Reco Sturgis, the founder of Hugo Galerie. Courtesy of Beth Carter A number of artists have accused art dealer Reco Sturgis—the founder of Hugo Galerie in New York, which closed in 2023—of withholding artworks, failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in owed funds, and making violent threats via email and text message. In …
Tourists gather to see terra-cotta warriors at the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China, 2025. Photo Kevin Frayer/Getty Images A 30-year-old Chinese tourist damaged two ancient clay warriors from China’s terra-cotta army, local officials said on Saturday, according to Agence France Presse. According to the statement, the tourist was …
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Visitors at the TEFAF Maastricht fair at conference center MECC in Maastricht on March 15, 2025. ANP/AFP via Getty Images A European regulation set to go into effect on June 28 will require thorough provenance research on cultural objects originating from outside the European Union, raising concerns among some art dealers based in the EU, …
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The Eastern Pennsylvania District Court. Wikimedia Commons A Pennsylvania man pled guilty on May 29 to selling works falsely attributed to Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and other notable artists. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the man, 77-year-old Carter Reese, of Reading, was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count …
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Anonymous, Condom with print, ca. 1830. Photo Kelly Schenk/Rijksmuseum On Tuesday, the Rijksmuseum announced that a rare condom dating from 1830 will go on display at the museum in its print room, where it will form part of a display on 19th-century sex work and sexuality. It will stay on display through November. The condom …
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Simi Valley, CA – February 26: The installation of the 4Q57 Isaiah Scroll at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. The Isaiah Scroll and other Dead Sea Scrolls in “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition”. Due to their light sensitivity, the Dead Sea Scrolls are rotated every three months …
Kim Sajet. Photo Shannon Finney/Getty Images President Donald Trump said on Friday afternoon that he had fired Kim Sajet, director of Washington, D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery. It is now unclear who will lead the museum, one of many run by the Smithsonian Institution, a museum network Trump has targeted since returning the presidency in January. …
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Facade of of Washington State University building. via Google Maps. A team led by Washington State University has successfully recreated a millennia-old pigment first synthesized in ancient Egypt. Egyptian Blue is considered the the oldest manufactured pigment in history. The pigment was widely used to adorn stone objects used in funerary rituals and to embellish …
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The general view of the ultra-luxury hotels Raffles and Fairmont in Doha, Qatar, on December 21, 2024. The dual-branded property is located within the iconic Katara Towers, a unique crescent-shaped building gracing the skyline of Lusail (Photo by Noushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto via Getty Images). NurPhoto via Getty Images Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter …
Japanese sculptor and terracotta artist Kunimasa Aoki. Courtesy Loewe LONDON — Japanese sculptor and terracotta artist Kunimasa Aoki has been named the winner of the 2025 Loewe Craft Prize on Thursday evening during an award ceremony in Madrid with a cash prize of 50,000 euros. Selected by a 12-member jury from 30 shortlisted works on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in …
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