After 30 Paintings from Tehran Museum Disappear, Critics Call For Investigation
Thirty valuable paintings on loan from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran have vanished after “an unidentified entity outside the municipality with official...
Hauser & Wirth Names Gallery Veteran Mirella Roma as CEO
Hauser & Wirth has appointed gallery veteran Mirella Roma as its new chief executive officer, the gallery announced in a press release Thursday. Roma has...
Sydell Miller’s $200M Art Collection Set for Sotheby’s New York Auction This November
Sotheby’s marquee sales this November in New York will be led by works from the collection of the beauty industry trailblazer Sydell Miller. The auction...
LACMA Ends South Los Angeles Project to ‘De-center’ the Museum Over High Costs
LACMA has officially ended plans to establish a satellite campus at the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park in what was part of a 2017 project...
Tehran Museum Loses 30 Paintings it Loaned Out, Identity of Mysterious Man Buried Under Notre-Dame Revealed, and More: Morning Links for September 18, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ART LOANED AND LOST. In July, Tehran’s Imam Ali Religious Arts...
Christie’s Establishes its First Saudi Arabia Outpost
Today, Christie’s became the first international auction house to establish a permanent commercial license to operate in Saudi Arabia. Noor Kelani will oversee the new...
New California Law May End the Legal Dispute Over a Nazi-Looted Pissarro in Madrid
A bill signed into law this week by California Governor Gavin Newsom may signal the beginning of the end of a decades-long dispute between the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza...
Getty Museum Returns Funerary Artifact to Turkey
On Tuesday, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles returned a bronze funerary bed dated to 530 BCE to officials of the Turkish government...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Rapper and Art Collector, Charged With Sex Trafficking
After months of accusations of sexual misconduct and other allegations, Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged Tuesday on three counts: racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force,...
Perrotin Gallery Donates 23 Works to the Pompidou Centre by Artists Including Takashi Murakami, Emma Webster, and Genesis Belanger
Emmanuel Perrotin, the French art dealer with galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and LA, is donating 23 artworks to the...
Philadelphia’s University of the Arts Files for Bankruptcy, New York’s Deli Gallery Shutters, and More; Morning Links for September 17, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHAPTER 11. The University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia has...
New York’s Deli Gallery, Champion of Emerging Talent, to Close
Deli Gallery, a New York City outfit lauded for its keen eye for emerging talent, will close after eight years. With this, it joins Denny...
A New Edition of John Elderfield’s ‘Frankenthaler’ Shows an Artist with Real New York Chutzpah
An updated edition of John Elderfield’s Frankenthaler, originally published in 1989 and which many consider to be the definitive monograph on the artist, will be released...
United Talent Agency Puts its Fine Arts Division on ‘Pause’
UTA Fine Arts, the division of Hollywood giant United Talent Agency that worked to put established and emerging contemporary artists into the collective consciousness by...