Nan Goldin. Photo Fabian Sommer/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Following a widely discussed interview in which she alleged censorship, Nan Goldin has added a message about the people killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, and during the October 7 Hamas attack, to an artwork on view at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Goldin and Klaus …
The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close its doors from 2025 to 2030 for a major renovation. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Saudi Arabia will contribute €50 million ($52.6 million) to the €262 million renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The money is part of a heritage fund established as part of …
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Exterior view of MoMA PS1, 2024, Queens, New York. Photo Nathan Bajar/Courtesy MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 has received a $1 million donation toward the funding of future exhibitions from the Teiger Foundation. A dedicate fund known as the Teiger Foundation Exhibition Fund will support exhibitions by MoMA PS1’s curatorial team, which includes Jody Graf, Elena …
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LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 27: Candida Gertler attends the unveiling of new art work as leading British artist Lubaina Himid is awarded the Robson Orr Ten Ten Award 2021 at 11 Downing Street on September 27, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Outset Contemporary Art Fund) Getty Images for Outset Contemporary …
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Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images The story about cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian keeps on giving. Sun kept the promise he made immediately after buying the artwork, comprising a banana duct-taped to the wall, …
A mixed media work by Mimmo Paladino titled ‘Lo Spirito della Foresta’ (1981) was one of the works to be authenticated by Art Recognition for the auction. COURTESY GERMANN AUCTION HOUSE. Last week, in an unprecedented move, a Swiss auction house sold an artwork solely authenticated by artificial intelligence (AI). Germann Auction House in Zürich …
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John Phelan (left) and Amy Phelan attend the amfAR Palm Beach Gala in March. Photo by Ryan Emberley/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that businessman and Top 200 collector John Phelan will lead the US Navy, despite no prior military experience. Phelan is the founder and chairman of the private investment firm …
Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos of Protat, 1290–1310. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons The identity of a notable Byzantine painter has been discovered using a handwriting analysis studying a Medieval illuminated manuscript, the Associated Press reported this week. Manuel Panselinos, as the artist is known, was a contemporary of Giotto and equally influential among Byzantine art …
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Parthenon sculptures of Ancient Greece, fragments which are collectively known as the Parthenon Marbles aka Elgin Marbles at the British Museum on 4th December 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The Elgin Marbles are considered stolen goods by Greece, and has regularly demanded their return, while the Acropolis Museum, which houses the remaining sculptures, keeps an …
The Yale Peabody Museum Courtesy Yale Peabody Museum The Yale Peabody Museum has flagged human remains and eight funerary objects in its collection for repatriation to Native American tribes of the Wabanaki Nations in Maine. These remains and objects were removed from burial sites and shell mounds in Maine and donated to the museum in …
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