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Andy Warhol’s Surging Popularity in China Gets Another Boost With a Touring Show in Shanghai and…
Andy Warhol visited Beijing in 1982, posing on the Great Wall and at Tiananmen Square. Informed that China didn’t have any McDonald’s, he famously replied, “Oh, but they will.” Fast-forward to the 21st century: China is McDonald’s…
Critics Say New Church-Approved Plans for Notre-Dame Will Make the Place Look Like Disneyland
A new tourist-centric proposal to renovate the interior of the Notre-Dame Cathedral has rankled some in France, who say the plan would “Disneyify” the gothic structure, which was ravaged by a fire in 2019.
According to a report…
Artist Michael Kagan Wants to Get Miami Fairgoers Amped About Space Travel With This Floating,…
One of the stranger sights in Miami this week is an Apollo space capsule floating in Biscayne Bay as if just returned from a lunar voyage.
But this isn’t some wormhole into the heyday of the U.S. Space program, but an art project…
5 Memorable Booths to Seek Out at Art Basel Miami Beach, From Karon Davis’s Circus Installation to a…
There are three types of fairgoers.
First, you have the go-with-the-flow-er—the person who enters an art fair with no specific itinerary and wanders the aisles to see what moves them. (You might find that the Venn Diagram between…
With a Beachfront Gallery for Artist Sho Shibuya’s Sunrise Paintings, Saint Laurent Rive Droite…
To celebrate the comeback of Art Basel Miami Beach—which, after almost two years of cancellations and postponements, officially opens today—Saint Laurent Rive Droite has mounted an ephemeral gallery in the center of the Magic City…
What’s On Your Walls: Lawyer Schwanda Rountree on Collecting Without Regrets and Why Art Is an…
The Washington, D.C.-based lawyer, philanthropist, and art collector Schwanda Rountree has long recognized the importance of assembling a collection carefully, with intention, and over time. “I first fell in love with art when…
Art Industry News: The Biggest Vermeer Show of All Time Is Heading to the Rijksmuseum + Other…
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, December 2.
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Collectors Unleash Pent-Up Buying Demand at NADA Miami, Where Concerns Over Speculation Abound
The demand from collectors evident at Art Basel’s opening yesterday—particularly for works by younger, up-and-coming painters—is spilling over to the dozen other satellite fairs during the ebullient return of Miami Art Week.…
Christie’s Four-Hour, $192.6 Million Hong Kong Auction Bonanza Saw New Records Set for Amoako Boafo…
The autumn art auctions in Hong Kong continued on Wednesday with Christie’s 20th- and 21st-century art evening sales, which set 12 new artists’ records, including ones for Bernard Buffet, Yayoi Kusama, Françoise Gilot, Avery…
Chanel Handbags, Generous Commission Splits, and Pledges of Trust: How Galleries Lure Top Artists to…
In 2019, after young New York-based painter Avery Singer parted ways with the dealer Gavin Brown, the art-world rumor mill had it that she was being hotly pursued by the biggest of the blue-chip galleries: David Zwirner and…