Robert Motherwell and Renate Ponsold at Greenwich Harbor in 1977. ©Dedalus Foundation The estate of Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell and photographer Renate Ponsold Motherwell, who died in 2023, will give $200,000 to Fine Arts Work Center, a residency program and arts education center in Provincetown, Massachusetts that Motherwell cofounded more than 50 years ago. The …
Daniel Arsham. Photo Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images for Art Saint Barth Artist Daniel Arsham has been accused of violating national labor laws, including firing an employee in retaliation for their union activities, in a complaint filed Tuesday by a Brooklyn regional director of the National Labor Relations Board. In November 2023, employees of the artist’s studio, …
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Archeologists work around an ancient statue discovered at the Heraclea Sintica archeological site, near the city of Petrich, Bulgaria, 2024. Photo DOBRIN KASHAVELOV/AFP via Getty Images A marble statue of Greek god Hermes has been uncovered in an ancient Roman sewer in the Bulgarian village of Rupite. Standing nearly 7 feet tall, the well-preserved statue …
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Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sandrine Marty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images. In 1900 the Exposition Universelle drew thousands of art lovers to Paris, many of them arriving by train at the new Gare d’Orsay. Who among them would have thought that the train station where they disembarked would become an illustrious institution holding the greatest collection of …
The British Museum in London. Photo Behlul Cetinkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The former director of the British Museum, one of the many London institutions that offers free admission, recently suggested that foreign tourists should pay an entry fee of £20 ($25), a measure that he said could help generate extra funds. “The money has …
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People are silhouetted during dusk as they visit the Toyosu Gururi park in Tokyo’s Koto district on July 3, 2024. AFP via Getty Images Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. On Tuesday evening in Tokyo’s Roppongi district, under a sky that threatened downpour, …
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Microsoft cofounders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, 1984. ©Doug Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the South Seattle steward of Paul G. Allen’s collection of vintage computers and internet technology, will officially never reopen following its closure during the 2020 Covid lockdown. But many of its wares will live on, possibly in …
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“The Kiss,” Brancusi. Courtesy Artizon Museum Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. The flight to Japan from art world centers like New York, London, and Paris isn’t exactly short. Those that do make the trip this year, however, won’t be disappointed …
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Grownups and children play in Joel Mesler’s pool party-themed installation at 30 Rockefeller Park Plaza. Courtesy Valerie Cassady On a recent afternoon, a couple was walking through the latest show by Joel Mesler, at Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery’s Beaux-Arts townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, when Mesler himself stopped them and asked a jarring …
Jean-Michel Basquiat Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict will head to sale in London at Sotheby’s this week with a $30 million estimate. Photo Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines SOTHEBY’S SUMMER SALES. Today, Sotheby’s London begins its modern and contemporary art auction with an evening sale that features works from the Ralph I. Goldenberg collection, …
