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News
After being forced to postpone several of its in-person sales, Christie’s will hold a four-part live auction on July 10 that will start in Hong Kong and then head to London, Paris, and New York. [Art Market Monitor]
A new documentary about Agnes Gund, titled Aggie and directed by the prominent collector’s daughter Catherine Gund, has found a distributor. [Variety]
The Kansas City Zoo’s penguins took a field trip to the nearby Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. They seemed to like works by Caravaggio. [The Hill]
NADA has launched a new online fair initiative that will bring together work from 200 galleries and run for a month, starting May 20. [ARTnews]
Art & Museums
L.A. Times reporter Deborah Vankin has an in-depth guide that looks at what it actually means for museums to dip into their endowments to prevent layoffs. [Los Angeles Times]
The Chicago Tribune talked with James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, about the museum’s reopening timeline, which might be as soon as July 1. [Chicago Tribune]
The National Gallery in London has a difficult, history-heavy quiz about some of the works in its permanent collection, including “What evidence is there to show that Monet painted this ‘in plein air’ (outdoors)?” [The Guardian]
Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Hisham Matar pens a probing essay titled “Two artworks that ask the question: What world will we find on the other side of this?” [The New York Times]
Misc.
Jillian Steinhauer talks with Fanny Pereire, who curates the fake art collections seen in some of television’s biggest shows. “I create art collections for people who don’t exist,” she said. [The New York Times]
Online art classes have experienced a boom during the coronavirus lockdown with schools like the New York Academy of Art and the University of California, Berkeley offering some via Zoom. [The Guardian]