MOCA Grand Avenue. Elon Schoenholz/Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña as the winners of its inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize. The award comes with a $100,000 purse and institutional support from the museum to develop …
An installation view of Charles Moffett’s booth at ADAA’s The Art Show. Silvia Ros/Courtesy of Charles Moffett Gallery Not even an hour into the opening of The Art Show, the annual fair of the Art Dealers Association of America, New York dealer Charles Moffett had sold half of the seven egg tempera on wood New …
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The exterior of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Courtesy MSN Warsaw The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the first permanent institution of its kind in the capital city, sits on a plot known as Plac Defilad, or the intersection of Poland’s present and potential. On one side of the sleek structure is …
Workers clean the base of GAM’s giant statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. courtesy picture alliance via Getty Image The long-awaited – and much-delayed – state-funded Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) next to the Giza Pyramids is finally open, but only partially. GEM houses the largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including treasures from the tomb of …
Llyn Foulkes, Lifeboat, 2016. Acrylic and found objects on luan JENNY GORMAN “Maybe I have this stupid feeling that art can save the world,” the Los Angeles–based artist Llyn Foulkes said in an oral history conducted for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. That was in 1997. Now, in 2024, Foulkes, one of the original …
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Gustave Caillebotte, Partie de bateau [Canotier au chapeau haut de forme], 1877–78. Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Photo Sophie Crépy For around a century, Gustave Caillebotte was the most discreet of the Impressionists, only coming back into the spotlight in 1994, when the Grand Palais in Paris celebrated the centenary of his death in 1894 through a …
Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2018. NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images) Swiss prosecutors this week dismissed a criminal case against Dmitry Rybolovlev, clearing him of allegations related to the arrest of Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier in Monaco. The case, initiated by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) in 2017, accused the Russian billionaire …
Curatorial team for the 36th São Paulo Biennial, from left to right: Keyna Eleison, Alya Sebti, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Henriette Gallus, Anna Roberta Goetz, and Thiago de Paula Souza. ©João Medeiros / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the chief curator of 2025 Bienal de São Paulo, has announced the title …
The hoard of pennies is now the “highest value treasure on record”. Courtesy of the British Museum A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors in 2019 were recently valued at $5.6 million (£4.3 million), making it the highest valued treasure in England. In …
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The scene at the 2024 edition of Art Basel Paris. Courtesy Art Basel Few years have been as tumultuous in the art market as 2023. Of course, 2008 and 2016 were bad (and not to mention 1990), but the ongoing art market “correction” was preceded by the post-Covid low-interest rate economy that drove a speculation …
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