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Italian police have recovered a Salvador Dalí painting and other works from a businessman with ties to the mafia.
A 1908 work by Gustav Klimt is leading Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale in London.
Anish Kapoor is among 200 artists leading the ‘Hands Off Our Revolution’ movement. (If the artists don’t help matters, perhaps these witches in Venice will.)
Speaking of Kapoor, New York’s Public Art Fund is bringing his 26-foot swirling black whirlpool to Brooklyn Bridge Park for the summer.
Jannis Kounellis at the Monnaie de Paris in March 2016. Courtesy of THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images.
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Jannis Kounellis, a key figure in the Arte Povera movement, died in Rome.
In New York, people apparently lost their minds during Bjarne Melgaard’s “Purge” at Red Bull Arts.
Burhan Ozbilici’s striking image of the Ankara assassination won the press photo of the year, because these are the times we live in.
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