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Robert S. Duncan, ‘Ellen’s Isle, Loch Katrine’, 1871. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Levine in memory of Bob Thompson. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York. “We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education.” Those words, from Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of the …

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Michelangelo, Study for the right foot of The Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, c. 1511–12 Christies. A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475–1564), will be offered for sale at Christie’s auction house in New York in February. Christie’s estimates the work to sell between $1.5 million …

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Getty Images. American museums, according to a new study, are in a bind. Visitation hasn’t gotten back to where it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, and expenses have risen dramatically, but institutions don’t think they can afford to invest in marketing robustly enough to increase attendance and thus box office. Museums’ traditional “build it and …

New Report Finds That Museums Are Spending Fraction of What They Should on Marketing Read More »

The exterior of the US Pavilion in Venice, during the 2007 Biennale, featuring work by Felix Gonzalez Torres. Photo Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images The US Department of State on Monday morning confirmed that Mexico-based artist Alma Allen will represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale, which will open to the public next May. The …

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Olafur Eliasson and Vignesh Sundaresan. Photo credit: Yanina Isla A new experimental space dedicated to the intersection of art and technology will open this November at Tanjong Pagar Distripark in Singapore. Padimai Art & Tech Studio will launch with Your view matter (2022/25), a VR work by artist Olafur Eliasson that was commissioned by the studio’s founder, …

Beeple Superfan ‘Metakovan’ to Launch Art & Tech Studio in Singapore  Read More »

Recovered stolen artifacts found in a raid. Courtesy Europol Bulgarian authorities, with the support of Europol, busted a criminal network involved in the trafficking of thousands of cultural artifacts across Europe on Tuesday, according to Europol. Investigations are still ongoing. Conducted by a Europol operational task force, the investigation has involved law enforcement and judicial …

Thirty-Five Arrested in Bulgaria, with Ties to Larger Criminal Art Trafficking Network Read More »

The Rialto in Bozeman, Montana. Dan Armstrong Tinworks Art, an enterprise that garnered attention last year with an ambitious resurrection of Agnes Denes’s storied Wheatfiled Land art work in Bozeman, Montana, is making its next move with a newly acquired historic theater to be inaugurated with screenings of Matthew Barney’s 2018 film Redoubt. The program …

Tinworks Art in Montana Inaugurates Newly Acquired Theater with Matthew Barney Film Read More »

Michael H. Smith Courtesy estate of Michael H. Smith Michael H. Smith, an artist, dealer, and curator who prized experimentation and was instrumental to helping develop the art scenes in Southern California in the 1970s and ’80s, died on October 31 in Santa Barbara. He was 80 years old. A cause was not given. Smith …

Michael H. Smith, Dealer and Curator Who Prized Experimentation, Dies at 80 Read More »

Installation view of “Eadweard Muybridge, Michael Snow, Haim Steinbach,” 1995, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York. Courtesy Jay Gorney Modern Art Lari Pittman’s first New York solo show, the first time Nan Goldin showed prints of her famed The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985), Barbara Bloom’s conceptual reimagining of the Titanic’s ocean-floor detritus, Catherine Opie’s …

You Can Now Explore the Archives of Jay Gorney Modern Art, a Seminal New York Gallery in the 1980s and ’90s Read More »