Artworks Worth $20 M. or More Made Up Nearly Half of Art Sold at Auction Between 2018 and 2022
As the art fair calendar continues in full swing and a Johannes Vermeer retrospective at the Rijksmuseum sold out, a…
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At SXSW, Cheech Marin Talks Identity Politics And What It Means To Be Chicano
Of all the discourse that permeates today’s never-ending newscycle, gender, identity, and race issues create the most heat. But, where there is heat there…
Investigation Links More than 77 Indian Antiquities in the Met’s Collection to Prolific Trafficker Subhash Kapoor
At least 77 antiquities from South Asia in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been linked to…
MTV and the Hirshhorn’s Artist Competition TV Series Reflect on the ‘Traumatizing’ Aftermath of Covid-19
(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the third episode of The Exhibit.) “This commission is traumatizing,” artist…
As It Faces Increased Scrutiny, Desert X Returns to Coachella Valley with a More Low-Key Show
In the short film Kudhi Bari, the architect Marina Tabassum works alongside residents of Bangladesh’s small desert sand islands, or…
At SXSW 2023, Web3ers Pitch Their ‘Decentralized Museum’ and Meet Skepticism
A panel at the 2023 edition of SXSW titled “The Decentralization of Art As We Know It” began with a…
500-Year-Old English Farmhouse With Banksy Artwork Has Been Demolished
A dilapidated 500-year-old farmhouse, with a Banksy mural on its side, was demolished in the seaside town of Herne Bay…
Nike ‘Deeply Concerned’ With ‘Very Serious Allegations’ Against Artist Tom Sachs
Nike has responded to recent allegations related to inappropriate workplace culture at Tom Sachs’ studio. Multiple former employees of the…
Curator Behind 1995 Vermeer Retrospective Talks About What Goes Into Mounting a Blockbuster Exhibition
It would be an understatement to say Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., a specialist in Flemish and Dutch art, understands why…
A New Film About Joseph Bau, Artist and Holocaust Survivor, Is in Production, Starring Emile Hirsch
Emile Hirsch (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) and Inbar Lavi (“Fauda”) lead the cast of WWII-set drama “Bau, Artist at…
Benin to Bring Pavilion to 2024 Venice Biennale for the First Time
In a first, the Republic of Benin will be represented in a national pavilion at the forthcoming edition of the…
Seoul May Get a Pompidou Branch, Banksy Destroyed in England, and More: Morning Links for March 16, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GROW OR GO. The Centre Pompidou is in talks…
Protests Against ‘Mafia Style’ Violence Erupt After an Archaeologist Was Viciously Attacked In Greece
State-employed archeologists staged a five-hour protest outside the Culture Ministry in Athens on Tuesday to protest the savage assault of a colleague in…
A Rare Early Work by David Hockney Worth Over $35,000 Was Discovered on Antiques Roadshow
It was a pastel painting of a snapshot from almost anywhere: muted green fields split by a beaten footpath, and…