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Jo Baer, Painter Who Renounced Minimalism for ‘Radical Figuration,’ Dies at 95
Jo Baer, a trailblazing painter who gained accolades as a Minimalist during the 1960s before diverging from the movement later on, died on Tuesday at 95. Her death was announced by Pace Gallery, which...
View ArticleWhy Was Soho House Talking Up Its Art Collection on the Eve of Announcing a...
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. Usually when you hear about Soho House...
View ArticleExperts Explain the Sticky Legal Reason Why Donald Trump’s Meme Coin $TRUMP...
Last Friday, a couple of days before President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, he launched his own cryptocurrency, a meme coin named, appropriately, $TRUMP. Amid the ceremonial pomp, the coin’s...
View ArticleIn Leaked Memo, Louvre Director Warns of Leaks and Overcrowding, Calls for...
The Louvre is suffering from water leaks and overcrowding, its director, Laurence des Cars, warned in a leaked missive to the French culture minister. Des Cars, the first woman to lead the museum,...
View ArticleElon Musk Portrait Removed From German Museum After Controversial Salute at...
A portrait of tech billionaire Elon Musk was removed from a space and technology exhibition at a German museum following backlash over a controversial gesture Musk made Monday at Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleSotheby’s Records $6 B. Total Sales in 2024 Amid ‘Clearly Challenging Market...
Sotheby’s revealed its 2024 earnings in a press call Thursday, with CEO Charles Stewart announcing $6 billion of consolidated sales against what he called “a clearly challenging market backdrop.” The...
View ArticleFrench President Macron to Visit Louvre Following Director’s Warning of ‘Poor...
French President Emanuel Macron will visit the Louvre next week after the museum’s director warned in a leaked memo that a major renovation was needed to preserve the famous building and its art...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower will be Sold for $1.4 M. Following Legal and...
After six months of financial tumult and legal sparring, Price Tower, the only skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is finally changing hands. The 19-story structure in Bartlesville, Oklahoma,...
View ArticleChristie’s Sells Two Winslow Homer Watercolors Appraised On Antiques Roadshow
Two Winslow Homer paintings that were recently appraised on Antiques Roadshow have been auctioned by Christie’s during its 19th century American Art and Western Painting sales on January 23. The...
View ArticleNational Gallery of Art Ends Diversity Programs After Trump Executive Order
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C. has stopped its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, following an executive order by President Donald Trump to end these programs...
View ArticleRussian Officials Responsible for Looting Southern Ukrainian Museums...
A Russian military officer and three Russian-appointed officials from occupied Crimea illegally removed more than 33,000 historical artifacts and artworks from two museums in the Ukrainian city...
View ArticleNational Portrait Gallery Under Scrutiny for Organizing Donor’s Photography...
The National Portrait Gallery in London is facing scrutiny for putting on an exhibition centered on the photographic work of a donor whose family contributed £40 million (approx. $50 million) to a...
View ArticleLA’s Broad Museum Faces Two Lawsuits Alleging Retaliation
Los Angeles’s Broad museum is facing two lawsuits, filed within less than a week of each other, that accuse the institution of discrimination and defamation, as well as failing to prevent retaliation...
View ArticleWill the Smithsonian Have to Obey Trump’s DEI Order? Maybe Not.
All eyes are on the Smithsonian following the announcement that the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. would cancel its diversity, equity and inclusion programs in accordance with an executive...
View ArticleRomanian Artifacts of ‘Incalculable Value’ Stolen in Heist at a Dutch Museum
A collection of artifacts from Romania were stolen in a heist at the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands on Saturday. At roughly 3:45 in the morning, three hooded figures broke into the Dutch...
View ArticleEinstein Love Letters and Old Masters at Center of Swiss Collector’s $100 M....
Jacob “Jacqui” Safra, a Swiss financier, collector, and scion of the illustrious Syrian Jewish banking family, has launched a legal salvo against Christie’s, accusing the auction house of bad faith...
View ArticleRISD’s Board Rejects Israel Divestment Proposal
On January 9, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)’s board of trustees voted to reject a a proposal to divest its $396 million endowment from companies linked to Israel. The decision followed...
View ArticleWhy Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?
“Yo, Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday?” sang Wyclef Jean on the Fugees’ debut album, in 1994. Around half a century earlier, Nat King Cole had crooned about Mona Lisa as the lady with the...
View ArticlePace, Galerie Judin to Open New Gallery in a 1950s Gas Station in Berlin
Pace Gallery is joining forces with Berlin’s Galerie Judin to launch a new space in the German capital this spring. Opening May 1, it will be set in a restored 1950s gas station in Berlin’s Schöneberg...
View ArticleTrump Presses Pause on Federal Loans and Grants, One Billion Euros to Fix the...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The HeadlinesTRUMP PAUSES ALL FEDERAL LOANS AND GRANTS. On Monday, the White House budget...
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