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The entrance to Este Arte. Courtesy Este Arte “There’s a before and after Este Arte,” Uruguay’s first and only art fair, according to its founder, Laura Bardier.  The professionalization of Uruguay’s art market could read as Bardier’s biography—the curator who, through sheer insistence, converted a quixotic dream into a promising market machine—but that would misinterpret …

Uruguay’s Only Art Fair Wagers That It Can Create a New Regional Market Force Read More »

View of the Nanjing Museum on International Museum Day 2024. Courtesy Nanjing Museum Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to the recent …

China Launches Probe Into Alleged Art-Theft Scheme at Nanjing Museum Involving a Former Director Read More »

Stephen Marc, 87th and Constance, from “Changing Chicago Project,” n.d. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Gift of Jack A. Jaffe, Focus/Infinity Fund The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago will host an exhibition next year titled “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground” and guest curated by leading photography scholar and Harvard …

Photography Scholar Sarah Lewis to Organize Exhibition Asking ‘What If Emmett Till Lived?’ Read More »

Graffiti artwork by street artist Banksy, painted beneath the Centre Point building near Tottenham Court Road in central London. Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images For the third time this year, Banksy has created a new work of street art. The new piece has been confirmed in the anonymous British artist’s customary fashion, with an …

Just in Time for Christmas, Identical New Banksy Murals Look to the Stars But Point to Problems on the Ground Read More »

Installation view, “Eduardo’s birthday party on Ave. Gabriel,” at Galerie 1900-2000, New York, curated by artist Oscar Murillo, including works by Arshile Gorky, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and Murillo. Galerie 1900-2000 In a multi-year market slowdown, numerous galleries large and small have either gone out of business or retrenched. Galerie 1900-2000, founded in Paris, opened …

Paris’s Galerie 1900-2000 Has Closed Its New York Branch: ‘Business Was Quite Slow’ Read More »

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha SEMA ONDEMIR PANTHER Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha has tapped Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh to lead a major campus expansion. The news arrives as the Qatari institution celebrates its 15th anniversary, and figures into an ambitious phase of cultural development underway in the Arabian …

Qatar’s Mathaf Museum Announces Major Expansion, Led by Architect Lina Ghotmeh Read More »

Robert Mnuchin, owner of the Mnuchin Gallery in New York. RICHARD A. SMITH/COURTESY MNUCHIN GALLERY Robert Mnuchin, the Wall Street pioneer who became one of New York’s most respected art dealers and a fixture at blue-chip auctions, died on Friday at his home in Bridgewater, Connecticut. He was 92. His death, first reported by the …

Robert Mnuchin, Goldman Sachs Power Broker Turned Influential Art Dealer, Dies at 92 Read More »

Koyo Kouoh ©Mehdi Benkler. Each December, we remember the art-world figures we have lost in the past year. This year, our list includes the famous and the not-so-famous, insiders and outsiders, those who had long careers and those whose lives were cut tragically short. Below, a look back at some of the most notable artists, …

In Memoriam 2025: Notable Artists, Dealers, Curators, and Collectors Who Died This Year Read More »

Museum staff stage a protest as workers voted to go on strike against increasingly deteriorating working conditions and security vulnerabilities at Louvre Museum in Paris, France on December 15, 2025. Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images The world’s most-visited museum, it seems, cannot catch a break lately. Unionized staff at Paris’s Louvre Museum voted …

Two Days Into Walkout, Louvre Staff Unions Vote to Continue Strike Read More »