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NFTs Sales Set To Match Global Art Trade Total – John Salt Photorealist Painter Dies Aged 84 – Gainsborough Blue Boy Returns
According to the Financial Times, the market in NFTs (non-fungible tokens), an unregulated form of digital art and collectables, is now approaching...
Iwona Blazwick Quits As Director of Whitechapel – London Art Fair Postpones Event Until April – New Director For The ICA Announced
Iwona Blazwick has announced that she will be leaving the Whitechapel Gallery after twenty years of leadership. She will be stepping down in April...
Edward Colston Statue Four Acquitted Of Criminal Damage
Four people accused of criminal damage after a statue honouring the notorious slave trader Edward Colston was dragged from its plinth and thrown...
NFT Phishing Scam $2.2m Lost – Banksy Vandal Given Prison Sentence – Protected Status Granted For £1500 Caravaggio
A phishing scam has successfully stolen NFTs valued at over $2.2 million from New York gallery owner Todd Kramer, partner of New York's Ross +...
Wayne Thiebaud American Proto-Pop Painter Dies Age 101
Tributes have been pouring in for the American artist Wayne Thiebaud who died yesterday in Sacramento, California age 101. His daughter Twinka...
Sotheby’s Christie’s And Phillips Global Sales Surge – The 2021 Figures
It's been a big year for the three major international auction houses with record sales and new developments in digital technology. The businesses...
Richard Rogers Iconic Architect Of High Tech Movement Dies Age 88
Richard Rogers RA (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021)one of the most highly regarded architects of his generation, has died at age 88. Rogers, in many...
Sotheby’s Goes PLC After $7.3b Bumper Year – Omicron Variant Postpones TEFAF Maastricht Fair – Sally Mann Wins 9th Prix Pictet
Word on the street has it that Patrick Drahi, the new owner of Sotheby's, is contemplating a public offering (IPO) for the 277-year-old auction...
Piet Mondrian: Philadelphia Museum In Ownership Dispute – Banksy Releases T-Shirt To Support Colston Four – More Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi Restitution
Heirs of the De Stijl painter Piet Mondrian are disputing the ownership of a painting in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art....
Louvre Settles Legal Dispute With Cy Twombly Foundation – NFT Mistake: Bored Ape sells for $3,000 Not $300,000 – Animal Therapy: The Cats of Louis Wain Exhibited
The Louvre has settled its legal dispute with The Cy Twombly Foundation. The Museum was sued over a ceiling mural by the late painter installed in...
UK Export Ban For 17th Century Multiracial Painting Of Two Ladies – PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri Voted Colour Of The Year 2022 – Important Hepworth Donation
The DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport) has placed a temporary export ban on a multiracial allegorical Painting depicting Two...
Royal Appropriation: Warhol Foundation Takes Lynn Goldsmith To Supreme Court Over Prince Photo
In 1984 Vanity Fair commissioned the Pop Artist Andy Warhol to create an image of the 'artist known as Prince' for a cover/feature, later run by the...