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 …
Interior Design
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 …
As the industry descends on Art Basel Hong Kong, gallery owner Pearl Lam returns to her hometown and shares what’s on her radar
Pearl Lam is a gallerist, collector, patron and curator with over 20 years of experience at the forefront of reinventing China’s cultural place in the world. Lam is a leading …
How will technology shape the museum of tomorrow? 20 museum directors will gather in the Bay Area to explore digital horizons
As technology becomes ever more present in the cultural institution – reshaping its operations, how it engages audiences and what it exhibits – the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco …
The director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow is the latest institutional director to resign in the face of escalating cultural repression in Russia
Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, has announced her resignation. She will be replaced by Elizaveta Likhacheva, director of the National Museum of …
7 Questions to Artist Yang Dingliu About Why She’s Documenting One of Germany’s Disappearing Ice Caves
This week at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023, Agreement projects stage solo presentation”Eiskapelle», consisting of a series of four video works by Chinese artist Yang Dingliu (born in 1992). Based …
New Analysis Reveals Famous Renaissance Painting ‘Ugly Duchess’ May Not Depict a Woman After All
A new exhibition at the National Gallery in London looks back at the mystifying 1513 painting by Flemish artist Quinten Massys an old womanpopularly known as The Ugly Duchess. According …
Don’t miss this Juggernaut Houston exhibition highlighting the big names in street art, from Banksy to Pure Evil
Every month hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet gallery network – and every week we shine the spotlight on an artist or …
Austrian Museum Tilted Its Paintings ‘A Few Degrees’ To Draw Attention To Global Warming + 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 Wednesday, March 22. …
Did Vermeer have a daughter who painted some of his most famous portraits? This art historian thinks so
For centuries, art lovers have wondered about the identity of the models for Vermeer’s beloved masterpieces. To the astonishment of many academics, one expert has suggested that girl in red …