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Early sales under the new initiative included artists such as Picasso and Guston
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The centrepiece of the Obama Presidential Center, located in the Hyde Park neighbourhood eight miles south of Chicago’s downtown, is a towering, granite-clad museum designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The $850m complex opens to the public today, on Juneteenth.
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The Kazakh collector—a patron and cultural adviser with a focus on Central Asian contemporary art—is a fan of Basel’s Museum Tinguely and single-artist stand presentations
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Paula Cooper Gallery in New York is the winner of the first Art Basel Gallery Legacy Award, a prize that effectively hands a baton to the next generation of art dealers. Cooper has nominated Chapter NY to receive up to $50,000 towards participation costs for Art Basel next year.
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The Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said in Warsaw on Wednesday (17 June) that “everything indicates” that the murder on 15 June in eastern Poland of Robert Kuzovkov, a dissident artist from Russia, was a political killing.
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In her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, at Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart, the artist’s films and installations chart the evolution of our relationship with technological capitalism.
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The artist Refik Anadol’s Dataland has taken over 25,000 sq. ft in Downtown Los Angeles. An immersive “laboratory of imagination”, the Dataland experience is part science experiment, part deeply reverent art museum and part immersive theme park.
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For her show at Kunsthalle Basel, the Chinese-born artist has drawn inspiration from the online videos of amateur storm chasers and how they are a metaphor for the current media landscape
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The New York Historical’s $175m project will house gallery spaces, library stacks, a conservation studio and the forthcoming American LGBTQ+ Museum
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In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to art market editor Kabir Jhala about this year's Art Basel, interviews artist Pierre Huyghe on his exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation, and learns about a new Skyspace by James Turrell opening in Aarhus, Denmark.
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