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BOSTON (AP) — Works by Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer are among 30 pieces of art worth more than $20 million that alumnus and legendary investment manager Peter Lynch is donating to Boston College’s art museum, the university announced Tuesday.The works — 27 paintings and three drawings — were collected by Lynch and his late wife Carolyn.The donation includes a $5 million...

The San Antonio Museum of Art has announced Emily Ballew Neff as its new director. Neff joins the museum following a six-year tenure as director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee. She will take the helm at SAMA on January 18. In a statement, Ballew Neff said, “Across the past 40 years, SAMA has grown from its grassroots beginnings into an...

The Belgian-born art collector and adviser Fabien Fryns fell in love with art at a young age. He first got hooked through his cousin, the art dealer Xavier Hufkens, and soon began collecting work himself. At the tender age of 17, Fryns managed to scrape together enough money to secure a work on paper by Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was then a relatively unknown artist...

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The White House is warning that the art world is fertile ground for money laundering and other financial crimes as the president's son, Hunter Biden, is raising eyebrows by selling paintings for up to half a million dollars — despite lacking any formal art experience. The Biden administration released on Monday a national strategy to counter corruption,...

The Torpedo Factory Art Center, on the Alexandria, Virginia, waterfront, hasn't been renovated since the 1980s. It remains unclear what kind of renovation might happen now, but artists in the area are concerned that renovation plans might leave them out. The Torpedo Factory Art Center, on the Alexandria, Virginia, waterfront, hasn’t been renovated since the 1980s. (City of Alexandria/Geoff Livingston)The Torpedo Factory Art Center,...

ARTnews is launching a new ARTnews JAPAN edition to begin publishing in January by way of a licensing agreement with the Japanese company MAGUS Co. The new digital edition will focus on coverage of global art news as well as surveys of developments and trends of the kind chronicled by ARTnews since its beginning as a weekly broadsheet more than a century ago. “Japan...

This past weekend, the anonymous artist Pak sold 250,000 NFTs for $91.8 million on Nifty Gateway, in what the NFT platform called the “largest ever art sale by a living creator.” Between December 2 and December 4, Nifty Gateway offered Pak’s latest project, titled The Merge, as an open edition with a twist. Each mass token was programmed to combine with others in a...

A foundation established in Buffalo, New York, by the late American sports magnate Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. will put $200 million toward funding Upstate New York and Detroit. As part of the commitment, the foundation is allocating $60 million over a 10-year period to a new endowment. That endowment will provide annual funding in amounts between $100,000 and $500,000 for 13 of the largest...

In a move that has been roundly criticized by members of the Polish art community, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw announced that its new director would be Janusz Janowski, a painter and musician who has never before run an art museum. The appointment of Janowski, who is set to take the helm next year, has touched off a bitter controversy over...

In an urgent effort to flee persecution, a group of anonymous Afghan artists penned an open letter to President Joe Biden and other European political leaders seeking evacuation from the country following the Taliban regime’s takeover. Artists at Risk, a global nonprofit organization founded as an affiliate of the Finnish arts platform Perpetuum Mobile to aid artists in conflict zones, delivered the letter on...