Art World From a Robert E. Lee Statue’s Last Stand to Government Censorship of Ai Weiwei: The Best & Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news, fast. By Artnet News, Sep 10, 2021
Law Artifacts From the Battle of Maqdala Have Returned to Ethiopia in ‘the Most Significant Heritage Restitution’ in the Country’s History The British looted the treasure 153 years ago. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 10, 2021
Auctions Just Two Bored Ape NFT Lots Brought in a Combined $26 Million at Sotheby’s This Week, a New Crypto-Art Record for the Auction House A lot of 101 apes, plus six “mutant serums,” scored $24 million alone. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 10, 2021
On View Marina Abramović’s New London Pop-Up Features Crystals, a Martian Rock, and an Immersive Van Gogh Room of Her Own The performance artist's partnership with WeTransfer has yielded a multisensory experience in a former brewery in Shoreditch. By Naomi Rea, Sep 10, 2021
Museums Klaus Biesenbach Is Heading Back to Berlin to Lead the Newly Reopened Neue Nationalgalerie Museum Meanwhile, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrat, a curatorial duo, will co-lead the Hamburger Bahnhof museum. By Kate Brown, Sep 10, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: New Steps in Old Spaces This week in the Back Room: Art Basel’s about-face, August’s unexpected auction king, Hollein holds forth, and much more By Tim Schneider, Sep 10, 2021
The Art Detective ‘The Demand Is Off the Charts’: At the Independent Fair, Young Figurative Painters Steal the Show (and Draw Mile-Long Wait Lists) Independent offered a peek at the dynamics shaping the broader art market today. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 10, 2021
Art World Art Industry News: Beck and His Ex Are Splitting Their Banksy-Laden Art Collection in Their Divorce + Other Stories Plus, Kehinde Wiley will paint a response to Gainsborough’s "Blue Boy" and another hidden composition is found beneath a Vermeer. By Artnet News, Sep 10, 2021
The Art Angle The Art Angle Podcast: Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center Reflect on 9/11 Four artists who were in residence at the World Trade Center share their experiences from 9/11. By Artnet News, Sep 10, 2021
The Big Interview ‘I’ve Learned to Lean on God’: Rising Artist Genesis Tramaine on How She Channels Her Christian Faith Into Ecstatic Portraits Tramaine recently sat down with the Art Angle podcast to take about faith and art. By Katie White, Sep 10, 2021
Art Fairs The Armory Show Makes a Triumphant Return to New York With Far-Flung Dealers, Six-Figure Sales, and a Can-Do Attitude Doubts about whether it was too early for fairs to return were assuaged by strong sales and attendance. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 9, 2021
Wet Paint Top Tennis Player Fined Over Gallery Sponsorship, Art Basel’s Last-Ditch Effort to Keep Dealers From Fleeing + More Art-World Gossip Plus, which Silicon Valley art gallery is pivoting to an app? And which top-tier dealer is opening in upstate New York? By Julie Baumgardner, Sep 9, 2021
Art Fairs You Can Get Your Tarot Cards Read by an Art Witch Channeling the Ghost of Hilma af Klint at the Armory Show The tarot deck is the work of a feminist artist collective inspired by spiritual abstractionist Hilma af Klint. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 9, 2021
Art Criticism Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results Are Refreshing “Convergent Evolutions" is elegantly radical in how it opens up new conversations around its artists. By Folasade Ologundudu, Sep 9, 2021
Gallery Network Now in its Second Year, the Khor Art Initiative Is Aiming to Revitalize Iran’s Beleaguered Arts Community Saradipour Art Gallery, which founded the prize, is currently hosting an exhibition of 30 artist finalists. By Artnet Gallery Network, Sep 9, 2021
