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The Bonhams auction galleries in the Chelsea area of London in 1961. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Bonhams ended 2025 with $970 million in global sales, a headline number that, in another year, might have been received as unambiguously good news. Instead, it arrives trailing a thicket of context: a widely circulated Financial Times report on a £213 million …

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Jasper Johns, Between the Clock and the Bed, 1981. © 2025 Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Jamie Stukenberg, Professional Graphics, Rockford, Ill. © The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., New York, 2025 Courtesy Gagosian Why did Larry Gagosian want to stage a just-opened blockbuster exhibition of Jasper Johns‘s paintings at …

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Alfred Jacob Miller’s The Buffalo Hunt (ca. 1850), from Christie’s “Visions of the West” sale on January 20, set a world record for the artist when it sold for $4.7 million. Christie’s Images Ltd. Christie’s record-breaking sale of works from William I. Koch’s Western art collection may look like a one-off, but recent data suggest …

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Sally Tallant. Photo Thierry Bal/Courtesy Hayward Gallery The Southbank Centre has named Sally Tallant the new director of the Hayward Gallery, a role she will begin in July. She is replacing the Hayward’s longtime director Ralph Rugoff, who recently announced his resignation after 20 years at the helm. As part of her new position, Tallant …

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Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 Schalkwijk/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico City/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Collection Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno,Mexico City. Curators at Tate Modern are finding that Frida Kahlo’s global popularity now comes with a practical drawback: it has …

Tate Faces Trouble Securing Frida Kahlo Masterpieces for Summer Blockbuster Read More »

The Albertinum Museum of the Dresden State Art Collections in Germany. Photo Robert Michael/AFP via Getty Images A cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections was detected on Wednesday, with the museums remaining open but certain operations put on pause as a result. Among the latter are the museum network’s online shop and visitor services. …

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on during a press conference at Friendship House Association of American Indians on January 16, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Getty Images When news broke last week that California College of the Arts would close in 2027, the announcement came as a shock to students and the broader art world. …

Governor Gavin Newsom Says He ‘Had No Clue’ California College of the Arts Would Close Read More »

Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh. Photo Unique Nicole/Getty Images for Salute Your Shorts Film Festival Two People Exchanging Saliva, a black-and-white film written and directed by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the live action short film category. The 36-minute film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival earlier …

Short Film by Artist Alexandre Singh and Art Historian Natalie Musteata Nominated for an Oscar Read More »

A general view of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on December 30, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Getty Images The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced Thursday that it has named Kristen Shepherd as its new president and CEO. Shepherd will start in the role on February 9. Shepherd, 54, previously served as …

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Roman vehicle fitting AD 43–200 Copyright © British Museum. The British Museum announced today that 2024 was a record year for archeological discoveries made in the UK by members of the public, with 79,616 finds recorded. Of those, 1540 were “treasure” as defined by the UK’s 1996 Treasure Act, the highest number ever recorded for …

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