Sotheby’s Closes Deal with Abu Dhabi Soverign Wealth Fund for $1 B. Cash...
Sotheby’s has closed a deal, previously announced this summer, for Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund and investment company, ADQ, to acquire a minority stake in the auction house. ADQ, along with the...
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British Museum’s ‘Silk Roads’ Exhibition Aims to Tell the Complex Story of...
The history of silk is in many ways wrapped up in the history of humanity. Archaeologists have discovered traces of silk farming dating to 5,000 years ago, providing forensic proof to the story, in...
View ArticleDealers at The Art Show Weigh in on a Soft Market: ‘A Great Picture Always...
Not even an hour into the opening of The Art Show, the annual fair of the Art Dealers Association of America, New York dealer Charles Moffett had sold half of the seven egg tempera on wood New York...
View ArticleCecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière Awarded MOCA LA’s Inaugural Art and...
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña as the winners of its inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize. The award comes with a...
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November Evening Sales in New York Include Basquiat Portrait at Christie’s...
After this month’s positive results at Frieze London and Art Basel Paris—and in advance of a tense US presidential election soon to be in the rear-view mirror—market watchers are no doubt hopeful that...
View ArticleThree Just Stop Oil Activists Banned From Protesting In London After Throwing...
Three climate activists from the group Just Stop Oil have been banned by a judge from protesting in London after throwing soup at a painting by Vincent van Gogh last month. The judgment follows a...
View ArticleThis November, $1 K. Can Buy You a Visit to the Studio of Blue-Chip Artists...
A host of top tier New York-based artists are opening the doors to their studios to benefit the International Fine Print Dealers Association Foundation this November. Eleven artists, including...
View ArticleMiami Heat’s Bronze Statue of Dwayne Wade Prompts Comments from Gov. Tim Walz...
Getting a statue is a big deal for many athletes, a sign of significant achievement and recognition of their legacy. Unfortunately for three-time NBA champion Dwayne Wade, the 7-foot-3 bronze figure...
View ArticleWhitney Museum Could Expand in Meatpacking District Under New City Plan
The Whitney Museum of American Art may expand its footprint to the nearby Gansevoort Meat Market building located on the west side of Manhattan as part of a development proposal in the area. New York...
View ArticleAhead of MoMA PS1 Survey, Ralph Lemon Joins Paula Cooper Gallery
Paula Cooper Gallery now represents interdisciplinary artist Ralph Lemon, whose major survey at MoMA PS1 in New York opens next month. With a practice that spans dance and performance, painting and...
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Ecofeminism Has Long Planted the Seeds for Prescient Forms of Art-Making
In September 2020, Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for the first time. The story of a Black California teen searching for a way to...
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A Massive Gustave Caillebotte Retrospective Offers a Comprehensive and...
For around a century, Gustave Caillebotte was the most discreet of the Impressionists, only coming back into the spotlight in 1994, when the Grand Palais in Paris celebrated the centenary of his death...
View ArticleArt Basel Hong Kong Names 242 Galleries for 2025 Fair
Art Basel has revealed the exhibitors and programming highlights for its 2025 Hong Kong edition, which opens to the public on March 28 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The 2025...
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Llyn Foulkes’s Art About American Rot Is More Eccentric and Urgent Than Ever
“Maybe I have this stupid feeling that art can save the world,” the Los Angeles–based artist Llyn Foulkes said in an oral history conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. That was in...
View ArticleSotheby’s Will Auction Rare Leonora Carrington Sculpture in November
Sotheby’s will sell Leonora Carrington’s 1951 sculpture La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman) this November at a modern art evening sale, where it will head to auction with an estimate of $5 million to $7...
View ArticleGerman Restitution Panel Rejects Grosz Heirs’ Claims for Two Paintings in...
A German advisory panel that oversees claims related to the Nazi-looted art in the countries’ national museum collection has rejected a restitution claim for two paintings by George Grosz held by the...
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Christie’s Will Auction Two Joan Mitchell Paintings from Rockefeller...
Sotheby’s will auction two paintings by Joan Mitchell from the collection of Rockefeller University during its 20th century evening sale on November 19. City Landscape (1955) has an estimate of $15...
View ArticleWarhol Called Trump ‘Cheap’ in His Diary, Arrest Warrant for Antiquities...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The HeadlinesTRUMPED UP AND ‘CHEAP.’ Artnet News reports about how a “cheap” Donald Trump, per...
View ArticleAncient Roman Ruins in Baalbek Survive Israeli Air Strikes
Ancient Roman ruins in Baalbek, a historic city in Lebanon, survived an initial wave of Israeli air strikes this week, Baalbek Mayor Mustafa al-Shell told the BBC. However, he warned that the safety...
View ArticleThe Internet Was the Beginning of a New Folk Artist. Artificial Intelligence...
Everyone wants to be a creator. According to a report by YouTube, SmithGeiger, and the Fandom Institute, 65 percent of teenagers and young adults aged 14 to 24 now identify as creators. But the...
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