Abstract Expressionist Titans Drive Sales at Sotheby’s Contemporary Auction
Artsy - Sotheby’s evening sale of contemporary art on Thursday was marked by protracted bidding wars for major artworks. - read more
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Artemisia Gentileschi Rakes in $5.3 Million; Souls Grown Deep Announces Four Museum Acquisitions
Hyperallergic - The dust has settled from a $1.1 billion New York Fall Auction Week. In a predictable bummer, post-auction reports from ArtTactic indicate that work by male artists comprised 98% of the major Im...
At the Entrenched Met Museum, the New Director Shakes Things Up
The New York Times - One year into the job, Max Hollein shows that art shouldn’t be seen solely through a Western lens. - read more...
First Look at MoMA’s $450m expansion
The Art Newspaper - It is striking how museum expansions are often experienced as a shock to the psyche—a sense that a familiar narrative has been jettisoned in favour of a creative leap off a cliff. But as the...
Inside a Vanished Hub of Beijing’s Experimental-Art Scene
The New Yorker - On July 11th, the Art Newspaper reported that scores of Chinese police in riot gear had descended on Roma Lake, a budding art district near the Beijing airport, and forced artists out of their ...
With Jean Pigozzi’s contemporary African art donation, MoMA to become a ‘leader’ in the field
The Art Newspaper - The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced today that the collector and photographer Jean Pigozzi was donating a “transformative” gift of 45 works of contemporary African art to the museum, p...
Hundreds of Artworks Have Been Stolen From France’s Presidential Palace Over the Decades. Did Former Officials Take Them as ‘Souvenirs’?
artnet news - Detectives in France are investigating the disappearance of more than 50,000 items—including hundreds of works of art, antique furniture, and crockery—from the Élysée Palace and other state-owned ...
Art Market Dakis Joannou Turned a Remote Greek Island into an Art Mecca
Artsy - On a Monday in late June, after the Art Basel fair in Basel, Switzerland, the billionaire collector Dakis Joannou docked his yacht in the small harbor of the Greek isle of Hydra. The yacht’s exterior is...
Art Basel will launch a sector for monumental works at its Miami Beach fair
Artsy - No visitor to Art Basel in Miami Beach has ever left the Miami Beach Convention Center thinking the fair could use some more art—last year’s fair hosted 268 exhibitors—but that’s precisely what it’s get...
Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ Sets Auction Record for Most Expensive Work by Living Artist
The New York Times - A shiny stainless steel sculpture created by Jeff Koons in 1986, inspired by a child’s inflatable toy, sold at Christie’s on Wednesday night for $91.1 million with fees, breaking the record...