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Claude Picasso, the Spanish Artist’s Youngest Son and Administrator of His Estate, Has Died at Age 76
Claude Picasso, son of Pablo Picasso and the longtime administrator of the late Spanish artist’s estate, has died at the age of 76. Born in 1947, Claude was a photojournalist …
Indie Icons The Kills Stage Their Big Comeback at Photographer Steven Sebring’s New York Studio
Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, the freewheeling—and free!—spinoff of Artnet News Pro’s beloved Wet Paint gossip column, where we give art-world insiders a disposable camera to chronicle their …
Billionaire Financier Thomas H. Lee’s Heirs Are Selling His Art Privately After His Suicide. Public Filings Show He Leveraged the Heck Out of It, Too
Deaths of key collectors are propelling scores of blue-chip art to the market. The Art Detective hears that the $500 million Emily Fisher Landau estate, so far the biggest prize …
Outgoing British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer Speaks Out for the First Time About the Thefts That Took Place Under His Watch
For the first time since the British Museum announced that valuable objects were stolen from its collection, its embattled director, Hartwig Fischer, has spoken out. Fischer has become the …
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Treatise on Painting’ and Other Ultra-Rare Renaissance Books Could Fetch $25 Million at Auction
A treasure trove of 16th-century Renaissance books in their original bindings is expected to fetch $25 million when it goes on Sotheby’s block beginning in October, with price estimates ranging …
The Sale of an Alexander Calder Sculpture Has Sparked a Pair of Competing Lawsuits Between an Art Advisor and a Dealer
The sale of a multimillion-dollar Alexander Calder sculpture has sparked a pair of competing lawsuits involving an art advisor and dealers in New York and France. In January, the adviser, Lea …
Inflation Hits Museums, as the Guggenheim Becomes the Latest New York Institution to Hike Prices
Art and culture lovers in New York should prepare themselves to spend quite a bit more to visit the city’s leading art museums. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has become …
A Los Angeles Auctioneer Who Forged 25 Basquiat Paintings Won’t Go to Jail, a Judge Decided
Los Angeles auctioneer Michael Barzman confessed to creating a suite of 25 Jean-Michel Basquiat forgeries that wound up at the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA), where the FBI dramatically seized …
See the Luminous Paintings Monet Made During His Many Trips to the French Riviera, Now on View at a Show in Monaco
A new exhibition with nearly 100 paintings by Claude Monet spotlights the artist’s trips to the French Riviera beginning with the first visit with his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1883. …