Billionaire Rapper and Top 200 Collector Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter Slams Rape...
Jay-Z, the billionaire rapper and cultural icon, has been named alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in a lawsuit alleging the rape of a minor at a 2000 MTV Video Music Awards after-party. The accuser, who is...
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Newsmakers: Jonathan Lethem Discusses His Abstract and Novelistic Book About Art
Jonathan Lethem’s Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture is not a conventional collection of writings about art. Lethem is most celebrated for writing novels such as Dissident Gardens, Chronic...
View ArticleMoMA PS1 Receives $1 M. Gift from Teiger Foundation
MoMA PS1 has received a $1 million donation toward the funding of future exhibitions from the Teiger Foundation. A dedicate fund known as the Teiger Foundation Exhibition Fund will support exhibitions...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Puts $52.6 M. Toward Centre Pompidou Overhaul in Deal with France
Saudi Arabia will contribute €50 million ($52.6 million) to the €262 million renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The money is part of a heritage fund established as part of a years-long...
View ArticlePamela Anderson’s Iconic Red ‘Baywatch’ Bikini Will Be Shown at London’s...
In its nineties heyday, more than one billion people watched Baywatch each week. Many of these viewers tuned in to marvel at a red swimsuit struggling to contain Pamela Anderson as she ran along a...
View ArticleDealers and Auction Houses Are Luring Younger Collectors into the Old Masters...
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. At Sotheby’s Old Masters and...
View ArticleSamia Osseiran Junblatt, Lebanese Painter Who Recently Made Her Venice...
Samia Osseiran Junblatt, a leading Lebanese artist who took up painting as a way of responding to events from her personal life, has died at 80. The Beirut-based Dalloul Art Foundation, which lent a...
View ArticleSotheby’s Lays Off 100 Staffers After Lower Results For Marquee Auctions in...
Sotheby’s has cut 100 staff members from its offices in New York, with the majority of cuts including back-office works, junior staffers, and specialists in various departments, the auction house...
View ArticlePace African & Oceanic Art Shutters, But Will Continue Under New Leadership
Pace African & Oceanic Art announced via social media that it will officially close its doors on Friday, December 13. The news of the closure was confirmed by ARTnews with director Carlo Bella....
View ArticleZoé Whitley to Depart London’s Chisenhale Gallery After Five Years
Zoé Whitley will leave her post as director of the Chisenhale Gallery, a London art space with a record of spinning venturesome emerging artists into bona fide stars. Whitley’s last day there will be...
View ArticleWomen-Only ‘Ladies Lounge’ Artwork Returns to Australian Museum After Supreme...
Following the successful reversal of a Tasmanian court case, a women-only art installation will reopen at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Australia. Artist and curator Kirsha...
View ArticleAlexander Brothers, Real Estate Agents to the Super-Rich and Occasional Art...
Oren and Tal Alexander, major luxury real estate brokers in New York and Miami, were arrested Wednesday in Miami on federal sex trafficking charges. Their brother, Alon, who was not a broker, was also...
View ArticleVenice Doubles Tourist Tax for 2025 Despite Uncertain Impact on Limiting Crowds
Venice will double its tourist entry fee to €10 in 2025, despite data that suggest the measure failed to reduce visitor numbers during its trial period in 2024. The initial €5 fee was implemented to...
View ArticleBiden Establishes Monument Acknowledging History of Indigenous Children in...
President Joe Biden recently announced the establishment of a new national monument acknowledging the history of the residential school system, which oppressed thousands of Indigenous children and...
View ArticleThe Best New Art Books to Buy as Holiday Gifts
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. ’Tis the season, which means it’s time to start racking...
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Lorraine O’Grady, Conceptual Artist Who Advocated for Black Women’s...
Lorraine O’Grady, an artist who bravely used her conceptual pieces and performance art to critique systems of power, incisively underlining the ways that class, race, and gender influence one another,...
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Matthew Barney and Alex Katz Go Great Together in “The Bitch”
There’s no gallery show this year with a more eyebrow-raising title than “The Bitch,” and it would be hard to think of a more singular setting for a duo presentation of art by Matthew Barney and Alex...
View ArticleThe Defining Art Events of 2024
In 2024, the chickens came home to roost, so to speak, for the art world. After a series of ruptures and scandals last year, 2024 was a year of restructuring, “correction,” and redress. The art market...
View ArticleThe Year in Black Art: Six Blockbuster Exhibitions
This year, exhibitions around the globe highlighted Blackness, celebrating the Black artistic vanguard and featuring established artists next to those early in their careers. From Switzerland and Cape...
View ArticleThe Best Art Gifts of 2024 for Artists and Art Lovers Alike
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. The ARTnews holiday art gift guide has arrived, with...
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