Lynn Chadwick at the Hotel de Sully. Courtesy Perrotin, Art Basel Paris 2024. Art Basel Paris, which runs from October 18 to 20 (with VIP days on 16 and 17), has left behind its inaugural name and old location—Paris+, par Art Basel and the Grand Palais Éphémère, respectively—this year for a fresh start. Now based …
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Joan Agajanian Quinn in her Beverly Hills home. Photo Ryan Pfluger For nearly 50 years, Joan Agajanian Quinn has asked the questions that everyone wants to answer. A consummate journalist, she was the West Coast editor at Interview magazine, a society editor at the LA Herald Examiner, and host of the TV interview shows Joan …
Eikoh Hosoe (at right) with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Eikoh Hosoe, a Japanese photographer who blazed a new trail for his medium with his taboo-testing pictures about invisible worlds, has died at 91. The Japanese agency Kyodo News reported his death last week, saying that he died in Tokyo of complications related to …
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Hajra Waheed, Hum II, 2023, installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. ©Hajra Waheed/Courtesy the artist and mor charpentier The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the artists participating in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from February 6, through June 15, 2025. The exhibition, one of the premier international showcases of its kind, will feature …
Elizabeth Street Garden. via Google Images. The Elizabeth Street Garden, a communal outdoor space in downtown Manhattan, has been served a two-week eviction notice by New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development after a lengthly legal dispute. The notice comes three months after a legal ruling in July allowing the city to move …
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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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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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