St. Mark’s Square in Venice. AFP via Getty Images Venice will double its tourist entry fee to €10 in 2025, despite data that suggest the measure failed to reduce visitor numbers during its trial period in 2024. The initial €5 fee was implemented to curb overtourism in a city that has become known for it. …
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OpenAI officially launched the AI video generation model Sora in Suqian, Jiangsu, China, on December 10. Photo Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images The UK government is considering an upgrade of its “right to personality” law that could gain artists new safeguards against generative artificial intelligence models capable of mimicking their styles. Per the Financial Times, the …
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Phillips CEO Martin Wilson. Courtesy Phillips. Phillips has named Martin Wilson as the house’s new chief executive officer amid another leadership shuffle, succeeding Ed Dolman, who held the dual position of CEO and executive chairman over the last year, and is now departing from the house after ten years. Wilson previously served as Phillips’ chief …
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Tal and Oren Alexander. Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Oren and Tal Alexander, major luxury real estate brokers in New York and Miami, were arrested Wednesday in Miami on federal sex trafficking charges. Their brother, Alon, who was not a broker, was also arrested. A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses the brothers of conspiring to “repeatedly …
Hauser & Wirth’s Los Angeles gallery. Photo Joshua Targownik/targophoto.com As part of its programming for the upcoming Frieze Los Angeles fair, Hauser & Wirth will restage David Hammons’s iconic work Concerto in Black and Blue (2002) for the first time since its debut more than 20 years ago. The only time Concerto in Black and …
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Naomi Beckwith. Photo Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Guggenheim Museum Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim Museum’s deputy director and chief curator, will curate the 2027 edition of Documenta, a closely watched art exhibition that takes place once every five years in Kassel, Germany. She is the first Black woman ever to curate the show in its 69-year …
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Interior view of Pace African & Oceanic Art, 2024. Courtesy Pace African & Oceanic Art Pace African & Oceanic Art announced via social media that it will officially close its doors on Friday, December 13. The news of the closure was confirmed by ARTnews with director Carlo Bella. Pace African & Oceanic Art is owned …
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The painting at the center of the legal battle – ‘Cut Melon.’ COURTESY CHRISTIE’S Christie’s has filed a lawsuit in Paris against Italian real estate investor Nanni Bassani Antivari, who the house asserts is refusing to pay for a work purchased at Christie’s France in June. In legal filings obtained by the Art Newspaper, Christie’s …
‘Challenging’: Guillaume Cerutti, Christie’s CEO, gave his end-of-year presser on Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images Christmas is almost here, which means Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti did his best to bring festive cheer by crunching the auction house’s 2024’s numbers during his end-of-year press conference Tuesday. Cerutti said the house’s projected sales for this year total …
Sole trader: Dorothy’s shoes sold for $28 million. Getty A pair of red ruby slippers worn by the actress Judy Garland while playing Dorothy in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz sold at auction for $28 million on Saturday. Heritage Auctions, based in Dallas, slapped a $3 million estimate on the slippers. Pre-sale …
