Staged for the first time at Christie's Avenue Matignon headquarters in Paris, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair opened its doors on 20 January to a city placed under strict curfew from 6pm to 6am as France continues to fight Covid-19 and its new variants. Mous Lamrabat,...
Late last fall, the American jewelry house Tiffany & Co. debuted its annual collection of high jewelry, this time putting the focus squarely on all the ways that colored gemstones come together to create unexpected, artful, and innovative designs. The line, entitled Extraordinary Tiffany, additionally features...
NEPENTHES New York is gearing up to launch a group exhibition called “It’s Cozy Inside” featuring a selection fo new paintings and sculptures by diverse visual artists. Participating artists include Susumu Kamijo, Koichi Sato, Hiro Kurata, Dan Mandelbaum, Mason Saltarrelli, Anthony Miler and James Ulmer. One...
Art for Change is a platform that connects socially conscious art collectors with leading contemporary artists and their works. The organization recently teamed up with Corporación Piñones se Integra (COPI) on a charity print initiative. COPI is a community-based non-profit organization in Puerto Rico that works...
After two years, Swiss prosecutors are closing a high-profile investigation into the art dealer Yves Bouvier after charges were brought against him by a former client, the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev. The move is a win for Bouvier since the order means that the prosecutor’s office...
The German artist Georg Baselitz has given six of his paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they will remain on view as part of the exhibition “Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn,” through July 18. The gift was made in honor of the museum’s 150th anniversary...
You’ve probably heard that no two snowflakes are alike—but you’ve never seen crystal formations in such stunning detail as in a trio of three new photographs by Nathan Myhrvold, who claims to have captured the world’s highest-resolution images of snow. The challenges of photographing snowflakes are obvious....
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 Thursday, January 28. NEED-TO-READ Swiss Museum Directors Agitate for an End to Lockdown – Nearly 20 museum directors in...
There is only one tool trusted by art-world insiders to buy, sell, and research art: the Artnet Price Database. Its users across industries—from auction houses to museums, galleries, and government institutions—represent the art world’s most important players. We’re taking 15 minutes to chat with some of...
Global warming has unlocked hundreds of Viking artifacts from the ice of the Norwegian mountains in recent years. In November, archaeologists from the Secret of the Ice project, part of Norway’s Glacier Archaeology Program, discovered 68 arrows spanning a period of 6,000 years—a record for any frozen archaeological...