Christie’s Will Sell Monet Painting From Chicago’s Union League Club At 20th Century Evening Sale
Christie’s has been consigned to sell Claude Monet‘s Pommiers en fleurs (1872) by the Union League Club of Chicago to help fund a $10 million renovation...
Egon Schiele’s Death Mask Surpasses Expectations at Sloane Street Auctions Sale
An “exceedingly rare” bronze cast of Egon Schiele’s death mask sold for $24,600—more than ten times its estimated price—this week at London’s Sloane Street Auctions sale of...
3 Takeaways from the Art Basel & UBS Global Collecting Survey
Few years have been as tumultuous in the art market as 2023. Of course, 2008 and 2016 were bad (and not to mention 1990), but...
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Students Hold Walkout to Protest War in Gaza
Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago organized a walkout on Thursday to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. The walkout, which happened...
Ancient House with Erotic Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
Age-old paintings of satyrs bedding nymphs and mythological figures fornicating have been newly unearthed at a small house at Pompeii. In its announcement of the...
Chicago Exhibition Weekend Highlights Founder Abby Pucker’s Ambitions For the Windy City’s Art Industry
Chicago Exhibition Weekend (CXW) came into being last year because Abby Pucker was tired of hearing people saying they didn’t know what was going on...
Sotheby’s to Sell Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-taped Banana, Art Basel and USB Report Looks for Positives: Morning Links for October 25, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GOING BANANAS. Maurizio Cattelan’s famously provocative duct-taped, yellow plantain sculpture will...
Feral File Wants to Trigger a ‘Cultural Shift’ by Beaming Digital Art Into People’s Homes Every Day Through Phones and Smart TVs
Feral File, an online platform for digital art founded in 2020, is striving to beam curated digital art through smart TVs and mobile devices in...
Two Sides to the Art Market: Spending Down 32 Percent in 2023, Report Says, While Total Volume on the Rise
At the top of the art market dwell collectors. Without them, there’s no one to warrant the countless gallery exhibitions, seasonal day and evening sales,...
UNC Greensboro, Reeling from Dissent Over Program Cuts, Gets $5 M. Contemporary Art Gift
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro will recieve a gift of 270 contemporary artworks and funding worth $5 million from...
Endeavor Explores Selling Frieze, Including Its Magazine, Fairs, and London Exhibition Space
Endeavor Group Holdings, a holding company that owns the namesake talent agency and several other sports and entertainment enterprises, is exploring selling off some of...
Rosana Paulino Wins Munch Museum’s Inaugural $25,000 Award Celebrating Artistic Freedom
The Munch Museum in Oslo will present Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino with its inaugural Munch Award honoring artistic freedom during a ceremony on Thursday. The...
2025 Bienal de São Paulo to Take the Title of ‘Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice’
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the chief curator of 2025 Bienal de São Paulo, has announced the title and curatorial concept of his forthcoming exhibition, sent...
Massive Hoard of Silver Pennies From Norman Conquest Valued at $5.6M
A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors in 2019 were recently valued at...