Tad Smith. Patrick McMullan via Getty Image Tad Smith, chairman of Doodles and former CEO of Sotheby’s, has agreed to buy most of the assets of digital collectibles platform Candy Digital. He wrote on X that he’s “doubling down” on his “commitment to digital collectibles, adding that “when the transaction closes in a week or …
Rembrandt, Old Man with a Gold Chain, 1631. Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago A painting long thought to be a “workshop copy” of a cherished Rembrandt in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago has been attributed to Rembrandt himself by a scholar with significant credit to his claim. As reported by the Guardian, …
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Visitors walking by Picasso’s Guernica at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. The museum reportedly ejected three women who came wearing Stars of David and Israeli flags. Getty Images The Basque regional government has formally asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso‘s Guernica to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, according …
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Statute of the goddess Ngonnso, Cameroon Erik Hesmerg/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Ethnologisches Museum. The German government is creating a new council to oversee the restitution of artifacts acquired in a colonial context, the Art Newspaper reported Tuesday. The new panel, known as the Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts, …
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Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit</i), ca. 1673-74. Courtesy Getty Museum The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two Dutch still lifes of note—including one that the institution said it “has been seeking over two decades,” according to a press release announcing the news. Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s Glass Vase …
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San Giobbe Altarpiece, ca. 1478. Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice’s vaunted Gallerie dell’Accademia will be restored behind glass—giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process—over a two-year period estimated to cost €500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the …
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The Kennedy Center. Photo Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images A group of eight preservation societies filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s plans for a two-year renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Last week, the Kennedy Center’s board approved the closure of the institution for two years, beginning after its …
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K-pop boy band BTS performing in Seoul, South Korea, on Mar. 21. Photo Kim Hong-Ji-Pool/Getty Images The Guggenheim in New York City is one of the most famous art museums in the world, and on the morning of Wednesday (March 25), BTS descended on the landmark to add a little performance art to its galleries ahead of …
Cristopher Canizares Courtesy Cristopher Canizares After 16 years helping build one of the most powerful galleries in the world, Cristopher Canizares is stepping away from Hauser & Wirth to try something the art market still hasn’t quite figured out how to define: an artist management agency. The longtime partner will leave at the end of …
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Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus in the angel-themed exhibition “Der Engel der Geschichte” (“Angel of History”) at the Bode Museum in Berlin in 2025. Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images A Paul Klee painting famously owned by the philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin is currently stuck in Israel as a result of the war waged by …
