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San Francisco’s Art Scene Is Thriving, In Spite of ‘False Doom Narrative’
Earlier this year, dealer Rebecca Camacho was standing in her new and expanded downtown San Francisco gallery in Jackson Square, when she paused and pointed to the arched windows facing the street....
View ArticleThe Year in Censorship: An Irreparable Art World Schism Over Israel’s War in...
Before 2024 even began, and arguably even before October 7, 2023, the art world was split on Israel and Palestine. But this year, the schism widened even further, until there was no room for nuanced...
View ArticleThe Most Valuable Artworks Sold At Auction in 2024 Is a Stark Drop From...
In 2024, the art auction market showed signs of recovery but fell well short of the highs reached in 2022, or even the lower totals from last year. The cumulative value of the top ten auction lots...
View ArticlePartnership Between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and David Zwirner Stands to...
A potential agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and mega gallerist David Zwirner stands to separate the artist’s work for profit. The family of the Swedish artist oversees her foundation,...
View ArticleJudge Rules Against Heirs of Famous Muralist Thomas Hart Benton, Ending...
The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene painter Thomas Hart Benton and a Kansas City bank accused of mismanaging his estate, selling his pieces for below their market value, and...
View ArticleBerlin Moves Forward With €130 million Cuts to Arts and Culture
Berlin’s government has pushed through a €130 million cut—12% of its culture budget—despite weeks of protests and warnings from the arts sector. The reduction, part of the city’s 2025 spending plan,...
View ArticleThe Year in New York: The Downtown Gallery Scene Was in Flux Throughout 2024
Over the course of 2024, New York City’s gallery infrastructure continued to feel the tectonic shifts that began in 2023. Last year, all eyes were on Tribeca, as rosy-eyed art dealers in Chelsea moved...
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Jaime Muñoz Mixes Mesoamerican and Contemporary LA Iconographies to Create...
Jaime Muñoz is a keen cultural observer. A conversation with him veers from art history, the commercialization of contemporary art, and Mesoamerican symbology to Los Angeles car culture, science...
View ArticleThree Artists Drop Out of First Show at New Venetian Cultural Institution...
Last week, Swiss artist Reto Pulfer, Iranian artist Maryam Hoseini, and German artist Anna Witt demanded their work be removed from the inaugural exhibition at nonprofit Scuola Piccola Zattere in...
View ArticleThe Biggest Art Forgery Stories of 2024
In terms of art forgeries, 2024 belonged to the Russian avant-garde market, the increasingly questioned umbrella term for modernist art from post-Soviet and Eastern European countries. This recess of...
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For His Current Mid-Career Survey, Vincent Valdez Reflects on 25 Years of...
Vincent Valdez’s studio in East Los Angeles is packed with large canvases, some still in progress. There’s a painting titled Supreme of the Supreme Court with portions unpainted and sketched on the...
View ArticleA New Magazine Dedicated to AI-Generated Art Has Launched
The AI Art Magazine, a new, 176-page biannual publication dedicated entirely to art made by artificial intelligence (AI), has launched. It’s publisher, Mike Brauner, said in a statement that it will...
View ArticleTakashi Murakami and Zendaya Team up for Louis Vuitton Relaunch
PARIS — Louis Vuitton is betting on a dose of Y2K nostalgia to perk up luxury consumers on New Year’s Day, when the reedition of its seminal collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will...
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Artist Jesse Krimes Lets His Materials Take Center Stage
Jesse Krimes vividly recalls the moment he chose to identify as an artist. During a year in solitary confinement, awaiting sentencing for non-violent drug-related charges, he had a life-defining...
View ArticleMFA Boston Acquires Robert Frank’s Photographs of 1940s Paris
A total of 38 photographs by Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019) was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the institution announced in a statement last week. The...
View ArticleUNESCO Grants Enhanced Protections to Ukrainian Heritage Sites
UNESCO, the cultural arm of the United Nations, has granted “provisional enhanced protection” to two Ukrainian heritage sites, the Odessa Literary Museum and the National Historical and Memorial...
View ArticleExceptionally Well-Preserved Anglo-Saxon Sword Found in UK
Archaeologists in rural Kent, UK, have unearthed a “really incredible” 6th-century sword from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. Several other striking objects have also been found at the same...
View ArticleDIC Corporation Decides to ‘Downsize and Relocate’ Japan’s DIC Museum, Which...
Japanese chemical company DIC Corporation announced in a press release Saturday that its board of directors had decided to “downsize and relocate” the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, an...
View ArticleThe Year in Asia: Looking Back at Key Moments That Shaped the Scene in 2024
It’s no secret that 2024 was a challenging year for the global art market. Asia was hardly left unscathed. Across the continent, people described the mood as slightly muted due to high interest rates,...
View ArticleTemporary Move of the Baden State Museum to Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Sparks...
With renovation work set to begin in September 2025, the Baden State Museum in the German city of Karlsruhe has been decided that it will move to the nearby Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden—raising...
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