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Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), Untitled (Dandy), 1978-1982, crayon and pencil on paper, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, gift of Harvie and Charles Abney, 2021.40.

High Museum Receives Major Gift of Self-Taught Art

The Lost Leonardo, Sony Pictures Classics

Salvator Mundi Gets the Spotlight in Two Films

Gina Adams, Honoring Modern 8, 2015, ceramic and encaustic, 9” diameter.

Piecework: Resistance and Healing in Contemporary Textile Art at Fruitlands Museum

Big Time (The Birches) Watercolor, 72x52 inches

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William Kentridge, Emmy Hemmings, 2018. Cardboard, pattern paper, and poster paint. 122 cm x 99cm x 5cm. Courtesy of the artist.

MASS MoCA Expands Annual Benefit Auction With Works Donated By 24 Artists

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Polychrome mosaic panel with a marine scene, Roman, from Pompeii, 100‒1 BC. Tesserae, height: 40 1/2 in. (103 cm). Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, MANN 120177. Photograph by Carole Raddato (2014) / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

'Last Supper in Pompeii' To Open at SF's Legion of Honor This Summer

ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2021

"Dinner... without a friend is like the life of a lion or a wolf." – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher (4 BC–AD 65) As the ash from Mount Vesuvius began to rain down on Pompeii in AD 79, the people of the city were engaged in two...

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Moshe Safdie, Founder Safdie Architects, and Alice Walton, Crystal Bridges Founder and Board chairperson, in the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Photos by Stephen Ironside.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Reveals Plans for Major Expansion Designed by Safdie Architects

ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2021

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Dentures/Keep Frozen, 1985, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat

'Warhol and Basquiat In Focus' Includes Their 1980s Collaborative Works at Reinstalled Warhol Museum

ArtfixDaily / April 7th, 2021

Alice Neel, Nancy and Olivia, 1967. Oil on canvas, 99.1 × 91.4 cm. Diane and David Goldsmith Collection © Estate of Alice Neel, David Zwirner, New York/London

Take a Virtual Tour of 'Alice Neel: People Come First'

Vulture / April 6th, 2021

Van Gogh's "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring."

Dutch Police Nab Suspect in Van Gogh, Hals Art Thefts

CNN / April 6th, 2021

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The Quiet Dominance of Form: A Lecture by Christopher Rothko

April 11, 2021
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1998 Gang Zhao "Chamber of Song"

Spring 2021 Art Auction

April 12, 2021
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Kansas City, Missouri

Kano Sansetsu, A Visit to Li Ning’s Secluded Dwelling and Wang Ziyou Visiting Dai Andao (detail), Japanese, Edo period, mid-17th century. Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and gold on paper. Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, TL41799.12.

The Sound of One Hand Knocking: Kano Sansetsu’s Solitary Encounters

April 14, 2021
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Single-page manuscript document signed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, dated Sept. 15, 1492, while Columbus was “sailing the ocean blue” (est. $15,000-$20,000).

Rare Manuscripts, Autographs, Books & Relics Auction, April 14th

April 14, 2021
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Jan Mijtens, Dutch, Portrait of Maria of Orange with Hendrik van Nassau-Zuylestein and a Black Child (detail), c. 1655. Oil on canvas. Mauritshuis, The Hague.

De-centering/Re-centering: Forging New Museological and Historical Narratives—Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures (Part 2)

April 16, 2021
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Cuff band with animals in interlocking scrolls, Byzantine, late 4th to early 5th century. Wool and linen, tapestry weave. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg, 2004.204.

Art Talk Live: Up Close and Personal—Looking at Ancient Textiles

April 20, 2021
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Provenance Research: Where Scholarship Meets Diligence

April 20, 2021
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New York, New York

Taken from the recent release of NFTs by ARTCELS Banksy’s Grin Reaper, Screenprint in colours on wove paper, Signed and dated (2005)

ARTCELS launches new art portfolio ‘Millennials’ with Banksy NFTs

April 22, 2021
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London, United Kingdom

Lilian Thomas Burwell, Montagne, 2012, oil on canvas over wood, sheet acrylic, 28 x 44 x 7 inches.

Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring

April 22, 2021
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New York, New York

Jamaica Kincaid, Rosana Paulino (Photo: Celso Andrade), and Cheryl Finley (Photo: Gediyon Kifle)

History, Memory, and Legacy: Jamaica Kincaid, Rosana Paulino, and Cheryl Finley in Conversation—Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures (Part 3)

April 23, 2021
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Gina Adams, Honoring Modern 8, 2015, ceramic and encaustic, 9” diameter.

Piecework: Resistance and Healing in Contemporary Textile Art at Fruitlands Museum

Fernando Botero (Colombian, b. 1932), Niña, 1961, Signed and dated, Oil on canvas, 29 x 30 inches (73.7 x 76.2 cm). Est. $175,000-225,000.

Botero Highlights April 20 Latin American Art Auction at Doyle

Richmond Barthé, African Boy Dancing, cast bronze with dark brown patina, 1937. Estimate $150,000 to $250,000.

African American Art at Swann April 22

Mark Rothko, 'Untitled,' 1955. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

An Immersive Display of 11 Masterpieces by Mark Rothko at MFA, Boston

Kusama in Flower Obsession Photo by Yuzuke Miyazake © YAYOI KUSAMA 2021

"KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature" Opens at The New York Botanical Garden, Featuring New Work by Celebrated Japanese Artist Yayoi Kusama

Superb pochoir in colors by Joan Miro titled Femme et Chien devant la Lune, 1936, a fantastical portrait of a woman and dog in front of the moon with bold primary colors (est. $15,000-$25,000).

Artworks by Miro, Wiggins, Gruppe, Israels, Vasarely, Braque, others are in Nye's April 21-22 online auction

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Lilian Thomas Burwell, Montagne, 2012, oil on canvas over wood, sheet acrylic, 28 x 44 x 7 inches.

BERRY CAMPBELL PRESENTS LILIAN THOMAS BURWELL: SOARING CURATED BY MELISSA MESSINA

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Piecework: Resistance and Healing in Contemporary Textile Art at Fruitlands Museum

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Two New Titles Offer Personal, Revealing Accounts of the Lives and Work of Artemisia Gentileschi and Thomas Gainsborough

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