A treasure trove of 16th-century Renaissance books in their original bindings is expected to fetch $25 million when it goes on Sotheby’s block beginning in October, with price estimates ranging …
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The Sale of an Alexander Calder Sculpture Has Sparked a Pair of Competing Lawsuits Between an Art Advisor and a Dealer
The sale of a multimillion-dollar Alexander Calder sculpture has sparked a pair of competing lawsuits involving an art advisor and dealers in New York and France. In January, the adviser, Lea …
An Alexander Calder sculpture valued at $8.7m is the subject of multiple lawsuits in New York—including accusations of theft, conspiracy, fraud and even stalking—between a gallerist, a dealer and an …
‘More than 1,500’ artefacts were stolen from British Museum, internal investigation reportedly reveals
The number of items allegedly taken from the British Museum’s collection by the senior curator Peter Higgs is thought to total more than 1,500 separate artefacts, according to an internal …
Inflation Hits Museums, as the Guggenheim Becomes the Latest New York Institution to Hike Prices
Art and culture lovers in New York should prepare themselves to spend quite a bit more to visit the city’s leading art museums. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has become …
A Los Angeles Auctioneer Who Forged 25 Basquiat Paintings Won’t Go to Jail, a Judge Decided
Los Angeles auctioneer Michael Barzman confessed to creating a suite of 25 Jean-Michel Basquiat forgeries that wound up at the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA), where the FBI dramatically seized …
See the Luminous Paintings Monet Made During His Many Trips to the French Riviera, Now on View at a Show in Monaco
A new exhibition with nearly 100 paintings by Claude Monet spotlights the artist’s trips to the French Riviera beginning with the first visit with his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1883. …
Last year, the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) displayed a collection of previously unseen paintings purportedly by Jean-Michel Basquiat in a now infamous exhibition titled Heroes and Monsters. Suspicion mounted, …
Photographers Recreate Old Master Paintings in Witty and Profound Ways in a New Show at a Princeton University Art Gallery
Knowingly or not, every artist references the history of their craft eventually. Some do it to situate their own work in the lineage of greats, others to question the monolithic …
The end of August marked two years since the US ended its 20-year war in Afghanistan by withdrawing its troops from the country and the Taliban officially began their rule. …