The Billionaire Boys’ Club and the Market-Proof Rothko
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. When news broke last month that Christie’s...
Man Sues Over Women-Only Art Installation, Liverpool Museum Seeks Identity of Black Model, Louvre Gets Bomb Threat, , and More: Morning Links for March 21, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES NO BOYS ALLOWED. A feminist art installation that excludes men at...
Komal Shah’s ‘Making Their Mark’ Exhibition of Women Artists to Travel to US Museums
“Making Their Mark,” an exhibition of women artists from the Shah Garg Foundation, has seen some 50,000 visitors since it opened at the former Dia...
Chicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting to Fund $10 M. Building Renovation
The Union League Club of Chicago is selling its prized painting by Claude Monet and a work by Walter Ufer to help pay for a...
‘Invaluable’ Petroglyphs and Fossilized Footprints Found in Brazil’s ‘Dinosaur Valley’
A collection of petroglyphs formed in vast, geometric circles have been discovered in Brazil’s Serrote do Letreiro site. However, according to a study published by...
Three Contested Rubens Paintings Must Remain in the Courtauld, UK Advisory Panel Rules
A trio of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens will remain with their current owner, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the UK Parliament’s spoliation advisory panel...
Talking Galleries Conference Launches Second New York Edition
There is plenty to talk about in the art world this spring. The Whitney Biennial just opened, next week brings Art Basel Hong Kong, and...
Artist Lynthia Edwards Says Deborah Roberts’s Infringement Lawsuit Against Her Is ‘Defamation’
The artist Lynthia Edwards filed a counterclaim last week in response to a lawsuit brought against her and her gallery, Richard Beavers Gallery, by the collage artist...
Banksy’s Tree Mural in London Defaced Days After its Debut
Shortly after a new Banksy mural had sprung up on the wall of a residential building in north London, it was defaced with white paint....
Damien Hirst Formaldehyde Works Under Scrutiny, Hong Kong Artists Brace for New Security Law, Banksy Mural Vandalized, and More: Morning Links for March 20, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES AGE AS A CONCEPT. Three of Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde animal sculptures dated to...
Armory Show Director Nicole Berry to Depart Fair for Role at the Hammer Museum
Nicole Berry, the executive director of the Armory Show, will leave her role at the fair later this month. She will soon join the Hammer...
Andrew Crispo, New York Art Dealer Who Became a Tabloid Sensation, Dies at 78
Andrew Crispo, a New York art dealer who became embroiled in a murder scandal during the 1980s, died on February 8, according to the New...
Archaeologists Unearth New Building in Sicily’s Valley of the Temples
A previously unknown building has been identified by archaeologists working in Sicily’s Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Italy, according to a new study published...
Artist Charles Gaines Says ICA Miami Suggested Removing and Altering Artworks in His Exhibition
In November, the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami opened a major survey for Los Angeles–based artist Charles Gaines that received praise, including from this reporter...