Picasso Monet Basquiat and Kusama Brighten Up New York Spring Auctions
Results from the major Modern and Contemporary art sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams’ NY has conveyed a message of optimism to the COVID hit art market.
13 May 2021
Art Market
Art Movers: Leon Black Departs MoMA – Amy Cappellazzo Quits Sotheby’s – England’s Creative Coast
Art Movers: Leon Black Departs MoMa – Amy Cappellazzo Quits Sotheby’s – England’s Creative Coast
29 April 2021
€1500 Caravaggio Found In Madrid Auction House – Robert Indiana Estate Cheated By Lawyers – Armory Show Announces 2021 Exhibitor List
€1500 Caravaggio Found In Madrid Auction House – Robert Indiana Estate Cheated By Lawyers – Armory Show Announces 2021 Exhibitor List
27 April 2021
Jeff Koons Quits Gagosian and Zwirner For Exclusive Pace Gallery Representation
Jeff Koons has left his long term galleries Gagosian and David Zwirner to be exclusively represented by Pace.
27 April 2021
Nan Goldin Harassed By Sackler PI – Olafur Eliasson Climate Change Initiative – Sotheby’s First Women-Only Artists Sale
Nan Goldin Harassed By Sackler PI – Olafur Eliasson Climate Change Initiative – Sotheby’s First Women- Only Artists Sale
22 April 2021
Frieze Cancels Prestigious Los Angeles 2021 Art Fair
Just when it looked like the LA art scene was recovering from COVID, Frieze LA has found it necessary to cancel its 2021 event
9 April 2021
Van Gogh and Hals Theft Arrest – Bayeux Tapestry Loan In Jeopardy – $55m Picasso At Christie’s
Van Gogh and Hals Theft Arrest – Bayeux Tapestry Loan In Jeopardy – $55m Picasso At Christie’s
7 April 2021
Middle East Art News: Sacha Jafri Sells Massive Painting For £45m – Art Dubai Launches – Qatar Museums Unveil Inaugural Tasweer Photo Festival
The world’s largest painting, created by a little-known British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold at auction in Dubai for £45m to French crypto businessman Andre Abdoune.
25 March 2021
Banksy Game Changer Raises £16.8m For NHS Charities
Banksy ‘Game Changer’ painting Raises £16.8m For NHS Charities At Christie’s in London
23 March 2021
New London Gallery Weekend Announced For June 2021 – Christie’s Drops Impressionist Nomenclatures – Marina Abramović Guest Curates WePresent Series
New London Gallery Weekend Announced For June 2021 Christie’s Drops Impressionist Nomenclatures Marina Abramović Guest Curates WePresent Series
18 March 2021
Cy Twombly Foundation Louvre Lawsuit – Nazi Era Klimt Painting Returned – Gerhard Richter Holocaust Panels Permanent Loan
Cy Twombly Foundation Louvre Lawsuit – Nazi Era Klimt Painting Returned – Gerhard Richter Holocaust Panels Permanent Loan
17 March 2021
Art Basel UBS Reports 22% Drop In The Art Market 2021
Art Basel and UBS have presented The Art Market, an annual global art market analysis. It found global sales of art and antiques reached an estimated $50.1 billion in 2020, down 22%
16 March 2021
Damien Hirst Releases 10k NFT Drawings With HENI – Only 4% Of Auction Sales Are Women Artists – Former Fulham Town Hall To Host Art Exhibitions
Damien Hirst Releases NFT – Only 4% Of Auction Sales Are Women Artists – Former Fulham Town Hall Hosts Art Exhibitions
15 March 2021
Heather Phillipson’s Tate Britain Commission – Early Yayoi Kusama Works Auctioned – Luma Arles Creative Campus To Open In June
Heather Phillipson’s Tate Britain Commission – Early Yayoi Kusama Works Auctioned – Luma Arles Creative Campus To Open In June
12 March 2021
Christie’s £50m NFT Milestone – Senior Curator Mark Godfrey Quits Tate – Cindy Sherman Moves To Hauser & Wirth
Christie’s £50m NFT Milestone – Senior Curator Mark Godfrey Quits Tate – Cindy Sherman Moves To Hauser & Wirth
11 March 2021
Banksy Game Changer Mural Donated To The NHS Auctioned
A mural by the elusive Street Artist Banksy titled ‘Game Changer’ will go under the auction hammer at Christie’s
10 March 2021
Duped You: The Story Of Knoedler’s $80m Art Fraud – Netflix
Made You Look: The True Story About Fake Art is a new to Netflix documentary. It charts the demise of Knoedler New York’s oldest commercial art gallery.
28 February 2021
What’s The Fuss About Non-Fungible Tokens? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Suddenly my web feed is full of information about Non-Fungible Tokens – the latest form of digital art. Here, for example, are images of items of digital furniture, set – each one of them – in sweeping desert landscapes.
26 February 2021
Banksy Hula Hoop Girl Removed And Sold From Nottingham Wall
The Banksy mural known as ‘Hula-hoop Girl’ that appeared on a residential street in Nottingham last October has been hacked from the wall.
17 February 2021
Guerrilla Girls Call For MoMa Chairman Leon Black To Resign – Goldsmiths Move Towards Industrial Action – Angelina Jolie Auctions £3m Winston Churchill Painting
Leon Black,MoMa, Goldsmiths ,Industrial action ,Angelina Jolie To Sell £3m Sir Winston Churchill Painting
3 February 2021
Sotheby’s Botticelli Portrait Sells For Record $92m – Star Rembrandt Painting Withdrawn
The sale of Young Man Holding A Roundel 1470-80) by Sandro Botticelli, which went under the hammer today at Sotheby’s has made in excess of $80m ($92.1m plus fees).
28 January 2021
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered – TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates – Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered – TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates – Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
28 January 2021
Trump Pardons Gambling Gallerist Helly Nahmad – Art Basel Postpones Flagship Fair Again – Stolen Salvator Mundi Recovered
Less than 24 hours before leaving office Donald Trump granted pardons to dozens of convicted criminals including the gallerist Helly Nahmad.
21 January 2021
John Lennon’s Death 40 Years On – What Sold At Art Basel Miami Beach – Jeffrey Epstein’s $139m Christie’s and Sotheby’s Sales
John Lennon’s Death 40 Years On – What Sold At Art Basel Miami Beach – Jeffrey Epstein’s $139m Christie’s and Sotheby’s Sales
8 December 2020
Monolith Found On The Isle of Wight – Rex Whistler’s Racist Tate Mural – Christie’s NY Post War Results
Artlyst Fast News: Monolith Found On The Isle of Wight Mirrors US Finds
7 December 2020
Frieze And Basel 2021 Fairs Have A Rethink As COVID Takes Its Toll
Frieze Art Fairs seem to be having a rethink as a result of closures due to COVID. First off, the 2020 New York and London fairs were cancelled and put online
17 November 2020
Chagall’s Largest Artwork Auctioned – Prix Pictet Theme Announced – Jade Montserrat Performs
News In Brief: Chagall’s Largest Artwork Auctioned – Prix Pictet Theme Announced – Jade Montserrat Performs
17 November 2020
John Waters Gift To Baltimore Museum – Spain’s Latest Horrific Art Restoration – CINOA Begs UNESCO For Art Trade Cooperation
An Open Letter From CINOA Congratulates UNESCO for their 50-year anniversary of the 1970 Convention but pleads for better representation of the facts and better cooperation for the art trade
12 November 2020
Marian Goodman To Close London Gallery – Is This The Tip Of The Iceberg?
Marian Goodman is to close her London gallery. A statement released today explained, “Dramatic changes” in the art world propelled the decision.
23 October 2020
Banksy’s Show Me The Monet Sells For £7.6m At Sotheby’s
Banksy’s Show Me The Monet Sells For £7.6m At Sotheby’s
22 October 2020
Your Frieze London 2020 Online Guide – Artlyst
The Frieze London 2020 platform for modern and contemporary art has announced the opening of both Frieze and Frieze Masters.
8 October 2020
Royal Opera Auctions Hockney Portrait To Cover COVID Debts
An iconic portrait by the British Artist David Hockney of Royal Opera House boss Sir David Webster will go under the hammer this month at Christie’s. It has been suggested that the painting will fetch up to £18m.
4 October 2020