PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 11: Flags from several countries float in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on October 11, 2017 in Paris, France. From this Monday, the 58 members of the Executive Board of Unesco will vote by secret ballot at the headquarters of the organization …
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Nanne Dekking and Elizabeth von Habsburg of Winston Artory Group. Winston Artory Group In a move that underscores the growing demand for transparency and data in an opaque industry, art appraiser Winston Art Group and art-tech firm Artory have merged to form the Winston Artory Group (WAG), a new firm offering art appraisal, advisory, and …
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Entrance to Museo Dolores Olmedo with famous collection of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by: Jumping Rocks/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jumping Rocks/Universal Images G To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HAIRLESS DOGS, UNCERTAIN FUTURE. Mexico City’s Museo Dolores Olmedo, home to the world’s …
Sam Gilliam, 1980. Photo Anthony Barboza/Getty Images David Kordansky gallery and the Sam Gilliam Foundation are facing a lawsuit over their alleged attempts to “disavow” what one entity claims is a genuine drape painting by the late artist. Drax Fine Art, LLC, which is registered in Albany, New York, filed suit against the gallery, the …
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The interior of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Sijena, in Aragon, Spain. Photo Javier Broto/Europa Press via Getty Images After more than a decade of legal battles, Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that a set of 13th-century Romanesque murals—removed from the Sijena Monastery during the Spanish Civil War and housed since in the …
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Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images Last week, crypto billionaire Justin Sun announced on X that he was purchasing $100 million worth of President Donald Trump‘s memecoin, $TRUMP, which will soon be tradeable on TRON, the blockchain Sun …
Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, Connecticut. Moment Editorial/Getty Images The Yale Art Gallery, the renowned university museum in New Haven, Connecticut, has withdrawn two federal grant applications for an African art exhibition after rejecting the new, anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) stipulations introduced by the Trump administration on federal funding, the Connecticut Insider reported …
Portrait of Raymond Saunders, 1981, by Mimi Jacobs. Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Raymond Saunders, who created enigmatic paintings often infused with sociopolitical undertones, has died at 90. Casemore, Andrew Kreps, and David Zwirner galleries, all which co-represented the artist, announced his passing in a joint statement on Instagram on Monday. Saunders’s work …
Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher. Photo Gregg DeGuire/WireImage While much of the art world is off on summer holidays, news broke earlier this week of a bitter legal battle between top art advisor Barbara Guggenheim and her former partner Abigail Asher. The implosion of the advisors’ high-profile partnership, Guggenheim Asher Associates (GAA), has sent waves …
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The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn. Courtesy Downtown Brooklyn This spring, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced it was withdrawing funding for arts organizations across the country. As part of broader efforts already in motion to cut back government spending under the Trump administration, the arts is the latest sector …
