Man Claims Graceland Foreclosure Scam, Legendary Wu-Tang Clan Album to be...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES GRACELAND SCAM. A man has claimed he used identity theft to threaten foreclosure...
View ArticleArt World, Take Heed: The Christie’s Hack Was a Warning
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. Late this past Sunday, RansomHub, a...
View ArticleExtremely Rare Wu-Tang Clan Album to Be Played at Australian Exhibition
A rare album secretly recorded by the hip hop band Wu-Tang Clan is slated to be part of an exhibition at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona). The most expensive record ever sold was designed...
View ArticleSotheby’s Will Reportedly Lay Off Dozens of Employees in the UK
Sotheby’s, one of the largest auction houses in the world, is set to lay off dozens of workers employed in the UK, according to a report published by the Art Newspaper Thursday. The house is...
View ArticleUS Returns 600 Looted Antiquities Worth $65 M. to Italy
On Tuesday, Italy officially welcomed 600 antiquities from the United States, worth a collective $65 million, that were looted years ago and scattered in the holdings of museums, galleries, and...
View ArticleBreakthrough in TEFAF Heist Case, Sotheby’s to Lay Off Dozens in UK,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES TEFAF HEIST. Police have recovered two diamonds stolen in 2022 in plain sight of...
View ArticleIn Email, Christie’s Makes Post-Hack Contact with Clients, Says Financial...
In email apparently sent from Christie’s to its clients this week, the auction house said that only identification data, and not financial or transaction data, was stolen during the cyberattack...
View ArticleChanel and Shanghai’s Power Station of Art Sign Long-term Partnership
Just in time for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of China-France diplomatic relations and the Year of Cultural and Tourism exchange between the two countries, Chanel and Shanghai’s Power...
View Article‘Niki’ Review: Charlotte Le Bon Stars in a Pretty but Flimsy Portrait of an...
It is an ongoing mystery why so many artists’ biopics, though undoubtedly coming from a place of deep admiration, choose to ignore the very thing that makes their subjects extraordinary—their art—in...
View ArticleArt Collector Ron Perelman’s $410M Insurance Claim Will Head to Trial
During a summary judgement hearing Wednesday in Manhattan, New York State Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen ruled that the case betwen businessman Ron Perelman, who has appeared on ARTnews Top 200...
View ArticleDutch Police Recover Two Diamonds Stolen from TEFAF Maastricht
Authorities have recovered two diamonds stolen from TEFAF Maastricht in 2022 in a brazen daytime heist. That year, in plain view of astounded visitors, several armed and disguised men absconded with...
View Article44 Museum Shows to See This Summer
Perhaps you seek more at a museum this summer than just strong AC and a good permanent collection? You’re in luck. The summer, typically a slow period for institutions, is livelier this year than...
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When El Anatsui Isn’t Busy Being One of Africa’s Biggest Artists, He’s...
El Anatsui may be known best for his metallic tapestries made from bottle caps, but he is also a musician. In his university days, he played trumpet, performing music by Benny Goodman and Duke...
View ArticleJohn Lennon’s ‘Help!’ Guitar Just Sold for a Record $2.9M. at Auction
John Lennon’s guitar needed no help setting a new world record on Wednesday. The famous “Help!” Framus Hootenanny hammered down an astonishing $2.86 million in Julien’s two-day Music Icons sale at the...
View ArticleIraqi Government Recovers 6,000 Looted Artifacts
More than 6,000 historical artifacts smuggled out of Iraq after the fall of Mosul in 2014 have been recovered, according to the publication Al-Monitor. The announcement was made on Wednesday by Ali...
View ArticleCurator Vincent Honoré’s Suicide Labeled a ‘Work Accident’ by French Social...
The suicide of Vincent Honoré, a well-known French curator who served as head of exhibitions at the MO.CO Montpellier museum, was the subject of a three-month investigation, according to Le Quotidien...
View ArticleFollowing Calls to Remove ‘Unflattering’ Portrait from Australia’s National...
If you can’t beat them, join them—as the old saying goes—or, perhaps, give them something else to discuss. This seems to be the attitude of Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, who gifted a...
View ArticleBasquiat Painting Sells for $12.6 M. at Phillips Hong Kong
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 work Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari sold for $12.6 million at a Phillips modern and contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong this week. That...
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Pro-Gaza Protestors Stage Action at Brooklyn Museum, Calling for Divestment...
As afternoon dimmed into evening Friday, the Brooklyn Museum became the stage of one the most fervent Gaza solidarity actions yet to descend on a New York City art institution. Starting at 4:30 p.m....
View ArticleMonet Painting at the Musée d’Orsay Vandalized by Climate Activist
A climate activist affixed an adhesive poster to a Monet painting at the Musée d’Orsay Saturday. The woman, who said she intended to raise awareness for climate change, was arrested. The stunt was...
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