Admissions to Humanities and Social Science PhD Programs Suspended at Boston...
Boston University will not be accepting applications for PhD students in the humanities and social sciences for the 2025–26 academic year, the institution wrote in an undated post on its website. The...
View ArticleGerman Foundation Rescinds Architecture Award for Writer Who Signed Israel...
The Schelling Architecture Foundation, a German organization that recognizes artists and writers for their contributions to architectural theory, has rescinded a prize awarded to British artist and...
View ArticlePhillips $54.1 M. Evening Sale Drops 23 Percent from Last Year
On Tuesday night, Phillips began a week of sales in New York with its modern and contemporary evening sale of roughly 30 lots generating $54.1 million with fees. That result marks a 23 percent drop...
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$486 M. Total at Christie’s Double Header Hides An Uneven Night of Sales
If there is one thing we have learned this year it’s that the collector class still has money to spend, but will only spend it on choicest, most fresh-to-market works. Christie’s 20th century evening...
View ArticleAnonymous Was A Woman Reveals 2024 Grantees in Milestone Year for the...
Anonymous Was A Woman has revealed the 2024 recipients of its celebrated grants, which are awarded to women-identifying artists over the age of 40 in support of their ongoing practice. Anonymous Was A...
View ArticleICA Boston Picks MCA Denver’s Nora Burnett Abrams as Next Director
After a year-long search, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has selected Nora Burnett Abrams as its next director. She will begin in the post on May 1, succeeding Jill Medvedow, who has...
View ArticleThird Just Stop Oil Activist Charged After Orange Paint Protest at Stonehenge...
A third Just Stop Oil activist was recently charged in connection with a protest at the Stonehenge monument in June, after orange powder paint was sprayed on the ancient stones. Luke Watson, a...
View ArticleItalian Authorities Bust Illegal Excavation of Etruscan Burial Site
The illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in Umbria, in central Italy, has been seized by Italian authorities, Italy’s Minister of Culture announced on Tuesday. Police now seek two people...
View ArticleHong Kong Artist Receives Prison Sentence for Political ‘Subversion’
45 well-known pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong were sentenced in a mass trial on Tuesday under the national security law implemented in 2020, the Hong Kong Free Press reported. It is the largest...
View ArticleMaurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Sells for $6.24 M. at Sotheby’s
“The world’s most expensive banana” sold Wednesday night at Sotheby’s New York. That’s how auctioneer Oliver Barker put as he was trying to eke out the last of the bids for Maurizio Cattelan’s viral...
View ArticleCattelan’s $6.24 M. Banana and Its Buyer Justin Sun Steal the Show at...
Sotheby’s Now and Contemporary evening sale on Wednesday didn’t border on the absurd, it dived headfirst into it as Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s chairman of Europe, sold a banana duct-taped to a wall for...
View ArticlePhillips Deputy CEO Amanda Lo Iacono Talks about Focusing on the Next...
On Tuesday night, Phillips New York began its auction week with its modern and contemporary evening sale generating $54.1 million with fees. That result marked a 23 percent drop from the $70 million...
View ArticleKen Burns and His ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Co-Directors on Finding a New Angle on...
More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. “Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson’s “Glass...
View ArticleMiami Beach’s Untitled Art Fair Will Expand to Houston
Untitled Art, which for 12 years has mounted an art fair on the sands of Miami Beach, will expand across the Gulf of Mexico, with plans to host an event in Houston next year. The first edition of the...
View Article18th-Century Snuffboxes Stolen from the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris
An exhibition of precious miniature objects from the 18th century at the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris was robbed on Wednesday, according to Le Monde. Four hooded men stole smashed a display case with...
View ArticleMajority of Britons Support Permanent British Museum Exhibit on Transatlantic...
A recent poll found the majority of Britons, 53 percent, support a permanent exhibit at the British Museum about the transatlantic slave trade. New polling data by British research and data analytics...
View ArticleCongress Passes Bill That Gives Trump the Power to Designate Art Nonprofits...
On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or H.R. 9495, a bill that grants the Secretary of Treasury the power to...
View ArticleMagritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ Sold for $121 M. Who Else Has Passed the...
On Tuesday night during Christie’s 20th century evening sale, after eleven or so tense minutes of hushed phone conversations behind cupped hands and quick currency conversions, Rene Magritte’s paintng...
View ArticleGerman Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
A marble head of a man dated from 150 CE has been repatriated to Greece by the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster in Germany. The museum voluntarily returned the artifact after...
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Led by a $23 M. Basquiat, Christie’s Notches a Solid $106.5 M. 21st-Century...
The marquee New York evening auctions came to a close on Thursday with a strong $106.5 million sale of 21st century art at Christie’s, led by a $23 million drawing by auction stalwart Jean-Michel...
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