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A Good Week for 20th-Century Art
A showing of work by Salvatore Scarpitta—the American painter turned amateur car manufacturer who was originally championed by the dealer Leo Castelli—will open next week at the Luxembourg & Dayan gallery in New York. [The New York Times]
In 1925 the artist Otto Dix painted a number of watercolors for his five-year-old step daughter, Hana Koch, who has now lent these works to Düsseldorf’s Galerie Remmert where they will be on public display for the first time. [The Art Newspaper]
Five pieces of Dutch Golden Age art have been recovered from a Ukrainian far-right militia group, following a decade spent circulating the black market. [CNN]
Art Takes
Trevor Paglen on surveillance architecture. [e-flux]
Claire Messud on Alice Neel’s paintings: “They are always uneasy, inviting the viewer into a direct and often alarming intimacy with their subjects.” [The New York Review of Books]
Hurricane Matthew
The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami is temporarily closed through Thursday due to Hurricane Matthew. [Artforum]
Fairs
Adrian Searle takes a tour of Frieze and realizes that in a place where “everyone is a performer,” the act of writing about it requires an act of performance, too. [The Guardian]
“Even art lovers are exhausted trying to keep up with the fairs.” [Bloomberg]
First looks
A closer look at the beautiful new EDP Foundation Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology building that opened this week in Lisbon, Portugal. [Inhabitat]
Watch Al Roker take an early tour around Prince’s Paisley Park home and studio complex before it opens to the public. [Fader]