Pioneering Kinetic Artist Julio Le Parc Dies at 97—and More Art Industry News
Kinetic art pioneer Julio Le Parc has died at age 97, as part of a wider Artnet News roundup that also highlights major appointments and upcoming fairs. The roundup reports that Art Basel Paris will return to the Grand Palais on October 23–25 for its fifth edition and the first led by new director Karim Crippa, with more than 200 exhibitors (181 in the main Galeries section). It also notes that François-Henri Pinault has been appointed Christie’s board chairman and non-executive director, replacing Guillaume Cerutti, and that Christie’s London plans to sell 106 works from the Zabludowicz Collection with an overall estimate of £15 million ($20 million), including artists such as Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Philip Guston, Rose Wylie, and Richard Prince, with highlights in a live sale on June 28. Other items include Sotheby’s New York expecting a T. Rex fossil to fetch up to $30 million at its Natural History Auction on July 14, and Gehry Partners designing a Getty Center renovation that will close the museum in March 2027 with reopening expected the following year.
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This story was covered in Market Highs, Museum Blowback, and Techno-Dystopias