Category: ART WORLD NEWS

Google Street View offers plenty of choices for the armchair vacationer. Some people like to use it to pay a virtual visit their childhood homes. Others like to stalk celebrities. And if you’re interested in where artists lived and worked,

How do you view, create, and talk about art in times of impending ecological disaster? There is no single answer to such a sweeping question, but Serpentine curator Lucia Pietroiusti is emerging as a poignant voice making the case that

Art Industry News is normally a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Monday, July 15.

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Is it possible to conserve an artwork so much that it becomes something entirely different? And can you sue someone for such an act?

These questions have been put before a federal judge for the third time by the artist

When the black-clad young protesters in helmets and masks broke the glass doors of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council Complex on the night of July 1 and stormed the building, an artwork by Lam Tung Pang accidentally became a part of

In 1967, a chance meeting between the jeweler Claude Arpels and the Russian choreographer George Balanchine inspired a ballet called Jewels.

This year, Van Cleef & Arpels returned the favor, in a way, by creating a high jewelry collection

The modern world had long marveled over the ancient site of Stonehenge, unable to figure out how prehistoric people erected the ring of monolithic standing stones. Now, archaeologists have finally solved the mystery of the Neolithic monument’s construction: the massive

Heidi Goëss-Horten, an Austrian billionaire regularly listed among the world’s top art collectors, is planning to open a museum to show her treasured personal collection in Vienna. 

The heiress has bought a historic 22,000-square-foot mansion with two floors and an

Over the Fourth of July weekend, sunbathing guests at the Montauk Beach House (where renting a cabana costs $2,000 a day) were confronted with something of a spectacle. Near the pool, artist Leah Schrager, armed with a selfie stick, contorted

Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are investigating the death of local museum leader Sadie Roberts-Joseph after her body was discovered in the trunk of a car on Friday afternoon. A veteran activist, Roberts-Joseph founded the Odell S. Williams Now &