Palatial residence: Ropac’s new gallery is in Milan’s Palazzo Belgioioso. Photo: Adriano Mura This fall, Austrian dealer Thaddaeus Ropac is opening a new gallery in Milan, where he will be a big fish in a small pond. Few other galleries of his caliber currently operate in Milan, a city whose art scene is home to …
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Fires in California are being fanned by strong winds. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LA ARTIST HOMES AND CULTURAL LANDMARKS BURNED. The spreading fires in Los Angeles continue to wreak havoc, including ravaging artists and cultural centers. Karen K. Ho has written about museum …
View of the Rieckhallen extension of Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art taken. Photo John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images Berlin’s government has pushed through a €130 million cut—12% of its culture budget—despite weeks of protests and warnings from the arts sector. The reduction, part of the city’s 2025 spending plan, has prompted widespread concerns …
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Rene Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (1954). Christie’s Images Limited, 2024 In 2024, the art auction market showed signs of recovery but fell well short of the highs reached in 2022, or even the lower totals from last year. The cumulative value of the top ten auction lots sold in 2024 was $512.6 million. That was …
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The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. LightRocket via Getty Images Japanese chemical company DIC Corporation announced in a press release Saturday that its board of directors had decided to “downsize and relocate” the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, an institution in the city of Sakura, 25 miles northeast of Tokyo, that it owns. …
“I’ve never seen one that’s so beautifully preserved,” professor Alice Roberts said, who presents a documentary featuring the sword. Prof Alice Roberts/BBC/Rare TV Archaeologists in rural Kent, UK, have unearthed a “really incredible” 6th-century sword from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. Several other striking objects have also been found at the same site. It is …
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The museum’s atrium. Courtesy of the Grand Egyptian Museum After over a decade of development, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has opened its doors—partially. In late October, GEM opened 12 of its main galleries and began welcoming around 4,000 visitors daily. These galleries, in chronological and thematic order, feature a selection of the collection’s 15,000 …
Frida Kahlo. Photo Hulton Archive/Getty Images Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day. This year, works by Henri Matisse, Robert Capa, and Frida Kahlo lose their copyright protections, as do novels like Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell …
Artist Claire Taboure. © Claire Tabouret / Photo: © STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP French figurative painter Claire Tabouret has been chosen to create new stained glass windows for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which reopened on December 7 after a six-year-long renovation. Tabouret was selected by French president Emmanuel Macron and the Paris archbishop, …
Roberto Chavez, El Tamalito del Hoyo, 1959. ©1959 Roberto Chavez/Smithsonian American Art Museum Roberto Chavez, a major figure within US Latinx art history whose work has influenced generations of artists that followed, died on December 17 of natural causes in Arivaca, Arizona. He was 92. The news was confirmed by the artist’s daughter, Sonna Chavez, …
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