The Uffizi Is Sending Its Art From Florence to Shanghai to Help Boost Tourism in China for a Tidy Fee of $6 Million in Return
Visitors to Shanghai’s Bund One Art Museum will be treated to an international exhibition courtesy of the Uffizi Galleries this fall. “Self-Portraits: Masterpieces from the Uffizi,” which opens on September 9 and runs through January 8, 2023, includes around 50
The Late Billionaire Collector Paul Allen’s Art Could Fetch More Than $1 Billion at Christie’s, Becoming the Biggest Single-Owner Sale in History
What may be the most expensive collection the art market has ever seen is heading to auction this fall. Christie’s won the consignment of the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the auction house announced. The 150 works are
Who Was the Marquise de Grollier? A Work by the 18th-Century Woman Once Called ‘the Raphael of Flower Painting’ Just Entered the Met’s Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently acquired a rare painting by one of France’s most celebrated—though largely forgotten—female painters. The oil on canvas still-life by Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Faligny Damas, also known as the Marquise de Grollier, who
Three Iraqi Artists Withdraw From the Berlin Biennale to Protest an Artwork Depicting Prisoners at Abu Ghraib
Three Iraqi artists have pulled out from the Berlin Biennale to protest an artwork that includes photographs of prisoners being tortured at Abu Ghraib prison. The withdrawal came just one day after the organizers of the high-profile exhibition issued an apology
Italian Authorities Blocked the Sale of an Artemisia Gentileschi Painting in Austria
Italian authorities have blocked the sale of a prized 17th-century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi at auction in Austria, alleging it was illegally exported by its owners. The Carabinieri TPC, Italy’s cultural heritage protection agency, said that the painting’s owners allegedly obtained export
A Painting of a Church Choir by Ernie Barnes
Ernie Barnes became the surprise breakout star of the May auction season this year after his painting The Sugar Shack (1976) set a $15.3 million record at Christie’s New York. Now, another work by the artist, Solid Rock Congregation (1993), is coming to auction
Distant Relatives of Marcel Proust Are Suing Christie’s to Reclaim a Painting They Say Was Looted During WWII
Goldsmiths’ Slavery Statues Will Remain on View Following Vote – London locals voted to keep four statues of historical figures linked to the slave trade installed at Goldsmiths University. Students protested the sculptures of Elizabethan explorer Sir Francis Drake, Cromwellian admiral
Two Sleuths From a Small-Town Historical Society Tracked Down Two Paintings Stolen 50 Years Ago. Now, They’re Going Back on View
Exactly 50 years and a day after thieves pillaged Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York, the FBI returned a pair of historic paintings to the Upstate New York institution, where they will finally be unveiled this weekend. The 1820s canvases depict
Ernst Kirchner’s First-Ever Self-Portrait and the First to Come to Auction in Decades, Could Sell for Nearly $15 Million
The very first self-portrait by German Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s modern and contemporary art evening sale in London on 29 June. Painted in 1907, at the peak of the artist’s involvement with
National Portrait Gallery Will Raise a Whopping $50 Million to Buy ‘Portrait of Omai’
A Podcast on the Death of Ana Mendieta – In an upcoming podcast by Pushkin and Somethin’ Else called “Death of an Artist,” former curator of L.A. MOCA Helen Molesworth investigates the lead-up to the death of the famed performance artist, the trial