This month marks a year since major art market jurisdictions, including the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and Switzerland, began imposing sanctions on Russia in response to the invasion …
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One of the largest museum and heritage projects in Rome, the National Roman Museum initiative, was launched after the Italian Ministry of Culture recently approved funding of 71 million euros …
Francesco Salviati, Bindo Altoviti (around 1545) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a Renaissance portrait of exceptional quality depicting the pontifical banker Bindo …
British artist Jake Chapman is messing around on instagram with a series of messages lambasting Prince Harry and his recent autobiography Spareabout his life in the British royal family. The …
Do young collectors buy Old Masters? Tefaf Maastricht retailers bet on changing tastes
Old masters are a hard sell. “This is not a business for the faint-hearted. Or those in a hurry,” said Carlo Milano, the founder of London-based Callisto Fine Arts gallery, …
Phyllida Barlow – British sculptor who rose to worldwide fame after retiring from teaching – has died aged 78
British sculptor Phyllida Barlow, long respected among British artists who taught at London’s Slade School of Fine Art for more than 40 years, has died aged 78. Her death was …
Nancy Yao, who has served as director of the Museum of Chinese in America (Moca) in New York since 2015 and has previously held positions at Yale University, Goldman Sachs, …
Major Bill Traylor’s painting that once belonged to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is donated to the American Folk Art Museum
A major work by Bill Traylor (c. 1853-1949), a self-taught artist who was born into slavery and developed a striking and unique style of figurative painting late in life while …
I’m an artist… let me in here! Reality TV show is looking for the next global art star
Need a reality TV fix following the island of love And i am a celebrity? Look no further than The Exhibition: In Search of the Next Great Artist, a new …
(Almost) everyone seems to love pop superstar Harry Styles, who swept the Brit Awards chart last month, scooping four awards. British artist Peter Doig is also a fan, posting an …