Christie’s Establishes its First Saudi Arabia Outpost
Today, Christie’s became the first international auction house to establish a permanent commercial license to operate in Saudi Arabia. Noor Kelani will oversee the new location in her recently...
View ArticleTehran Museum Loses 30 Paintings it Loaned Out, Identity of Mysterious Man...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ART LOANED AND LOST. In July, Tehran’s Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum loaned 30...
View ArticleReport Finds Art Sales Stagnate, Even as the Luxury Sector Continues to Grow
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. Given the art market’s well-documented...
View ArticleLACMA Ends South Los Angeles Project to ‘De-center’ the Museum Over High Costs
LACMA has officially ended plans to establish a satellite campus at the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park in what was part of a 2017 project to “de-center” the museum and expand reach to different parts...
View ArticleIt’s Too Early to Know if Fed’s Interest Rate Cut Will Revive a Flagging Art...
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point on Wednesday, signaling that it is shifting focus from battling inflation to safeguarding the job market. The cut will likely have...
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Channatip Chanvipava Seeks to Uncover a “Universal Truth” in New Exhibition...
The London-based Thai artist embraces the kaleidoscopic effect of memory in a new solo exhibition at Ronchini in London. Related Articles Report Finds Art Sales Stagnate, Even as the Luxury Sector...
View ArticleHauser & Wirth Names Gallery Veteran Mirella Roma as CEO
Hauser & Wirth has appointed gallery veteran Mirella Roma as its new chief executive officer, the gallery announced in a press release Thursday. Roma has been with Hauser & Wirth for 27 years....
View ArticleAfter 30 Paintings from Tehran Museum Disappear, Critics Call For Investigation
Thirty valuable paintings on loan from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran have vanished after “an unidentified entity outside the municipality with official documentation” for an exhibition...
View ArticleIndia Art Fair in New Delhi Expands to Mumbai, Hauser & Wirth Appoints...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TOUGH TRUTHS. A traveling German exhibition documenting the experience of...
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Getty’s PST ART Exhibitions Take an Expansive View of Science to Center...
On first glance, one might be forgiven for wondering how the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art,” fits into PST ART. For...
View ArticlePaulina Pobocha Joins AIC as Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Art Institute of Chicago has named Paulina Pobocha as Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, just a year after Pobocha took up a curator position at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In...
View ArticleIndia Art Fair Will Launch Offshoot in Mumbai Next Year But Art Mumbai Fair...
New Delhi’s India Art Fair will launch a new expo in Mumbai next year, according to a press release Thursday. The new event in India’s second largest city will be called India Art Fair Contemporary...
View ArticleArt World Scammer Anna Delvey Was Interviewed by Internet Icon Ziwe, With...
First Dancing With The Stars, now internet icon and comedian Ziwe Fumudoh: Anna Delvey is apparently on a press tour. The 33-year-old Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, appeared in an extended...
View ArticleSouth African Cave Art May Depict Extinct Animal from 250 M. Years Ago, New...
Rock art located in present-day South Africa might be the key to discovering an extinct animal species from more than 200 million years ago, according to a recent study published in Plos One journal....
View ArticleFrick Collection Hires Axel Rüger as New Director Ahead of Scheduled...
The Frick Collection announced the appointment of Axel Rüger as the museum’s next Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen director. He begins the new post in early 2025, when the museum reopens. Rüger has...
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University of Michigan Museum of Art Seeks To Deaccession 9th Century Buddha...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is seeking to deaccession a 9th-century stone Buddha to allow for its repatriation it to Nepal. UMMA said it had “determined that deaccessioning and...
View ArticleElizabeth Catlett, a Black Revolutionary in More Than One Sense, Gets a...
Artists’ grant applications tend to be anodyne things because the point of them is often to appeal to an organization’s sensibilities, not to take a stand. But take a stand is what Elizabeth Catlett...
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Russian TV Contributor and Former Political Adviser Charged with Laundering...
The US Department of Justice has charged political advisor and Russian television contributor Dimitri Simes and his wife, Anastasia Simes, with violating US sanctions through schemes involving art and...
View ArticleMelania Trump Defends Nude Modeling Work With References to John Collier’s...
In a video clip posted to social media Wednesday, former First Lady Melania Trump defended her prior history of nude modeling by comparing it to several classical paintings and sculptures, including...
View ArticleSpent Fireworks and Rock-Like Debris Rain Down on Crowd at PST ART Event in...
Around 4,000 people filled the Los Angeles Coliseum on September 15 to witness the kickoff event for the Getty Museum’s $20 million PST ART: Art & Science Collide, in which over dozens of...
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