Producer and Collector Benny Blanco, and His George Condo Painting, Featured...
Benny Blanco, the Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer, was recently featured in People Magazine‘s 2024 “Sexiest Man Alive” issue, along with his art collection. Blanco was photographed by the...
View ArticleMiren Arzalluz Named Director of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Art historian and curator Miren Arzalluz has been appointed director general of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, the institution announced in a statement. She begins her tenure on April 1....
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Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in Hong Kong Yields $52.6 M....
The first two evening auctions following the US national election took place in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with mixed results. The Sotheby’s Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary evening auction took place...
View ArticleSotheby’s Will Auction Oldest Inscribed Tablet of the Ten Commandments
Sotheby’s will sell the oldest inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments in a single-lot sale in December. The 115-pound, two-foot tall marble tablet is approximately 1,500 years old and inscribed in...
View ArticlePompeii Will Soon Limit the Number of Visitors to its Archaeological Park
The ancient city of Pompeii, it seems, has taken a liking to the recently implemented “day tripper” tax in Venice, or at least the theory behind it, and will soon put in place restrictions on the...
View ArticleFrieze’s Owner Endeavor Reports Higher Q3 Losses After Disclosing Potential...
Endeavor Group Holdings, the Hollywood entertainment company that owns the Frieze art fair and media franchise, reported a loss of $420.36 million for the third quarter, a sharp increase from the $116...
View ArticleSteve McQueen Pulls Out of Film Festival in Protest of Its Leader’s Comments...
Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize–winning artist and filmmaker, said he would not appear at a Polish film festival after the event’s leader published a controversial comments on female cinematographers....
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Amid Art Market Slowdown and High Interest Rates, Specialist Art Lenders...
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. Back in June, Puck’s Marion Maneker...
View ArticleHauser & Wirth Asia Managing Partner Elaine Kwok Departs After Two Years
Elaine Kwok, a veteran of the Hong Kong art market, has officially left her position at Hauser & Wirth after a two-year stint. The gallery announced her departure in an email to staff. In that...
View ArticleYves Bouvier to Stand Trial in France Over Missing Picasso Artworks
A French court has ruled that Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier and his business partner Olivier Thomas should stand trial over allegations related to the disappearance of multiple Picasso artworks from a...
View ArticleAnna Weyant Graces the Cover of ‘Vogue’ with a Portrait of Kaia Gerber
One of two alternative covers of Vogue‘s December 2024 issue may look strikingly familiar to art world audiences, who may recognize it as the work of Canadian artist Anna Weyant. One of two...
View ArticlePro-Palestine Activists Call for MoMA to Sever Ties with Honorary Chairman...
Last night, pro-Palestine protestors gathered outside the Museum of Modern Art in New York as it hosted the annual assembly for the World Jewish Congress, an influential organization led by honorary...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to Close to the Public for a Year...
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco will shutter its galleries for at least a year, a move that its leadership attributed to continued financial difficulties resulting from the pandemic....
View ArticleBritish Museum Receives Its Most Expensive Gift, Michelangelo May Have...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BRITISH MUSEUM RECEIVES MOST VALUABLE GIFT. The British Museum has received its...
View ArticleWalter Dahn, German Painter, Who Led the Charge Against Prevailing Styles,...
Walter Dahn, an artist whose paintings reacted against Minimalism and Conceptualism with humor and grace, earning him a cult following both within Germany and abroad, has died at 70. His death was...
View ArticleIceland’s Top Fishing Company Wins Judgment Against Icelandic Artist Over...
On Thursday, a judge in the UK ruled in favor of Iceland’s largest fishing company, Samherji, after it sued an Icelandic artist who, posing as the company, apologized for its alleged role in the...
View ArticleSotheby’s Agrees to Pay New York $6.25 M. To Settle Art Sales Tax Fraud Case
Sotheby’s has agreed to pay the State of New York $6.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Letitia James, that alleged the auction house helped collectors in avoid sales taxes on...
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Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Returns More Than 1,400 Antiquities...
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has announced the return of 1,440 artifacts, collectively valued at $10 million, to India. The items were recovered as part of ongoing investigations into...
View ArticleBritish Museum Receives $1.2 B. Worth of Chinese Ceramics, the Largest Gift...
The British Museum has been gifted one of the world’s most prodigious collections of Chinese ceramics, worth £1 billion ($1.27 billion), in what is likely the highest-value donation of art ever...
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Joseph Beuys’s Game-Changing Art Plants Seeds for Change in Two Vast LA Projects
“If you have all my multiples,” Joseph Beuys once said, “then you have me completely.” The polymathic German sculptor was referring to the editioned objects that bore the intellectual and emotional...
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