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Design news: style after a mastectomy, a pop art funfair and a skate ramp at Chelsea

A new book about women in architecture, the fashion collective making art out of clothes and a ferris wheel designed by Jean-Michel Basquiat

The Guardian - UK

You want to sue Madonna for being late on stage? She’s an artist not a service industry worker

Some music fans seem afflicted by a sense of entitlement, and to have forgotten inconvenience used to be part of the gig-going experience. Mind you, with today’s ticket prices, is it any wonder?

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Promised Party; Normal Women; Life’s Work – review

A racy memoir of an arty youth; a spiky satire about female employment; and the writer of NYPD Blue on living with Alzheimer’s

The Guardian - UK

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Luna Luna review: Lost carnival designed by Basquiat, Dali and Hockney is the art event of the year

The Luna Luna fairground, which first opened in Germany in 1987, has been resurrected by Drake in Los Angeles after decades forgotten in shipping containers. Kevin EG Perry explores a magical exhibition featuring playful, immersive work from some of the greatest artists of the 20th century

The Independent UK

Andy Warhol's Factory made a fortune off other people's work. Now desperate artists are accusing generative AI of supercharging that model

Warhol once said "Art is anything you can get away with.” Will Midjourney get away with training its image-generating AI on thousands of artworks?

Fortune

Former CEO at center of fake Basquiats scandal countersues museum, claiming he is being scapegoated

A former executive director of a Florida museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings is filing counterclaims against the museum

The Independent UK

Fancy buying a Basquiat for £10K? The world's greatest art forger can help you out

David Henty's forgeries of great works of art sell for a fraction of the price: in legit galleries. Can you spot the difference?

Evening Standard

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“Prince liked the band. He would come see us. He would mysteriously appear and disappear, which always made me mad – ‘Damn it!’” How Vernon Reid’s expressionist shredding juiced Living Colour and won fans in Prince and the Rolling Stones

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

Guitar World

Nick Castellanos’s Basquiat Batting Gloves Might Be the Phillies’ Secret Weapon

The Phillies outfielder sports custom-made batting gloves featuring artwork of the late American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and they’ve been put to good use this postseason.

Sports Illustrated

Aboudia blindsides market experts as bestselling artist of 2022

Artist from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sold 75 artworks in auction, topping Damien Hirst’s 73

The Guardian - UK

Florida art museum sues former director over forged Basquiat paintings scheme

A central Florida art museum that was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings has sued its former executive director and others, claiming they were part of a scheme to profit from the sale of the fake artwork

The Independent UK

Florida museum chief tried to make millions from exhibition of fake Basquiat art, lawsuit claims

Aaron De Groft hoped to pocket commissions from auction of the works at show he arranged that was revealed to be a scam

The Guardian - US

Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacies?

Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabbles

The Guardian - UK

5 documentaries with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes you missed in 2023

5 outstanding new documentaries with a perfect score

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The Conversation

Why a Banksy exhibition in Glasgow makes perfect sense

A new solo exhibition by Banksy, the UK’s most famous anonymous artist, has opened at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow – his first in 14 years.

The National (Scotland)

Banksy's exhibition in Glasgow is sharply political and laugh-out-loud funny

WHO says crime doesn’t pay? In his quarter-century career as a graffiti artist, Banksy – whose first solo show in 14 years opened at the Gallery…

The Guardian - US

‘There were no rules down here’: New York resurrects popular skate park

The Brooklyn Banks, known for being a ‘melting pot’ of skaters, bikers and artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, were closed off over a decade ago – until now

Glasgow Live

New Glasgow pub inspired by iconic New York artist set to open doors

Fanatics of renowned New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will be jumping for joy as a bar opening up on Kent Road will be dedicated to the iconic man and his work.

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Radio France Internationale

Halim Flowers, from US prison cell to Paris art show

Wrongfully incarcerated as a teenager, Halim Flowers, now 42, fought for his release, which as finally granted in 2019. He has now found new life as an artist. An exhibition of his paintings has just opened in Paris.

Bangkok Post

US artist went from prison cell to Paris show

PARIS: Aged 16, Halim Flowers was arrested in the United States, tried as an adult then jailed for murder. Now aged 42, he is a prolific artist, poet and writer exhibiting in Paris.

Evening Standard

London street artist Pegasus paints Coronation tribute in Highbury and Islington

The artist drew on the Sex Pistols, Basquiat and Eighties and Nineties pop art for inspiration

Bangkok Post

Uniqlo launches new tees for peace

Last June, Uniqlo launched its Peace For All project involving well-known figures each of whom designed a UT T-shirt that embodies their individual call for peace.

Radio France Internationale

Two Basquiat exhibitions in Paris shine light on art superstar

American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is the subject of two major exhibitions in Paris this spring, one focusing on music, the other on his collaboration with Andy Warhol.

The Guardian - US

Man admits to Basquiat forgery scheme which saw fakes displayed in museum

Michael Barzman sold paintings created in ‘maximum of 30 minutes’ by accomplice, justice department says

Los Angeles Times

LA auctioneer admits guilt in Basquiat forged-art scam

On the heels of a new Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit opening in Los Angeles — one that purports to get to the truth of who the late artist really was — news regarding Basquiat forgeries, shown in a different exhibition in 2022 and unrelated to the Basquiat estate, has come to…

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