A mosaic by Ememem. Photo: Alexandre Dulaunoy from Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, September 12.Lebanese dealer, collector, and former pharmacist Georges Lotfi isamid allegations of trafficking looted antiquities. In a new interview, he denies the charges and says his “big mistake” was befriending Matthew Bogdanos, the head of the New York District Attorney’s Art Trafficking Unit, “who turned against me.
has launched a new project. To criticize Israel’s government’s ongoing surveillance of Palestine, they have installed a camera in an olive grove in Hebron to livestream daily life in Palestine to a number of European museums including Bonniers Konsthall in Sweden, Nitja in Norway, and FOAM in Holland.