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On Friday, June 28, a Banksy work – an inflatable life raft and prop passengers – was quietly unveiled during a concert by British punk rock band Idles at the Glastonbury festival. Video taken by concertgoers Photos posted on social media showed thousands of spectators crowd-surfing and lifting the raft above their heads as the band sang the pro-immigrant song “Danny Nedelko” (2018). The life raft, which held eight fake passengers wearing orange life jackets, was very similar to the ones used by refugees crossing the English Channel from North Africa and Southwest Asia to the UK. In 2023, more…

To receive Morning Links every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews communication. News Headlines Banksy under scrutiny. Home Secretary James Cleverly Said, Banksy An artwork simulating an immigrant ship was held high among the crowd. Glastonbury Festival Last weekend, the farce was “not funny, it was vile” and “a celebration of the loss of life in the Channel”. Sky News Cleverley dodged questions about how he could be so sure the work was hilarious, and whether it could be seen as a comment on his own inability to solve immigration problems, saying he was “determined” to stop migrant…

British artist Tracy Emin will be awarded the title of Dame for her significant contribution to the art world. Born in 1963, Emin is known for her intimate and candid style. As one of the Young British Artists, she rose to fame in the 1990s for her work: My bed (1998) and Everyone I’ve Ever Slept With (1963–1995) (1995), which taps into her personal experiences. Emin graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA and was included in the King’s Birthday Honours list alongside Imelda Staunton and Monica Ali.Last fall, Emin opened “Tomb of a Lover” at White…

Anton van Dalen, who in his unique and vivid writing chronicled the East Village’s transition from slum to gentrification, died on June 25 at his home in the community to which he devoted his life. He was 86. In his view, East Village is sometimes desolate, sometimes bustling, sometimes devastated, and sometimes full of secret life.[I] It always starts with the family, then the street, the neighborhood, the city, the world,” Van Dalen wrote in the letter. Allergic the critic John Yau wrote in an email in 2020. Indeed, he seems to make no distinction between practicality and aesthetics in…

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has hired Diana Nawi as curator of contemporary art, starting this month. Nawi has worked independently for many years and has organized several acclaimed U.S. biennials in the past five years, including Made in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum in 2023 (with Pablo José Ramirez) and Prospect.5 in New Orleans in 2022 (with Naima J. Keith). She has also curated solo exhibitions for artists such as Mark Bradford, Michael Rakowitz, Adler Greer, Haroon Mirza, John Akinfara, and Shana Luckett. related articles Nawi has served as a curator at the Perez Art Museum…

Chilean-Swiss artist Francisco Sierra wins Art Basel’s inaugural People’s Choice Award for his installation Gubi (2024). The winning work consists of 48 wooden panels, each featuring a life-size guppy carved in concave relief. Exhibited by Basel-based gallery von Bartha in the “Infinity” section of Art Basel, the work reflects the aesthetic of the home aquarium and aims to critique recreational animal farming.Serra was born in Santiago in 1977 and currently lives in Cote d’Azur, Switzerland. His work is characterized by subverting everyday perceptions with a conceptual or surrealist approach. His photorealistic paintings use humor and satire to question contemporary life.…

Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, known for her contributions to figuration in painting and her role in the European avant-garde Situationist movement, died in Amsterdam on Saturday, June 29 at the age of 85. The cause of death was metastatic liver cancer, the artist’s New York-based gallery Ortuzar Projects confirmed. De Jong was born in 1939 into a Jewish artistic family in Hengelo, the Netherlands, just months before the outbreak of World War II. Fearing the consequences of the German invasion of the Netherlands, the family went into hiding, and Jacqueline and her mother soon fled to Zurich, where they…

Norwegian former football player and notorious art thief Pål Enger has died at the age of 57. Enger was famous for stealing an Edvard Munch painting in 1994. The ScreamEngel, who played for the club as a teenager, died Saturday night, a press officer for the club told The Associated Press. The cause of Engel’s death was not immediately clear, but the Norwegian newspaper Daily newspaper He reportedly died in Oslo. Obsessed with the Mafia, Engel was first jailed when he was 19, having just made his professional football debut for Valerenga. In 1988, he embarked on a series of…

The Guggenheim Rotunda is bathed in the glow of these familiar single-line phrases in all caps: “Taste the good, for the cruel will always be there,” “Money makes the taste,” and “I will think before I can’t think anymore.” These phrases, boldly typographic and deadpan, are unmistakably Jenny Holzer’s word art. Over a career spanning five decades, the artist has effectively trademarked the concept of language floating in space, aiming to disrupt our tendency to passively receive information. While her practice has evolved with changes in technology and society, her core concerns—language and power—have remained constant.Holzer’s seamless integration of blunt…

The Marciano Art Foundation, founded by mega-collectors and Guess founders Paul and Maurice Marciano, has appointed Hanneke Skerath to a newly created director position. She began working for the Los Angeles-based foundation last month. The Marciano Art Foundation was founded in 2013 when the Marciano brothers purchased a former Masonic temple on Wilshire Boulevard, not far from Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile. The foundation opened to the public in 2017 and features blue-chip works by the brothers, including works by Sterling Ruby, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, and Mike Kelley. related articles But the foundation suddenly closed in November 2019, saying at…