Gerhard Richter’s Premier Color Field Painting Goes to Auction
Gerhard Richter’s iconic painting 4096 Farben is set to be auctioned at Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction in New York on May 18, with an estimated...
Museum Offers $25K for Pieces of Meteorite—If You Can Find Them
Last week, a meteor burned through the sky above the Northeastern United States at such a speed that it broke the sound barrier. According to...
Collector Ken Griffin Gives $300 M. to Harvard, $25 M. Gerhard Richter Heads to Auction, and More: Morning Links for April 13, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE COLLECTING CLASS. Good news for collector Bernard Arnault (and those hoping to sell...
A Woman Crashed Her Rolls-Royce into $3M. Damien Hirst Statue Belonging to Mega-Collectors
A sculpture by Damien Hirst was the subject of a different kind of spectacle last month, after a woman drove her Rolls-Royce sedan onto the...
Italian Politicians Push for Fines on Activists Who Damage Cultural Sites During Climate Protests
The Italian culture ministry is advocating for a law that would impose a large fine on individuals found to have vandalized the country’s monuments or...
Workers Denounce Brussels Museum Director’s ‘Rule of Terror’ in Letter to Government
Last year, employees of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels accused its director, Michel Draguet, of frequent inappropriate behavior including sexist and racist remarks....
Ancient Mayan Scoreboard Found at Chichén Itzá Complex in Mexico
A stone scoreboard used to keep track of sports games has been identified by archaeologists at Chichén Itzá, the ancient Mayan complex situated among Mexico’s...
Man Pleads Guilty to Making Fake Basquiats Seized from the Orlando Museum of Art
A former auctioneer has pled guilty to helping create and sell dozens of fake Basquiat paintings that were seized by the FBI last year from...
Man Says He Helped Make Fake Basquiats, Artist John Olsen Dies at 95, and More: Morning Links for April 12, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines A BREAK IN THE CASE. Last June, the FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art, taking...
Air Jordans Worn by Michael Jordan Become the Most Expensive Sneakers Ever Auctioned
A pair of Air Jordans worn by Michael Jordan during the famed 1998 NBA finals sold at Sotheby’s for $2.2 million on Tuesday, becoming the...
Man Gets Trapped Inside Public Art in Canada After Easter Mischief
Public art can be engrossing. But for a man who tried to climb the Talus Dome sculpture in Edmonton, a city in Alberta, Canada, it...
Taliban-Backed Project Seeks to Save Afghanistan’s Ancient Buddhist City from Copper Mining
An 18-month-long conservation project to protect a 2,000-year-old Buddhist city is being backed by the Taliban, according to the Art Newspaper. The Afghan heritage site...
Austin’s Blanton Museum Hires First Curator of Latino Art
The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin has named Claudia Zapata as its first associate curator of Latino Art. They will start at the institution,...
The Met Awards Prestigious Commissions to Nairy Baghramian and Jacolby Satterwhite
This fall, new, cutting-edge commissions will take over two of the most visible stages contemporary art has to offer: the façade and Great Hall of...