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

The Art Newspaper

Africa Basel was founded by the artist Benjamin Füglister and the founding director of Photo Basel, Sven Eisenhut-Hug. Odile Tevie is the director of Nubuke Foundation, a Ghanaian non-profit with a mission to support artists and preserve the nation’s contemporary culture. So we’re hoping we can do some sales and recoup that.”

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

The Art Newspaper

Art Basel is this year introducing a section called Premiere, which invites galleries to exhibit presentations of work made in the past five years by up to three artists, staged around a loose curatorial concept. The ten exhibitors in the inaugural section are typically smaller to mid-sized galleries presenting mid-career artists.

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Comment | Artnet sale underscores its impact on the industry—and its limitations in today's landscape

The Art Newspaper

The combination of new money being made in financial services, its taste for the artists of the day and the availability of information that made art look like it could behave like stocks and shares created the ‘art as an investment’ craze that has pretty much dominated this century. The information is free.

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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

In many cases, if you have available capital to invest, you're better off directing it to a mutual fund or similar traditional investment infrastructure than buying paintings with the expectation that a few years down the road they will greatly increase in value. Do landscape paintings sooth you, or do you enjoy Impressionist cafe scenes?

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Portraits of Windrush generation to be shown in UK government department following vandalism

The Art Newspaper

On 3 July all of the 20 works were slashed and daubed with green paint. Last week a new set of prints, produced by the organisation Photofusion, was reinstalled in Windrush Square following the vandalism. A police statement said that the vandalism was not a hate crime.

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Exquisite Fine Art Paintings and Prints presented in New York May 8

Auction Central News

NEW YORK – On Wednesday, May 8, starting at 11 am Eastern time, Jasper52 will present its next Exquisite Fine Art Paintings and Prints sale. The auction, consisting of exactly 200 lots, is now available for review and bidding at LiveAuctioneers.