One of the most valuable commissions at this season’s New York auction-house sales is an early work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Crowns (Peso Neto) (1981). It will lead Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale ...
Deep in the grimy, dimly lit back roads of King’s Cross is a pub, a boozer in the truest sense of the word. McGlynn’s, it’s called, and when its landlord Jerry died in 2023, the pub died with him; it ...
President Donald J. Trump likes a list. There was a 20-point list of demands aimed at achieving the ceasefire in Gaza, which is due to be implemented later today. There is that long list of countries ...
The exodus of experienced specialists from auction houses in recent years, particularly in more niche collecting departments, has presented an opportunity for some galleries. A case in point is Pilar ...
In a surprise move, the Flemish government this week announced that it would dissolve the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, known as M KHA, and move its collection to the contemporary art museum in ...
Investing in meaningful action on the climate emergency can seem daunting for smaller, cash-strapped outfits, writes Louisa Buck, but it pays off in more ways than one ...
Nearly 90 galleries have signed on to take part in Art Basel’s inaugural fair in Qatar, the art fair powerhouse’s first full-scale event in the region. Art Basel Qatar will showcase presentations of ...
Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s minister of culture, is overseeing what the government has called a “golden age of archaeology,” investing about $150m annually in hundreds of excavations, including the ...
The South African artist’s 2019 "Waiting for the Sibyl"—originally conceived as a companion piece to Alexander Calder’s “ballet without dancers”—grapples with life’s uncertainty ...
Shahidul Alam was taking part in the Thousand Madleens flotilla on behalf of the Palestinian Arts and Culture Solidarity Collective ...
In “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”, showing this month at the New York Film Festival, the film-maker Sepideh Farsi follows Fatima Hassouna’s struggle to stay alive, optimistic and creative amid ...
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of burglary after Bronze Age gold jewellery was stolen from St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff. The men aged 43 and 50 from Northampton were ...