Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers (1888). The work is currently owned by the Sompo Japan Museum of Art. Public domain. The heirs of German Jewish banker and art collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy have called on the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Thursday to revive their lawsuit seeking the return of a Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers painting they …
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, with artist Adam Cvijanovic, unveils a new mural painted by Cvijanovic at St. Patrickís Cathedral on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in New York. The mural, which is the largest permanent artwork commissioned for the cathedral in its 146-year history, celebrates the 1879 Apparition at Knock, Ireland, the faith …
Jackson Pollock in his studio in 1953. Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images An extinct variety of manganese blue paint is one of the many inextricable ingredients of Jackson Pollock’s 1948 masterpiece Number 1A, according to the authors of a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The nearly nine-foot-wide canvas, splattered …
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Dan Lie, To let go, 2024. ©Jacopo LaForgia/Courtesy the Artist and Galerie Barbara Wien The Gold Art Prize, a series of five awards given biennially to AAPI and Asian diaspora artists, has named this year’s batch of winners, among them up-and-comers such as Dan Lie and Stella Zhong. In addition to Lie and Zhong, Morehshin …
The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close its doors from 2025 to 2030 for a major renovation. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Precious few days remain before the Centre Pompidou closes for five years of renovation work, leaving the Paris art scene without one of its crown jewels and main sources of gravity. …
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Artist Martha Tuttle, now represented by Timothy Taylor Gallery. Photo Daniel Browne Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! A round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week: Marian Goodman Gallery Takes on Edith Dekyndt: Dekyndt has …
Old trolley cables grace the area in front of a 19th-century warehouse, now used as apartments, on the waterfront June 15, 2007, in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York. The National Trust for Historic Preservation plans to declare Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront one of America’s 11 most vulnerable historical areas. Under New York Mayor …
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Conductor art fair during it’s 2025 soft launch. Gina Curovic A year after staging a soft-launch invitational, Conductor: Art Fair of the Global Majority will mount its first full edition at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn from April 30 to May 3, 2026, with a VIP preview on April 29. The fair, organized by Powerhouse Arts and directed …
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The Galerie de Mineralogie of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, is closed after a theft. Photo Rachel Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images The National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, was broken into early Tuesday morning and several specimens worth €600,000 ($711,000) were stolen, France24 reported. The museum is known for …
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Glenn Lowry. Getty Images Over the summer, just before departing the Museum of Modern Art as its longtime director, Glenn Lowry appeared to obliquely address the Trump administration’s ongoing attack on cultural institutions, noting that the veteran New York institution must fight to continue mounting the shows that it does. “If we believe in a …
