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Claude Lalanne, Important and Unique Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, ca. 1974. Courtesy Sotheby’s A bespoke ensemble of 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne sold at Sotheby’s New York today for $33.5 million, breaking the artist’s secondary-market record and becoming the most valuable design work ever to leave the auction …

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The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war—including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio—will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. The museum’s formidable collection of Old Master paintings was damaged by two …

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Rendering of building facade for Berlin’s forthcoming Museum of the 20th Century. Courtesy Herzog & de Meuron. Another day, another setback for Berlin‘s long awaited Berlin Modern, as moisture damage in the building’s shell and microbial contamination in other parts of the structure have forced the postponement of the museum to 2030. The Prussian Cultural …

Berlin Modern Museum Delayed Again as Moisture Damage Pushes Opening to 2030 Read More »

Simeon Barclay’s performance The Ruin. ©Anne Tetzlaff/Courtesy the artist and Workplace The Turner Prize, the esteemed Tate-run award for British artists, has revealed this year’s nominees, and in typical Turner Prize fashion, they’ve already polarized critics. Simon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku are the four nominees for this year’s award, which once …

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A view of the Long Museum, a part of which is a preserved coal unloading bridge from an old industrial site, located in the up and coming West Bund district of Shanghai, China. photo by Qilai Shen/In Pictures via Getty Images Images SHANGHAI BOUND: Max Mara has zeroed in on the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai as …

Max Mara Will Stage Its Resort 2027 Show at Shanghai’s Long Museum West Bund Read More »

Leon Botstein in 2012. Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME Leon Botstein, whose leadership of Bard College has been questioned after connections with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed, has talked about retiring and moving into another role at the school after a successor is found, according to a report in the Times Union. But no …

Amid Epstein Blowback, Bard President Leon Botstein Talks About Succession Plan But With No Timeline: Report Read More »