Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Christie’s. AFP via Getty Images With Frieze London and Art Basel Paris finally in the rear-view mirror, you’d be forgiven for being tired of the relentless London vs. Paris debate that has dominated art world conversations. In the end, both fairs did well, which somewhat stifled the increasingly boring narrative. In …
Fairgoers walk in front of the sign for the 2024 edition Frieze London. Linda Nylind/Courtesy of Frieze Endeavor Group Holdings, a holding company that owns the namesake talent agency and several other sports and entertainment enterprises, is exploring selling off some of its event assets, including Frieze, the company announced Thursday. The potential sale of …
The Air de Paris presentation at Oh La! La! at Art Basel Paris 2024. Courtesy Air de Paris For the first time since it landed in Paris two years ago, Art Basel has taken up the freshly renovated Grand Palais. On this occasion, the fair has launched a new initiative dubbed Oh La La! As …
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Tyler Mitchell, Self-portrait in the artist’s studio, 2024. ©Tyler Mitchell/Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gagosian, a gallery with nearly 20 locations around the world, will now represent Tyler Mitchell, one of today’s most acclaimed photographers. The gallery’s next project with Mitchell will be a presentation pairing his images with those of Richard Avedon at Paris …
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Libbie Mugrabi. Photo Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Libbie Mugrabi, the New York–based socialite, art collector, and ex-wife of top art collector David Mugrabi, is embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with the art-backed lending company Art Capital Group (ACG) and its executives, Ian Peck and Terence Doran, over a $3 million loan that never materialized. In …
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sankai via iStock Given the sprawling regulations dealing with works of art, new developments in art law are complex matters even for the most sophisticated specialists. A sample of opinions from experts in the United States about new art laws, on the other hand, reveals evolving assessments and a surprising consensus. In a series of …
Libbie Mugrabi claims Art Capital Group (ACG) has pilfered her Warhol painting. COURTESY WireImage To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines JULIE MEHRETU HELPS WHITNEY WAIVE ENTRY FEES. Artist Julie Mehretu has donated $2.25 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York so that visitors aged 25 and younger …
MUAC. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images MUAC, one of Mexico’s top contemporary art museums, became embroiled in widespread controversy last week after it was denounced for exhibiting an Ana Gallardo piece made in homage to an elderly sex worker, with many describing the gesture as misogynistic because the piece utilized words such as …
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Lisa Schiff. Photo Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Lisa Schiff, a prominent art adviser who was accused of swindling her clients out of millions of dollars, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in a New York court on Thursday. Schiff was the subject of two lawsuits last year in which collectors accused …
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The art industry comprises an incredibly diverse tapestry of experts in all sorts of professions.The ARTnews Top Art World Professionals list (alphabetical and not ranked) focuses on the leaders in 12 categories within the United States, the largest single national market for art. (For more information on some of the professionals, read ARTnews’s 2023 edition …
