"The decision to do this rests very strongly on my commitment to rewrite the postwar canon," Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford told artnet News. And while institutions sel…
A blockbuster strategy has two basic, and massive, problems, one being that people who come for blockbusters simply don't return for anything else. (The other is, basically, marketing costs.…
"Long before dealer Clyde Beswick established CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles, he spent 13 months in prison for embezzlement. Now, more than 20 years later, a group of artists is accusing the gal…
"In their daily lives, people interact with all kinds of popular storytelling visual forms, most of which are maybe not what we have historically called fine art. Our purpose as a museum is …
"Known for an accessible and punchy writing style that decodes the complexities of contemporary art for a wide audience, Saltz is, perhaps, the most famous art critic in America. ... [His] w…
"The painting, titled Othello and Desdemona, belonged to retired jeweler and art collector Ernest 'Pick' Heller and his wife Rose 'Red' Heller, and was stolen from their New York apartment b…
"Under the terms of the deal, the museum can sell all 40 works - but with one major caveat. Once the proceeds from the sale reach $55 million, it cannot sell any more art. Furthermore, Norma…
To find out, we examined the educational histories of 100 curators who specialize in contemporary art at 69 fine art museums in 32 states. We found that there is no one way to become a curat…
You can't measure schmoozing skills in auction data"or, can you? Trustees and big-name art collectors, after all, tend to collect (and, therefore, want to see exhibited) the kind of expensiv…
"Facebook is now starting to take responsibility for the impact of their platform. And because of the impact of our platform, we feel a responsibility towards sustaining the galleries that m…
The civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune will be the first African American figure to be honored with a monument in the National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol. Fit…
Carlo Parodi, founder of the Giacomo Casanova Foundation (and, not incidentally, CEO of the winery Casanova Prosecco), plans to site the museum in six rooms at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava in…
While dealers say the majority of sales are still consummated in person, often in the framework of long-term relationships, the seeds of those relationships are increasingly being sown onlin…
"MarÃa Inés RodrÃguez, the director of the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, was called into a town hall meeting last Tuesday, March 6, during which she was informed that her art…
Before the sale, the pre-1945 Modern content was estimated at 37 percent of the value of the entire sale"an increase on any previous Phillips sale. By the end, it was more like 60 percent. S…
In 2015, Pierre Le Guennec and his wife Danielle were given suspended sentences of two years in prison after authorities discovered a cache of 271 works by Picasso, believed to be stolen, st…
If you're Facebook, who cares about occasionally having to apologize to a random Italian arts activist, piss off an Austrian national history museum, or (worst case) pay less than $25,000 in…
Picasso's Femme au béret et à la robe quadrille (1937) sold for $69.2 million, the second-highest price ever paid at auction for a single artwork in Europe. Two other Picassos, Le Matado…