The Metropolitan Museum of Art is transferring ownership of two stone sculptures dating to the third millennium BCE back to Yemen, but the items will remain on loan to the museum. The institution recently announced the shift in ownership of the marble rectangular mortar and a standing female figure afterContinue Reading
Earlier this week, Brooklyn-based artist Xaveria Simmons accused the Queens Museum in an Instagram post of “institutional and curatorial negligence” after the museum repurposed a sculptural work by the artist for a later exhibition. In October 2022, the Queens Museum opened an exhibition by Simmons, with the text-based installation piece,Continue Reading
In what is likely a sign of continued expansion for one of the world’s top art fairs, Art Basel, which stages editions in Switzerland, Hong Kong, Miami Beach, and Paris, has made two major hires for its leadership team. Hayley Romer will join Art Basel this month as chief growthContinue Reading
Erwin Olaf, a Dutch photographer whose softly lit images of people in surrealist situations were seen widely, in venues ranging from the pages of fashion magazines to the galleries of art museums, has died at 64. Olaf’s death was announced on Wednesday by his official Instagram page. His studio’s statementContinue Reading
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the place to be if you want to learn about modern and contemporary art. For nearly a century, the museum has played a major role in the collection of modern architecture, design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, and digital media. MoMA wasContinue Reading
Foxy Production, the veteran New York space that helped spur on the careers of venturesome artists such as Sterling Ruby and Sara Cwynar, will shut down its gallery program this October after 20 years in business. The final exhibition there will be its current one, featuring photographs by Erin CallaContinue Reading
Fernando Botero, a Colombian artist whose paintings peopled with full-figured members of the elite achieved international fame, opening doors for many Latin Americans after him, has died at 91. Lina Botero, his daughter, told Caracol, a Colombian radio station, that her father died at his home in Monaco on FridayContinue Reading
Egyptian government officials have ordered the close of the contemporary art center Darb 1718 in Cairo, the Art Newspaper reported on Thursday. The center is being demolished for the construction of a new major road. The head of the center’s local district and the deputy governor reportedly showed up atContinue Reading
A New York court has dismissed one claim against Gagosian in a years-long legal drama surrounding a Richard Prince photograph, yielding a small victory for the mega-gallery as the case continues on. The suit was first filed in 2015 by the photographer Donald Graham, who claimed that Prince had infringedContinue Reading
The family of the late billionaire and art collector George Lindemann recently returned to Cambodia 33 antiquities that were looted from religious and archaeological sites. The items were collected by Lindemann over several decades, with several coming from Koh Ker, the ancient capital of the Khmer kingdom, as well asContinue Reading
