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Ed Sheeran, painter. Courtesy Heni Gallery The singer Ed Sheeran has topped the charts with his singles and sold out stadiums across the world, and now he looks to expand his output to include artworks that look suspiciously like Jackson Pollock‘s drip paintings. Sheeran is now showing his all-over abstractions at Heni Gallery in London, …

Ed Sheeran Is Selling Prints of His Jackson Pollock Rip-Off Paintings for $1,200 Each Read More »

PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 10: Auctioneer Aurélie Vandevoorde is pictured during the sale of the Jane Birkin bag for €8.6 million euros at Sotheby’s July 10, 2025, in Paris, France. (Photo Julien Hekimian/Getty Images) Getty Images The first-ever Hermès Birkin bag sold at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday for a record-breaking €8.6 million ($10 million), with …

Original Birkin Bag Sells for Record-Breaking $8.2 M at Sotheby’s Paris to Japanese Buyer Read More »

David Mimran. WireImage In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, Phillips, one of the world’s top auction houses, claimed that a billionaire’s son failed to pay $14.5 million for a Jackson Pollock painting that sold in New York this past November. The lawsuit, filed in the Supreme Court of New York, alleges that David Mimran, …

Phillips Accuses Billionaire’s Son of Failing to Pay for Jackson Pollock Painting Read More »

View of the Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain, Georgia, 1969. Fox Photos/Getty Images A Confederate heritage group has filed a lawsuit against Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, arguing that a new exhibition examining the site’s connections to slavery, segregation, and white supremacy violates state law. The lawsuit was brought by the Georgia Division of the …

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Nan Goldin. Photo Stpehane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images The photographer Nan Goldin once again publicly addressed Israel’s war in Gaza this week, this time during a talk given at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in France. Goldin, the recipient of Kering’s Women in Motion award this year, took the stage at the Théâtre Antique on …

Nan Goldin Addresses Israel’s War in Gaza During Arles Talk: ‘Whose Lives Matter?’ Read More »

CHIQUIBUL, BELIZE – MARCH 21: A general view of the media as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visit Caracol Mayan archaeological site in the Chiquibul Forest on the third day of a Platinum Jubilee Royal Tour to the Caribbean on March 21, 2022 in Chiquibul, Belize. The Royal couple are …

Ancient Mayan Tomb of Caracol’s Founding King Unearthed in Belize Read More »

George Morrison, Traversal, 1958. Art Bridges Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Art Bridges Foundation in Bentonville, Arkansas, have acquired 90 works of contemporary Native art from the St. Louis–based John and Susan Horseman Collection, which focuses on supporting Indigenous and African American artists. The acquisition includes works by Kent Monkman, Tyrell Tapaha, …

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Arthur Brand and some of the recovered works. Courtesy Arthur Brand Arthur Brand, a self-proclaimed art detective, has recovered a trove of documents stolen from the Netherlands’s National Archives in 2015, the Art Newspaper reported on Thursday. The 25 objects recovered include documents listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Those documents relate to …

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A Tibetan statue of a dancing Dakini at the Musée Guimet in Paris. Photo Olivier Laban-Mattei/AFP via Getty Images The Musée Guimet, a Paris museum known for its rich collection of Asian art, is facing a lawsuit from several groups who accused the institution of trying to “erase the existence of Tibet.” According to the …

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One possible future of MSCHF’s King Solomon’s Baby(2025) MSCHF If you’ve ever stood before a hulking sculpture and thought, “I wish I could take just a sliver of that home,” MSCHF has you covered. The Brooklyn-based collective—best known the ATM at Art Basel Miami Beach that had monied art fair fans jockeying for position, selling …

MSCHF’s New ‘Baby’ Invites Viewers to Buy a Slice of Art Read More »