Jota Mombaça’s 2022 Kadist show in San Francisco. Courtesy Kadist Kadist, a Paris-based nonprofit known for commissioning works by key artists, will shutter its San Francisco space after 14 years, bringing an end to one of the city’s richest non-commercial art venues. The organization announced the closure on social media late on Thursday evening, writing …
Rosalyn Drexler at ringside, 1972. Photo Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images Rosalyn Drexler, whose paintings of the 1960s about Hollywood actors, on-screen violence, and gender subversion have in recent years gained widespread praise, died in New York on Wednesday at 98. A spokesperson for New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery, which represents her, confirmed her death but …
Shafrazi with Keith Haring and Leo Castelli. Courtesy Tony Shafrazi / Gallery Without Walls Things had a way of just happening in the small, tight-knit New York art world of the 1960s and ’70s. Artists introduced other artists to dealers, who in turn introduced them to more artists. Tony Shafrazi arrived in New York in …
The opening bid for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Red Man One was $2.975 million. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Four artworks by Jean-Michael Basquiat, Diane Arbus, and Pablo Picasso surrendered to the US Department of Justice in connection with the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal collectively netted some $36 million in an online auction conducted by the US Marshals …
DeepTime Collective (Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer): Embodying the River (stream)” 2022, performance art with custom T-shirts and an installation with plastic, projections, and sound. Photo Allyn Griffin Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have named this year’s recipients of the AWAW Environmental Art Grants program. …
A Roman mausoleum discovered in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, France. Photo Julien Bourreau, Musée Gallo-Romain A well-preserved Roman mausoleum, modeled after the famous Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, was discovered by archaeologists in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near Lyon, France. Constructed around 50 CE, the interior of the structure measures more than 50 feet in diameter and is thought to have had …
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Life’s a beach: the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort will form the backdrop of the auctions. Courtesy sotheby’s. Sotheby’s will stage its first series of luxury marquee auctions in Abu Dhabi this December. Dubbed Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week, the sales will run from December 3 to 5 and span cars, watches, jewelry, and real estate, …
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A deleted real estate listing for a home in Argentina appeared to have featured a Nazi-looted painting by Giuseppe Ghislandi. Courtesy Robles Casas & Campos A Dutch newspaper said this week that it discovered a Nazi-looted painting from the Baroque era in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina. Not long afterward, the …
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Lindsay Jarvis in front of Variations in Time, a 1964 work by Forrest Bess (left) and From Time to Time He Played to Deactivate the Transistor, a 2025 work by Guillaume Denervaud. Courtesy Lindsay Jarvis On a sunny late-August afternoon, Lindsay Jarvis was installing works for his opening exhibition at his new 2,000-square-foot gallery, located …
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Wingu Tingima, Minyma Tjuta (Seven Sisters), 2006. Christian Markel/©Wingu Tingima/Copyright Agency, 2024/National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Make way for new museums far and wide this fall. The Museum of West African Art will fully open in Benin City, Nigeria, and the Almaty Museum of Arts will launch its program in Kazakhstan, where it has the …
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