Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs reacts during the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks in Game One of the 2026 NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center on June 03, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas. Getty Images Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up …
René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959). Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a …
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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Harald Metkes, Removal of the Six-Armed Goddess, 1956. Courtesy State Museums in Berlin, Nationalgalerie/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Harald Metzkes, the so-called “Cézannist of Prenzlauer Berg” who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany’s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the …
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Julie Mehretu speaks at the 2026 Whitney Gala. Jason Lowrie/BFA.com Last night, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its annual gala, honoring artist Julie Mehretu—who in 2024 donated $2.25 million to the museum to ensure that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free—alongside Whitney Board Chair Fern Kaye Tessler, and …
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