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News
The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has received $22.3 million from an anonymous American donor that will see its administrative spaces converted into galleries and education areas. [The New York Times]
According to the Global Art Market Report, published by Art Basel and UBS, the global art market dipped 5 percent in 2019, though private sales were up across the board. [The Art Newspaper]
The Armory Show opened in New York yesterday to invited guests, with “business as usual” despite fears of the coronavirus. [ARTnews]
An unknown drawing by Albrecht Dürer, dated to 1503 and titled Virgin and Child, is being sold by the London dealer Agnews. [The Art Newspaper]
Artists
For a new show at Regen Projects, L.A.-based photographer Catherine Opie presents a series of images of the swamp, which she calls “a beautiful, vulnerable ecosystem.” [Los Angeles Times]
In a solo show at the Serpentine Gallery in London, Cao Fei presents various works in which “the pervading melancholy is punctured by moments of surreal beauty and humour.” [The Guardian]
Lisa Yuskavage talks about early criticism of her provocative paintings, which are on view in a solo show at the Aspen Art Museum: “If you throw a hard punch, something is going to come back at you. I just kind of got used to it and started to embrace it.” [Aspen Public Radio]
For a show at Hauser & Wirth in L.A., Nicolas Party “deftly fuses influences of post-Renaissance Northern European art history with pop art, natural science, mythology and mural culture.” [LA Weekly]
More Fairs
The Art Newspaper has compiled a wish list of what to buy at the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), which runs March 7–15 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. [The Art Newspaper]
In case you missed it, here’s what galleries have brought to the Armory Show. [ARTnews]
Misc.
The Guardian has a cheeky headline: “The miracle new sustainable product that’s revolutionising architecture – stone!” [The Guardian]