Art Supposedly by Michael Jackson Clears Legal Hurdles to Hit the Auction...
A collection of artwork allegedly created by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, is back on the auction block after the initially scheduled sale was postponed. When the Jackson-Strong Alliance filed...
View ArticleSchool is Back in Session for the Art World, for Better or Worse
About three hours into prowling the aisles at the VIP preview of The Armory Show earlier this month, I began to feel déjà vu. It’s difficult to say what triggered it. Was it the sounds of The Dare, an...
View ArticleWhitney Biennial’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award Goes to Nikita Gale, Whose...
Nikita Gale, a Los Angeles–based artist best known for installations that mesh unexpected elements, pairing video and sound equipment with industrial materials like concrete and metal barricades, has...
View ArticleFrench Heritage Sites Had ‘Pre-Covid’ Level of Visitors With 46.8 M. in 2023:...
A new study shows that attendance at French museums, monuments and other heritage sites have recovered to pre-pandemic levels with 46.8 million visitors in 2023. According to the latest edition of the...
View ArticleNADA Miami Names 152 Exhibitors for 2024 Edition
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has named the 151 exhibitors that will take part in its 2024 edition, scheduled to take place December 3–7 at Ice Palace Studios. The art fair will feature 127...
View ArticleNew NEA Pilot Program Aimed at Expanding Arts Access Names $12.4 M. in Grants...
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the 112 nonprofit organizations that will receive a total of $12.4 million in grants as part of a new pilot program called ArtsHERE that aims to...
View ArticleIranian Composer Pardoned for Writing Song Adopted by Protestors, Sicilian...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IRANIAN COMPOSER PARDONED. Iran has pardoned musician Shervin Hajipour, whose...
View ArticleThe UK’s Newly Appointed Culture Secretary Eyes Repatriation of Cultural...
Violent indifference. Vandalism. Those were just two of the words newly appointed UK culture minister Lisa Nandy used to describe how the freshly ousted Conservative party handled the country’s...
View ArticleARTnews Launches New International Edition, ARTnews Asia in Hong Kong
ARTnews has announced that it will launch a new ARTnews Asia edition next year, by way of a partnership with Luxetech Ventures, a global venture builder concentrated on the luxury industry and the art...
View ArticlePhotographer Stephen Shore Walks Out Mid-Lecture Over Audience Smartphone Use
American contemporary photographer Stephen Shore walked out of a lecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing last week after he noticed that multiple people in the audience were more...
View ArticleArt in America Celebrates 2024 “New Talent” Issue in New York
Last week Art in America celebrated the release of the fourth annual ”New Talent” issue with a cocktail party at the W Union Square, a member of the Luxury Group by Marriott. Each year, Art in...
View ArticleUNESCO Warns against the Looting and Trafficking of Artifacts from Sudan
UNESCO has called on the art market to refrain from buying artifacts from Sudan following reports of the looting of museums in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, amid the ongoing civil war. In a...
View ArticleCurator Settles $3 M. Sexual Harassment, Anti-Semitism Lawsuit against...
Curator Virginia Brilliant has settled her lawsuit against art dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena, and their eponymous gallery, as first reported by The Art Newspaper. The allegations in the...
View ArticleActivists Denounce Paris Museum After Report Finds Tibetan Exhibits Were Renamed
On Saturday, Tibetan activists convened outside the Musée Guimet in Paris to protest the museum’s decision to replace exhibition materials that identify certain artifacts as Tibetan by replacing it...
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Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Gets Her First Museum Survey
There are many ways to tell the story of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. There is the narrative about the charming nonagenarian finally getting her due: At the age of 95, the artist, who was born in...
View ArticleLouvre to Open Byzantine and Greek Orthodox Art Department
A new department dedicated to Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Christian art is expected to open at the Musée du Louvre in 2027. A delegation, led by Louvre director Laurence des Cars, presented plans...
View ArticleItaly’s Princess Camilla Speaks on Van Gogh Set to Smash Auction Records: ‘A...
A Vincent van Gogh painting is expected to hammer for its $50 million high estimate at Christie’s Hong Kong on Thursday. It is being offered in the 20th/21st Century evening art sale that will...
View ArticleA Peek Inside Robert A.M. Stern’s New High-End Condo Building in NYC
Architect Robert A.M. Stern has had a long, illustrious career designing high-end condominium towers in New York City. From the 950-foot-tall limestone-faced tower at 220 Central Park South to the...
View ArticleTop Collector Adrien Cheng May Lose CEO Role from His Family’s Firm, New...
Top art collector Adrien Cheng is at risk of losing his position as CEO at his family’s Hong Kong property development firm, New World Development Co., after the company posted its first annual loss...
View ArticleLondon’s ‘Evening Standard’ Newspaper to Revive Art Critic Brian Sewell with...
EXCLUSIVE: He was one of the most feared and revered British art critics of his generation — and now, nearly a decade after his death, Brian Sewell could be about to wield his pen once more. Deadline...
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