How Dealers Turn Under-Appreciated Artists into Blue-Chip Names
Artsy - Like many dealers, Almine Rech, who runs galleries in Paris, New York, Brussels, and London, enjoys identifying rising young artists such as (37) to join her program. But she’s just as likely to hunt f...
Free love and women: The sexual revolution 50 years on
DW - The "sexual morals" of postwar West Germany were characterized by taboos and ominous warnings. Masturbating could lead to a degenerative disease, so they said; an erection was an abnormal swelling; the fem...
Photographers Who Captured the Ecstasy and Abandon of Rave Culture
Artsy - In the summer of 1989, amid the sweltering heat of one of the driest summers in the U.K. in three centuries, the countercultural spirit of electronic dance parties, or raves, spread across the nation. ...
Salvator Mundi will not go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi this month, for reasons unknown
The Art Newspaper- Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi will not be unveiled at the Louvre Abu Dhabi this month as planned, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has announced. - Read ...
The Mugrabi Family’s Storied Art Collection Has Become a Focal Point in Nasty Divorce Proceedings
Artnet - Divorce proceedings are moving ahead for billionaire power couple David and Libbie Mugrabi, and the family’s storied art collection appears to have become a big point of contention.
“There has been ...
Found guilty in 1995 of embezzling investors’ money, Roberto Polo resurfaces in role of art benefactor in Spain
The Art Newspaper - The art world has a short memory, or is it just forgiving where the prospect of having more art to display is concerned? Havana-born Roberto Polo signed an agreement on 25 July with the loca...
Dealer Monique Meloche Is Thriving—Even After a Mega-Gallery Wooed Away Her Biggest Stars. Here’s Why
Artnet - In the art world today, the middle may be the most awkward place to be. Chicago dealer Monique Meloche—who operates squarely in the tenuous “middle-tier” of the market and in the Midwest—knows very wel...
5 Essential Tips for Collecting Prints
Artsy - Artist have long supplemented their larger practice by making prints: original works, usually on paper, created in numbered editions and produced in collaboration with some kind of press. For would-be c...
Italy scraps free Sundays at cultural sites like Pompeii and the Colosseum
The Art Newspaper - The new culture minister of Italy’s populist coalition government, Alberto Bonisoli, has sparked mixed reactions with the announcement that a monthly free-entry initiative at the country’s m...