Profits for Sotheby’s UK arm dropped 24% last year, falling from £34.5m in 2021 to £26.2m in 2022, according to its latest filing on Companies House made on 19 July. …
Arts
Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow shreds box-office record with Banksy exhibition
The Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow (GoMA) attracted 180,000 visitors during its ten-week run of an exhibition by the enigmatic artist Banksy. Representatives for GoMA told the BBC that …
From a tender portrait of Gauguin’s son to a 17th-century Leonardo manuscript: our pick of October’s auctions
Plus, a first-century Roman cameo and a gilt bronze statue from Tibet
Former German museum worker sentenced to prison for stealing and selling paintings
A former technical worker at the Deutsches Museum in Munich was sentenced to prison for stealing paintings from the depot and selling them via an auction house to buy himself …
By Art Publishers Benoit Malphettes, a French-American photographer who, as he approaches his eighties, has embarked on a remarkable artistic journey, reconnecting with the roots of his passion. Benoit’s photography, …
Following reports that Sotheby’s and Christie’s were competing to handle the collection of the late art collector and Whitney Museum of American Art trustee Emily Fisher Landau at auction this …
Chimeric creature descends on the Whitney Museum in new augmented reality commission
A mesmerising hybrid creature—part mycelium, part cephalopod, part bird and part machine—will loom over New York’s Meatpacking District starting 3 October as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s …
Van Gogh’s three months in Drenthe, in the north of the Netherlands, has been the least studied period in his artistic career. That has now changed, thanks to an ambitious …
Catiana Van Dinh: The Art Advisor Championing the Legacies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring
By Ann Williams Catiana Van Dinh is a passionate connoisseur immersed in the world of contemporary investment-grade art. Trained at the Sotheby’s Art Institute, she closed millions of dollars of …
Take your pick: recent admission fee increases at major museums in New York and elsewhere are the result of either basic economics or poor decision-making. What is clear is that the …