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The Headlines

POLICE BLOTTER. Two Belgians who had been arrested by Dutch police following the jewelry robbery at TEFAF in Maastricht earlier this week have been released without charges, the Related Press studies. An investigation has cleared them; nobody else has been arrested in reference to the brazen crime. And in Glasgow, Scotland, on Wednesday, the Night Commonplace studies, 5 individuals concerned in a local weather protest had been arrested for allegedly gluing themselves to a painting (a Nineteenth-century Horatio McCulloch panorama, for the file) on the Kelvingrove Artwork Gallery and Museum, and spray portray the establishment’s partitions and flooring.

‘GROW OR GO’ is the artwork collector Alain Servais‘s memorable phrase for the necessity for galleries to maintain increasing to compete on this sharp-elbowed artwork business. This week brings information of two extra outfits which can be rising: In Seoul, a global powerhouse, the Tempo Gallery, has taken another 1,500 square feet within the constructing it moved into final yr, the Monetary Instances studies, and it’ll additionally quickly open a teahouse (with cocktails!) and an out of doors courtyard for sculpture. And the Artwork Newspaper  studies that Zurich’s Galerie Peter Kilchmann will open a Paris branch in October with about 1,880 sq. toes. First up: a solo present from artist Leiko Ikemura.

The Digest

The Thai artist, educator, and activist Thanom Chapakdee has died at 64, after being hospitalized with stroke-related problems, Pamela Wong studies. He was a cofounder of the U-Kabat efficiency group and a co-organizer of the Asiatopia efficiency competition. [ArtAsiaPacific]

The subsequent director of the Copenhagen Up to date museum will probably be Marie Laurberg, who’s presently inventive director of the Kunstmuseum Brandts in Odense, Denmark. She takes the place of Marie Nipper, who was tapped to lead the ARKEN museum in Ishøj. [ArtReview]

A Francis Bacon portrait of fellow artist Lucian Freud went for a cool $52 million amid in any other case subdued Sotheby’s gross sales in London, Angelica Villa studies. [ARTnews]

The Nationwide September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York has stuffed the final vacant spot in a wall with images of the almost 3,000 individuals killed within the September 11, 2001 assaults. [The Associated Press]

Gagosian director Antwaun Sargent—who guest-edited an issue of Artwork in America, our sister publication, final yr—acquired the profile remedy from Ruth La Ferla to coincide with the exhibition he has organized of the late Virgil Abloh’s work on the Brooklyn Museum. [The New York Times]

The NFT discipline will not be trying so scorching as of late. “With out query, the NFT market has fallen off the cliff this June,” one skilled stated. This would be the first month since June of final yr with underneath $1 billion in gross sales, and most of the hottest tokens have seen their costs decline of late. [Bloomberg]

Architectural Digest ventured into a house in Napa Valley, California, that’s owned by “two San Francisco tech executives.” It options work Sally England and Nicholas Shurey—and, within the laundry room, wallpaper by Gucci. [Architectural Digest]

The Kicker

A JOINT VENTURE. Author and director Lena Dunham has directed the most recent music video for musician and artist Issy Wooden, and in an interview with Vogue mentioned her curiosity in Wooden’s work. “I beloved Issy’s work—it’s that feeling you can’t clarify if you see one thing that aesthetically pleases you, like if you scratch a canine’s ear and its leg kicks,” Dunham stated. The video’s music, “Each,” is the primary single from an album that Wooden will launch in August. [Vogue]