What Defines an Art Collector in 2023?: The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Respond
Each year, ARTnews sends out a questionnaire to our Top 200 Collectors to get the pulse on some of the most pressing issues in the...
What Even Is a Collector These Days?: An Introduction to the 2023 Edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors List
Historically, building an art collection was a gradual process that took years, if not decades, in which a collector one day realized her holdings exceeded...
Frick Curator Reattributes Artwork Left for Decades in Storage as Rare Rosalba Carriera Portrait
A 200-year-old painting left for decades in storage at Tatton Park, a historic estate in Cheshire, U.K., has been identified as the work of preeminent...
Crusader Era Cemetery and Sword Discovered in Finland
Crusader era burials have been found in a cemetery by archaeologists in Salo, Finland, according to Heritage Daily. While a pipe trench was being dug...
Paris+ Ramps Up Security Measures as France Raises Security Alert Amid Israel-Hamas Conflict
Days before the newest addition to the art fair calendar, Paris+ par Art Basel, is set to open, the fair’s chief executive, Noah Horowitz, informed...
Second Winners of $25,000 Gold Art Prize for AAPI and Asian Diaspora Artists Named
The second round of winners of the Gold Art Prize, which awards an unrestricted $25,000 to five AAPI and Asian diaspora artists every other year,...
Yayoi Kusama Expresses “Deep Regret” For Anti-Black Statements Ahead of Exhibition at SFMOMA
Yayoi Kusama recently addressed her racist descriptions of Black people in several written works, including her 2003 autobiography Infinity Net, just before the opening of...
Louvre Museum Evacuated After Bomb Threat
The Louvre Museum was evacuated on Saturday morning after receiving bomb threats. Alarms sounded throughout the museum as well as the underground shopping center beneath...
At Frieze London, Heavyweights and Rising Names Compete for Top Sales
This week, art world cognoscenti reconvened for the opening of Frieze London at the city’s Regent’s Park. 130 galleries, ranging from megas to smaller-scale outfits,...
UNESCO Unveils Design of First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects
UNESCO’s forthcoming virtual museum of stolen cultural objects is one step closer to reality. UNESCO (short for The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)...
$19 M. in Looted Antiquities Returned by Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to Italy in Repatriation Ceremony
The Manhattan district attorney’s office returned nineteen looted antiquities worth almost $19 million to Italian authorities in a repatriation ceremony at the Italian consulate in...
A UK Auction House is Offering Up a Rare Ceramic Cat Made by a Young David Hockney
Stacey’s Auctioneers and Valuers has a treat this season for the intersection of people who are passionate about both British Contemporary Art and felines: a...
The Best Booths at 2023 Edition of London’s 1-54 Fair
The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair opened its 11th London edition at Somerset House on Thursday, bringing together an impressive 62 exhibitors from 32 countries....
Musée d’Orsay Exhibition Spotlights the Last Two Months of Van Gogh’s Life, Bringing to Light His Final Obsessions
This year marks the 170th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh’s birth, but it is his final months that are now the subject of a major...