Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917) by Gustav Klimt. Courtesy of im Kinsky A woman claiming to be the sole heir to the Austrian subject of a long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has sued for restitution of the portrait, which came to auction at the small Austrian auction house Im Kinsky in 2024. The painting sold on …
The Floating Art Hotel, Monaco Edition, 2026. Courtesy Floating Art Hotel Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go …
Bill Koch’s Aspen, Colorado estate. Shawn O’Connor; Oxbow Carbon A year and a half ago, the billionaire Bill Koch spun his massive Aspen estate on the market for $125 million, making it one of the most expensive homes for sale across the globe. That hefty sum likely wasn’t palatable for most people, and the price has since dropped to $99 million—no …
In a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, William the Conqueror (c.1027 – 1087) rescues the future King Harold II (c.1022 – 1066) from captivity in France and betrothes his daughter Aelfgifu to him, 1064. The tapestry is housed in the town of Bayeux in Normandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Last July, French …
Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs reacts during the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks in Game One of the 2026 NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center on June 03, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas. Getty Images Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up …
René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959). Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a …
André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, and Yves Tanguy, Exquisite Corpse, 1938 Collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Digital Image copyright © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris (Breton, Lamba); copyright © 2026 Estate of Yves Tanguy/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New …
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Miet Warlop’s “IT NEVER SSST” at the Belgium Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Courtesy Thomas Rom This year’s Venice Biennale vernissage week brought more than the usual round of openings for art adviser and Performance Space New York board chair Thomas Rom, as the institution’s Visionaries Circle co-hosted a performance by theater impresario-turned-artist Jordan …
In 2016, art detectives Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce from the BBC’s “Fake or Fortune” found that a painting of a man in a black cravat is one of the first pictures ever painted by Lucian Freud. Courtesy, BBC A portrait Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his will go on public display for …
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The Obama Presidential Center towers over Jackson Park on May 15, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Getty Images Good Morning! Experts say a painting Lucian Freud long denied ever making was, in fact, an early painting by the artist. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam denies obstructing provenance investigations of the Koenigs collection in its …
