English art critic Brian Sewell, portrait, United Kingdom, 1985. Photo by Tim Roney/Getty Images EXCLUSIVE: He was one of the most feared and revered British art critics of his generation — and now, nearly a decade after his death, Brian Sewell could be about to wield his pen once more. Deadline understands that London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has …
Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch (1642). Courtesy Corbis via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FOR THE LOVE OF REMBRANDT… NOT MONEY. The heirs of Dutch museum director Abraham Bredius (1855-1946) have filed a legal motion demanding a trove of Rembrandt paintings he donated to the Mauritshuis museum in The …
Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips’ Spring auction results have been called ‘as bad as it gets.’ A new report by veteran art market analysts Michael Moses and Jianping Mei of JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy, argues that the 2024 spring auction season was “the worst overall financial performance” for the art market this …
Bony Ramirez. Courtesy the artist and Newark Museum of Art “I thought about how orchids in general are [like] these beautiful parasites that attach themselves to trees and don’t exactly bring anything positive to them,” artist Bony Ramirez told ARTnews during a recent interview. “They’re just occupying space, which can be closely related to Spanish …
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Photo copyright © Museum Associates/LACMA. There are many ways to tell the story of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. There is the narrative about the charming nonagenarian finally getting her due: At the age of 95, the artist, who was born in Venezuela and lives in Los Angeles, is currently having her first museum …
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Emmanuel Perrotin. ©Tanguy Beurdeley/Courtesy Perrotin Emmanuel Perrotin, the French art dealer with galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and LA, is donating 23 artworks to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Xavier Rey, the modern and contemporary art museum’s director, and several of its curators selected the works. They are by a …
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Ben Franklin Bridge and Philadelphia skyline as seen from Camden, New Jersey. Couurtesy Visions of America/Universal Ima To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHAPTER 11. The University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia has filed for bankruptcy a few months after it abruptly closed this summer. The …
The India Art Fair is coming to Mumbai. Middle East Images/AFP via Getty To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TOUGH TRUTHS. A traveling German exhibition documenting the experience of refugees granted asylum in the country was removed soon after it was installed. The reason: because it reportedly …
Panoramic cityscape. Photo by Barry Iverson/Getty Images Thirty valuable paintings on loan from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran have vanished after “an unidentified entity outside the municipality with official documentation” for an exhibition that it appears never took place, according to a report from Artdependence. Tehran City Council member Nasser Amani disclosed the …
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The entrance to the Armory Show. Courtesy of the Armory Show About three hours into prowling the aisles at the VIP preview of The Armory Show earlier this month, I began to feel déjà vu. It’s difficult to say what triggered it. Was it the sounds of The Dare, an indie sleaze pop revivalist whose …
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