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Cleveland Museum of Art acquires rare Giambologna marble sculpture

The Art Newspaper

Photo courtesy of Gary Kirchenbauer In 1989, an unpromising-sounding but alluring marble sculpture of a female nude came up for sale at a Christie’s auction held at an English country house in Hertfordshire. “It The other marble sculpture by Giambologna in the US, another nude dated to 1571-73, was bought by the Getty in 1982.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

In 1994, Madeleine Bessborough moved the New Art Centre , the sculpture gallery she established in London in 1958, to Roche Court in Wiltshire, built for Lord Nelson in 1804. But Hauser & Wirth is not alone in realising that a commercial gallery can take on a whole new character, audience and purpose in a rural location.

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Koons lobster snapped up amid day two sales at Art Basel

The Art Newspaper

White Cube sold Michael Armitage’s 2015 painting In the garden for $3.2m, while Gagosian placed a large lobster sculpture by Jeff Koons for “seven figures”. Pace’s Pablo Picasso painting Homme à la pipe assis et amour (1969), priced at $30m, is still on reserve, though the gallery did say it sold a 1964 bronze by Louise Nevelson for $850,000.

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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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Basel's new satellite fair rides the wave of interest in contemporary African art

The Art Newspaper

October is presenting work by seven artists, including the Ghanaian photographer James Barnor and Zimbabwe’s Xanthe Somers, whose hand-woven sculptures reference themes such as women’s labour and the impact of “eco-racism” on makers in her home country.

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In tough times for dealers, Art Basel debuts a section for new works

The Art Newspaper

Among the highest prices seen in this section are Lonnie Holley’s sculptures, brought by Edel Assanti, at $85,000. The ten exhibitors in the inaugural section are typically smaller to mid-sized galleries presenting mid-career artists. Here we have more flexibility and we can present a fuller breadth of our programme.”

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‘My bank account is the only thing that slows me down’: Arlene Shechet on trusting her instincts

The Art Newspaper

Her welded aluminium sculpture Midnight (2024) is the largest of six commissioned for her show at Storm King Art Center in New York state last year. You can also see her work at the Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale (until 21 September), and on Governors Island in New York City (until 2 November).

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