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
House arrest didn’t deter Anna Delvey from getting involved in fashion week. The convicted felon cohosted a fashion show Monday night at her East Village apartment building for the designer Shao Yang. About 75 people trooped up the five flights to cram into the black plastic card chairs on theContinue Reading
The Medina of Marrakesh, Morocco was left in ruins after an earthquake stuck the ancient section of the city. Among the buildings damaged by the quake, which had a magnitude of 6.8, was the mosque that stood in Jemaa el-Fna square, CNN reported Sunday. The mosque’s tower, once a symbol ofContinue Reading
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTNews may receive an affiliate commission. Overwhelmed by which pens to buy for back-to-school season? That’s understandable, considering that there are many types of pens, not to mention hundreds of different brands and designs withinContinue Reading
A monumental diptych by Joan Mitchell will be sold this fall at Sotheby’s, where it is expected to surpass the artist’s auction record. The house has placed the work’s estimate at $20 million, and if it hits that number, it will outpace her previous benchmark by more than $3 million.Continue Reading
El Museo del Barrio and Maestro Dobel Tequila have awarded the inaugural Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize to New York–based, Havana-born artist Carlos Martiel, one of today’s most closely watched artists known for his intensive, durational performances. With a $50,000 purse and an exhibition at El Museo, the new biannualContinue Reading
The second-ever Independent 20th Century art fair in New York, dedicated to artists and during that timeframe, has returned in reliably elegant form. This edition is again held at the Battery Maritime Building at the southern tip of Manhattan, steps from the Staten Island ferry send-off. It runs through SeptemberContinue Reading
Notions of identity are a constant theme in Thai-French artist Jiab Prachakul’s intimate portraits of herself, her family, and her close friends. After growing up in Thailand and living in several European cities, the figurative painter has ruminated a lot on how a person’s identity shifts over time, as wellContinue Reading
