Indian Government Says Up to 31 Antiquities Stolen in the Last Decade, 27 Objects Still Missing
According to the Indian government, as many as 31 antiquities have been stolen from the country’s centrally protected monuments and sites in the last decade,...
Malin Gallery Closes in New York and Aspen Amid Allegations of Unreceived Payments
The past week has seen some fairly dramatic developments in the world of art galleries. Last week, ARTnews reported that JTT gallery, which had been...
The Story Behind Andy Warhol’s ‘Velvet Underground and Nico’ Cover, the Newly Crowned Best Album Art of All Time
On Monday, Billboard released its list of the greatest album covers of all time, and the winner was not Robert Mapplethorpe (the photographer behind a...
Phillips Sees 40 Percent Drop in Sales in First Half of 2023, Offering Another Sign of a Market Slowdown
Phillips said its global sales for the first half of 2023 were $453 million, a substantial 39 percent drop compared to the $746 million it...
Leonardo da Vinci’s $450 M. Salvator Mundi Painting Gets the NFT Treatment
Salvator Mundi (ca. 1499–1510), the world’s most expensive painting, is being turned into a NFT. The painting, which was controversially attributed to Leonardo da Vinci,...
Top Museum Curators Are Joining Art Galleries. What’s Behind This Shift?
If Katherine Rochester, who has a PhD in art history, had been told 10 years ago that she would work at a gallery, she would...
Connecticut Man Pleads Guilty in Case Involving Forged Peter Max Paintings
A 29-year-old man from Connecticut pled guilty in federal court to mail fraud in case involving the sale of 145 forged Peter Max paintings for...
Man Stabbed Outside the British Museum, Architectural Historian Jean-Louis Cohen Dies at 74, and More: Morning Links for August 9, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines POLICE BLOTTER. A man was stabbed in the arm outside the British Museum’s front entrance...
Phillips Launches Direct-from-Artist Sale Platform, Expanding into E-Commerce
Phillips has launched Dropshop, a digital platform that aims to bring limited-edition artworks and collectibles commissioned from living artists directly to collectors. For the auction...
Guggenheim Museum Ratifies First Contract With Unionized Workers
The union at the Guggenheim Museum has voted to ratify its first contract, with 97 percent of eligible employees supporting the two-and-a half-year bargaining agreement....
TikTok Painter Devon Rodriguez Sets His Sights on a New Audience: The Art World
In 2020, Devon Rodriguez posted a video to TikTok in which his hands could be seen sketching a photorealistic portrait of a stranger on the...
Martin Kippenberger Estate Loses Lawsuit over Authorship of ‘Paris Bar’ Paintings
A court in Munich has ruled that painter Götz Valien must be named as the co-author of three paintings alongside Martin Kippenberger, who was long...
First Nations Ancestral Village and ‘Rare’ 1,000-Year-Old Fish Trap Found in Canada
A rare 1,000-year-old fish trap and the remains of the ancestral village ȾEL¸IȽĆE were discovered in a suburban waterfront park by students from Canada’s University...
Ukraine Launches Database of Artworks Recently Owned by Sanctioned Russians
Ukraine has launched a searchable database of artworks recently owned by Russian nationals under Western sanctions amid the ongoing devastation of Ukraine by Russian forces. ...