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Art Industry News: Two Climate Activists Slapped With a Nominal Fine for Gluing a Dystopian Image Onto a Famous Constable Painting + Other Stories

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Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, December 7.

NEED TO READ

Miami Beach Sculpture Sparks Controversy – The public is debating whether the government should use city funds to buy art after Miami Beach bought a $80,000 installation by Cuban artist Juana Valdés consisting of 12 porcelain rags. (Axios)

Breast Milk Performance Gets Artist Kicked Out of Fair – Anonymous conceptual artist OONA was kicked out of Satellite Art Show for staging a guerilla performance entitled MILKING THE ARTISTin which they produced breast milk in front of an audience and then put glasses of milk up for auction. (Paper)

Climate Activists Found Guilty in Glue Stunt – A U.K. district judge has convicted two Just Stop Oil protesters of causing criminal damage to John Constable’s The Hay Wain at the National Gallery in London. The activistswho taped posters of a dystopian version of the painting over its vitrine before gluing themselves to the frame, must pay £1,000 in damages. (Evening Standard)

Patti Wong Steps Down at Sotheby’s – After more than 30 years, Sotheby’s international chairman is retiring. She helped grow the auction house’s business in Asia to more than $1 billion annually. “Though I am stepping down—I will never go far,” Wong said. “Sotheby’s runs in my blood; we will always stay close.” (The Value)

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Met Gets $10 Million Donation – Philanthropist Adrienne Arsht donated $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to benefit the Met Live Art series, which is dedicated to contemporary performance. She gifted the department $5 million in 2020. (The Art Newspaper)

Estonia Unveils Plans for 2024 Venice Biennale Pavilion – Sculptor Edith Karlson will represent Estonia at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Maria Arusoo, director of the Estonian Center for Contemporary Art in Tallinn, is commissioning the pavilion. (ARTnews)

Toronto Biennial of Art Names Curatorial Team – Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López will co-curate the forthcoming biennial, slated to take place September 21 through December 1, 2024. (Press release)

Inaugural Prince Claus Impact Awardees Announced – The recipients of the first-ever impact awards include dissident Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Moroccan artist Hassan Darsi, Argentinian writer and prison abolition activist María Medrano, and Egyptian architect May al-Ibrashy. (Contemporary&)

FOR ARTS SAKE

Damien Hirst Sculptures Decorate New Mayfair Restaurant – Five monumental statues by Hirst decorate the trendy new London eatery, including a winged lion, a unicorn, a Medusa, and a Bacchus. Accompanying murals by artist Gary Myatt put a White Lotus-style twist on Thomas Couture’s 1847 painting Romans in their Decadence. (the seas)

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Thunderstorms from medium to heavy in these areas! • Observatory Newspaper

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Al-Marsad_SPA newspaper: The National Center of Meteorology expected, in its report on the weather for today, thunderstorms, from medium to heavy, accompanied by active winds and showers of hail, leading to torrential rains in parts of the regions of Al-Sharqiya, Al-Qassim and Riyadh.

While the sky will be partly cloudy to cloudy, interspersed with rainy thunderclouds over parts of the regions of Asir, Al-Baha, and Makkah Al-Mukarramah, extending to the southern parts of the heights of Medina, as well as on the northern outskirts of the regions of Al-Jawf and the northern borders.

It is also not excluded that fog will form during the night and morning hours in parts of those areas.

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A specialist in “meteorology” reveals a state of rain from Monday to Thursday.. and shows the areas prone to torrential rains and the temperature reaching zero • Al Marsad Newspaper

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Al-Marsad Newspaper: The analyst at the National Center of Meteorology, Aqeel Al-Aqeel, explained that the initial indications indicate that the rainy situation will continue in the Kingdom from Monday to Thursday.

non stability

And he said during the “Al-Youm” program on the “Al-Ikhbariya” channel, starting this evening, weather conditions and elements are preparing, and warm and humid southern winds are matched by northern winds, which helps in a state of instability, as well as the deepening of the depression from the surface of the earth to the upper layers of the atmosphere leads to continuation of this situation.

And he continued: It is expected that the rain will be on the northern borders, including the Rafha governorate and its environs, and some parts of the northeastern sector in Hafar Al-Batin and some parts of Al-Qassim.

rain abundant

And he added: On Monday, the chance and abundance of expected rain and torrential flow will increase, in addition to the thunderstorm clouds extending and affecting the rest of the eastern sector of the Kingdom and some parts of the Riyadh region, and from Monday to Thursday it is not excluded that it will affect the capital, Riyadh, but the rains are generally moderate. The same applies to some parts of Medina, Hail, Qassim, the northern border, Al-Jawf region, Makkah Al-Mukarramah, and the southern and southwestern highlands.

current torrents

He explained that the most prominent areas promised by torrential rains and torrential rains are the northeastern regions, in Hafr Al-Batin and Al-Khafji, Al-Nairiya, some parts of Hail, the northern border region and some western-eastern parts of the Al-Qassim region, and as we head to the northeast.

Degree zero

He pointed out that the advantages of this winter are warmth compared to previous years, and temperatures will be higher than their average.

He pointed out that the “Al-Murabaaniyya season” has entered since last Thursday, and temperatures are expected to reach zero or below zero in the northern regions and northern borders.

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Meteorology announces raising the alert level to advanced regarding heavy rain in Jeddah

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Al-Marsad Newspaper – SPA: The National Center of Meteorology issued, in an update to it, an advanced warning of moderate to heavy rains in the entire governorate of Jeddah in the Makkah Al-Mukarramah region, accompanied by activity in surface winds, hail, torrential rains, and a lack of visibility, whose impact includes the entire governorate and regions. Open highways.

The center indicated that the situation will continue – God willing – until 10 am tomorrow.

While the Directorate of Civil Defense in Makkah Al-Mukarramah region called for caution and caution and to avoid approaching torrential rains during the rains, in conjunction with the climatic conditions that some regions of the Kingdom are witnessing these days.

And she called on everyone to be careful of potential risks from the rain products, such as transported torrents and water swamps, to stay away from the places where torrents gather, and not to risk crossing the valleys during the rain.

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Meteorology: We detected cloud cover that covered 90% of the country today

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Dr. Mahmoud El-Kayati, a member of the Meteorological Authority’s media center, said that the cloud cover that all Egyptians witnessed was over most regions of the republic and covered 90% of all parts, but it was not accompanied by rain.

And Dr. Mahmoud Al-Qayati added, in a phone call to the “Min Masr” program, with the journalist Amr Khalil, on the CBC channel, that it is expected that over the next 48 hours we will be exposed to an extension of the seasonal Sudan depression, and part of it will begin to extend to include most regions of the Republic with an extension. A depression in the upper atmosphere begins to pass from the western side to the eastern side.

And he continued: “It is expected that clouds will multiply, and mostly light rain is expected on areas of the northern coasts and the Red Sea mountain ranges. We expect light rain to fall in the northern regions during the next 48 hours, and the chance of torrential rains does not exist.”

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Thunderstorms in most regions of the Kingdom from Monday to Wednesday

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The National Center of Meteorology expected thunderstorms to fall in most regions of the Kingdom, God willing, from tomorrow, Monday to Wednesday, accompanied by hail, downward currents of active speed, raised dust, and a decrease in horizontal visibility. And Al-Qassim, Al-Sharqiya, Asir, Jizan, Al-Baha and Riyadh, where the rains reach medium and heavy rains in some areas and very heavy in others.

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