{"id":120428,"date":"2025-11-07T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120428\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:49:09","slug":"us-venice-biennale-plans-collapse-morning-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120428\/","title":{"rendered":"US Venice Biennale Plans Collapse: Morning Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tTHE WAIT FOR VENICE CONTINUES. When art historian and writer John Ravenal received an email from the State Department, he didn\u2019t have high hopes are a series of setbacks. But instead, the message told him that the US government had chosen his and artist Robert Lazzarini\u2019s proposal for Lazzarini to represent the country at the 2026 Venice Biennale<\/a>, the Washington Post<\/a> writes. For Lazzarini, known for his mind-bending sculptures that distort perception and space, the opportunity promised to be transformative. For the Trump administration, which lagged behind other nations in announcing its artist, the Biennale also carried diplomatic weight, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of America\u2019s founding. Ravenal, who had championed Lazzarini since giving him his first museum show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2003, felt both thrilled and anxious. The selection was a milestone for both men. But within three weeks, everything unraveled. Negotiations with a partner institution collapsed, and the commission was withdrawn before any public announcement. The reversal was a blow to Lazzarini and reignited the international art world\u2019s pressing question: Who will ultimately represent the United States at Venice?<\/p>\n

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\n\tAUCTION RECORD. The original cover photograph for David Bowie<\/a>\u2019s landmark 1973 album Aladdin Sane sold for \u00a3381,400 ($497,088) at Bonhams London on November 5, setting a new auction record for both an album cover and its photographer, Brian Duffy. Often dubbed the \u201cMona Lisa of Pop,\u201d the image remains one of the most recognizable in music history. The concept for Bowie\u2019s red-and-blue lightning bolt came from Duffy himself, while makeup artist Pierre La Roche executed the look. Artist Philip Castle added the finishing touch, a delicate airbrushed teardrop on Bowie\u2019s collarbone. According to Duffy\u2019s son, Chris, the album\u2019s title came from a misheard conversation: \u201cDuffy asked David what the album was called, and he said, \u2018A Lad Insane.\u2019 Duffy heard it as \u2018Aladdin Sane\u2019\u2014and the rest is history.\u201d Duffy, who died in 2010, was part of the celebrated \u201cterrible trio\u201d of 1960s British photographers alongside David Bailey and Terence Donovan. He collaborated with Bowie on five shoots, including the covers for Lodger (1979) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). The sale, part of \u201cBonhams\u2019s The Mona Lisa of Pop: The Duffy Archive,\u201d also included Aladdin Sane contact sheets (\u00a319,200) and Bowie\u2019s studio stool (\u00a32,816). The previous album-cover record, $325,000, was set in 2020 for Led Zeppelin\u2019s debut album.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Florentine Diamond, a legendary jewel of the Hapsburg dynasty, was thought to be lost after not being seen since 1919, but it\u2019s actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades. [New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tGagosian has teamed up with movie director Wes Anderson<\/a> to recreate the New York studio of American artist Joseph Cornell in Paris. It will be part of an exhibition curated by Jasper Sharp and titled \u201cThe House of Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell\u2019s Studio Reimagined by Wes Anderson,\u201d which is slated to run from December 16 to March 14, 2026. [ARTnews<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tLondon\u2019s Saatchi Gallery, famous for its 1987 exhibition introducing the Young British Artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, has turned 40. [Aesthetica<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe long-anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza has reignited calls for the British Museum to repatriate the Rosetta Stone,\u00a0a key artifact seized by British forces in 1801 that enabled the deciphering of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. [Artnet News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\t\tThe Kicker\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTALL AMBITIONS. Denver-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur, Ross Calvin, recently unveiled an ambitious plan to build a 450-foot-tall statue of the Greek Titan Prometheus on Alcatraz Island, the Economic Times<\/a> reported. Calvin, founder of the American Colossus Foundation and CEO of the bitcoin-mining firm Parhelion, wants his statue to be taller than New York\u2019s Statue of Liberty. Named The Great Colossus of Prometheus on Alcatraz, the statue would surpass the tower above Lady Liberty by more than 100 feet, according to the foundation\u2019s website, and serve as a \u201cbeacon of optimism.\u201d Constructed from a nickel-bronze alloy, the project is estimated to cost around $450 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. THE HEADLINES THE WAIT FOR VENICE CONTINUES. When…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,11001,438,146,85,46,45876,66684],"class_list":{"0":"post-120428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-david-bowie","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-venice-biennale","18":"tag-wes-anderson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}