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Good Morning!<\/strong><\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. British artist\u00a0David Hockney has died<\/strong>\u00a0at 88. He \u201cpassed away peacefully at home on June 11, 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday,\u201d stated his publicist, Erica Bolton. One of contemporary art\u2019s most influential figures, Hockney never stopped painting what he loved, even late into his life. This included the people and places the artist encountered over the course of a remarkable life spent in London, Los Angeles, East Yorkshire, and Normandy, among others. Born July 9, 1937, the artist\u2014immediately recognizable in his colorful, gentlemanly attire, complete with cap and round glasses\u2014is survived by his partner\u00a0Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima<\/strong>, two brothers, Phillip and John, as well as their children and grandchildren. Hockney first made a name for himself as a Pop artist in the late 1950s and early \u201960s, going on to make highly coveted paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, which now command many millions at auction\u2014along with the rest of his vast oeuvre. His\u00a0Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)<\/em>(1972)\u00a0sold<\/strong>\u00a0at Christie\u2019s for $90.3 million in 2018; at the time, it was the most expensive auctioned artwork by a living artist. But Hockney was not confined to painting on canvas. He also painted with iPads, designed opera sets, and made etchings, lithographs, photographs, and stained-glass windows. His practice managed to touch the hearts of both a wider public and the art world\u2019s most discerning critics, making him one of the most globally recognizable art stars of the last century.<\/p>\n HAGGLING IN THE HAGUE<\/strong>. A court in The Hague has ruled that the\u00a0Mauritshuis museum<\/strong>\u00a0in the Netherlands does not have to return 25 valuable artworks\u2014including eight Rembrandts\u2014to the legal heirs of art historian and former Mauritshuis director\u00a0Abraham Bredius<\/strong>,\u00a0reports<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0NL Times<\/em>.\u00a0Descendants of\u00a0Joseph Kronig<\/strong>, the sole heir of Bredius, who died without children, had filed a legal claim arguing that the museum was reneging on its promise to permanently display the 25 works Bredius bequeathed to it, under the condition that they all remain on permanent display. Fifteen of the 25 paintings remain in storage, prompting the lawsuit. However, the District Court of The Hague ruled that Bredius\u2019s will leaves \u201csome room for uncertainty,\u201d and determined that it intended for the paintings to be displayed exclusively within the Mauritshuis but barred from loans to other exhibitions. Storing them there is therefore permitted, since there was no \u201cabsolute duty\u201d to permanently hang all the paintings for public viewing, the court concluded. The museum has argued that it is physically impossible to display all 25 artworks at once.<\/p>\n \n\tArtists feel misled and disrespected after receiving bulk emails that falsely announced that they were both shortlisted\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0invited to participate in an\u00a0arts residency<\/strong>\u00a0run by\u00a0Abstract Magazine<\/em><\/strong>, even in cases where they had never applied. [Artnet News<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tPortrait photographer\u00a0William Coupon<\/strong>, whose subjects ranged from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Richard Nixon, has died at 73. [New York Times<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA Brazilian court has ordered the former director of Rio\u2019s Museu de Arte Moderna,\u00a0F\u00e1bio Szwarcwald<\/strong>, to pay about $20,000 in fines for breach of contract, following his publicly stated concerns about the museum\u2019s safety and lack of fire insurance.\u00a0[The Art Newspaper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tLess than 36 hours before a court-ordered deadline to remove President Trump\u2019s name from the\u00a0John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts<\/strong>, the institution\u2019s board appealed the directive and challenged an accompanying legal halt to renovation plans. [The Washington Post<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Grimm Gallery\u00a0<\/strong>in Amsterdam is expanding to new, larger headquarters in the city center and is opening an artist residency in an 18th-century ch\u00e2teau in southern France, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. [Artnet News<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA bag purportedly made of reconstituted\u00a0Tyrannosaurus rex<\/strong>skin, drawn from a collagen sample trapped inside a fossil, flopped at auction in Paris, where it had been estimated at \u20ac300,000 ($347,100).\u00a0 [Le Figaro and AFP<\/strong>]<\/p>\n LAZYBONES<\/strong>. Curator\u00a0Helen Molesworth<\/strong>\u00a0has a soft spot for \u201cartists who flirt with not working, not making things\u2014 artists who succumb to laziness,\u201d she writes in\u00a0Cultured<\/em><\/strong>. Molesworth, along with other art world figures, was asked to comment on one of the seven deadly sins in today\u2019s era. She picked sloth, which \u201cencompasses laziness, an attribute that haunts me,\u201d she admits. We wager she is not alone. In fact, the much-anticipated\u00a0Basel Social Club,\u00a0<\/strong>held June 14 to June 20, tackles this subject via this edition\u2019s office work theme\u2014seen in its absurdities and digital-era transformations. What do artists say about sloth? Molesworth reminds us that there\u2019s\u00a0Lee Lozano<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0General Strike Piece<\/em>\u00a0(1969), which starts with this instruction to self: \u201cGradually but determinedly avoid being present at official or public \u2018uptown\u2019 functions or gatherings related to the \u2018art world.\u2019\u201d Even better is\u00a0Robert Barry<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Closed Gallery<\/em>, in which the invitation to the show read, \u201cDuring the exhibition the gallery will be closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/mauritshuis-museum-contested-rembrandts-morning-links-1234789023\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1212889361.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Iconic British artist David Hockney has died at 88. A court in The Hague said the Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 valuable artworks\u2014including eight Rembrandts\u2014to the heirs of its former museum director. Fallout continues from a viral artist residency \u201cscandal\u201d that misled artists. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. 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