Galleries Report Strong Sales on Art Basel’s Opening Day, Proving the Fair Is Still the Market’s Bellwether
Many may still consider New York City to be the center of the art world, but the art market’s mecca is in Switzerland, where the...
German Panel Calls for Return of Kandinsky to Heirs of Jewish Family, Guggenheim Bilbao Wins AIA Prize, and More: Morning Links for June 14, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines A POSSIBLE RESOLUTION. A 1907 Wassily Kandinsky painting that has been held by a...
Met Curator Ian Alteveer to Lead MFA Boston’s Contemporary Art Department
Ian Alteveer, a Metropolitan Museum of Art curator who has been crucial in expanding the New York institution’s contemporary art offerings, will depart his current...
The Sales of Big-Ticket Artworks at Art Basel Give a Peek Into the State of the Market
If you want to know how the art market is performing, one easy benchmark is the number of big-ticket artworks up for sale at Art...
LACMA 2023 Art+Film Gala to Honor Chicana Muralist Judy Baca
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced the 2023 Art+Film Gala will honor Judy Baca and David Fincher. “Through his award-winning films, David Fincher tells...
Art Basel Rides the Picasso Wave with Masterpieces and Some Critique
The museum world has made it all but impossible to forget that this year marks the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death. There are the 50-some...
Italian Climate Activists Sentenced to Pay More Than $30,000 In Restitution By Vatican Court
Two environmental activists have been convicted of aggravated damage by a Vatican court and ordered to pay more than $30,000 (€28,148) in restitution after gluing...
Alessio Antoniolli, Director of London Gallery Gasworks, to Depart After 25 Years
Alessio Antoniolli, director of the London nonprofit visual art organization Gasworks for 25 years, will step down. The Italy-born curator said in a statement that...
Letter to the Editor: What the ‘Inconsistencies’ Among Degas Bronze Casts Really Mean, According to a Sculpture Specialist
Walter Maibaum is a sculpture specialist who, in 2001, brought to light a previously unknown plaster cast of Degas’ Little Dancer. In 2004, he uncovered...
Maurizio Cattelan Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over Banana Sculpture
A Miami federal judge ruled this week in favor of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who, for a few weeks in 2019, was the talk...
Sky Hopinka, Sin Wai Kin Win Art Basel’s $33,000 Baloise Art Prize
Sky Hopinka and Sin Wai Kin are this year’s winners of the Baloise Art Prize, a CHF 30,000 ($33,000) award given out annually to an...
David Castillo Makes the Jump to Art Basel’s Swiss Fair, a Rarity for a Miami Gallery
The Art Basel brand is a powerful thing. Its presence in Miami has arguably helped transform the city into a thriving arts hub. In the...
U.S. Plans to Rejoin UNESCO, Japan Makes 2024 Venice Biennale Pick, and More: Morning Links for June 13, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE DIPLOMATS. After pulling out of UNESCO in 2017, the United States said that...
How Dealers’ Concerns About Accessibility Pushed Basel’s Liste Art Fair to Relocate
A video artwork by French artist Florian Fouche at Parliament gallery’s booth at the Liste Art Fair shows the artist’s father, who is hemiplegic, navigating...