Five men from a Berlin family were sentenced to prison yesterday for committing a spectacular theft of priceless Baroque jewels from the historic Green Vault in Dresden three and a …
Arts
Sotheby’s double sales in New York on Tuesday (May 16) totaled $363.9 million ($427 million with fees), with works by Gustav Klimt and Rene Magritte fetching the highest prices. The …
New York Councilor Lisa Schiff Reportedly Shuts Down Amid $2 Million Lawsuit From Clients
Prominent art adviser Lisa Schiff is said to have closed her business, SFA Advisory, after long-time clients accused her of using sales proceeds to defraud them as part of a …
Gallery pays tribute to loss of abortion rights in the United States, 50 years after historic Roe v Wade ruling
In a better world, 2023 would have been the year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion, freeing women from the idea …
Operating across multiple continents is a common strategy for global art fairs, but in the case of Contemporary African Art Fair 1-54, an international approach is essential to paint a …
At the southeast entrance to Central Park until August 27, the monumental bronze of Bharti Kher Ancestor (2022) is the culmination of a series of smaller sculptures the artist created …
Tehran-based Dastan Gallery carries the flag for Iranian women artists at Frieze, with a timely selection of works by five figures established in the wake of the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ …
It is no exaggeration to say that the National Picasso Museum in Paris changed my life. I first visited on a school trip when I was 17 and curious about …
Photographer Edward Burtynsky brings a high-tech scanner to help digitize Inuit art
Between 1950 and 1980, a treasure trove of Inuit art – some 89,000 drawings in total – was created at Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) near the southern tip of Baffin …
The lowest paid workers in the public art sector in the UK are often those who create the art. This is the sobering conclusion, if not the total surprise, to …