Friends Keeping Artists, Gallerists, and Curators Sane These Days

Artists, gallerists, and writers show us how their pets are helping them work from home.

By Artnet News, Apr 17, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: David Hockney Promotes a Completely Bogus Theory That Smokers Are Immune to Coronavirus + Other Stories

Plus, the weirdest art owned by the late Robin Williams goes up for auction and Phillips sells a $2 million David Hammons online.

By Artnet News, Apr 16, 2020

The Art Angle

The Art Angle Podcast: How Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era

Critic and curator Antwaun Sargent discusses the major shifts in image-making initiated by young black photographers and our current crisis.

By Artnet News, Apr 16, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: Yayoi Kusama, 91, Commands COVID-19 to ‘Disappear From This Earth’ in an Emotional Statement + Other Stories

Plus, Dubai's art hub Alserkal Avenue waives rent for galleries for three months and MASS MOCA faces an uncertain future.

By Artnet News, Apr 15, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: How a Generation of Black Gallerists Changed Art History + Other Stories

Plus, Italian museums are losing an estimated $566 million each week during lockdown and the Getty postpones events through August.

By Artnet News, Apr 14, 2020

Art World

Art Industry News: Billionaire Kylie Jenner Wants You to Think the Inflatable Dolphin in Her Office Is by Jeff Koons + Other Stories

Plus, the Portland Art Museum furloughs 80 percent of its staff and Sarah Sze's work sells swiftly from Gagosian's Spotlight viewing room.

By Artnet News, Apr 13, 2020

Art World

Heroic Sanitation Workers Are Braving Exposure to Disinfect the Pyramids and Other Cultural Landmarks—See Surreal Pictures Here

From Stonehenge to the Pyramids of Giza, cultural spaces look very different right now than they usually do.

By Artnet News, Apr 10, 2020

Art World

Facing a $10 Million Shortfall, the Guggenheim Museum Has Furloughed Nearly 100 Staffers and Cut Salaries for Others

The museum has also implemented pay cuts for employees who make more than $80,000.

By Artnet News, Apr 10, 2020

Artnet News

Art Industry News: The Locked-Down Super Rich Are Impulse-Buying Jewelry Through Online Auctions Like There’s No Tomorrow + Other Stories

The Art World Works From Home: Glass-Art Impresario Dale Chihuly Is Stuck Working on Drawings and Rewatching ‘The Sopranos’

Art Industry News: Marina Abramovic Speaks Out About the Emotional Toll of the Bizarre Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Targeting Her + Other Stories

Art Industry News: A Third of Los Angeles’s Art Galleries May Be Forced to Close This Year, a New Survey Says + Other Stories

Art Industry News: Damien Hirst Has Created a Rainbow of Butterfly Wings to Raise Money for the National Health Service + Other Stories

Austria Will Allow Museums to Reopen in Mid-May, Making It Among the First European Countries to Ease Restrictions on Art Institutions

Art Industry News: Gagosian Gallery Furloughs Part-Time Staffers and Cuts Pay for Everyone Else Amid Market Struggles + Other Stories

Pets of the Art World! Meet 15 of the Adorable (Yet Edgy) Furry Friends Keeping Artists, Gallerists, and Curators Sane These Days

Art Industry News: David Hockney Promotes a Completely Bogus Theory That Smokers Are Immune to Coronavirus + Other Stories

The Art Angle Podcast: How Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era

Art Industry News: Yayoi Kusama, 91, Commands COVID-19 to ‘Disappear From This Earth’ in an Emotional Statement + Other Stories

Art Industry News: How a Generation of Black Gallerists Changed Art History + Other Stories

Art Industry News: Billionaire Kylie Jenner Wants You to Think the Inflatable Dolphin in Her Office Is by Jeff Koons + Other Stories

Heroic Sanitation Workers Are Braving Exposure to Disinfect the Pyramids and Other Cultural Landmarks—See Surreal Pictures Here

Facing a $10 Million Shortfall, the Guggenheim Museum Has Furloughed Nearly 100 Staffers and Cut Salaries for Others

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