Ansel Adams Estate Calls Out Adobe for Selling AI-Generated Art Using...
In an unusually public conflagration between an artist’s estate and a tech giant, the Ansel Adams Trust hit back at Adobe for selling AI-generated images using the famed photographer’s name. Adams, a...
View ArticlePhillips Leads Spring Auctions in Hong Kong With $12.6 M. Basquiat Painting
The recent results of Christie’s and Phillips modern and contemporary evening auctions in Hong Kong provided additional data indicating a shift in the art market after several years of blockbuster...
View ArticleEl Museo del Barrio Names Artist List for Its 2024 Triennial, with an...
El Museo del Barrio has named the 33 artists that will take part in the second edition of its triennial, which will run at the museum from October 10, 2024, to February 9, 2025. This year, the...
View ArticleAce Gallery Founder Convicted, Court Settles Restitution Confusion with MFA...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES EMBEZZLEMENT CONVICTION. Douglas Chrismas, the 80-year-old, notorious founder of...
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In His Mardi Gras Suits and Beadwork Paintings, Demond Melancon Creates...
Before he considered himself an artist, Demond Melancon boiled lobster at the Louisiana chain restaurant Drago’s Seafood, washed dishes at Emeril’s, and poured concrete for Hard Rock Construction. He...
View ArticleMFA Houston Can Keep Contested Nazi-looted Bernardo Bellotto Painting: US...
A United States appeals court has affirmed a prior ruling that the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Houston can keep an 18th-century painting contested in a lawsuit by the heirs of its original German Jewish...
View ArticleArt Historian’s Run for Mayor of Florence Faces Pushback from Italy’s Left Wing
Eike Schmidt, a German art historian who formerly served as director of the Uffizi Galleries, has officially launched his campaign to become mayor of Florence. But a smooth road to office has been...
View ArticleAce Gallery Founder Douglas Chrismas Found Guilty of Embezzlement
Doug Chrismas, the founder of the now defunct blue-chip Ace Gallery in Los Angeles, was found guilty on Friday of embezzling more than $260,000 from his gallery’s bankruptcy estate for which he acted...
View ArticleFrench Culture Minister Tweets About Pursuing New Policy To Deter Climate...
After a climate activist covered Claude Monet’s 1873 painting Poppies at Argenteuil with a large sticker at the Musée D’Orsay on Saturday, French culture minister Rachida Dati responded on X calling...
View ArticlePresident of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts Resigns After School’s...
The president of Philadelphia’s 148-year-old University of the Arts resigned as the school prepared to wind down operations ahead of its sudden closure. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Kerry...
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A Tech Accelerator Helps Major Museums Develop Blockchain Projects to Stay...
Last week, a group of 10 major museums, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico unveiled a...
View ArticleLGBTQ+ Artists Having Institutional Shows This Pride Month
Like last year, 2024’s Pride celebrations come at a time when LGBTQ+ rights are under threat, made all the more alarming by the upcoming presidential election, in which the very existence of American...
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Ben Vautier, Fluxus Artist Who Famously Proclaimed That ‘Everything Is Art,’...
Ben Vautier, a French Fluxus artist whose humorous paintings and performances imploded the division between life and art, earning laughs and admiration alike from critics, has died at 88. Vautier, who...
View ArticleArt Basel Branches into the Lifestyle Sector with New Retail Shop Concept
Art Basel will launch of a concept retail store, called the Art Basel Shop, during its Swiss fair next week. The store, which marks the brand’s first push into the retail/lifestyle sector, will...
View ArticleBritish Museum Says It Wants ‘Realistic Solutions’ to Parthenon Marbles...
The British Museum said it is interested in “realistic solutions” to its ownership dispute with Greece over the Parthenon Marbles following a UNESCO conference in which a representative of Turkey took...
View ArticleTwo 17th Century Paintings Looted by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre by...
Two 17th century paintings were recently donated to the Louvre Museum in Paris after experts identified the descendants of the original owner. Floris van Schooten’s Still-Life with Ham and Peter...
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A First Look at the Big Ticket Artworks that Galleries Are Bringing to Art Basel
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. If one were to liken the marquee New...
View ArticleNew York’s Simone Subal Gallery to Close After 12 Years
Simone Subal Gallery will shutter later this month, becoming the latest New York gallery to announce its permanent closure this year. Founded in 2011, the Lower East Side gallery currently represents...
View ArticleArmory Show Names Exhibitors for Upcoming 30th Anniversary Edition
The Armory Show has named the more than 235 galleries that will take part in its upcoming 30th anniversary edition, scheduled to run at the Javits Center from September 6–8, with a VIP preview day on...
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Disputed Malevich Painting Tied to Disgraced Dealer Itzhak Zarug Presented as...
A highly disputed painting attributed by some to Russian modernist Kazimir Malevich was presented as genuine this past January at a private event at France’s top modern and contemporary art museum,...
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