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Artist Joel Mesler Takes Over New York with Midtown Pool Party and an Upper...
On a recent afternoon, a couple was walking through the latest show by Joel Mesler, at Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery’s Beaux-Arts townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, when Mesler himself stopped them...
View ArticleMassive Museum with a Focus on Pompeii to Open in Naples in 2026
A new museum with a focus on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii is slated to open in the Italian city Naples. The space is set to measure 103,000 square meters (1.1 million square feet), and will be...
View ArticleBanksy Fires Back at UK Home Secretary After Being Criticized for ‘Vile’...
Mysterious muralist Banksy took aim on Wednesday at British Home Secretary James Cleverly, who had previously criticized an artwork featuring an inflatable raft that appeared at the Glastonbury music...
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Paul Allen’s Vintage Computer Museum Shutters, Sends Its Holdings to Auction
Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the South Seattle steward of Paul G. Allen’s collection of vintage computers and internet technology, will officially never reopen following its closure during the...
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Tokyo Gendai Gets Ready to Open as Japan’s Art Market Heats Up
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. On Tuesday evening in Tokyo’s Roppongi...
View ArticleA Strong Dollar and a Weak Yen Could Impact Sales at Tokyo Gendai
Over the last several months, American visitors have flocked to Japan to take advantage of a historically weak yen, lowering the price of hotels, restaurants, theme parks, and bullet train tickets....
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A Month from Art Basel, Small and Midsize Galleries Are Adapting to a...
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 go by the first-day...
View ArticleFormer Nino Mier Senior Director to Open Her Own Gallery in Dealer’s Closed...
Megan Mulrooney, a former senior director at Nino Mier Gallery, will open her open gallery in three spaces in Los Angeles previously run by her former employer. “As a born-and-raised Angeleno, I seek...
View ArticleLACMA Slammed by Korean Art Experts for Exhibiting ‘Fake’ Korean Paintings
The names of late Korean artists Lee Jung-seob and Park Soo-keun have been dragged into a scandal after several of their paintings exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) were...
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What to See Before (and After) the Tokyo Gendai Art Fair
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. The flight to Japan from art world centers...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at Tokyo Gendai, From Gawk-Worthy Tea Bowls to...
No sooner had Tokyo Gendai thrown open the doors to the VIP preview of its second edition on Thursday than ARTnews Top 200 Collector Takeo Obayashi could be seen admiring a striking Robert Longo...
View ArticleWorld’s Oldest Cave Art Discovered, Jorge Perez Blasts Arts Defunding in...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES EARLIEST NARRATIVE PAINTING. New evidence backs findings that the earliest known...
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Christie’s London Invited Players From the Experiential Art Sector to Discuss...
People still struggling to wrap their heads around NFTs, generative AI art, and other new forms of expression might just give up at the idea of collecting experiences as art. The mere mention of the...
View ArticleCharges Dropped Against 80 Pro-Palestine Protestors Arrested at Chicago’s Art...
Charges were dropped on Wednesday against 80 protestors who were arrested during a pro-Palestine demonstration at the Art Institute of Chicago in May. During that protest, a group of students at the...
View ArticleBillionaire Art Collector Jorge Pérez Slams Ron DeSantis for Slashing Florida...
Real estate mogul and arts patron Jorge Pérez slammed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, calling the politician’s recent slashing of arts and culture grants from the state budget “a horrible message to...
View ArticleWorld’s Oldest Known Cave Painting, Featuring a Mysterious Pig, Found in...
Some 51,200 years ago on the ceiling of a limestone cave in the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, art history was made. A wild pig was painted with crude red pigment, standing at peace beside three...
View ArticleBangkok Art Biennale Announces Artist Lineup for 2024 Edition
The Bangkok Art Biennale has announced its lineup of the 45 local and international artists set to participate in its fourth edition, scheduled to open on October 25. The artists hail from 28...
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Sales Start Slow at Tokyo Gendai, But Founder Magnus Renfrew Is Playing the...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. While the VIP preview Thursday of Tokyo...
View Article25 Masterpieces at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris
In 1900 the Exposition Universelle drew thousands of art lovers to Paris, many of them arriving by train at the new Gare d’Orsay. Who among them would have thought that the train station where they...
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New York’s First Permanent Immersive Art Center Is Pivoting to Puppy Yoga and...
When the Hall des Lumières opened in 2022 with an inaugural installation on Gustav Klimt, it was heralded as a major step forward for the immersive art industry. However, as of February, the Hall has...
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