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 …
Kickstarter co-founder Yancy Strickler unveils the “Artist Corporation” economic model at TED2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 7, 2025 On June 2, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 133, a bill that creates a new type of limited liability company (LLC) called an Artist Company, or A-Corp, report the Art Newspaper and the Colorado Sun. …
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Hell by a Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, dated to the first half of the 16th century Sotheby’s A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch led a string of surprise results during this week’s Old Masters sales in New York, selling for $537,600 at Sotheby’s against an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. …
Now a precious few can see art aboard a yacht, as God intended. Courtesy the Floating Hotel Monaco Edition 2026. If, unfortunate reader, you’re licking your wounds after being outbid on the $181.2 million Jackson Pollock at the New York auctions last month, take heart: you, too, can still buy access to art that will …
10 August 2018, US, Yosemite: Entry into Yosemite Valley. The Yosemite Valley is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the USA. But forest fires have now made the California nature reserve a restricted area. Photo: Barbara Munker/dpa (Photo by Barbara Munker/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture alliance via Getty Image The Trump administration has …
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Gedi Sibony at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews The latest show by Gedi Sibony continues the artist’s practice of making enchanting assemblage sculptures out of the most minimal means, and of making paintings that rely on such restrained gestures that they’re barely there. The press release for “The Invisible Point,” his eighth …
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Andy Warhol, Green Marilyn, 1962 Artwork copyright © 2026 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Digital image: Album/Art Resource, New York. MARILYN MONROE DEAD; PILLS NEAR read the front-page headline of the August 6, 1962, New York Times. Star’s Body Is Found in Bedroom of …
Adebisi Fabunmi, Eko Harbor, n.d. Image courtesy of kó, Lagos. In Osogbo, a city in southwestern Nigeria, an unexpected art movement arose in the 1960s. Born out of experimental art workshops at a local theater complex, it gave young creatives room to start and explore their own art practices free from the burdens of everyday …
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Zohra Opoku. Photo Jesse Jewelz/Courtesy Zeitz MOCAA In 2023, Beata America, a curator for the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, made a research trip to Ghana. Accompanied by her colleague Julia Kabat, America ended up visiting the Accra studio of Zohra Opoku, a Ghanaian German artist whom Zeitz MOCAA director Koyo Kouoh “had always …
