The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has denied repatriation requests from two federally-recognized Native Alaskan Tribes despite the submission of three formal claims and numerous delegation visits. A report in the Denver Post earlier this month detailed the different barriers for Indigenous and Native groups to recover funerary objects and ancestral remains held by museums and prestigious universities in the US, even after the passing of NAGPRA. “They have control of these objects, and they can make it as easy or difficult as they want”, Denver Post investigative reporter Sam Tachnik told Alaska Publ ..read more

This summer, Sotheby’s will sell works from the collection of Tamotsu Yagi, the art director that helped cement the fashion-forward reputation of the San Francisco-based apparel company Esprit with the introduction of their signature “graphic look” of the mid 1980s. The sale, which will take place live at Sotheby’s New York on June 5, will be led by Cy Twombly’s 1962 canvas Death of Giuliano de Medici, which carries as estimate in the region of $1 million. Titled No Detail is Small: Art and Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection, the sale is comprised of three prints (also by Twombl ..read more

How does a country honor their longest-serving monarch? The first memorial statue to Queen Elizabeth II, unveiled in England, remembers the queen’s softer side with her favorite dogs. In the quaint English town Oakham, the seven-foot tall bronze statue by Hywel Pratley shows the queen in elegant robes with three corgis at her feet. “What most of us remember about Queen Elizabeth is her warmth,” local dignitary Sarah Furness told the New York Times. “By showing Queen Elizabeth’s love of dogs, we show her humanity,” she continued. Britain is now beginning to memorialize its former monarch with m ..read more

This summer, Sotheby’s will sell works from the collection of Tamotsu Yagi, the art director that helped cement the fashion-forward reputation of the San Francisco-based apparel company Espirit with the introduction of their signature “graphic look” of the mid 1980s. The sale, which will take place live at Sotheby’s New York on June 5, will be led by Cy Twombly’s 1962 canvass Death of Giuliano de Medici, which carries as estimate in the region of $1 million. Titled No Detail is Small: Art and Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection, the sale is comprised of three prints (also by Twom ..read more

Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, the great naturalists of modernism, both died in 1986, an ocean apart. They were apart nearly every moment of their lives, too. The Wisconsin-born O’Keeffe graduated from art school and moved to New York, where a career whirlwind awaited; Moore, a Brit and eleven years her junior, had his studies interrupted by a draft into the first World War. O’Keeffe eventually left the city for the desert; Moore made his studio in the dewy English countryside.  The artists approached abstraction from different dimensions and geometries. Painting, O’Keeffe flattened an ..read more

The Brazilian legal team for the man accused of killing New York gallerist Brent Sikkema in Rio de Janeiro in January has resigned. As first reported by Artnet News, attorneys Greg Andrade and Edna de Castro were representing Alejandro Triana Prevez, the 30-year-old Cuban who confessed to a role in the murder of Brent allegedly arranged by the galleriest’s ex-husband, Daniel Sikkema. Following a visit with Prevez at the Bangu 8 prison, where he is awaiting trial, the attorneys said that they had resigned from their roles “for reasons of personal conscience” and because they had disag ..read more

Just a day before their second performance at Coachella, K-Pop group ATEEZ gathered at the Grammy Museum for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The eight-piece outfit and its fellow KQ Entertainment boy group xikers are the subject of a pop-up exhibit that opened to the public on April 10. The exhibit spotlights costumes and props worn and used by the group (consisting of members Hongjoong, Seonghwa, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung and Jongho) from their most recent album, The World EP.Fin: Will. The album, which all members wrote for, earned the globa ..read more

Last year, preservation-minded fans of midcentury modern architecture were devastated when another one of L.A.’s historic gems was surreptitiously demolished with little warning. Located on one of Brentwood’s most prestigious streets, the so-called Zimmerman House by modernist architect Craig Ellwood was razed in a matter of days. In its place, a new and much larger mansion is currently rising. According to the USModernist nonprofit, the Zimmerman house was commissioned in 1949 by Martin and Eva Zimmerman, and completed in 1950. Once featured in Progressive Architectur ..read more

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES REQUEST PENDING. The Denver Art Museum in Colorado (DAM) has denied a repatriation request from the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Lingít tribal members have submitted three formal claims to the museum since the early 2000s and, in 2017, delegates traveled to the museum from Alaska in pursuit of five cultural objects, including a 170-year-old painted house partition depicting the Naanya.aayí clan crest. According to Alaska Public Media, the ..read more

With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide. It was with a heavy heart that I closed my gallery last fall. Proud of all that the gallery had accomplished over the years, I noted some highlights in a closure announcement that I sent to our mailing list. I was flooded with warm responses, yet it saddened me that no art press reported on our departure. Our shows might not always have received significant reviews, but i ..read more