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Out of the Past
Could the future of art conservation be in creating facsimiles? For Factum Arte, a Madrid-based “digital mediation” workshop, authentically faking works can actually be a way to save them from the test of time. [The New Yorker]
A 65-foot-wide stained glass mural originally made for the secret police in East Germany in the early 1980s will be on sale at Art Basel Miami Beach. Its price: $21.4 million. [The New York Times]
Market
Artnet, the online price database, has acquired Tutela Capital SA, a boutique firm that uses indices and algorithms to analyze the art market. [The Art Newspaper]
Museums
Peter Schjeldahl: “The more serious you are about modern art, the more likely you are to be stupefied by ‘Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,’ a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.” [The New Yorker]
Tennis player Serena Williams toured the National Museum of African American History and Culture this past weekend. [The Washington Post]
The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia will begin work on an expansion in April. [The Daily Progress]
What Jeff Koons Did Today
Jeff Koons is creating a sculpture—an oversize hand holding balloon-like tulips—to memorialize the victims of terrorism attacks in Paris. The work will be a gift from the United States to France. [The New York Times]
Extras
The recent election causes Shannon Ebner to remember USA, her 2003 photograph of a sign in the desert that says NAUSEA. [Artforum]
A look at Maggie Lee’s latest show at 356 Mission in Los Angeles. [Contemporary Art Daily]