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The Bayeux Tapestry. ©Bayeux Museum The Headlines BAYEUX TAPESTRY TRAVAILS. In a letter to the Guardian, British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan attempted to reassure readers concerned that the nearly 900-year-old Bayeux Tapestry will be in good hands when it travels to his museum next year. The unprecedented agreement to loan the 11th-century tapestry from France to Britain has been interpreted …

British Museum Says Bayeux Tapestry Is Safe, Judge Saves Marilyn Monroe’s Los Angeles Home, and More: Morning Links for September 8, 2025 Read More »

The opening reception of the exhibition “15” at Cristin Tierney’s new Tribeca location. Bob Krasner In recent weeks, stories about the dire state of the art market have tended to obscure the fact that for many seasoned art dealers now is less a time to panic than one in which you sit down and figure …

With the Art Market in Flux, Some Galleries Are Closing; This One is On the Move Read More »

The first calculating machine developed by Blaise Pascal has an estimate of €2 million to €3 million. ©Christie’s Images Limited 2025 Christie’s will sell an example of the first calculating machine in history, developed by Blaise Pascal in 1642, at an upcoming auction in Paris. A press release from the auction house called the Pascaline …

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One of SVA’s main buildings, at 133/141 West 21st Street in New York. Courtesy SVA The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York will be owned by an alumni-affiliated nonprofit following a period of financial difficulties and a recent unionization effort by its faculty. On September 1, the Rhodes family, which has owned it …

New York’s School of Visual Arts Transfers Ownership to Nonprofit Alumni Society Read More »

Kim Sajet ©2025 Kat Schleicher. Courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum Kim Sajet will take the helm as director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) on September 22, the institution announced Wednesday. “This moment marks a unique opportunity to bring in a leader who can unlock the Museum’s full potential and advance its vision of connecting people …

Ex-National Portrait Gallery Head Kim Sajet to Direct the Milwaukee Art Museum Read More »

Robert Grosvenor, ca. 1970s. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Robert Grosvenor, a sculptor whose idiosyncratic works flirted with the aesthetics of Minimalism, only to strike out on his own and create pieces that were totally unclassifiable, died in New York on Wednesday at 88. His death was confirmed by Paula Cooper …

Robert Grosvenor, Sculptor Who Defined Minimalism Before Blazing His Own Trail, Dies at 88 Read More »

The Met Breuer. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Just hours after Independent 20th Century art fair closed its doors to the public, the fair announced that Sotheby’s will host its 2026 edition in the auction house’s soon-to-be flagship headquarters in Manhattan’s historic Breuer building. The move, first reported by the New York Times, will be a …

Independent 20th Century to Relocate to Breuer in 2026, in Partnership With Sotheby’s Read More »

A house in Mar del Plata, Argentina, where police searched for a painting looted by the Nazis. Photo Mara Sosti/AFP via Getty Images A court in Argentina has placed under house arrest as police continue to search for a Nazi-looted painting that appeared in the real estate listing for a house in Mar del Plata. …

Argentine Couple Placed Under House Arrest as Search for Nazi-Looted Painting Continues Read More »

Rosalyn Drexler at ringside, 1972. Photo Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images Rosalyn Drexler, whose paintings of the 1960s about Hollywood actors, on-screen violence, and gender subversion have in recent years gained widespread praise, died in New York on Wednesday at 98. A spokesperson for New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery, which represents her, confirmed her death but …

Rosalyn Drexler, Indefatigable Painter Who Wrestled Her Way into the Pop Canon, Dies at 98 Read More »

The opening bid for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Red Man One was $2.975 million. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Four artworks by Jean-Michael Basquiat, Diane Arbus, and Pablo Picasso surrendered to the US Department of Justice in connection with the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal collectively netted some $36 million in an online auction conducted by the US Marshals …

Basquiat, Picasso Works Linked to Global 1MDB Scandal Net $36 M. in Auction by US Marshals Read More »