ARTS NEWS GLOBAL
Pull&Bear
La primavera ha quedado inaugurada oficialmente, ¡al fin! Y sin embargo, no podemos dejar de pensar siempre en el futuro y ya nos queremos adelantar al verano. La informalidad que le caracteriza, las fiestas, las escapadas y viajes, las horas de sol que parecen deliciosamente infinitas… Con todo esto en mente, lo nuevo de Pull&Bear hace que deseemos con incluso más ganas que llegue la temporada estival. Porque con su nueva colección cápsula inspirada en el Mediterráneo, nos invita a soñar qu
Kiran Nadar Bought M.F. Husain’s Record-Breaking $13.8 M. Painting in March
Kiran Nadar, one of India’s most important collectors, has revealed to ARTnews that she was the buyer of M.F. Husain’s large-scale 1954 painting …
Bonhams to Sell Gene Hackman’s Art Collection, Along With His Golden Globes in Three-Part Auction
This November, Bonhams will host a sale of works from the collection of the late actor Gene Hackman, who died in February. Hackman, as ARTnews reported …
East Tennessee State University Cancels Exhibition of Politically-Themed Artwork
East Tennessee State University has cancelled an annual juried exhibition of politically-themed art at the school’s Reece Museum. The show, “The …
David Hockney’s iPad Drawings Sell for $8.3 M. at Sotheby’s London, Doubling Sale’s High Estimate
A group of 17 iPad drawings by David Hockney, titled “The Arrival of Spring,” hit the auction block at Sotheby’s London during a dedicated day sale on …
Picasso Work Goes Missing in Transport Between Madrid and Granada
A work on paper by Pablo Picasso left Madrid two weeks ago and has not been accounted for between there and its intended destination in Granada, …
Christie’s London Day Sale, Where a Michelangelo Pistoletto Sold for Seven Times Its Estimate, Shows a Market Still Chugging Along
Sometimes the art market is best gauged not by the action in the evening sales but by the more modest results achieved in the day sales. In the case …
Collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros to Sell $15 M. Calder Mobile at Christie’s
Collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros will sell an Alexander Calder mobile at Christie’s next month during the season’s closely watched New York …
Nadine Khoury, Founder of Dubai’s Young Collector’s Circle, on the Future of Collecting Art in the Gulf
The domestic art scenes of the Gulf Cooperation Council membership— comprising Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab …
Five 18th-Century Snuff Boxes Stolen from Paris’s Cognacq-Jay Museum Have Been Recovered
Five out of seven valuable 18th-century snuffboxes stolen last year from Paris’s Cognacq-Jay Museum have been found. Paris Musées, an organization …
An Indigenous Takeover of the Met Asks Who Should Be Writing Art History
This week, for maybe the first time, an eagle beat its wings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The grand plumage belonged to a traditional dress worn …
Francis Bacon Painting Sells for $17.6 M at Sotheby’s London, Leading $63.3 M. Sale
It took nearly 20 minutes and more than 20 bids between several specialists on the phone and a bidder in the room, but Sotheby’s came away with at …
Robert Rauschenberg Dance Performances Make a Cozy Home at the Guggenheim
A bicycle wheel spinning at the bottom of the Guggenheim Museum last night served as a sort of portal to the top, where a small but punchy Robert …
Exhibition of Erotic Art Owned by Top 200 Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Opens at Miami’s Museum of Sex
One year after New York’s Museum of Sex opened an outpost in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, the boundary-pushing museum is hosting an exhibition of …
$3.2 M Basquiat Headlines Smaller Phillips London Sale, Down 30 Percent From Last Year
Call it a sign of the times: Phillips’s uneven 22-lot sale on Thursday totaled £10.33 million ($13.88 million), a 32 percent drop from last year’s …
Poor Farmer Posed as Maharaja to Sell Fake Paintings by M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, Indian Investigators Allege
Officials in India continued their investigation into the sale of faked paintings by M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, and other key Indian artists, …
Man Arrested for Vandalizing Martin Luther King Memorial in Atlanta
A memorial site near Martin Luther King’s tomb in Atlanta, Georgia, was vandalized on Saturday, October 11. A man has been arrested for allegedly …
Pace Japan Director Makes the Case for Why Tokyo Can Be Asia’s ‘Center of Art’
One month after Tokyo Gendai closed its third edition—and its first in a new September slot—with solid, if unspectacular, sales, the head of Pace …
The Stakes Are High For Emerging Galleries at Frieze; Some Are Selling, Others Aren’t As Lucky
There’s a general rule of thumb at art fairs: if dealers are willing to talk, they’ve probably sold enough to turn a profit. If they aren’t, it’s a …
Ice Sculpture Spelling ‘Democracy’ Melts on National Mall in Washington, DC
As of this morning, the 3,000-pound ice sculpture spelling out “Democracy” placed yesterday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. has likely …