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Market
Martha Stewart attended the Frieze New York art fair this weekend and posed for a picture with Andres Serrano photographs of her friend Snoop Dogg and her foe Donald Trump. [E! Online]
Oh no! This Sotheby’s auctioneer sold his life at auction for $2.5 million. [The Onion]
After two decades of working together, Tracey Emin has left Lehmann Maupin gallery. [The Art Newspaper]
Exclamations
Christine Macel discusses curating this year’s Venice Biennale, which she calls “a passionate outcry for art and the state of the artist.” [The New York Times]
Museums Around the World
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially filed a proposal to start charging non–New Yorkers admission fees. [The New York Times]
A show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts explores how music influenced Marc Chagall. [CBS News]
Peter Schjeldahl reviews the Jewish Museum’s Florine Stettheimer retrospective. [The New Yorker]
Here’s a look around the Hammer Museum’s Jimmie Durham retrospective, which travels later this year to the Whitney Museum. [Contemporary Art Daily]
The Political Arena
A mural featuring a man chipping away at the European Union logo has been confirmed as Banksy’s first comment on Brexit. [The Guardian]
With Emmanuel Macron having whomped Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, gallerists around the country are feeling relieved. [The Art Newspaper]
Extras
A map on Facebook now tracks art events happening around the world. At the moment, North America and Europe have the most active art communities. [Quartz]
We know you love those Jeff Koons handbags for Louis Vuitton, so fear not—you can buy them while you’re in Venice for the Biennale. [Gareth Harris/Twitter]