Tag: Prominent
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Prominent German Art Foundation Accuses Top Culture Official of ‘Attempted Intimidation’
Jurors from the Kunstfonds Foundation, a prominent German body that funds contemporary art projects, have publicly denounced the country’s top cultural policy official after he requested the names of its current members. In a statement first reported by Der Spiegel, the art fund’s jury described the initial request from Minister of State for Culture Wolfram read more
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Foundation, a Prominent NFT Platform of the 2021 Boom, Shuts Down After Failed Sale
Add one more casualty of the collapsed NFT market to the list: Foundation, a curated Ethereum-based marketplace that rose to prominence during the 2021 digital art boom. On Wednesday, cofounder and CEO Kayvon Tehranian announced in an open letter on X that the platform’s sale to digital art company Blackdove collapsed, leaving no viable way read more
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Prominent Israeli Painter Doron Langberg Addresses ‘Atrocities’ in Gaza
On Friday, Doron Langberg, one of the most successful and well-known Israeli artists working today, will open his first New York exhibition in seven years at Jeffrey Deitch’s Tribeca gallery. For the occasion, Langberg has so far opted to give a single interview—to the New York Times—and to publish an accompanying 750-word text on Deitch’s read more
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Prominent Collector and Navy Secretary John Phelan Rode On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Plane
John Phelan, a prominent art collector and the current Secretary of the Navy, is revealed to have flown on the private plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, according to a report by CNN. Flight logs note that he flew from London to New York on March 3 of that year. The flight read more
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