The same art gallery which sold the print helped identify it as stolen. Courtesy of US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California A man has pled guilty to a federal charge of trafficking after trying to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print of Vladimir Lenin to an auction house. A press release from …
Inigo Philbrick (L) in 2016 before he was sent to prison for the biggest art fraud in US history. courtesy Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still resonate. On Tuesday, a US …
Conservatory at Natural History Museum in Paris. Getty Images On Thursday, the culture ministers of France and Madagascar announced a joint effort to begin the process of repatriating human remains seized while the African nation was under French colonial rule. Officials from both countries revealed the appointment of a joint scientific committee to conduct a …
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The new plan for the Centre Pompidou’s Jersey City satellite museum. Via X Paris’s Centre Pompidou is making a fresh attempt to open a satellite museum in Jersey City several months after New Jersey politicians chose to pull funding from the project. Under the Pompidou’s new plan, the museum will be sited in a new …
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Models walk the runway for the Off-White fashion show during the September 2024 New York Fashion Week. Getty Images French luxury goods company LVMH has sold its stake in the streetwear label Off-White three years after the death of the brand’s founder, Virgil Abloh. New York–based brand management company Bluestar Alliance now owns LVMH’s stake. …
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A Tony Cokes project on view at the Mixing Plant in Essen, Germany, in 2019. Photo Caroline Seidel/picture alliance via Getty Images Four artists are among the winners of this year’s MacArthur “genius” grants, each of which comes with $800,000—a sum that puts these awards among the biggest prizes given to artists in the US. …
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The cover of the 2024 edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors issue. Illustration: Luana Oliva To say that the art market is on shaky ground may be the understatement of the year. As one dealer told me this past spring, in unequivocal terms: “The market’s shit. Anyone who tells you different is lying.” Dealers …
Jeffrey Gibson, 2024. Photo Inez and Vinoodh Hauser & Wirth will now represent Jeffrey Gibson, who this year did the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, marking the first time an Indigenous artist received that honor solo. Related Articles In Radiant Paintings and Beaded Extravaganzas, Jeffrey Gibson Remixes Native American Histories Inside Jeffrey Gibson’s US Pavilion …
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View of the Hong Kong skyline, as seen from Kowloon, this past February. Photo Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images ARTnews has announced that it will launch a new ARTnews Asia edition next year, by way of a partnership with Luxetech Ventures, a global venture builder concentrated on the luxury industry and the art market. Headquartered in Hong Kong, China, …
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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 9: Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Cabinet Minister for International Development delivers a speech to party delegates on day two of the Labour Party conference on October 9, 2023 in Liverpool, England. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is among Labour MPs and Shadow Ministers addressing delegates on day two of party conference. (Photo …
