ARTnews’ Top 200 Collectors discuss today’s art market, where an “investment mindset” has apparently run amok. Buying by volume may be down, but the top tier of collectors continues to acquire artworks, and several share their perspectives on the art world’s own version of “tulip mania." [ARTnews]
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Oops! A museum technician accidentally threw away an artwork by Alexandre Lavet at Holland's LAM museum because he thought it was trash. Museum officials were able to recover the undamaged sculpture and were understanding about the mistake. After all, the Lavet piece, All the good times we spent together (2016) is meant to look like trash. It comprises two perfectly replicated, hand-painted, and crushed cans of beer. [Artnet News]

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The Musé du Quai Branly in Paris has apologized and promised to correct labels and texts which omit the term “Tibet,” and replace it with the Chinese government-preferred term, “Xizang.” The response comes amid allegations that the institution was caving to Chinese pressure by erasing Tibetan cultural denominations. Similar accusations have been launched at the Musée Guimet in Paris. [Hyperallergic]

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/real-art-in-museums-stimulates-brain-much-more-than-reprints-study-finds

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The study commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Haugue used eye-tracking tech and MRI scans to record brain activity on 20 volunteers while they looked at genuine, versus reproduced artworks. “You become [mentally] richer when you see things, whether you are conscious of it or not, because you make connections in your brain,” said Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis.

OTHING LIKE THE REAL THING, PROVES SCIENCE. Speaking of virtual experiences, scientists in Holland have demonstrated that the real thing is a whole lot better. A neurological study has shown that physical artworks experienced in person stimulate the brain ten times more than looking at an image on a poster, reports The Guardian.
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Uh oh! #ValleyFever
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-02/the-threat-of-valley-fever-is-growing-in-central-california

A total of 47 tigers and three lions have died at popular tourist sites and parks in Vietnam, after being infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus. Among the parks impacted are the My Quynh safari park in Long An province and the Vuon Xoai zoo in Dong Nai, near Ho Chi Minh City. [AFP and Barron’s]

There's a bonkers 1975 movie available via Amazon prime: The Vampire Happening. Looks like something fit for Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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https://greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/exhibition/berthe-weill/

“A collection of paintings isn’t like a stock portfolio,” the Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill declared in her 1933 memoir, “Pow! Right in the Eye!” She was lamenting that novice collectors of the era were overly concerned about whether the value of her emerging artists would rise. “I was afraid they had neither confidence nor perseverance,” she wrote.

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Forgotten Dealer Who Discovered Picasso and Matisse

https://archive.ph/jPsYj

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https://news.artnet.com/market/rare-poussin-venus-auction-2545228

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/01/painting-found-by-junk-dealer-in-cellar-is-original-picasso-experts-claim

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