View Gallery 34 Images Last week, ARTnews celebrated the 35th edition of its annual Top 200 Collectors list with a cocktail party in New York at Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world. The evening’s cohosts were Top 200 Collectors Pamela J. Joyner, who has ranked on the list since 2016, and …
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The Maqdala Shield will be on display at the Toledo Museum of Art. Photo Nick Caito/Courtesy of the Royal Ethiopian Trust A 19th-century shield withdrawn from public auction in the UK earlier this year will be repatriated to Ethiopia. The Royal Ethiopian Trust (RET) recently announced it had negotiated the repatriation of the engraved shield …
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Hajra Waheed, Hum II, 2023, installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. ©Hajra Waheed/Courtesy the artist and mor charpentier The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the artists participating in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from February 6, through June 15, 2025. The exhibition, one of the premier international showcases of its kind, will feature …
The same art gallery which sold the print helped identify it as stolen. Courtesy of US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California A man has pled guilty to a federal charge of trafficking after trying to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print of Vladimir Lenin to an auction house. A press release from …
Conservatory at Natural History Museum in Paris. Getty Images On Thursday, the culture ministers of France and Madagascar announced a joint effort to begin the process of repatriating human remains seized while the African nation was under French colonial rule. Officials from both countries revealed the appointment of a joint scientific committee to conduct a …
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Visitors look at a selfportrait of Vincent Van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum’s in Amsterdam on September 16, 2021. Photo KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images The Van Gogh Museum has identified three works attributed to Van Gogh in private collections that are fake, including a painting of a peasant women that sold through Christie’s …
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Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden in New York on September 25. courtesy Getty Images The US government continues to pump money into Ukraine. Last week, President Joe Biden announced an $8 billion security aid injection ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington—adding to the $61.3 billion already promised to Kyiv. The fresh round …
The communal table in The Bunker, with works by John Giorno and Keith Haring on the walls. Max Burkhalter One recent evening, not far from the perfectly preserved bedroom of William S. Burroughs and a vintage Orgone Accumulator set up to capture esoteric energies, the late poet and artist John Giorno could be seen reciting …
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Eric Adams. Photo Stephanie Keith/Getty Images As New York City Mayor Eric Adams continues to face fallout after being indicted on charges of bribery, campaign finance, and more, a new report alleges that his administration sought a Brooklyn Museum show at the behest of one aide in charge of Chinese American community relations. That aide, …
A piece from “Salt Looks Like Sugar” by Goshka Macuga. Screenshot via Instagram A conveyor belt carrying newspapers, courtesy of the Turner Prize–nominated artist Goshka Macuga, was the star of Miu Miu’s ponderous SS25 showcase at Paris Fashion Week. Macuga’s installation was titled Salt Looks Like Sugar and described in a statement from the couture …
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