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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 »

“The World of Studio Ghibli” at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, 2024. Photo Then Chih Wey/Xinhua via Getty Images “The World of Studio Ghibli”, a long-running immersive exhibition dedicated to the wildly popular Japanese animation studio, will next set up shop at Manarat Al Saadiyat, an arts and culture center in Abu Dhabi, the National …

Immersive Studio Ghibli Exhibition Travels to Abu Dhabi in May 2026 Read More »

Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali (1977) Robert McKeever One of the most recognizable faces in American culture returned to the site of his making on Wednesday, when Lévy Gorvy Dayan sold Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali (1977) for $18 million during the VIP Preview of Art Basel Miami Beach. The painting—autographed on the reverse by Ali and once …

A Knockout Sale: Warhol’s Ali Fetches $18 M. in the Building Where the Legend Was Born Read More »

Aerial view of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction, September 2025. Photo Pedro Ramirez/©2025 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, All Rights Reserved/Courtesy Hathaway Dinwiddie To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Hauser & Wirth to open Sicily branch in historic Palazzo Forcella De Seta. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art …

Hauser & Wirth to Open in Palermo, Lucas Museum Chief Curator Out, and More: Morning Links for December 5, 2025 Read More »

Larry Achiampong. Photo Emile Holba At the end of November, British outlets raised a ruckus after a pan-African flag by British Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong replaced a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in the Foreign Office. This week, Achiampong responded to what he called a “fuss,” labeling it “deeply problematic.” The Daily Mail reported that …

British Ghanaian Artist Denounces ‘Fuss’ After His Pan-African Flags Replace Queen Elizabeth Portrait Read More »

Palace of Westminster, Big Ben, and Westminster Bridge as seen from the south bank of the River Thames, 2022. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Palace of Westminster, the oldest building on the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary estate, which has played a central role in 900 years of British history, still contains some secrets hidden below. Evidence of …

6,000-Year-Old Artifacts Discovered Below Palace of Westminster Read More »

Aerial view of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction, September 2025. Photo Pedro Ramirez/©2025 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, All Rights Reserved/Courtesy Hathaway Dinwiddie With the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art inching closer to finally opening next fall, an exodus afflicting the Los Angeles institution’s leadership is continuing, with Pilar Tompkins Rivas, the museum’s …

Lucas Museum Exodus Continues as Chief Curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas Departs Read More »