The hoard of pennies is now the “highest value treasure on record”. Courtesy of the British Museum A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors in 2019 were recently valued at $5.6 million (£4.3 million), making it the highest valued treasure in England. In …
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Interim Archives/Getty Images Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago organized a walkout on Thursday to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. The walkout, which happened during class hours, began outside SAIC’s MacLean Center, the building that houses the school’s art history, critical studies, and …
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The Treasury at the archaeological site of Petra in Jordan where the archaeologists found the tomb. AFP via Getty Images British archaeologists recently made a discovery that sounds like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie: a secret tomb under the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, according to a press release from the …
‘Bully’ will be Ye’s third album release in 2024. Photo Scott Dudelson/Getty Images The cover art for Bully, the next solo album by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, features an image taken by the Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. On Wednesday, Ye posted a black-and-white image of a person’s grinning face to his …
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View of Clearing’s booth showing work by Marguerite Humeau. Linda Nylind/Courtesy Frieze At the top of the art market dwell collectors. Without them, there’s no one to warrant the countless gallery exhibitions, seasonal day and evening sales, and almost monthly art fairs that batter the art world calendar. According to the Art Basel and UBS …
Facade of UrbanGlass in Brooklyn. via Google Maps UrbanGlass, an arts space and glass-making studio in Brooklyn, has issued a public apology for excluding the work of a Palestinian-American employee from a staff exhibition in March. Sixteen members of the space’s staff subsequently took their pieces out of the exhibition in solidarity with Phil Garip, …
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Mimi Smith, Armor Against Any Eventuality, 2020. Promised gift to the Weatherspoon Art Museum from the Carol Cole Levin Collection The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro will receive a gift of 270 contemporary artworks worth $5 million from Carole Cole Levin, a North Carolina-based artist and philanthropist. The gifted works …
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Installation view of “Carrie Mae Weems. The Evidence of Things Not Seen,” 2022, at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, showing The Hampton Project (2000). Photo: Hans D. Christ; Art: ©Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford have been awarded the …
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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 …
