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Fall Marquee Auctions Highlight an Even More Fragmented Post-Election Market
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. With the fall marquee sales in New York...
View ArticlePtolemaic Temple Entrance Discovered in Egypt
An entrance to what may have once been a sanctuary was found by researchers among the cliffs of Athribis in a small Egyptian village near present-day Sohag, roughly 124 miles north of Luxor. Arthribis...
View ArticleForgotten Caravaggio Portrait Goes on Public View for the First Time
A portrait attributed to Italian painter Caravaggio has gone on view in Rome, marking the first time it can be seen by the painting’s existence was made public 60 years ago. The painting depicts...
View ArticleAmerican Art Galleries Closing in Mexico City: ‘Nobody Likes a Tourist’
Over the course of just three months this year, three mid-sized US galleries have shuttered their outposts in Mexico City: Morán Morán (Los Angeles), Deli (formerly based in New York and now...
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Nadia Myre Brings an Exhibition on French Colonization in Canada to France’s...
The first thing Nadia Myre did when she went to do her residency on an island in a man-made lake in central France was to make her own charcoal. At a local grocery store on the mainland, she found...
View ArticleBanksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ Mural Will Soon Be Sold with the Building It is...
A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it is painted on.Titled Well Hung Lover, it was painted on the...
View ArticleJustin Sun Eats the Banana He Bought for $6.2 M. at Sotheby’s in New York...
On Friday, Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur who purchased Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, the banana duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 last week – made good on his promise to eat...
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Does Beeple Deserve a Museum Exhibition?
There’s something to be said about an artist committed to an everyday practice: On Kawara, for example, recording the date in white blocky letters and numbers over a black background, or Ann Craven...
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A Painter’s Studio in France Needed Maintenance. The Contractor Found Ancient...
After 35 years of use, Jean Charles Blais’ art studio in Vence, France, sprung a leak. As the painter tells it, a contractor removed a bit of the wall’s plaster coating in search of water, only to...
View ArticleJustin Sun Promises to Buy 100,000 Bananas From Vendor Who Sold 25-Cent...
The story about cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian keeps on giving. Sun kept the promise he made immediately after buying the artwork, comprising a banana...
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Black Friday Deals on Tech for Artists
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. It’s Black Friday! Not all (or many) sale items are...
View ArticleCandida Gertler Resigns from Outset Fund Amid Artist Protests Over Israel Ties
Candida Gertler, co-founder of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, has stepped down from the organization’s board of trustees and all voluntary roles within UK arts institutions, according to a report...
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Cyber Weekend Deals on Art Supplies and Gifts Continue Today
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. It’s Cyber Weekend! Many US retailers have marked down...
View ArticleForgotten Caravaggio Portrait Goes on Public View for the First Time
A portrait attributed to Italian painter Caravaggio has gone on view in Rome, marking the first time it can be seen by the painting’s existence was made public 60 years ago. The painting depicts...
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The Best Cyber Monday Deals on Tech for Artists
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. It’s Cyber Monday! Not all (or many) sale items are...
View ArticleArtist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger Says Her Views on Palestine Caused Her to Lose...
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, an artist whose work appeared prominently in this year’s Venice Biennale, said that her pro-Palestine views cost her an exhibition in Berlin and a $19,000 stipend associated...
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Newsmakers: Visual AIDS Executive Director Kyle Croft Reflects on 35 Years of...
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. In the late 1980s, a global activist movement...
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Artist Violette Bule and Art Historian Michel Otayek Talk About Their Recent...
Between 2010 and 2012, artist Violette Bule held a series of free photography workshops in penitentiaries in her home country of Venezuela. Over 3,000 images were created by the workshops’...
View ArticleGamma Radiation Detected at Popular Bay Area Sculpture Park
Potentially cancerous radiation has been detected at a popular Bay Area landfill turned outdoor sculpture, according to a state investigation. As first reported by the Los Angeles Times on Monday, the...
View ArticleAfter a Major Restoration, Notre Dame Cathedral is Reopening. Here’s What to...
Five years after Paris watched Notre Dame Cathedral burn, the 861-year-old structure has been restored. It is slated to reopen its doors to the public on Sunday, December 8, with two Catholic masses...
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