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Scope Hamptons Goes Boutique By Robert Ayers The expanding fair scales down its summer edition. Full article WEEKEND PICKS Yuval Yairi in New York By Penina Braffman The Israeli photographer pieces together moments and memory. Full article CONVERSATION WITH Conversation with Dan Cameron By Sarah Douglas Dan Cameron talks about creating the country's biggest biennial in New Orleans. Full article NEWSMAKER Carol Stringari on Exhibiting a Reinhardt “Cadaver” By Robert Ayers How a totaled "Black Painting" has proven invaluable to the Guggenheim. Full article VOICES Power to the People? By Jillian Steinhauer Five photography curators weigh in on the Brooklyn Museum's crowd-curated show "Click!" Full article SOUREN MELIKIAN Trophy Hunting By Souren Melikian At the May sales in New York, buyers were more interested in big names and bragging rights than art. Full article LIVES Art Hearts the Far Right By Sarah Douglas An appreciation of Jesse Helms, culture warrior. Full article ARTIST DOSSIER Joan Mitchell By Hilarie M. Sheets The abstract artist left her New York School peers in 1959 for France. But the caliber of her work didn’t diminish—as her unstoppable market today reflects. Full article THE AI INTERVIEW Alice Aycock By Robert Ayers A pioneering conceptual artist revisits her roots. Full article		San Francisco Committee Pushes to Criminalize Art That Harms Animals New Art Dealers Alliance Bring County Fair to Chelsea Australian Politicians Call for New Laws Protecting Children Depicted in Art Met Acquires Rare Lucas Van Leyden Drawing Dubuque Library Accepts Offer for Art Collection Seattle Art Museum Announces Director Search Committee British Architect's Museum Seeks Private Funding After Lottery Denial Art Collectors to Auction Themselves at SCOPE Hamptons Lee Miller Returns to Role as Muse Signed Lennon Exhibition Catalog Brings €31,000 at Auction
		Movers+Shakers Prada's Plans What does the next collaboration between Rem Koolhaas and Miuccia Prada look like? The world is about to find out. Full article Comings & Goings Juliet Kinchin Joins MoMA as Curator Also, Mayor Michael Nutter has reinstated Philadelphia's office of arts, culture, and creative economy and named Gary Steuer as the city's chief cultural officer. Full article Movers+Shakers India in Germany The latest arrival to Berlin's growing gallery scene is BodhiArt, an up-and-coming upmarket dealer in contemporary Indian art. Full article Art Parties Those Summer Nights The New Museum and MoMA turn up the volume, and Art Santa Fe goes annual. Full article In the Air Who's that Girl? Our guess for Lisa Dennison's mystery woman who's had the biggest impact on the art market lately: Daria "Dasha" Zhukova. Full article In the Air Mr. and Mr. Smith? At Next art fair in Chicago, artists Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger found a way to stop traffic by sewing themselves together. Full article Comings & Goings Cydney Payton to Resign as Director of MCA Denver Also, the Cleveland Museum of Art has appointed C. Griffith Mann its chief curator. Full article Datebook Ab Fab Prefab Five full-scale prefabricated houses open their doors to the public July 20 as part of a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Full article Movers+Shakers Deal Broker François Pinault, the owner of Christie’s International, has ceded control of Piasa, his second auction firm. Full article Art Parties A Weekend in the Hamptons For the New York elite, summertime can mean only one thing: the Hamptons. This year the art world followed suit. Full article In the Air Rebel Yeltsin Russian collector Igor Markin is furious about the Moscow city council’s refusal to grant planning permission for a monument to Boris Yeltsin. Full article