Owners of Marlborough Gallery Put London Building Up for Sale for Over $32 M.
Marlborough Gallery’s governing trust has listed its London building, the ten-story, 10,300-square-foot Scandia House, for over £25 million, or approximately $32 million, the Art Newspaper reported...
View ArticleSkarstedt Gallery to Open in Chelsea Space Formerly Owned by Cheim & Read
New York dealer Per Skarstedt will move into a Chelsea space that formerly housed Cheim & Read, a gallery that shuttered last year after 26 years in business. Skarstedt will continue to run his...
View ArticleBanksy’s ‘Girl With Balloon’ Stolen from a London Gallery But Later Found,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BANKSY SMASH, GRAB, AND RETURN. The iconic Banksy print, Girl With Balloon, was...
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Arthur Jafa, Polymathic Chronicler of Black America, Joins Sprüth Magers
Arthur Jafa, the filmmaker, artist, and cinematographer feted for his explorations of Blackness in America, has signed with Sprüth Magers. Jafa’s first exhibition with Sprüth Magers opens tomorrow...
View ArticleNew York Supreme Court Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Helen Frankenthaler...
A New York Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation by one of its former board members, Frederick Iseman. In the dismissal, Judge Jennifer G....
View ArticleSacred Indigenous Cloak Returned to Brazil by Danish Museum
A sacred cloak that had been in the holdings of the National Museum of Denmark for more than 300 years was returned to Indigenous leaders in Brazil, reported the BBC. The nearly six-foot-long cloak...
View ArticleSuspects in Banksy’s ‘Girl With Balloon’ Theft Head to Court Next Month
Two men accused of stealing Banksy’s painting Girl With Balloon from a London gallery late Sunday night are set to appear before the court next month on charges with non-residential burglary,...
View ArticleRichard Pettibone, Artist Who Appropriated Others’ Paintings for His Own...
Richard Pettibone, a painter whose enigmatic work involved copying famed contemporary artworks and then exhibiting these smaller-scale lookalikes, died on August 19 at 86. A representative for New...
View ArticleSafeya Binzagr, Pioneering Artist Who Preserved Saudi Arabia’s Culture, Dies...
Safeya Binzagr, a pioneering artist who eternalized folk heritage in her native Saudi Arabia, died on September 12 at 86. The news was first reported by the Abu Dhabi–based publication The National....
View ArticleFollowing Bankruptcy Filing, Beleaguered Advisor Lisa Schiff to Sell...
Over 200 artworks from the inventory of art advisor Lisa Schiff are set to be auctioned as part of bankruptcy proceedings, Artnet News reported last week. Bankruptcy trustees have selected the auction...
View Article$8.3 M. of Trafficked Antiquities Returned to Turkey by Manhattan District...
A hoard of 14 antiquities, collectively valued at more than $8.3 million, were returned to Turkey by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. on September 12, according to the district...
View ArticleBritish Museum’s New Director has Planned the ‘Biggest Transformation of Any...
In the wake of the British Museum’s recent slew of controversies, its recently installed director, Nicholas Cullinan, former boss of London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG), has promised change.“I’m...
View ArticleUnited Talent Agency Puts its Fine Arts Division on ‘Pause’
UTA Fine Arts, the division of Hollywood giant United Talent Agency that worked to put established and emerging contemporary artists into the collective consciousness by injecting them and their work...
View ArticleA New Edition of John Elderfield’s ‘Frankenthaler’ Shows an Artist with Real...
An updated edition of John Elderfield’s Frankenthaler, originally published in 1989 and which many consider to be the definitive monograph on the artist, will be released this month by Gagosian, in...
View ArticleNew York’s Deli Gallery, Champion of Emerging Talent, to Close
Deli Gallery, a New York City outfit lauded for its keen eye for emerging talent, will close after eight years. With the announcement, Deli joins Denny Gallery, JTT Gallery, and Queer Thoughts on a...
View ArticlePhiladelphia’s University of the Arts Files for Bankruptcy, New York’s Deli...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHAPTER 11. The University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia has filed for...
View ArticlePerrotin Gallery Donates 23 Contemporary Artworks to Pompidou Centre
Emmanuel Perrotin, the French art dealer with galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and LA, is donating 23 artworks to the Centre Pompidou in Paris.Xavier Rey, the modern...
View ArticleSean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Rapper and Art Collector, Charged With Sex Trafficking
After months of accusations of sexual misconduct and other allegations, Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged Tuesday on three counts: racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion;...
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Getty Museum Returns Funerary Artifact to Turkey
On Tuesday, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles returned a bronze funerary bed dated to 530 BCE to officials of the Turkish government during a repatriation ceremony. Discussions about the...
View ArticleNew California Law May End the Legal Dispute Over a Nazi-Looted Pissarro in...
A bill signed into law this week by California Governor Gavin Newsom may signal the beginning of the end of a decades-long dispute between the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the heirs of a...
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