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The largest art fair in the world with the most opaque sales conditions now also welcomes the paying public one week after opening for the professional public. A valuable guide is provided by Naomi Rea, who researched which gallery represents which artist at the Biennale di Venezia for Artnet Pro (paywall). She comes up with more than 100 participating galleries, ... read more
The Biennale di Venezia responds to war in Ukraine, reports Alex Greenberger for Artnews: "Cecilia Alemani, who organized the Biennale's main show this year, praised the Piazza Ucraina as a potentially defining event at this year's exhibition. 'In its 127 years of existence, La Biennale has registered the shocks and revolutions of history like a seismographer,' she said in a ... read more
ikonoTV has created a list with links to ways to help Ukrainian artists, either through pure donations or the purchase of video works. The Solidarity Art Auction Frankfurt artists continue to hold charity auctions on Instagram at irregular intervals, each of which runs for 24 hours and the hammer price is donated directly to a ... read more
Anna Brady presents the aid initiatives of Ukrainian galleries in The Art Newspaper. Werner Remm refers to a top-class charity auction of the Rotary Club Düsseldorf-Pempelfort on April 8 at Artmagazine. The auction of works from the Essl Collection raised 280,000 euros, he reports in the same medium. The artists ... read more
The sanctions against Russia raise the question of whether, how and when works of art borrowed for exhibitions fall under them. The different answers of the Düsseldorf lawyer Philipp F. Hardung in the Legal Tribune Online may seem a bit dry to non-lawyers, but are quite exciting: "The works in the Morozov collection are thus on loan from public institutions ... read more
33 artists (including Zuzanna Czebatul, Gregor Hildebrandt and Gert & Uwe Tobias) have donated works for Villa Grisebach's online auction "Artists for Ukraine", which runs from April 1 to 10. All proceeds, including the premium, will go to various initiatives for victims & refugees.For Artists at Risk, nearly 70 international artists (including Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans and Rosemarie Trockel) have ... read more