Unseen for 30 Years, Van Gogh Harbor Scene Is Poised to Shatter Auction Records in Asia
For the first time in 30 years, Vincent van Gogh’s Les canots amarrés (Moored Boats) is set to hit the auction block. The 1887 painting...
Belgium’s Office Baroque Gallery Shutters After 17 Years in Business
Office Baroque, the influential Belgian contemporary art gallery founded by Marie Denkens and Wim Peeters in 2007, has shut down after 17 years in business....
5 Shows to See During Berlin Art Week
Berlin is a city as defined by its seasons as it is by its cultural output. It’s fitting, then, that Berlin’s two major annual art...
Legal Advocacy Groups Call for Iran to End Campaign Targeting Dissident Artists
A new report co-published by two legal U.S.-based advocacy groups calls on Iran to stop a years-long campaign to persecute artists, a push that grew...
Brooklyn Museum of Art Rebrands After 200 Years
Can a 200-year-old institution rebrand as cutting edge? The Brooklyn Museum of Art is attempting to do just that with its new logo design. The...
Stonewall Museum Ends Membership with Florida Tourism Organization After LGBTQ+ Page Disappears
The Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, canceled its membership with the state’s official tourism marketing corporation, Visit Florida, after that organization “quietly”...
9 Shows to See During the Getty’s Science-Themed PST ART Festival
Experimentalism regularly reigns supreme in the latest edition of PST ART, a recurring, Getty Foundation–run initiative in which dozens of museums in Los Angeles and...
MoMA Director Glenn Lowry to Step Down in 2025 After Leading the Museum for 30 Years
Glenn Lowry, the director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, will step down from his post in 2025, bringing to a close a 30-year...
Rare Celtic Helmet Thought to Be 2,400 Years Old Excavated in Poland
A Celtic helmet that archaeologists believe is around 2,400 years old has been discovered in Poland. Described by its finders as “very rare,” the helmet...
Three Workers at New York’s Noguchi Museum Fired After Wearing Keffiyehs on the Job
Three employees at the Noguchi Museum in New York were fired for violating an internal policy that banned keffiyehs, a garment symbolic of Palestinian culture....
30-Year-Old Painter Michaela Yearwood-Dan Joins Hauser & Wirth
Michael Yearwood-Dan, a painter whose colorful abstractions have generated a loyal following, has joined Hauser & Wirth, one of the biggest galleries in the world....
Art Institute of Chicago Receives Record $75 M. Gift Toward Expansion
The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) received a $75 million donation from Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed to support future expansion, the museum announced...
A Month Before Art Basel Paris Opens, Director Clément Delépine Unveils the Program
Next month, Art Basel Paris—rebranded from the unwieldy Paris+ par Art Basel—will inaugurate the newly renovated Grand Palais. The fair comes amid a wave of...
Sophie Calle, Doris Salcedo Among Winners of $105,000 Praemium Imperiale Award
The Praemium Imperiale, a Japanese award that counts among the biggest arts prizes in the world, has this year gone to five people, including artists...