An 1887 painting by Vincent van Gogh, which has never before been exhibited, has sold for €11.2m (€13m with fees) at Sotheby’s Paris. Although the work was fresh to auction, this was its second time under the hammer, having been nearly sold less than an hour before. Scène de rue à Montmartre (Impasse des deux…
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Ernesto Mallard, one of the leading figures of the Mexican Op-art movement and an early proponent of Kinetic art, has died, aged 89. Latin America in the 1960s was generously endowed with Modern artists but Mallard—who did more than anyone else to engage audiences and invite them to explore his three dimensional creations—was the first…
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Art theft typically conjures pieces ripped from the walls of world-class museums, and while art heists take place frequently, they are not the only means by which priceless treasures are taken. Throughout history, masterpieces have plundered, looted, and stolen, and taken far away from the original locales. For the former owners of such stolen works,…
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Damien Hirst has made a foray into the fast-rising crypto art market. The British artist is selling a series of eight prints called “The Virtues,” which depict cherry blossoms in bloom, and for those interested in buying them, he is willing to accept cryptocurrency—an unusual gesture for a blue-chip artist. “It’s hard for any of…
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The Museum of Pontevedra in northwest Spain will return two paintings that experts said were looted by the Nazis during World War II. El País reports that, before it restitutes the works, the museum has put them on view one last time in a special presentation focused on how the institution resolved the claim that…
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“Home Life” at Matthew Marks Gallery Through Mar. 20 Nayland Blake, Alex Da Corte, Thomas Demand, Lucian Freud, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Ken Price, Charles Ray, and Peter Fischli/David Weiss Domesticity is the theme of the group exhibition “Home Life,” conceived during the ongoing pandemic. Taking its title from a drawing of the same title…
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“Black History in the Making,” a unique online event during which Trojans and others each painted an art piece inspired by the social justice movements of summer 2020, drew more than 100 participants. Local artist Amani Holbert guided the participants, many of them novices with little to no artistic experience. The paint night last week was…
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Two former UK culture ministers have spoken out to The Art Newspaper in defence of the country’s cherished “arm’s length principle”, which ensures national museums and organisations such as Arts Council England can operate independently, without government interference. Ed Vaizey and Chris Smith say that the rule is under threat because of the “anti-woke” campaign…
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It could be straight from an episode of Poirot. This smoking room, Les Palmiers (1930-36), designed by Jean Dunand for the Parisian apartment of Mademoiselle Collette Aboucaya on rue de Monceau, is the height of Art Deco decadence. And, though we are now in the age of vaping not smoking, it is now coming up for sale at…
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When Carol Bove was first asked by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create sculptures for the niches along its Fifth Avenue façade, she faced a bit of a conundrum: she felt she had to consider “every inch” of the architecture, even as she realised that she would have to challenge its Beaux-Arts forms. “In…
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