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Clive Davis’s Warhol, Hockney Paintings Head to Christie’s During Marquee New York Sales
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (271+ words) Eight paintings from the collection of Clive Davis, the famed record producer who died this past June, will head to Christie’s during the November sales in New York. They are some of the first major consignments to those sales, and…...
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch to Retire as Trump Targets Museum Consortium
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (182+ words) Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III will retire at the end of this year, according to the Washington Post, amid a historic confrontation with the Trump administration over how the museum consortium historicize the United States. In an email to his…...
Five Standouts at Portland’s Converge 45 Triennial, From a Gourd Frieze to a Performance That Played with Fire
2+ hour, 59+ min ago (214+ words) Following are five standouts from the show. Baga’s show made me reflect on how the titanic burst of the AI bubble may be coming, with disastrous consequences for us all. If it’s bad enough, we may all be sunk. In…...
The Man Who Bought The Scream: Collector Leon Black’s Reckoning Is Far from Over
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (1839+ words) Read an excerpt from William D. Cohan’s MONEY TO BURN: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street. Leon Black’s main passion is art, a love that can easily be traced back to his…...
Lucien Smith, Onetime Market Darling Who Turned His Focus To Helping Emerging Artists, Has Died at 37
4+ hour, 32+ min ago (540+ words) Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, the news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the…...
Former Chairman of Kennedy Center Buys Disassembled Joel Shapiro Sculpture
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (256+ words) A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture that was disassembled last week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has found a new owner: none other than the embattled center’s former chairman, David Rubenstein. Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist,…...
Thieves Snatch Renoir Paintings, Ejected Kennedy Center Chairman Buys ‘Blue’ Sculpture, Mexican Sculptor Geles Cabrera Dies, and More: Morning Links for September 8, 2026
8+ hour, 13+ min ago (160+ words) David Rubenstein, the ousted chairman of the Kennedy Center, has purchased Joel Shapiro’s sculpture Blue (2019), which the center just removed from its grounds. It will eventually be exhibited in the Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art. [The New…...
Four Paintings Stolen from Renoir Museum in Southern France
10+ hour, 16+ min ago (280+ words) The Renoir Museum had 12 of Renoir’s paintings before the robbery, where four were stolen, two of which were abandoned, by the thieves. Thieves stole four paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Tuesday morning from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in…...
Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy Win $95,000 Praemium Imperiale Award
11+ hour, 51+ min ago (343+ words) They are among five recipients of the top arts award given by the Japan Art Association for work that has had a “lasting impact on humanity.” Artists Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are among the five recipients of Japanâs…...
How Jutta Koether Made A Color Her Signature Style
11+ hour, 51+ min ago (1715+ words) In her red canvases, on view this fall at Buchholz Galerie in New York, big ideas grace the canvas with a light tough. When you walk through a show,” Martin Kippenberger observed to Jutta Koether when she interviewed him in…...