Tao Siqi’s Baudelaire-Inspired Erotic Paintings Stun at Frieze New York
A common result of walking through any art fair is realizing that, after two hours, no more than a handful of works remain in your memory. And the ones that are on view at Capsule Shanghai’s Frieze...
View ArticleAt Frieze New York, Young Galleries Reveal Untold Narratives and Spotlight...
The most coveted commodity at an art fair, beside the wares themselves, is attention. At a blue-chip bazaar like Frieze New York, where the crowd churns ceaselessly, and every wall aspires to be a...
View ArticleMultimillion-Dollar Frank Auerbach to Be Sold by the UK’s National Crime Agency
A painting by the British artist Frank Auerbach from his lauded “Albert Street” series is slated to hit the auction block after having been recovered by UK authorities from money launderer Lenn...
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci to Get the Hollywood Treatment from ‘All of Us Strangers’...
Leonardo da Vinci is coming soon to a movie theater near you. The Renaissance artist will become the latest artist to receive a biopic, Variety reports, in the form of a new film from Andrew Haigh,...
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Paul McCartney’s Rarely Seen Photography Gets a Big Museum Show in New York
During the early 1960s, at the height of “Beatlemania,” New York City was taken by storm as The Beatles kicked off their visit to the US. Tens of thousands of fans hurried to the streets, hoping to...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at 1-54 New York, From Leaf Assemblages to Invented...
The 2024 edition of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York opened to press on Wednesday afternoon at a new location, Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh building. While previous editions of the fair...
View ArticleEU Court Says Getty Should Return Ancient Greek Bronze to Italy, Kyiv...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES GETTY BRONZE DISPUTE. The European Court of Human Rights upheld a 2018 Italian...
View Article$850,000 Ed Clark Painting Tops First-Day Sales at Frieze New York
The opening of the Frieze New York art fair this week brought six-figure sales and a bunch of celebrities. But whereas last year’s Frieze New York saw the sale of a $2.5 million Jack Whitten painting,...
View ArticleBritish Arts Center Apologizes for Canceling Palestinian Film Events
Arnolfini, an arts center in Bristol, England, apologized on Friday for a decision to cancel two events held as part of the Palestine Film Festival, a move that many artists and activists claimed was...
View ArticleA Riotous, Edgy Alternative Fair About 1970s Art Returns to New York
For the second year in a row, far from Frieze New York in Hudson Yards, the SoHo art dealer Eric Firestone is hosting 18 New York galleries, all of whom are celebrating the 1970s. The fair is situated...
View ArticleOriginal ‘Harry Potter’ Cover Art Heads to Auction, Where It May Break Records
Break out your wands (and wallets), Potter fans. Slated to hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York this summer is the original watercolor that graced the cover of the first book in the “Harry...
View ArticleJan van Eyck’s ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ Gets a New Frame, Polarizing Social Media...
The Arnolfini Portrait, a main attraction at London’s National Gallery, has received a new frame intended to reshape how viewers see the famed Jan van Eyck painting. It is normal for beloved artworks...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at NADA New York, From Sci-Fi Utopias to Remixed Folklore
Out of all the art fairs being held in New York this week, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair may be your best bet for genuine discovery. The event centers emerging enterprises, and this year...
View ArticleAncient Egyptian Pyramids, Sphinx Close to Public for Tech Billionaire’s...
Ancient Egyptian pyramids and the Great Sphinx in Giza were briefly shuttered to the public this week for a tech billionaire’s wedding. That billionaire, Ankur Jain, and fitness trainer Erika Hammond...
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Frank Stella, Trailblazing Artist Who Pushed Abstraction to Its Limits, Dies...
Frank Stella, an artist who brought abstraction into brave new directions, defining an era with his “Black Paintings” of the 1950s, died on Saturday at 87. The New York Times reported that he had been...
View ArticleDozens Arrested at Pro-Palestine Encampment at Art Institute of Chicago
Dozens of pro-Palestine protestors were arrested on Saturday at an encampment at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the nation’s most heavily attended museums. The People’s Art Institute, a group...
View ArticleFrank Stella Dies, Dozens Arrested at Pro-Palestine Encampment at Chicago’s...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Artist Frank Stella has died at 87. During the 1950s, the iconic...
View ArticleThe Quiet Power of Marisol’s Work Is Highlighted in a Traveling Retrospective
How does an artist go from being a smash hit to falling through the cracks of art history? Beginning in 1957 and through the 1960s, the artist Marisol (1930–2016) was the toast of the New York art...
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‘Berthe Morisot in Nice’ Delves into the Impressionist Painter’s Working Methods
Art institutions around the world are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, which staged its first exhibit in April 1874, and curators are seizing the opportunity to dig further into the...
View ArticleNewly Discovered Caravaggio will be Unveiled at the Prado in Madrid This Month
A painting that nearly sold at auction three years ago for $1,600 has been revealed to be a missing masterwork by the by the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It will go on...
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