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19 Dec Thousands of Stolen Greek Artifacts Turned Up in an Athens Basement

Posted at 17:10h in Uncategorized by Vittoria Benzine

Efforts to repatriate Greek artifacts from abroad, such as the campaign to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum, tend to get all the attention. But the biggest, latest news on the restoration of stolen Greek treasures actually comes from within the country’s own...

19 Dec Kinetic Rebel: The Whirring, Clanging World of Artist Jean Tinguely

Posted at 16:47h in Uncategorized by Caroline Roux

It whirs, it clangs, it sighs and scrapes. Of course it does! This is “Jean Tinguely” at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, showcasing 40 works by the Swiss artist who transformed mechanical parts, toys, skulls, and other detritus into monumental kinetic sculptures that influenced generations of...

19 Dec Unlocking Van Eyck's 'Arnolfini Portrait', an Engimatic Masterpiece

Posted at 16:30h in Uncategorized by Karen Chernick

No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many conclusions about this elusive portrait. Centuries after northern Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck...

19 Dec Pharrell Williams Joins UNESCO as Its Newest Goodwill Ambassador

Posted at 12:55h in Uncategorized by @EnglishBlase

19 Dec Here Are 15 of the Most Surprising Archeological Finds in 2024

Posted at 11:00h in Uncategorized by Sofia Hallstrom

Archaeology had a massive 2024. Discoveries abounded—from ever-multiplying Pompeii frescos to dinosaur fossils in Iowa—as ancient histories continued to be rethought, fought over, and, in some cases, debunked. Below, we bring you the year’s 15 biggest archaeological finds, from the sewers of Rome to the...

19 Dec Lucy Lippard on Conceptual Art, Feminism’s Big Bang, and Other Lessons From a Radical Life

Posted at 08:00h in Uncategorized by @benadavis

Early in 2024, I got to interview one of my favorite writers, the critic Lucy Lippard, about her book Stuff: Instead of a Memoir, for the Art Angle. The book covers Lippard’s life via the objects in her house, and is well worth picking up. In...

19 Dec Expansive New Media Institute Diriyah Art Futures Opens In Saudi Arabia

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized by Artnet Gallery Network

Diriyah Art Futures (DAF)—the Middle East’s first new media art hub—has opened with a groundbreaking exhibition, a full events calendar, and a launchpad for practitioners at the intersection of art and tech. Located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, DAF embodies the...

18 Dec Artist Meghann Stephenson Sends an Elegant World Crashing Down

Posted at 19:19h in Uncategorized by Katie White

“Who gets to self-destruct and is it always a bad thing?” asked artist Meghann Stephenson as we walked through her New York solo debut “Swan Dive” at Half Gallery’s Annex Space. The jewel box of a show features eight new oil-on-canvas works of isolated vignettes—a...

18 Dec Ed Dolman Resigns as Phillips CEO

Posted at 19:03h in Uncategorized by @artdetective

The game of musical chairs in Phillips’s C-suite continued today. Auction veteran Ed Dolman, who has been CEO and executive chairman since January, is stepping down. Art lawyer Martin Wilson is stepping up, the company said. The news comes amid a contraction in the art market....

18 Dec Artnet’s Katya Kazakina Lands a Newswomen’s Club of New York Award

Posted at 17:59h in Uncategorized by @briankboucher

Great news for Artnet News’s own Art Detective, Katya Kazakina, who has won a 2024 Front Page Award for specialized reporting from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. “This is such an honor!” said Kazakina. “I am grateful to have this voice as part of a...