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Jadé Fadojutimi’s And willingly imprinting the memory of my mistakes, 2023, at Gagosian in London. All photos: Kate Sutton. MORE THAN THREE YEARS after the pandemic brought the international art world screeching to a halt, we’re still figuring out how to put ourselves back together again. Dealers who stepped off the hamster wheel of the fair circuit were surprised to discover you could actually skip a franchise or two (or even more, depending on your jpg game.) In the run-up to Art Basel, galleries around the globe have been banding together for various permutations of the “Gallery Weekend,” a homegrown…

Sukanya Rajaratnam, a New York dealer known for mounting historically significant exhibitions of Black artists, will join White Cube as global director of strategic market initiatives in September. Earlier this year, Rajaratnam announced that she would leave her role as partner at Mnuchin Gallery after 15 years. During her tenure there, she was known for staging groundbreaking exhibitions of Black artists who had long been overlooked by the mainstream art world, including Sam Gilliam, Ed Clark, Alma Thomas, Betty Blayton, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, and David Hammons, whose five-decade retrospective in 2016 is still on one of the most comprehensive exhibitions…

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ON THE PENINSULA. In recent years, galleries from the United States and Europe, like Gladstone and König, have been opening outposts in Seoul, hoping to tap into South Korea’s burgeoning art market. Now, Melanie Gerlis reports in her weekly Financial Times column, White Cube is joining them. It plans to open a location in the city’s Gangnam district this fall. The London-based firm is apparently in expansion mode, as it also plans to open a New York branch in the fall. Peres Projects recently inaugurated a grand new gallery in the South Korean capital, and rumors persist about other dealers…

Earlier this month, SNIK annoucned their project EXHALE, a multi-site mural project spanning the remote Norwegian island Utsira and mainland city Stavanger. As the duo noted, “EXHALE explores our connection to nature, a notion Utsiran locals are well accustomed to – the small community lives in respectful harmony within the surrounding scenery’s cycle of growth, bloom and decay.” SNIK’s interest in the natural world and its timeless encroachment into our lives found poignancy in that intertwinement.With a population of only 200, the island has previously played host to the works of numerous contemporary artists (Icy & Sot, Issac Cordal, Pichiavo, Borondo),…

We talk about quiet in painting often, the evocation of a feeling of something serene, calm and almost empty of sound. Tony Toscani is balancing a few things in his painting, especially in the works he has in Calloused Hymns of Loneliness at Carl Kostyál in London: the figures in his work are hearing something, sometimes it appears loud, but there is a quiet nature in the environment they are in. A few works even show the figures literally covering their ears in an internal megaphone of monologue, but the viewer feels like there is only white noise. It’s arresting and stunning,…

The much anticipated show by Dutch artist Arjen just opened at Stems in Paris, entitled A Party of Moods. As a child, Arjen explored his passion for painting through self-teaching, namely by studying the techniques of a plethora of artists. His biggest influences were Picasso, Dali, Condo, but also famous Dutch artists of the 17th century, such as Rembrandt and Jacob Van Ruysdael. Through the fabrication of “style copies”, Arjen worked his way through art history, spanning “impressionism, cubism, fauvism, surrealism”, and even ethnographic art. But it is only when he went back to his personal sketches that he was able to develop his own style. Arjen’s…

Feeling the Future at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston explores artist Ming Smith’s unparalleled career and is Smith’s first solo exhibition at a major institution to survey her work from the early 1970s through the present. The exhibition encompasses a multitude of artistic expressions to represent Smith’s vibrant and multi-layered practice, which is grounded in portraiture, and amplifies the heartbeat of Black life in the United States.Drawn from the full complexity of Smith’s oeuvre, Feeling the Future places works from the artist’s five decades of creation in conversation with one another, and the cultural movements she witnessed and participated in. Exploring…

The National Gallery of Australia has officially postponed a major exhibition of Aboriginal artwork currently undergoing review after allegations of interference from white studio assistants. On June 7, the museum issued a statement about the exhibition Ngura Pulka – Epic Country officially being postponed. Scheduled to open this month, the show featured the work of Aboriginal artists from the APY Art Center Collective (APY ACC) and was billed as one of the largest community-driven art projects to be displayed at the NGA. “All parts of Ngura Pulka are being entirely conceived, created, directed, and determined by Aṉangu people,” the gallery…

Archaeologists from the Leiden National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands have been barred from carrying out future excavations in the necropolis Saqqara after Egyptian authorities took offense to its depiction of ancient Egypt in the exhibition “Kemet: Egypt in Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk.” The head of Foreign Missions of the Egyptian Antiquities Service accused the museum in a leaked email of “falsifying history” due to the “Afrocentric” lens of the show’s storytelling, the Dutch news site NRC reported on Monday. The news was confirmed by the museum’s managing director, Wim Weijland, in a statement to CNN. Related Articles…

A landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was restituted to heirs of its original Jewish owner and then re-purchased by the northern German city of Hagen, the Art Newspaper reported Wednesday. The painting, View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes (ca. 1910), was originally owned by Jakob Goldschmidt, one of the most influential bankers in Weimar Germany and a major collector of Old Masters and Impressionist art in the 1920s. He was also a major patron of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. In 1933, Goldschmidt was forced to flee amid Nazi persecution to Switzerland, before emigrating to the United States, where he later…