Contemporary Auction Sales Fell 27 Percent in 2024: HAT 100 Report
While speculative sales of contemporary artworks and works by young artists fell in 2024, women artists, lower-value works, and sales in New York rose, according to the 2025 edition of the Hiscox...
View ArticleSotheby’s to Sell Abstract, Expressionist, and Late-19th Century Masterpieces...
Sotheby’s is selling several works from the estate of late Swiss collectors Rolf and Margit Weinberg in New York this spring. They span “masterpieces of the late 19th century to pioneering examples of...
View ArticleFaith Ringgold Estate Heads to New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery
The estate of Faith Ringgold, an acclaimed artist known for works that directly and bracingly protest racism, has joined New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. Prior to her death in 2024, Ringgold had long...
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A New Documentary Attempts to Correct ‘Crypto Bro’ Misconceptions about...
A few years ago, like a lot of people on the internet, documentary filmmaker Dan Sickles got turned onto the blockchain. Or, more specifically, cryptocurrency, digital art, and NFTs. As Sickles tells...
View ArticleTrump’s Cuts Jeopardizing His Own Plans for America’s 250th Anniversary,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BUNGLED BIRTHDAY. President Donald Trump’s “extraordinary celebration” of...
View ArticleArchaeologists in Egypt Uncover Ancient Town Likely Built by King Tut’s Father
Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient Egyptian town dating back 3,400 years near the city of Alexandria, according to a recent study published in Antiquity. The researchers from the...
View ArticleArchaeologists Uncover 4,000 Mural Fragments Dating to 2nd Century in Spain
Spanish archaeologists have uncovered some 4,000 new painting fragments at a Roman villa in Valencia, dating back to the second century CE. The mural fragments are believed to have decorated various...
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Robyn Kahukiwa, Painter Who Recorded the Realities of Māori Life, Dies at 86
Robyn Kahukiwa, a Māori painter who became one of the most famous artists in Aotearoa New Zealand, died of an illness at 86 in a Wellington hospital on Friday. Her death was announced on Facebook by...
View ArticleThe Large Bust of Elon Musk in Texas Has Been Defaced
A 12-foot-tall bust of Elon Musk in Texas was defaced over the weekend, according to the owner of the property where the artwork is located. The landowner, Eleazar Villafranca, told ABC News that...
View ArticleChristie’s Will Auction $30 M. Claude Monet Painting in May Evening Sale
Christie’s will auction Claude Monet’s Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule (1891) during its marquee evening sales in New York next month, where the painting will hit the block with a $30...
View ArticleRISD Students Protest Relocation of Pro-Palestine Art Exhibition
On Tuesday, around 70 Rhode Island School of Design students staged a demonstration outside the school’s administrative offices, protesting the administration’s decision to relocate a pro-Palestine...
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Art Dubai Opens With Its Own Pace: A Fair That’s ‘Not About Fighting to Win...
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. Art Dubai opened to VIPs on Wednesday...
View ArticleHeidi Zuckerman to Step Down as CEO of Orange County Museum of Art in December
Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and director of the Orange County Museum of Art, will step down at the end of her contract in December 2025, the institution said Thursday. Zuckerman, who joined OCMA in early...
View ArticleSotheby’s Consigned To Sell 40+ Works by Roy Lichtenstein with Total Estimate...
Sotheby’s has been consigned to sell more than 40 works by Roy Lichtenstein from the private collection of the artist’s family, with a total estimate of more than $35 million, as part of its upcoming...
View ArticleNasher Sculpture Center in Dallas Names Carlos Basualdo as Director
The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, a modestly sized but formidable institution dedicated to the medium, has named Carlos Basualdo as director. He succeeds longtime director Jeremy Strick, who...
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Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Names First New Director Since 2010
Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, one of the biggest museums of its kind in Russia, named Daria Kotova as its new director, effective immediately, on Thursday. Kotova is a longtime staffer...
View ArticleAnselm Kiefer’s Takeover of the Stedelijk Lets Viewers See the Warning Signs
The Stedelijk Museum’s large staircase is grand—it immediately lends the museum a sense of majesty. But these days, that staircase leads to something unsettling: At its summit, visitors face a...
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Anonymous Was A Woman Symposium Reveals Financial Precarity for Women...
How are women artists faring these days? According to a new survey commissioned by Anonymous Was A Woman, the arts nonprofit known for its grant-making, and compiled by reporter-researchers Julia...
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Facing Legal Drama over a Giacometti, David Geffen Hits Crypto Collector...
Billionaire collector and music mogul David Geffen has unequivocally refused calls from Justin Sun for the return of an Alberto Giacometti sculpture that Sun claims was stolen from his collection by...
View ArticleTwo Climate Protesters Pardoned after Gluing Their Hands to Raphael’s...
Two climate activists recently received pardons after convictions and payments for property damage after gluing their hands to the frame of Raphael’s Sistine Madonna in 2022. The protest took place at...
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