Famed artist Norval Morrisseau in a photo from 1977. Graham Bezant/Toronto Star via Getty Images A second suspect has plead guilty to charges of fraud in the case dubbed by investigators as “Canada’s largest art fraud investigation,” according to CBC News. On June 6, David Voss plead guilty to one charge of forgery and one …
MO.CO. Courtesy MO.CO MO.CO, a contemporary art museum in Montpellier, France, accused a French art publication of “exploitation” on Friday after it ran a report on the suicide of Vincent Honoré, who formerly served as the institution’s head of exhibitions. Le Quotidien de l’Art reported last week that Honoré’s suicide had been determined a “work …
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Ben Vautier, 2023. Photo Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images Ben Vautier, a French Fluxus artist whose humorous paintings and performances imploded the division between life and art, earning laughs and admiration alike from critics, has died at 88. Vautier, who often worked under the artistic moniker Ben, was found dead in his home in Nice …
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A member of the Carabinieri art squad standing beside the antiquities returned to Italy. COURTESY ITALY’S CULTURE OF MINISTRY VIA X On Tuesday, Italy officially welcomed 600 antiquities from the United States, worth a collective $65 million, that were looted years ago and scattered in the holdings of museums, galleries, and collectors. The trove includes …
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Sotheby’s London. Photo Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Sotheby’s, one of the largest auction houses in the world, is set to lay off dozens of workers employed in the UK, according to a report published by the Art Newspaper Thursday. The house is reportedly set to cut around 50 employees based in London, and …
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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 work Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari. Jean Bourbon Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 work Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari sold for $12.6 million at a Phillips modern and contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong this week. That figure, which includes premium, means the work sold for just above its …
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Vincent Namatjira with various portraits by him, including one of Gina Rinehart, third from left in the bottom row. ©Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency/Photo Iwantja Arts/Courtesy the artist and Iwantja Arts If you can’t beat them, join them—as the old saying goes—or, perhaps, give them something else to discuss. This seems to be the attitude of Australian …
Bernardo Bellotto: Marketplace at Pirna, ca. 18th century. Museum of Fine Arts Houston A United States appeals court has affirmed a prior ruling that the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Houston can keep an 18th-century painting contested in a lawsuit by the heirs of its original German Jewish owner. Bernardo Bellotto’s The Marketplace at Pirna (ca. 1764), …
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Bernardo Bellotto: Marketplace at Pirna, ca. 18th century. Museum of Fine Arts Houston To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES EMBEZZLEMENT CONVICTION. Douglas Chrismas, the 80-year-old, notorious founder of Los Angeles’s defunct blue-chip Ace Gallery, has been convicted of embezzlement by a jury. The May 31 ruling in …
Big Chief Demond Melancon in the 2019 documentary All on a Mardi Gras Day. Courtesy the artist Before he considered himself an artist, Demond Melancon boiled lobster at the Louisiana chain restaurant Drago’s Seafood, washed dishes at Emeril’s, and poured concrete for Hard Rock Construction. He laid and smoothed the cement walkway in front of …
