The same art gallery which sold the print helped identify it as stolen. Courtesy of US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California A man has pled guilty to a federal charge of trafficking after trying to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print of Vladimir Lenin to an auction house. A press release from …
Inigo Philbrick (L) in 2016 before he was sent to prison for the biggest art fraud in US history. courtesy Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still resonate. On Tuesday, a US …
Conservatory at Natural History Museum in Paris. Getty Images On Thursday, the culture ministers of France and Madagascar announced a joint effort to begin the process of repatriating human remains seized while the African nation was under French colonial rule. Officials from both countries revealed the appointment of a joint scientific committee to conduct a …
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Tsherin Sherpa, “Tiger Saddle,” 2024, Highland Tibetan wool and Chinese silk, warp, cotton, 122 x 182 cm. Image Courtesy of the artist and Rossi & Rossi; Photo by Raj Bhai Suwal At Art Basel Hong Kong this past March, the Nepali artist Tsherin Sherpa unveiled his latest installation, a 30-foot-long runner woven by artisans from …
The new plan for the Centre Pompidou’s Jersey City satellite museum. Via X Paris’s Centre Pompidou is making a fresh attempt to open a satellite museum in Jersey City several months after New Jersey politicians chose to pull funding from the project. Under the Pompidou’s new plan, the museum will be sited in a new …
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Models walk the runway for the Off-White fashion show during the September 2024 New York Fashion Week. Getty Images French luxury goods company LVMH has sold its stake in the streetwear label Off-White three years after the death of the brand’s founder, Virgil Abloh. New York–based brand management company Bluestar Alliance now owns LVMH’s stake. …
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A Tony Cokes project on view at the Mixing Plant in Essen, Germany, in 2019. Photo Caroline Seidel/picture alliance via Getty Images Four artists are among the winners of this year’s MacArthur “genius” grants, each of which comes with $800,000—a sum that puts these awards among the biggest prizes given to artists in the US. …
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The cover of the 2024 edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors issue. Illustration: Luana Oliva To say that the art market is on shaky ground may be the understatement of the year. As one dealer told me this past spring, in unequivocal terms: “The market’s shit. Anyone who tells you different is lying.” Dealers …
Jeffrey Gibson, 2024. Photo Inez and Vinoodh Hauser & Wirth will now represent Jeffrey Gibson, who this year did the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, marking the first time an Indigenous artist received that honor solo. Related Articles In Radiant Paintings and Beaded Extravaganzas, Jeffrey Gibson Remixes Native American Histories Inside Jeffrey Gibson’s US Pavilion …
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Alvin Ailey. Photo John Lindquist/©Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University Dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater stretch their arms out wide like wings. At once, their elbows rise from the strength of their shoulders with fingertips pointed out. They’re bathed in amber light as they slowly lift their heads out of the …
