Last year, the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) displayed a collection of previously unseen paintings purportedly by Jean-Michel Basquiat in a now infamous exhibition titled Heroes and Monsters. Suspicion mounted, …
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Banksy’s ‘Valentine’s Day Mascara’ mural to be sold back to the public for £120 a share
The irony would not be lost on Banksy. A mural he painted for the public in the centre of Margate on Valentine’s Day is now being sold back to the …
Sotheby’s U.K. Profit Dropped By 24 Percent Last Year, With Brexit the Likely Culprit
Sotheby’s reported a 24 percent year-on-year decline in profit for its U.K. operation in 2022, citing art market and global economic uncertainties, as well as increased red tape as a …
Auctioneer, who admitted he helped make fake Basquiats seized by the FBI, avoids jail time
Michael Barzman, the Los Angeles auctioneer who admitted that he and an accomplice were responsible for between 20 and 30 fake works marketed as authentic Jean-Michel Basquiat pieces, will avoid …
Vincent van Gogh painted this cypress just three months before he took his life. Between 1888 and 1890, during what would become his final chapter, he fixated upon cypresses. Widely …
Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, “Bélizaire and the Frey Children” (c. 1837), oil on canvas, 47 1/4 × 36 1/4 inches (image courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan …
After two years of negotiations and numerous demonstrations and rallies, staff at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City announced on 8 August that they had finally reached …
Brice Marden in his Tivoli studio in 2017 (all images © 2023 Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society; photo Mirabelle Marden, courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery) Painter Brice Marden died last …
Frieze buys The Armory Show and Expo Chicago
The London-based franchise expands further into the US market with the acquisition of two of its largest fairs Courtesy The Armory Show The art fair and media franchise Frieze has …
two weeks later destroy a historic building in Lviv, Russian missiles hit downtown Odessa, a World Heritage Site, killing one person and injuring 22 others. In a series of rocket …