Billionaire Art Collector Mitchell Rales and Josh Harris to Buy Washington Commanders
Josh Harris has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the Washington Commanders for $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Harris and Commanders owner Dan Snyder are...
Paintings Returned from Musée d’Orsay to Heirs to be Auctioned in New York
This past February, after a decade-long legal dispute, a French court ordered the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to return a group of Impressionist paintings that...
Controversial Painting at Palais de Tokyo Doesn’t Harm Children, French State Council Says
A Miriam Cahn painting at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo that incited outrage in France after many claimed it represented pedophilia can stay on view, France’s...
Fashion Designer Mary Quant Dies at 93, New Steve McQueen Film Will Be at Cannes, and More: Morning Links for April 14, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HUMAN RESOURCES. President Biden appointed two dozen luminaries to the President’s Committee on the Arts...
Aria Dean Guides Us to the Killing Floor in Chicago Exhibition
Aria Dean’s exhibition at the Renaissance Society in Chicago consists of one work: Abattoir, USA!, a 10-minute film engineered using 3D graphics that’s set in...
Former Art Institute of Chicago Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $2 M. from Museum
A former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago plead guilty in federal court this week after he was indicted in January on several fraud...
Wolfgang Tillmans, Simone Leigh, and El Anatsui Make Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ List
Time magazine has released its 2023 list of the 100 “Most Influential” people, which this year features art-world stars Simone Leigh, Wolfgang Tillmans, and El...
Art or Porn? A Closer Look at Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ the Sculpture Behind the Florida Charter School Controversy
A charter school in Tallahassee, Florida, recently made the news after parents complained about the inclusion of a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo in...
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....