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Ten Prints Signed by Salvador Dalí Found in London Garage to Be Auctioned in...
Ten lithographs signed by Salvador Dalí are set to head to the auction block after being found in a London garage, the United Kingdom–based auction house Hansons Auctioneers said in a press release...
View ArticleThe Overwhelming Majority of NFTs Are ‘Dead,’ Report Says
A report published earlier this month by NFTevening said that the market for NFTs has been in such a dramatic downturn since 2023 that 95 percent of them are considered “dead,” with the average NFT...
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Marco Anelli Goes Beyond Documentary Photography in New Show at Magazzino...
Italian photographer Marco Anelli spent ten years capturing the construction activity at Magazzino Italian Art, building upon his decades of prior experience to go beyond documentary photography....
View ArticleRestitution Firm Settles Legal Dispute Over Painting Returned by MoMA
A long-running legal dispute over a Marc Chagall painting that was returned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to relatives of its original owner has been settled, according to a report by the...
View ArticleCaitlin Berry Named Inaugural Director of Johns Hopkins’s New Frary Gallery...
Caitlin Berry has been named the inaugural director of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, a new university art gallery that is part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington,...
View ArticleCalifornia Man Receives Three-Month Sentence for Smuggling Ancient Mosaic...
A California man was sentenced to three months in federal prison today for illegally importing a 2,000-pound ancient floor mosaic from Syria to the US. Judge George W. Hu of the U.S. District Court...
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Is the Summer Group Show in New York Going the Way of the Dinosaur?
Periodically, a close-up image of a smiling Ed Sheeran will pop into my head, jolting me into consciousness. I’m no fan of Sheeran’s music, so I don’t spend much time thinking about him. I do,...
View ArticleDakar’s Response to the Postponement of Africa’s Largest Biennial Was Vivacious
This past April, just weeks before the opening of Dak’Art, Africa’s largest and longest-running biennial, the Senegalese Minister of Culture abruptly postponed the event citing unrest stemming from...
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AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical
There’s something dystopian about a tech company cofounder standing on stage and criticizing humans for being slow, expensive, and outdated in authenticating art. Why send a painting to some crusty...
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Art Student Sued by Iceland’s Top Fishing Company After Issuing Fake Apology...
An Icelandic art student is being sued by Iceland’s largest fishing company, Samherji, after making an artwork apologizing for its alleged role in the so-called Fishrot scandal. The scandal takes its...
View ArticlePortrait of Rubens and Van Dyck Returned After Being Stolen 40 Years Ago
A 17th-century double portrait of Flemish artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck was returned after being stolen 40 years ago. The work, an oil on wood painting by another Flemish artist,...
View ArticleICA San Francisco Expands to Financial District’s Cube, Doubling Exhibition...
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is relocating from its original Dogpatch neighborhood warehouse to a larger five-story modernist building known locally as “the Cube” in the...
View ArticleOpenSea Faces SEC Action Over Unregistered Securities Allegations
OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces, has said it received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), signaling the regulator’s intent to bring a lawsuit against...
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More Art School Classes Are Teaching AI This Fall Despite Ethical Concerns...
When undergraduate students return to the Ringling College of Art and Design this fall, one of the school’s newest offerings will be an AI certificate. Ringling is just the latest of several top art...
View ArticleBoy Scouts Auction Norman Rockwell Paintings to Fund Sex-Abuse Survivor...
The Boy Scouts of America is auctioning off the entirety of its 321-piece art collection, which includes works by Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, and J.C. Leyendecker, and is valued at around $59...
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Rare Artworks by Otto Antoine, “The Painter of Berlin,” Come to Market
A trove of works by the overlooked painter, deemed “the largest single-artist private collection” of a German artist in the U.S., catches the attention of collectors and historians. Related Articles...
View ArticleState-Owned Chinese Company Places $1.2 B. Bid for K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong
In a shock development that sparked headlines in Bloomberg, the Business Times, and Sing Tao this past week, K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong’s shopping district, Tsim Sha Tsui, received a $1.2 billion offer...
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Artists and Creatives Are Working with AI Companies, but Should They?
When Edmund Cartwright was at work creating the world’s first power loom at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, he sent a prototype of his machine to weavers in Manchester, which was, at the time,...
View Article81 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall
In a word, this fall’s offerings are electric. The word shows up in the titles of not one but two tech-minded shows—one devoted to Op art and its influence, the other to the rise of digital art, at...
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Ryan Preciado Is Marrying Sculpture, Design, and Conceptual Art—And Finding a...
A few years ago, Ryan Preciado began frequenting a hardware store less than a mile from his main studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Slowly, he began befriending the family...
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