Photo by Jeremy BishopAcross the globe, museums are an extremely profitable industry that account for billions of dollars in revenue each year. Ticket sales, philanthropists, and even state funding all aid in financing this industry. But like many profitable industries, museums are often sites of reproduction for the same ideologies rooted in colonialism and inequity that exist outside their doors. This is especially so when ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Update from Sunday, Sept. 19: The artwork that was reported as stolen from ArtPrize earlier this weekend has been found by the Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD).GRPD officers found the artwork in good condition at a nearby house.The artist who made the entry, Kenn Vidro of Grandville, says the artwork will be re-installed Monday morning (Sept. 20).His entry is called ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHUCK CLOSE HAS DIED AT 81. One of the most celebrated artists of his time, Close “earned acclaim for his incisive portraits and more recently faced criticism after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment,” Alex Greenberger writes in ARTnews. His longtime dealer, Pace Gallery chairman Arne Glimcher , said that the artist’s “contributions are inextricable from the achievements ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, September 15. NEED-TO-READ Gagosian to Open Third Paris Gallery – Gagosian is expanding its gallery empire in Paris with a third space, at 9 rue Castiglione, in the arcades between the Place Vendôme and ...
U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday that they were attempting to return a 10th-century sculpture that they claimed had been stolen from Cambodia in 1997. The statue comes from the site of Prasat Krachap, a temple in Koh Ker, which was the capital of the Khmer empire between 928 and 944 C.E. It depicts Skanda, the Hindu god of war, atop a peacock. The U.S. ...
Less than a year after it was stolen, a Sigmar Polke painting of flowers in a vase has been found in a private residence in Mainz, Germany. The police in Germany’s Rheinland-Pfalz region, where Mainz is located, said that the work had been taken from a Cologne gallery in November of last year. German police did not name the art space where the work ...
Nearly a decade after they were stolen from Greece’s largest public museum, paintings by Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso have been found. Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports said that the works had been found in a forest after a 49-year-old man confessed to the theft on Monday. After his confession, he brought police officers to a forest outside Athens, in the country’s Attica ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PHILANTHROPIST MACKENZIE SCOTT, THE EX OF JEFF BEZOS, just cut checks totaling $2.74 billion to nearly 300 universities, arts groups, and other nonprofits, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and Recess in Brooklyn, Artnet News reports. The full list of grantees is available in a Medium from Scott (who has pledged ...
On Friday night, thieves stole $1.4 million in gold and silver objects—including Mary Queen of Scots’s golden rosary beads—from Arundel Castle, a centuries-old structure in England that is home to various artifacts related to the British monarchy. The theft took place just days after the site reopened to the public after a months-long closure resulting from a Covid-related national lockdown in England. In its ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, May 7. NEED-TO-READ Deana Lawson Gets the Profile Treatment – Jenna Wortham has written a cover profile on the photographer Deana Lawson for the New York Times Magazine ahead of the opening of her Hugo Boss ...
