Two Sides to the Art Market: Spending Down 32 Percent in 2023, Report Says,...
At the top of the art market dwell collectors. Without them, there’s no one to warrant the countless gallery exhibitions, seasonal day and evening sales, and almost monthly art fairs that batter the...
View ArticleFeral File Wants to Trigger a ‘Cultural Shift’ by Beaming Digital Art Into...
Feral File, an online platform for digital art founded in 2020, is striving to beam curated digital art through smart TVs and mobile devices in people’s homes via a new membership program.“We’re...
View ArticleSotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-taped Banana, Art Basel and UBS...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GOING BANANAS. Maurizio Cattelan’s famously provocative duct-taped, yellow...
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Chicago Exhibition Weekend Highlights Founder Abby Pucker’s Ambitions For the...
Chicago Exhibition Weekend (CXW) came into being last year because Abby Pucker was tired of hearing people saying they didn’t know what was going on in the Windy City, how to find interesting events...
View ArticleAncient House with Erotic Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
Age-old paintings of satyrs bedding nymphs and mythological figures fornicating have been newly unearthed at a small house at Pompeii. In its announcement of the house’s excavation this week, the...
View ArticleSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago Students Hold Walkout to Protest War...
Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago organized a walkout on Thursday to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. The walkout, which happened during class hours, began outside SAIC’s MacLean...
View Article3 Takeaways from the Art Basel & UBS Global Collecting Survey
Few years have been as tumultuous in the art market as 2023. Of course, 2008 and 2016 were bad (and not to mention 1990), but the ongoing art market “correction” was preceded by the post-Covid...
View ArticleEgon Schiele’s Death Mask Surpasses Expectations at Sloane Street Auctions Sale
An “exceedingly rare” bronze cast of Egon Schiele’s death mask sold for $24,600—more than ten times its estimated price—this week at London’s Sloane Street Auctions sale of 20th Century, Modern and...
View ArticleChristie’s Will Sell Monet Painting From Chicago’s Union League Club At 20th...
Christie’s has been consigned to sell Claude Monet’s Pommiers en fleurs (1872) by the Union League Club of Chicago to help fund a $10 million renovation of its building. The auction house will feature...
View ArticleTEFAF Returns to Maastricht Next Year with 26 Newcomers Among 266 Exhibitors
The European Fine Art Foundation announced Monday that TEFAF Maastricht will return to the Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre (MECC) from March 15-20, 2025. The 2025 edition with bring...
View ArticleClark Art Institute Gets $45 M. Trustee Gift to Establish New Gallery and 331...
The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has received a significant posthumous donation from the foundation of one of its former trustees, Bulgarian-American software developer Aso O....
View ArticleFrance’s Culture Minister Proposes Charging Notre-Dame Visitors Five-Euro...
Rachida Dati, France’s culture minister, has suggested charging an entry fee for visitors to Notre-Dame de Paris when the cathedral reopens in December following its five-year restoration.Dati told Le...
View Article2,000-Year-Old Nabataean Temple Found off the Coast of Italy
A Nabataean temple was discovered off the coast of Pozzuoli, Italy, according to a study published in the journal Antiquity in September. The find is considered unusual, as most Nabataean architecture...
View ArticleCollectors Howard Rachofsky and Thomas Hartland-Mackie Launch The Warehouse...
Dallas-based mega-collector Howard Rachofsky, a former hedge fund manager and fixture of ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list, is teaming up with a collector some 40 years his junior, Thomas...
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Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol Collaborator Behind Cult Classic Films, Dies at 86
Paul Morrissey, the director of several Andy Warhol film collaborations that earned the scorn of critics and the admiration of audiences around the world, died in New York on Monday after being...
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For His Latest Exhibition, Artist Hugh Hayden Returns to Texas, Revealing...
In the late 1980s, in a suburb of Dallas, an estimated 5,000 community members took part in creating Kidsville, an all-wood, medieval-inspired extravagant playground that claimed to be the largest...
View ArticlePreviously Unknown Chopin Waltz Identified at New York’s Morgan Library
A 200-year-old musical score believed to be composed by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered in the vault of New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. While cataloguing new collections at the Morgn,...
View ArticleFormer Palace of Bangladesh’s Ousted Leader to Become ‘Uprising’ Museum
The former palace of Bangladesh’s ex-leader, Sheikh Hasina, will become a museum following the democratic revolution that saw the autocrat ousted. “The museum should preserve memories of her misrule...
View ArticleLawsuit Claims Artist Scott Kahn Ditched Phillips Asia Show for David Zwirner...
Dealer and curator Eric Ian Hornak-Spoutz has filed suit against painter Scott Kahn, who is accused of breaching his contractual obligations to Hornak-Spoutz by abruptly terminating an exhibition at...
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Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art...
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and Archives of American Art invite visitors to contemplate what a portrait can be with “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return,”on view through July 6,...
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