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Amedeo Modigliani, Seated Man With a Cane, 1918. Via Public Domain An 11-year-long legal dispute over a prized Amedeo Modigliani painting looted during World War II has concluded in a loss for billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family, marking an unlikely restitution victory for the heirs of its original Jewish owner. A New …

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Gisela Colón working in Los Angeles studio. Photo Marten Elder Gisela Colón didn’t plan to become an artist. “I studied law because I thought it would protect me,” she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm in the outskirts of Bayamón …

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This photograph shows a bicorn hat recently authentified as worn by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during a press preview in the library of the Chateau de Chantilly, northern France, on March 26, 2026. AFP via Getty Images Good Morning! Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down from his relatively new role as president of the Pinault Collection. …

Guillaume Cerutti Departs Pinault Collection, Rediscovered Napoleon Hat on View, and More: Morning Links for March 27, 2026 Read More »

Tad Smith. Patrick McMullan via Getty Image Tad Smith, chairman of Doodles and former CEO of Sotheby’s, has agreed to buy most of the assets of digital collectibles platform Candy Digital. He wrote on X that he’s “doubling down” on his “commitment to digital collectibles, adding that “when the transaction closes in a week or …

Ex-Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith Banks on NFTs, Agrees to Buy Collectibles Platform Candy Digital Read More »

Rembrandt, Old Man with a Gold Chain, 1631. Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago A painting long thought to be a “workshop copy” of a cherished Rembrandt in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago has been attributed to Rembrandt himself by a scholar with significant credit to his claim. As reported by the Guardian, …

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Visitors walking by Picasso’s Guernica at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. The museum reportedly ejected three women who came wearing Stars of David and Israeli flags. Getty Images The Basque regional government has formally asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso‘s Guernica to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, according …

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Statute of the goddess Ngonnso, Cameroon Erik Hesmerg/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Ethnologisches Museum. The German government is creating a new council to oversee the restitution of artifacts acquired in a colonial context, the Art Newspaper reported Tuesday. The new panel, known as the Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts, …

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit</i), ca. 1673-74. Courtesy Getty Museum The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two Dutch still lifes of note—including one that the institution said it “has been seeking over two decades,” according to a press release announcing the news. Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Glass Vase …

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