Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images The story about cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian keeps on giving. Sun kept the promise he made immediately after buying the artwork, comprising a banana duct-taped to the wall, …
A mixed media work by Mimmo Paladino titled ‘Lo Spirito della Foresta’ (1981) was one of the works to be authenticated by Art Recognition for the auction. COURTESY GERMANN AUCTION HOUSE. Last week, in an unprecedented move, a Swiss auction house sold an artwork solely authenticated by artificial intelligence (AI). Germann Auction House in Zürich …
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John Phelan (left) and Amy Phelan attend the amfAR Palm Beach Gala in March. Photo by Ryan Emberley/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that businessman and Top 200 collector John Phelan will lead the US Navy, despite no prior military experience. Phelan is the founder and chairman of the private investment firm …
Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos of Protat, 1290–1310. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons The identity of a notable Byzantine painter has been discovered using a handwriting analysis studying a Medieval illuminated manuscript, the Associated Press reported this week. Manuel Panselinos, as the artist is known, was a contemporary of Giotto and equally influential among Byzantine art …
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Parthenon sculptures of Ancient Greece, fragments which are collectively known as the Parthenon Marbles aka Elgin Marbles at the British Museum on 4th December 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The Elgin Marbles are considered stolen goods by Greece, and has regularly demanded their return, while the Acropolis Museum, which houses the remaining sculptures, keeps an …
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio for “MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio” at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles November 12, 2023–June 16, 2024 To relaunch its “MOCA Focus” exhibition series, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles chose LA-based artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio to take over a portion of its sprawling Geffen Contemporary location. Marking Aparicio’s …
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Installation view of “Una Luz: Photography Under Confinement in Venezuela” at the Visual Arts Center, 2024. Photo: Alex Boeschenstein Between 2010 and 2012, artist Violette Bule held a series of free photography workshops in penitentiaries in her home country of Venezuela. Over 3,000 images were created by the workshops’ incarcerated participants. That archive remained out of public …
The Yale Peabody Museum Courtesy Yale Peabody Museum The Yale Peabody Museum has flagged human remains and eight funerary objects in its collection for repatriation to Native American tribes of the Wabanaki Nations in Maine. These remains and objects were removed from burial sites and shell mounds in Maine and donated to the museum in …
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Exterior view of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FROM BARN SALE TO AUCTION. After being picked up earlier this year at a barn sale in the Hamptons for just $50 dollars by an eagle-eyed art dealer, a …
The MAXXI museum’s “Memorabile.Ipermoda” (2024–25) fashion exhibition in Rome. Giovanni Giannoni / WWD “What has fashion become today?” That is one of the key questions fashion theorist, professor and curator Maria Luisa Frisa asked herself when planning the “Memorabile.Ipermoda” exhibition at the MAXXI Museum here. “These are challenging times and the exhibition generates questions and issues that …
