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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tGood Morning!<\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM. Julio Le Parc,<\/strong>\u00a0the Argentine-born pioneer of kinetic art, died on May 30 in Paris, at 97,\u00a0reports<\/strong>\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>. The artist\u2019s health had declined in recent days, but he remained deeply engaged with his work until the end, while eagerly awaiting a major retrospective opening June 11 at London\u2019s\u00a0Tate Modern<\/strong>, his son\u00a0Yamil Le Parc<\/strong>\u00a0told the Argentine newspaper\u00a0La Naci\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong>. Le Parc\u2019s vibrating light installations and shimmering mobiles invited viewers to actively participate with the works, making him one of the leading figures in kinetic art, long before immersive art experiences took social media by storm. A founding member of the\u00a0Groupe de Recherche d\u2019Art Visuel\u00a0<\/strong>(GRAV) in Paris, he believed in collaborative artistic experimentation and rejected the notion of a solitary artistic master. But Le Parc was singled out in 1966, when he won the Grand Prize for Painting at the\u00a0Venice Biennale<\/strong>, despite many of the works he presented relying on reflected light, optical instability, and movement. The Tate retrospective will open without him, but for an artist who insisted viewers become actively engaged with his creations, writes\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>\u2018s Daniel Cassady, \u201cthe exhibition arrives not simply as a memorial, but as a reminder of how much Le Parc influenced contemporary art.\u201d<\/p>\n BANANA SPLIT<\/strong>. The\u00a0Centre Pompidou-Metz\u00a0<\/strong>has lost its banana. That is, the banana duct-taped to the wall in\u00a0Maurizio Cattelan<\/strong>\u2018s viral artwork\u00a0Comedian<\/em>, which was stolen from the French museum on Saturday. The same night, the institution sent out a\u00a0media blast<\/strong>\u00a0complete with forensic evidence: a grainy image of a piece of twisted duct tape stuck on a blank, white wall, minus the banana. But in reality, little, if anything, was lost. Staff replaced the piece of fruit \u201cas quickly as possible\u201d with a fresh banana and tape. After all, the value of the work \u2014 a limited edition of which famously\u00a0sold<\/strong>\u00a0at auction for $6.24 million in 2024\u2014lies entirely in its certificate of authenticity and in \u201cthe protocol governing its presentation rather than its perishable element,\u201d explained the museum. As such, it said \u201cno irreversible damage was observed\u201d to the lost, possibly eaten (hopefully by someone in need of potassium) banana. This wouldn\u2019t be the\u00a0first time<\/strong>.\u00a0Justin Sun<\/strong>, the crypto-billionaire from China who bought that $6.2 million banana,\u00a0famously<\/strong>\u00a0ate it. Nevertheless, the museum didn\u2019t appear to find much humor in the incident and announced it had filed a legal complaint against \u201cpersons unknown.\u201d The Centre Pompidou-Metz said it \u201ccondemns this act, which undermines the respect due to the works on display and temporarily deprives visitors of part of the experience offered by the exhibition.\u201d Yet, visitors were arguably offered a different, no less interesting, if absurdist, spectacle of the fallout from the theft of a single, ripe banana.<\/p>\n British Museum Director<\/strong>\u00a0Nicholas Cullinan\u00a0<\/strong>has further responded to criticism over a\u00a0decision<\/strong>\u00a0to postpone a lecture called \u201cThe Ancient History of Israel and Judah,\u201d\u00a0stating<\/strong>\u00a0on Sunday that the museum\u2019s action is \u201cnot censorship; it is stewardship.\u201d [The Art Newspaper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tBrazilian police have named a man suspected to have masterminded the theft of several artworks by\u00a0Henri Matisse<\/strong>\u00a0from the\u00a0Biblioteca Mario de Andrade in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/strong>\u00a0last year. [ArtReview<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0British Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in London was briefly evacuated on Saturday after staff discovered a \u201csuspicious device,\u201d as well as \u201cmalicious communications.\u201d [ARTnews<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tDue to security concerns, the\u00a0Fries Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, is postponing an exhibition of 17th-century silver, known as the\u00a0<\/em>Popta Treasure<\/strong>, which it considers \u201cone of the crown jewels\u201d of the institution. [Omrop Fryslan<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Wolfgang Tillmans<\/strong>\u00a0joined other artists in discussing the threat of Germany\u2019s far-right AfD party, while calling for a redefinition of patriotism, despite his view that in recent decades, this \u201cis the best Germany there has ever been.\u201d [Die Zeit<\/strong>]<\/p>\n CONCEPTS OF LIFE<\/strong>. The artist\u00a0Nairy Baghramian<\/strong>\u00a0reflects on her relationship with the late, great dealer\u00a0Marian Goodman<\/strong>\u00a0in a new, thoughtful\u00a0piece<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0Artforum<\/em>. We learn that Goodman believed her most important contribution to art history was not her promotion of what became household names, like\u00a0Marcel Broodthaers<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Gerhard Richter<\/strong>. Rather, she told Baghramian it was a box set edition titled\u00a0Artists and Photographs<\/em>\u00a0from 1970, with works by\u00a0Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Smithson<\/strong>, and\u00a0Dan Graham<\/strong>. At the time, Goodman explained, photography had been merging into conceptual art, undergoing a major transformation, and the edition \u201cserved as a bridge between [her art publishing company]\u00a0Multiples, Inc.<\/strong>, and the founding of her gallery in 1977,\u201d according to Baghramian. Along with stories of her devotion to her artists and encouraging advice, Baghramian leaves us with the poetic description of Goodman carefully filling walnut shells with water and lining them up on her windowsill one winter morning, in an effort to keep the flies in her apartment alive and hydrated, following their journey up 34 floors. Were the walnut water vessels on her windowsill conceptual sculptures? The artist had asked. \u201cIn a way,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cLet\u2019s call them concepts of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/julio-le-parc-dies-cattelans-banana-stolen-morning-links-1234787983\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-645744537.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. Good Morning! Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of Kinetic Art and winner of the Venice Biennale Grand Prize, has died at 97 in Paris. Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s\u00a0Comedian,\u00a0i.e. the duct-taped banana,\u00a0was stolen from the Centre-Pompidou Metz. 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