The DA held a repatriation ceremony yesterday, March 22. (via the Turkish Consulate in New York on Twitter) The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (DA) announcement yesterday, March 22, that it …
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Casey Fremont, Director of the Arts Production Fund, shows us how to host a gala and how to recover from it
Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, the free – and free – spin-off! – from Artnet News Pro’s beloved Wet Paint gossip column, where we give art world insiders …
the photographer shattering the cultural heritage of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings
Japanese-Samoan artist Yuki Kihara is perhaps best known for her work that challenges depictions of the Pacific Islands and its people popularized by Western artists and colonial-era photographers. Often using …
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Nepali Officials Say Works On Display At The Art Institute Of Chicago Have Been Stolen + 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 Thursday, March 23. …
New York court dismisses case over ownership of ‘world’s first NFT’ sold for $1.5m at Sotheby’s
In one of the first court cases in the United States to test the application of blockchain technology to artists’ rights, a New York court has dismissed a lawsuit over …
A US court has granted legal victory to digital artist Kevin McCoy in an ownership dispute over the first-ever NFT
Kevin McCoy, the artist widely credited with creating the first NFT, and auction house Sotheby’s have won a court victory in a lawsuit challenging the terms and propriety of a …
In memory of Richard Verdi, art historian and longtime director of the Barber Institute, who died at the age of 81
In the week before Richard Verdi’s death, an advance copy of his latest publication…Velazquez (Thames & Hudson, 2023) – was delivered to his bedside. In life he was incapable of …
A gigantic public artwork about the Hong Kong protests was quietly censored in the middle of Art Basel Week
A large-scale artwork exhibited during Hong Kong Art Week has been censored after the artist revealed the artwork was embedded with pro-democracy messages. Pro-Beijing media accused the work of being …
Closed since the start of the pandemic, a museum reopens with a dramatic gesture: an exhibition without art
Last month, nearly three years after it closed due to Covid-19, the Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, reopened. Its return and renaming (from …