What crypto winter? It’s a conclusion that could be drawn from Sotheby’s second round of selling hundreds of NFTs collected by the defunct crypto hedge fund. Capital of the Three …
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Faces of refugees and locals will be pasted on the Geneva building as part of the JR photography project
Portraits of refugees, asylum seekers and Swiss people will be pasted on the facade of a Geneva building next week as part of the latest incarnation of the participatory project …
Considering the central place that figurative painting has acquired in contemporary artistic practices, Accommodation explores ever-evolving approaches to self-representation. The artists gathered here engage in abstraction, naturalism and photorealistic precision …
Unique handmade pocket watch added $4.9 million to Phillips watch sale, while Sotheby’s sold a Rolex Daytona owned by Paul Newman
Phillips New York held a $26.4 million watch auction over the weekend, setting a record for watchmaker Roger Smith with a unique pocket watch that also set the record for …
When Van Gogh offered to exchange portraits with Paul Gauguin, he awaited the arrival of the painting with immense impatience. What happened turned out to be a disappointment, with Van …
Rembrandt’s “standard bearer” returns to the Rijksmuseum after its world tour + Other stories
Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here’s what you need to know this Friday, June 16. …
California man on trial for importing Roman mosaic looted in Syrian Civil War to US
Yassin Alcharihi, a 56-year-old man living in Southern California, is on trial for allegedly smuggling an ancient Roman mosaic into the United States. The Justice Ministry believes the mosaic was …
Visit by a director of the newly refurbished National Portrait Gallery in London
They are the masks of life and death, ”explains Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), pointing to the frozen features of John Keats and William Blake but …
The Henry Moore Institute rediscovers German artist Egon Altdorf, who ‘hated the commercial art world’
During his lifetime, German artist Egon Altdorf kept a low profile. “My father was very reluctant to sell his work,” says his son, Dorian Crone. “He never had a dealer …
Los Angeles-born curator Elena Filipovic has been named the next director of the Kunstmuseum Basel. Filipovic comes to the institution from the Kunsthalle Basel, where she was director since 2014; …