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Man Ray Sets New Photography Record Price at $12.4m
A Man Ray photograph 'Le Violon d'Ingres' has set a new record price for a photograph at auction, selling for $12.4 million. After more than 10...
Otto Dix Watercolours From The Gurlitt Hoard Auctioned
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard ("Schwabing Art Trove") hit the headlines worldwide, two excellent watercolours from Otto Dix will go under the...
Donald Baechler Seminal NY 1980s Painter Dies Age 65
Donald Baechler, who died in April, was one of the most promising artists of the 1980s. He was associated with a group of painters in New York that...
Andy Warhol Marilyn Breaks 20th c Auction Records – Art Fund Museum Of The Year Shortlist Announced – Sackler Name Removed From National Gallery London And Guggenheim
Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' made double history last night as the most costly painting ever sold by a US artist and the most costly...
Maurizio Cattelan Sued – New York Auction Industry Deregulation – Major Tate Liverpool Refurbishment
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement. The French sculptor Daniel Druet...
Controversial Philip Guston Exhibition To Open In Boston – Art Gallery of New South Wales To Open In December – Professor Deborah Swallow To Step Down At Courtauld
After two years of indecision from museum directors both in the US and UK, The Philip Guston exhibition will finally open to the public in Boston on...
Hermann Nitsch Austrian Multidisciplinary Artist Dies Age 83
The Nitsch Foundation, has announced the sad news of Hermann Nitsch’s death at age 83 on April 18, 2022. Nitsch was known as a multidisciplinary...
Golden Lion For Sonia Boyce GB and Simone Leigh US At 59th Venice Biennale
The 59th Venice Biennale's top prize, the Golden Lion, has been awarded to Great Britain's Sonia Boyce OBE RA for Best National Participation at La...
French Culture Ministry Seize Russian Paintings Owned By Sanctioned Oligarchs Petr Aven And Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor
French Culture Ministry authorities have seized Pyotr Konchalovsky's "Self-Portrait", a painting owned by the Russian oligarch Petr Aven, a director...
Turner Prize 2022 Shortlist Announced In Liverpool
In the early morning hours, I walked beside a tranquil River Mersey towards Tate Liverpool’s press launch, where there was an exciting buzz as we...
Royal College of Art Still Number One In The World – Stolen Charles Darwin Notebooks Returned – Philip Guston Painting Expected To Break Records At Sotheby’s
The Royal College of Art (RCA), London, has been ranked the number 1 university for art & design internationally for the 8th consecutive year...
Rembrandt Landscape Discovered In Berlin Museum Collection – Titian Penitent Magdalene To Be Auctioned In Vienna
A Landscape painting depicting an arch bridge thought to be the work of one of Rembrandt's students, Govert Flinck, has been attributed to the...