Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich Returns Painting to...
Paul Laporte, a great-grandson of the well-to-do Sofie Heilbronner, who fled Munich for the United States in 1938, spent the past eight years working to reclaim a painting that belonged to his...
View ArticleSotheby’s to Sell a $37 M. Cache of Works Once Owned by Armand Hammer,...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Big Number: $37 M. That’s the high...
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How Collectors Jon and Kim Shirley Stepped In to Restore the Senate...
In March 2016, former president and chief executive of Microsoft Jon Shirley and his wife, Kim, flew from Seattle, where they are based, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting of the National Gallery of...
View ArticleEl Museo del Barrio Apologizes for Renting Space to Event that Aired 9/11...
New York’s El Museo del Barrio said this week that it regretted renting space to a group that organized an event at which 9/11 conspiracy theories were freely aired. Titled “Turning the Tide: 9/11 25...
View ArticleAmateur Archaeologist With a Metal Detector Finds 934 Roman Silver Coins in a...
A trove of 934 Roman silver denarii was discovered by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector in a field in Wesseling, Germany. The coins date to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian. When his...
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The Only Shocking Thing About Jordan Wolfson’s Gagosian Show Is How Boring It Is
Jordan Wolfson’s first New York gallery show in a decade arrived at Gagosian last Friday, exactly a week after the 25th anniversary of 9/11, bringing with it three new sculptures related to that...
View ArticleArt Institute of Chicago Returns a Metzinger to Family of Jewish Collector...
The Art Institute of Chicago will return Jean Metzinger’s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein, the museum has announced. The museum bought the...
View ArticleLA’s Getty Museum Acquires Recently Rediscovered Velázquez Painting, a First...
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares, a painting that was recently attributed to Diego Velázquez. The acquisition means a Velázquez painting will for the...
View ArticleLucia Laguna, Brazilian Artist Who Got Late But Fruitful Start on Painting...
Lucia Laguna, a Brazilian painter inspired by her lush surroundings in the hills above Rio de Janeiro, where she lived, died there at the age of 85, according to her gallery, Fortes D’Aloia &...
View ArticleMauritshuis Returns Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs of Jewish Dealer
The Mauritshuis in The Hauge, the home of famed Dutch Old Master works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, is returning Jan van Goyen’s painting Fishermen by the Lakeshore (1651) after new research has revealed...
View ArticleUK Temporarily Bans Export of a ‘Small But Mighty’ Italian Renaissance Bronze...
The UK has temporarily banned the export of a rare and highly valuable Renaissance bronze by the artist known as Antico. Seated Nymph, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1455–1528), is valued at £4.6...
View ArticleCodex Azcatitlan Goes on View in Mexico City, as Culture Ministry Continues...
The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare manuscript about Aztec history and civilization, recently went on view at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, as the Mexican Culture Ministry continues its...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Strikes a Deal with Nigeria for Long-Term Loan of...
Three major artworks from Nigeria will be on long-term display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in a partnership with the African nation. The artworks, which the museum describes as...
View ArticleA Fragment of a Peace Treaty Between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires...
A fragment of a cuneiform tablet was discovered by archaeologists excavating Hattsua, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in present-day Turkey, Heritage Daily reported. The artifact’s text was...
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After Fashion’s Me Too Reckoning, Fashion Photography’s Good Men Are Having...
2018 was the fashion industry’s reckoning with its own image. Fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and Terry Richardson were dropped by the industry at large after...
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Fair Warning Heads Underground With Keith Haring Subway Drawing Estimated at...
On the heels of a couture sale that saw the guerrilla auctioneers at Fair Warning tackle the runway, the house is going somewhere a little more underground—literally. Its next major auction will offer...
View ArticleMet Museum Repatriates Five Pieces of Looted Cretan Armor to Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York repatriated five pieces of ancient Cretan armor to Greece. The pieces were connected to a large-scale illegal excavation that occurred more than 60 years...
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Christie’s Wins Battle for Herbert Lust Collection, Expected to Fetch More...
Christie’s has won the battle for the collection of the late Herbert Lust, the eccentric banker, scholar, and prolific collector whose holdings were being pursued by both of the major auction houses...
View ArticleDealer Emanuel Layr Scales Back Vienna Gallery in Response to ‘Increasingly...
After 15 years, Emanuel Layr, one of Vienna’s most important art dealers, will scale back his gallery in the Austrian capital, citing what he called an “increasingly congested” art industry. Layr, who...
View ArticleLouis Vuitton Unveils Keith Haring Artycapucines Handbag Collection
FADE AWAY AND RADIATE: When Keith Haring scrawled his “Radiant Baby” on a battered Louis Vuitton suitcase in the ‘80s, little did he imagine that he was planting the seeds of an official collaboration...
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