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Alex Katz’s New Paintings in Venice Celebrate Grass, Water, and Clothes
At 96, Alex Katz is showing new paintings of three highly different kinds in an exhibition that coincides with the Venice Biennale. “Claire, Grass and Water” at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini features 26...
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Meeting of the Minds: James Lee Byars and Seung-taek Lee’s Art Convene for an...
Can two artists born in the same year, worlds apart, and never having met make work that is eerily similar to each other? That’s the premise behind one of the more thoughtful and introspective...
View ArticleFrench Sculptor Camille Claudel Steps Out from Rodin’s Shadow in New Getty Show
Known in France as a giant of modernist sculpture, to the rest of the world Camille Claudel is mainly remembered as Auguste Rodin’s lover. Her tragic life, which included spending the last decades of...
View ArticleA ‘Succession’-Level Series On Art Fraudster Inigo Philbrick is Coming to HBO
EXCLUSIVE: HBO is teaming up with Doctor Who producer Bad Wolf to develop a series about Inigo Philbrick, the flamboyant art dealer jailed for committing more than $86 million in fraud. Bad Wolf has...
View ArticleA Quick Scribble by Michelangelo Sold for Over $200K at Christie’s New York
A small drawing by Michelangelo, accompanied by a letter from the artist’s last direct descendant, has sold at Christie’s New York for $201,600, far outstripping its highest estimate of $8,000. Found...
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Our Critics Predict the Golden Lion Winners at the 2024 Venice Biennale
While the last professional preview day for the 2024 Venice Biennale is Friday, the week’s hullabaloo technically ends on Saturday morning, when the exhibition opens to the public and the Biennale’s...
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Robert Indiana Gets a Revealing Survey in Venice, Where ‘Love’ Is Just One of...
The simultaneously eccentric and emblematic Americanness of Robert Indiana is on prismatic display in Venice, where a career-spanning survey titled “The Sweet Mystery” opened at the historic...
View ArticleThe 10 Best National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale, From a Cut-Up Giraffe...
Typically, the Venice Biennale’s national pavilions play second fiddle to the main exhibition—which is ironic, considering that there is about as much art, if not more, on view in them than what’s...
View ArticleSotheby’s to Offer Four Paintings by Joan Mitchell in ‘Momentous’ May Auction
Sotheby’s will offer four major paintings by Joan Mitchell as part of its contemporary evening sale on May 13, spanning the artist’s career, with estimates ranging between $1 million and $20 million....
View ArticleLouvre, Guggenheim Among Major Museums Awarded Conservation Grants
Bank of America, which has a division that focuses on cultural philanthropy, has announced the 24 institutions that its giving funding to as part of a long-standing conservation program, which has...
View ArticleMusée d’Orsay Gets New Leader, Fire-Ravaged Copenhagen Stock Exchange Facade...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES FIRE DAMAGE. The façade of Copenhagen’s historic stock exchange collapsed...
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Artist Eun-Me Ahn Blesses and Baptizes Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s...
As I neared my destination to an island in the northern part of the Venetian lagoon, about 30 minutes from the Giardini, I was among the first on my boat to spot a cloud of hot pink smoke rising up...
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The 2024 Venice Biennale: Our Critics Discuss Their First Impressions of a...
As the professional preview days for the 2024 Venice Biennale draw to a close, the ARTnews team has been taking it all in, from the main exhibition, titled “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere”...
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Christoph Büchel Returns with Another Venice Provocation, Addressing the War...
One thing is for sure, and it’s that Christoph Büchel knows how to piss off Venice Biennale attendees. In 2015, for the Icelandic Pavilion, the Swiss artist opened a functioning mosque, billing it as...
View ArticleMan Faces 14 Months in Prison for Selling 145 Fake Peter Max Paintings
On Wednesday, a Connecticut man was sentenced to 14 months in prison for selling 145 fraudulent paintings by Pop artist Peter Max, the Art Newspaper first reported. Nicholas P. Hatch was arrested for...
View ArticleSylvain Amic Named President of Musée d’Orsay and Musée de L’Orangerie in Paris
Art curator Sylvain Amic has been named the new president of the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie museums in Paris. The 56-year-old Amic will succeed art historian Christophe Leribault, who was...
View ArticleIn the Venice Biennale’s Historical Sections, Overlooked 20th-Century Figures...
If you take a look at a given artist list for a recurring exhibition over the past hundred years, you’ll most certainly find yourself recognizing quite a few names (several if it was a consequential...
View ArticleStolen Salvator Rosa Painting Returned To Oxford University Gallery After...
A 17th-century painting stolen from an art gallery at the University of Oxford more than four years ago was recently recovered in Romania. Salvator Rosa’s Baroque landscape work A Rocky Coast, with...
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Indigenous Artists Take Venice Biennale’s Top Prizes as Mataaho Collective,...
With the 2024 Venice Biennale now officially open to the public, the massive Italian art festival announced the winners of its three juried prizes during a press conference this morning. Related...
View ArticleItaly Bars Loans to Minneapolis Museum, Elusive Star Trek Prop Resurfaces,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES MUSEUM EMBARGO. Italy’s culture ministry has barred any further art loans to the...
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