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The Headlines

NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER. Artist Wendy Whiteley has promised a bequest of more than AU$100 million (US$69.7 million) to the Artwork Gallery of NSW, the Sydney Morning Herald experiences. The donation, one of many largest presents within the museum’s historical past, may even contain 2,000 works by her former husband, the late Brett Whiteley, going collectively to the museum and his namesake basis. About two hours south of Sydney, in the meantime, an investigation has decided {that a} main donor to the Wollongong Artwork Gallery, Bronius “Bob” Sredersas, was a member of Nazi intelligence in Lithuania throughout World Warfare II. Sredersas, who died in 1982, gave some 100 items to the museum, and officers are planning to fulfill to debate methods to current these works and his historical past.

FULL IMMERSION. These digital exhibitions dedicated to famed artists—most notably Vincent van Gogh—should not going away. Claude Monet is another popular subject for them of late, Bloomberg Businessweek experiences, and critical cash is flowing into the sphere. One agency that makes such reveals, Fever Labs, simply lined up $227 million in a funding spherical led by Goldman Sachs. The budgets for these affairs are helped by the truth that their topics are normally long-dead, which means that their work is within the public area, one legislation professor famous. Talking of image-use rights, a case headed to trial in California is believed to be the primary to check whether copyright extends to tattoos. At difficulty is a tattoo of a photograph of Miles Davis by Jeffrey B. Sedlik, who has filed go well with towards tattoo artist Kat Von D for inking his picture. Von D maintains that her work is roofed by truthful use.

The Digest

Milan and Naples vendor and collector Lia Rumma has donated 70 works by 30 Italian artists—together with Arte Povera greats like Marisa Merz, Giovanni Anselmo, and Michelangelo Pistoletto—to the Italian state. The works will probably be completely on view with the Museo e Actual Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples. [Artforum]

Kelly Crow has a blow-by-blow account of the meteoric market rise of painter Anne Weyant, who’s now repped by Gagosian. One intriguing tidbit from Crow: “The artist entered right into a confidential settlement settlement” with one in all her former galleries, Blum & Poe, which reportedly sent a portray by her to public sale. [The Wall Street Journal]

Manifesta 14—the roving European biennial—launched the artist checklist for its 2022 version, which opens subsequent month at 25 places in Pristina, Kosovo. A full 39 % have Kosovar origins, which is the best native participation within the historical past of the present, in keeping with organizers. [ArtReview]

Jeane Hamilton, who for 70 years supported the Arkansas Arts Middle, which she was concerned in opening, died final week at 96. “She at all times attended each occasion, each program, each lecture, and each reception,” one other supporter mentioned. [Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]

Architect Rem Koolhaas created the set for the most recent Prada runway present. “The entire thing seemed like an architect’s mannequin blown as much as monumental measurement,” Samuel Hine writes. [GQ]

The Sobey Artwork Award, which works to Canadian artists, named its shortlist: Tyshan Wright, Stanley Février, Azza El Siddique, Divya Mehra, and Krystle Silverfox. The highest prize winner will take house CA$100,000 (about US$76,900). [e-flux]

The Kicker

FACTORY FARMING. Paul Thompson, the vice-chancellor of the Royal Faculty of Artwork in London, submitted himself to the “Questionnaire” column within the Monetary Instances, which requested him to share “an animal you have loved.” Thompson’s response: “Andy Warhol’s Cow (1971). She’s so lovable and laughable, in her purple and orange display print. I received to know her rather well as a result of she was within the assortment on the Cooper Hewitt museum, the place I was director.” [FT]