Will the shrinking size of US apartments drive more people to visit museums? “If you aren’t hanging out with friends at home, you need somewhere else to go,” said Elizabeth Merritt, the founding director of the Centre for the Future of Museums, at a…
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Christie’s broke the record for the highest amount raised in one auction last week when its contemporary and Modern sale in New York raised $ 495m. Big-ticket items included Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat, 1963, (detail, below) bought for…
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The German art shipper who was jailed for 100 days by Chinese authorities on suspicion of art smuggling has left China, although the legal proceedings against him are still ongoing. Nils Jennrich, the Beijing-based general manager of Integrated Fine…
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As the Art Basel Hong Kong fair opens its doors to invited guests, there is no doubt that, culturally speaking, the Hong Kong we see today is very different from the place that fair impresario Tim Etchells visited, for the first time, in 2006….
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One of the oldest letters sent to the New World, dated 15 October 1522, has been found in the State Archive in Naples after disappearing for more than a century. The document carries the “Yo el Rey” signature belonging to Charles V, the head of the…
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The artist Khaled Jarrar, a former captain of the Palestinian Presidential Guard, may well make waves with a series of works due to go on show at the Ayyam Gallery in London next month (20 June-3 August). Jarrar will construct a large concrete wall,…
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The online auction house, Paddle8, is acquiring an option to purchase a stake in Artnet, the online auction data provider and auctioneer. The stake, approximately 3%, currently belongs to Redline Capital Management, which attempted a takeover of…
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In the 1990s, a long held suspicion was confirmed: the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly sent Abstract Expressionism and other forms of American art and music abroad in the 1950s and 1960s as part of a propaganda campaign to assert American…
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In the 1990s, a long held suspicion was confirmed: the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly sent Abstract Expressionism and other forms of American art and music abroad in the 1950s and 1960s as part of a propaganda campaign to assert American…
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Tino Sehgal’s ban on any documentation of his work is well known by now. No photography is allowed at his exhibitions, the artist—shortlisted for Tate’s Turner Prize this year—explains how to create his ephemeral works verbally to performers and…
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