Art Provenance

12/05/2020

Art Dealer Elias Martin (Chicago) on the State of the Art World During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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02/05/2020

The revered critic and curator died in Milan after a stay at the San Raffaele hospital.

The eminent Italian art historian, curator, and critic Germano Celant has died in Milan after a stay at the San Raffaele hospital.

29/04/2020

It is truly inspiring seeing how quickly the art community is reacting to the new situation, coming up with ways to support artists, galleries, and cu...

26/04/2020

Some shippers have one word for collectors: “patience.”

23/04/2020

Museums know the desires of our hands. The special presence of paintings comes from their being at once untouchable and viscerally evocative of touch.

22/04/2020

Passive cultural consumption is going to make us feel disempowered and alienated just when we need to maintain social connection.

The realities of "social distancing" are throwing into relief what the socially necessary uses of art actually are.

07/02/2020

Classicist Mary Beard on the 'n**e' in the post era

Classicist Mary Beard explains one of her favourite paintings, Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia.

06/02/2020

Hackers infiltrated a sales deal between a Dutch museum and a London art dealer and made off with $3.1 million.

Hackers hijacked an email exchange between the two parties and convinced the museum to funnel the money into fraudulent account.

04/02/2020

On Wednesday, Bloomberg ran a report on dealers calling on Art Basel to cancel the eighth edition of the fair over fears of the coronavirus.

David Zwirner gallery has canceled a planned Luc Tuymans exhibition in Hong Kong.

16/01/2020

Picks for 2020

Warhol is revealed as a prophet, London goes down the rabbit hole and Don McCullin takes his masterworks to Merseyside

14/01/2020

The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra closed its doors today due to worsening air quality caused by the bushfires burning across the country.

Director says that decision was taken to protect public and works

09/01/2020

A French kindergarten school named after Pinoy painter Macario Vitalis

Ofelia Gelvezon-Téqui is a Filipino artist who has been living in France since 1972. She is married to Marc Téqui, a retired banker and history buff. Gelvezon-Téqui is part of a three-person Comité Vitalis that authenticates works by the late Macario Vitalis. by Ofelia Gelvezon-Téqui

07/01/2020

The fallout from an exhibition of Russian avant-garde art that was overshadowed by allegations that it included numerous fakes continues, following the arrest of the two collectors at the center of the scandal.

Igor and Olga Toporovsky, who lent purported fakes to a major Belgian museum show, were taken into custody late last month by police.

06/01/2020

Fearless Conceptual Artist Who Put Big Ideas Before Pretty Pictures, Is Dead at 88.

His work analyzed—and, in some cases, mocked—the very things historians had prized about art-making for centuries.

16/12/2019

A look at the most promising, up-and-coming collections being built today, including K-Pop stars, a former NFL linebacker, an Instagram founder, and more.

11/12/2019

Anthony Hoyte, 51, cycled for nine hours to map the image on fitness-tracking app, Strava.

Cycling a Christmas image has become a festive tradition for Anthony Hoyte — in previous years he's mapped a snowman and a Santa.

09/12/2019

Art Basel: Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana eaten by artist.

The artwork, titled Comedian, consisted of a banana duct-taped to a wall.

21/11/2019

A British artist claims that a £1m Banksy sculpture that is the centrepiece of a contemporary art auction this week was stolen from him and is being sold illegally.

Artist Andy Link claims sculpture was stolen from him and is being sold illegally at Sotheby’s

11/11/2019

Painted in isolation on the walls of his final home, and never intended for public viewing, Goya’s series of late, dark pictures have become icons.

On Halloween, MutualArt gets up close to the scariest paintings of all time

08/11/2019

Because the contemporary art world is such a secular place, there hasn’t been much attention given to Warhol-the-Catholic, until now.

06/11/2019

Stunt suspicions swirl after Sotheby’s auction sees 2009 work by street artist sell for far more than its £2m high estimate.

Stunt suspicions swirl after Sotheby’s auction sees 2009 work by street artist sell for far more than its £2m high estimate

29/10/2019

Take a look at the British artist’s first major solo show in London for seven years, in which thousands of dead butterflies hang on the White Cube’s walls.

MutualArt takes a look at the British artist’s first major solo show in London for seven years, in which thousands of dead butterflies hang on the White Cube’s walls

28/10/2019

A new exhibition in Boston brings together 20 years of artists exploring issues of displacement and immigration.

In a new exhibition in Boston, brings together 20 years of artists exploring issues of displacement and immigration

25/10/2019

For Rajaratnam, the unsung African American abstract painter Alma Thomas has been a guiding light.

In part one of our “From One Woman to Another” series, Rajaratnam reflects on how the legacy of the late painter has been her guiding light.

24/10/2019

How did the daughter of an American stockbroker come to meet a surly, bourgeois French artist?

The artists’ mysterious relationship was one of the most significant of the Impressionist era. A new play delves into their connection.

14/10/2019

33 rules to take you from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least help you live life a little more creatively).

How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).

11/10/2019

Kara Walker’s new commission remakes the language of monuments through allusions and references to the slavery age.

Editorial: Kara Walker’s new commission remakes the language of monuments through allusions and references to the slavery age

10/10/2019

Meet the Berlin-based collage artist using vintage p**n magazines to explore themes of intimacy and desire, and challenge our perception of the naked body.

Emily May meets the Berlin-based collage artist using vintage p**n magazines to explore themes of intimacy and desire, and challenge our perception of the naked body

09/10/2019

What you need to know about Gauguin’s portraits.