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Jasper Johns, Between the Clock and the Bed, 1981. © 2025 Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York Courtesy Gagosian Half a century after Jasper Johns first unveiled his crosshatched paintings at Leo Castelli Gallery, the series is returning …

Gagosian to Stage Survey of Jasper Johns’s Crosshatch Paintings in New York Read More »

The 11th UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report is out now. Getty Images The eleventh Billionaire Ambitions Report from Swiss bank UBS provides a sliver of hope in a shaky moment for dealers of art and antiques—if they manage to get access to that coveted demographic. Global billionaire wealth reached an all-time high in 2025, says the …

UBS Report Provides a Sliver of Hope for Dealers: Many Billionaires Aim To Spend More on Art and Antiques Read More »

A Brazilian police car in front of the Mario de Andrade Public Library in São Paulo. Eight prints by French artist Henri Matisse and five by Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari—part of an exhibition at the library—were stolen by armed thieves on December 7 Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images. Updated December 9, 2025 In a …

Brazilian Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Matisse Prints from São Paulo Library Read More »

Zohran Mamdani visiting his favorite New York museum, the subway. Photo Andrew LichtensteinCorbis via Getty Images New York has one of the richest art museum ecosystems in the world, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum all located within the same borough—and that’s to say nothing of …

Zohran Mamdani’s Favorite Museum in New York Is ‘Our Subway System’ Read More »

Zineb Sedira. Photo Alexandra de Saint Blanquat/©Zineb Sedira/Courtesy Mennour, Paris; Goodman Gallery, London; and Selma Feriani, Tunis Tate, the UK museum network, announced Monday that Zineb Sedira will take on the next Tate Britain Commission, which is staged in that institution’s neoclassical Duveen Galleries. The commission, the artist’s largest to date, will run May 2026 …

Artist Zineb Sedira Picked for Next Tate Britain Commission Read More »

The Winter Egg. Courtesy Christie’s A rare Fabergé egg created from crystal and adorned with diamonds sold for £22.9 million (around $30.2 million) on Tuesday at Christie’s London, where the price broke the record as the highest ever for a Fabergé egg at auction. The sale was the top billing in “The Winter Egg and …

Fabergé Egg, ‘Mona Lisa of the Decorative Arts,’ Sells for Record-Breaking $30.2 M. Read More »

CCI fellow Celia Irina González (left) and CCI curatorial associate Iberia Pérez González. Photo Lazaro Llanes During a week when all eyes (art world ones, at least) are on Miami, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has announced a pair of substantial gifts in support of the museum’s Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI). The Mellon Foundation …

Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Gifts Totaling $7 M. for Caribbean Cultural Institute Read More »

Diana Ross performing at Alex Prager’s Mirage Factory, with Capital One and the Cultivist. Photo Bre Johnson/BFA.com An elegant, all-green room, meant to evoke a garden party in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park, was the setting for an intimate performance by the one and only Diana Ross. In a glimmering red-and-silver gown, Ross, accompanied by two …

Diana Ross Is Transcendent During Miami Art Week Performance Read More »