Works acquired by the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors over the past 12 months. Illustration: Daniela Hritcu While much has been said—and written—about the state of the art market, that hasn’t affected the purchasing decisions of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors who have continued to acquire a variety of works for their vast holdings. Reflecting on …
A computer rendered image for ”WE ARE” for PST ART, 2024 (debris raining down on spectators not included…) Courtesy Cai Studio. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IT’S RAINING CAPS AND TUBES. In his first interview since his September 15 fireworks display to kick off Getty’s PST ART festival in Los Angeles …
Paul Bell and Edred Whittingham were let off the hook by the judge in Manchester. COURTESY JUST STOP OIL On Thursday, a judge acquitted two environmental activists who glued themselves to a J.M.W. Turner painting at Manchester Art Gallery in July 2022. The Just Stop Oil protesters stuck themselves to the frame of Tomson’s Aeolian …
The cover of the 2024 edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors issue. Illustration: Luana Oliva To say that the art market is on shaky ground may be the understatement of the year. As one dealer told me this past spring, in unequivocal terms: “The market’s shit. Anyone who tells you different is lying.” Dealers …
Models walk the runway for the Off-White fashion show during the September 2024 New York Fashion Week. Getty Images French luxury goods company LVMH has sold its stake in the streetwear label Off-White three years after the death of the brand’s founder, Virgil Abloh. New York–based brand management company Bluestar Alliance now owns LVMH’s stake. …
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A Tony Cokes project on view at the Mixing Plant in Essen, Germany, in 2019. Photo Caroline Seidel/picture alliance via Getty Images Four artists are among the winners of this year’s MacArthur “genius” grants, each of which comes with $800,000—a sum that puts these awards among the biggest prizes given to artists in the US. …
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Jenna Lyons (left) and Racquel Chevremont a Deux Femme Noirs event in 2018. Photo Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images The second season of a rebooted Real Housewives of New York kicked off earlier this week, and by most accounts, the art world is well represented by Racquel Chevremont, a curator, model, collector, art adviser, …
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Jeffrey Gibson, 2024. Photo Inez and Vinoodh Hauser & Wirth will now represent Jeffrey Gibson, who this year did the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, marking the first time an Indigenous artist received that honor solo. Related Articles In Radiant Paintings and Beaded Extravaganzas, Jeffrey Gibson Remixes Native American Histories Inside Jeffrey Gibson’s US Pavilion …
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Pablo Picasso in his Paris studio. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images A painting discovered by a junk dealer while cleaning out the cellar of a home in Capri, Italy, may be an authentic Picasso work. Luigi Lo Rosso came across the painting in 1962, when he brought the rolled canvas home with him to Pompeii and hung …
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Jarl Mohn and Ann Philbin in the courtyard of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo Emanuel Hahn for ARTnews Ann Philbin has been the director of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles since 1999. During her tenure, she has helped transformed the institution—which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles—into one of the …
