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The Republic of Austria, the Albertina Museum, and the Leopold Museum Foundation—the latter two both in Vienna—filed a response Friday to amicus briefs submitted by two US senators, in which they repeat their claim that the updated Holocaust Expropriated…

Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported that a Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia for ordering a missile strike that caused significant damage to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum in the country’s Kharkiv region in

In 1979, at the start of her essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss wrote: “Over the last ten years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large p…

In the fall of 2024, Italian police used AI to analyze photographs taken at a popular antique fair, identifying a particular oil painting as having been one stolen from a church near L’Aquila 20 years prior.

Earlier this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the three artists chosen for the Artisan Residency Programme, a collaboration between the museum and Vacheron Constantin, unveiled the works that each has created through the program.

Pipo Nguyen-duy, a professor at Ohio’s Oberlin College and Conservatory and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, was found dead at 64 in an off-campus home on Wednesday.

As nationwide protests continue to loom across France, with the next action planned for Saturday, October 31, at least one social grievance has been addressed at the country’s top museum.

If you’ve ever looked long and slow enough at Alexander Calder’s mobiles made of wire-suspended, leaf-like metal shapes painted solid colors, you likely know that they are as much about their sculptural form and silhouette as they are about the breathing…

While midday crowds throng under a brilliant sky on Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, darkness gathers behind the windows of the nearby Palazzo Reale, where the vernissage for a major Francis Picabia retrospective has just begun.

Six years ago, the director of Hong Kong’s M+ museum, Suhanya Raffel, told cultural strategist András Szántó, in an interview for the book The Future of the Museum, that in the years to come museums will need to “stand together and work to help one another

Despite months of controversy, the United States managed to get Alma Allen’s enormous sculptures to Venice for this year’s Biennale.

In Citizen Kim, Jonathan Van Meter’s biography of Kim Kardashian, the author reveals that the billionaire reality TV star and Skims founder owns a painting by Claude Monet.

Two Republican members of the House of Representatives want to know more about how the Smithsonian Institution evaluates proposed exhibits after a museum display tied US-made munitions to the destruction of civilian’s homes in conflict zones.

The summer was a turning point for Phillips, with several leaders leaving the auction house, including Miety Heiden, chairman of private sales, and Jonathan Crocket, chairman for Asia.

Police have ramped up security around Dresden’s Zwinger, a Baroque palace complex that houses an internationally renowned porcelain collection as well as Old Master paintings and historic scientific instruments, after two men suspected of plotting a break…

Artist Tony Berlant has died at 85, reports the Los Angeles Times.

The Dallas Art Fair is heading back to school.

Documenta 16 artistic director Naomi Beckwith announced Thursday an expansion of her curatorial team.

With the major fall auctions right around the corner, ARTnews can reveal that the consignor of Betonte Ecken (1922–23), the Wassily Kandinsky painting set to achieve upwards of $60M at Christie’s New York on November 17, is the Nahmad family.

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Marian Goodman Gallery has hired Ebony L.

MTA Arts & Design, the art-focused organization that facilitates the creation of artworks for New York’s mass transit system, has revealed the latest three artists to receive commissions: Ivan Forde, Trevor Paglen, and Howardena Pindell.

“This one over here is a weird one,” said Cossette Zeno, pointing to her 1952 painting Let’s Go Higher.

Kimberly Pirtle is the founder of Gabriel Advisory Group, an art advisory and philanthropy advisory firm working with collectors and institutions.

The World Monuments Fund has raised $62 million for its endowment, beating its fundraising target 18 months ahead of schedule and giving the New York-based preservation organization considerably more financial muscle to protect historic sites around the w…

Peacock has released the official trailer for “Dig,” an upcoming comedy series created by Amy Poehler and Michael Schur (“Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place”).

Just days after filing its long-delayed 2024 accounts in the UK, Pace has filed its 2025 report, showing that its international business posted a $5.6 million loss last year.

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It’s not every day that the art world gets a public break-up, but that’s the case with art collective MSCHF.

The British Art Market Federation’s report “The British Art Market 1996–2025,” marking the anniversary of the foundation, is out now, measuring how the world’s second-largest art market has performed against its principal competitors, the United States and

On the Saturday before the opening of Art Basel Paris, two art professionals I’m friendly with found themselves trapped in a Paris metro station.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art became an unwitting new home for a work by the Los Angeles–based artist David (Sabastian) Miklatski, who snuck a drawing onto one of the institution’s walls and documented its time there for all the world to see.

Christie’s will sell a group of works from the collection of the late philanthropist and collector Agnes Gund during its November auctions in New York, with proceeds benefiting the Gund Art Foundation.

Outsider Austrian artist Josef Hofer, who was hidden as a child from Nazi forces by his parents due to a speech and developmental disability, has died at 80, reports Le Quotidien de l’Art.

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A team of researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico recently announced the discovery of a 2,500-year-old structure that they believe functioned as a solar observatory.

A Nazi-looted painting that once belonged to a Dutch Jewish family, and at one point hung in Adolf Hitler’s home, has been traced in new research, the Dutch newspaper Het Parool reports.

For the first time, a Bob Ross painting will come to auction in Germany.

The storied Starry Night that has mesmerized countless eyes since Vincent van Gogh painted it may have been cribbed from an actual night sky over France in July 1889.

The competition in the art world for business in the Gulf is heating up.

After an auction house in Norway attempted to sell a fragment of a Torah scroll looted by the Nazis, a public outcry ensued.

Dutch art historian and curator Rudi Fuchs has died at the age of 84 in Amsterdam.

It has been a summer of change for Pace Gallery, and its 2024 accounts that were filed 10 months late with Companies House, the British government’s business register, reflect that.

Widely respected Connecticut collector Mickey Cartin will offer selections from his collection, begun in 1988, at Christie’s.

The dinosaur market has produced another monster sale.

Ursula von Rydingsvard, a sculptor who responded to the austerity of Minimalism with monumental cedar sculptures that had a distinctly human touch, died in New York on Tuesday following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Ahead of a hotly contested group of midterm elections that include a heated gubernatorial race for New York State, New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani shared a new video on social media encouraging voters to vote early—with a twist.

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“I spend my time making maps,” Tatiana Trouvé told me as we ambled through her first exhibition with Brussels-based gallery Xavier Hufkens.

Larry Gagosian has spent decades entertaining artists, collectors, and assorted celebrities at Mr.