WorthPoint

JUNE 24, 2025

In ancient Egypt and Persia, combs were used for practical purposes and decoration, while in ancient China, they were used as ornaments that held high status and artistic value. Combs by these artists generally only appear at auctions and can sell for a hair-raising six figures.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 1, 2025

This last issue remains fraught in the UAE, which normalised relations with Israel in 2020, and suggests the ill-defined course that politically sensitive works of art must chart in the UAE. A large number of the artists, curators and designers who are in positions of authority across the UAE were educated in Sharjah, particularly at AUS.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 16, 2025

ft space Uovo opened nearby in 2020. In partnership with the Brooklyn Museum, the company launched the annual Uovo Prize in 2019, which provides a New York-based artist a $25,000 unrestricted grant, an exhibition at the museum and a mural on the façade of its Bushwick facility that aims to bring public art to the neighbourhood.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 20, 2025

Published on Fridays, stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist, to scholarly pieces based on meticulous investigations and discoveries. Intriguingly, the 1945 swap was arranged with the help of Charley Toorop, an artist who is currently the subject of an exhibition at Otterlo’s Kröller-Müller Museum.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 19, 2025

In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. ft of polyethylene over the Neo-Classical façade of the Kunsthalle Bern—their first wrapping of an entire building.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 6, 2025

Once a Silicon Valley software engineer and now an artist with a focus on the digital, Gretchen Andrew creates works that make the invisible impacts of technology visible. The artist is not only criticising contemporary beauty standards, but also AI at large. “AI These digitally modified photos are colloquially known as “facetuned”.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 24, 2025

Cabelle Ahn Day is eager to have a go at Diana the Huntress , a life-sized terracotta sculpture by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Antoine Houdon—a signature piece in the collection installed in the mansion’s Portico Gallery. Frick Collection Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation J.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 4, 2025

© Jean Tinguely, DACS 2025, Photo: Ken Adlard, Courtesy of the artists and Hauser & Wirth Since it opened in 2014, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has brought contemporary art, burrata and around 110,000 visitors a year to the small town of Bruton in southwest England. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025.

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JULY 23, 2025

Not everyone agrees, as the long-awaited design has been compared with a freeway overpass and an amoebic pancake , while the Los Angeles Times’ art critic Christopher Knight won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his critiques of the building plan. The post Peter Zumthor’s LACMA Design: Bold Artistic Vision or Controversial Misstep?

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Invaluable

JUNE 16, 2025

When you think of artists who changed the course of 20th-century art, Robert Rauschenberg stands out not just for his revolutionary ideas, but for his fearless exploration of materials, media, and meaning. Like so many men born in the 1920s, he served in World War II before pursuing his artistic philosophy.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 25, 2025

This phrase is the starting point for the 18 artists taking part in the sixth edition of the Folkestone Triennial, spread around the seaside town in southeast England. According to the artist this bizarre creation is also closely linked to another pair of Provost beasties situated across the Channel on the coasts of Belgium and France.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 15, 2025

The sale included a section dedicated to Saudi artists, with almost all the works selling over their high estimates. This includes a non-selling exhibition of institutional proportions at its London headquarters this summer on the work of the Syrian artist Marwan (1934-2016).

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 7, 2025

Turner has featured on the British £20 note since 2020 Photo: Bank of England / Alexandr Blinov It’s not quite a licence to print money but it’s the next best thing. “I However we do know that more recently artists have sometimes been involved in designing banknotes. I can’t see why it might be thought a bad idea,” she says.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 11, 2025

The pieces originate from the St Louis-based John and Susan Horseman Collection, which boasts a special focus on Native and African American artists. Prior to this latest haul, pieces by Native artists only comprised 3% of the museum’s total collection. This is art that should be seen and artists that should be known.”

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 13, 2025

Published on Fridays, stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist, to scholarly pieces based on meticulous investigations and discoveries. It was spotted by one of readers, Yuri Pikul, a Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv. Explore all of Martin’s adventures with Van Gogh here.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 19, 2025

Now, two artist-taxidermists and the Vrije Academie cultural education institute have created what they call a "modern wunderkammer ", in a richly restored canal house in Amsterdam. In a white cube gallery, it works, but it works much better when the building is classical.”

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 19, 2025

Beyond that, athletes, artists, DJs and actors have to go through the usual channels. There is a small provision allowing “recognised persons from science, culture and sport” to take up Swiss residence, but only for eight months out of the year. So say you have made it, and liked it enough in Switzerland to stay.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 18, 2025

Tehran's National Museum of Iran alone houses more than 300,000 objects, while the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art boasts an important collection of masterpieces by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock (estimated in 2018 to be worth as much as $3bn).

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 24, 2025

Marcus Acquisitions news 12 August 2024 Acquisitions round-up: Zandra Rhodes textiles inspired by Uluru, a Cavalcanti head and a portrait by Mary Beale Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide Hannah McGivern Acquisitions news 26 March 2024 Acquisitions round-up: Cleveland museum buys a sumptuous 16th-century (..)

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The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The artist has been researching flatbreads and tandoors, the community bakeries where they are often baked, in countries around the world since 2020

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Invaluable

JULY 2, 2025

A noticeable shift in artistic trends in recent years has revealed a renewed focus on human feeling. Fueled, perhaps, by a sense of “digital fatigue” or the isolation felt worldwide in the wake of the pandemic, many artists are exploring universal themes like memory, nostalgia, and the warmth of human exchange. Why Be Romantic Now?

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 30, 2025

In February 2025, his son, the installation artist Amin Gulgee, opened a museum dedicated to his father in Ismail’s old house and studio, a bright, airy space in central Karachi, built by his friend, the architect Nayyar Ali Dada. My father was a very performative artist,” Amin says. “He

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 13, 2025

The artists working in time-based media today are grappling with everything from artificial intelligence and facial recognition to climate anxiety and cultural memory. Currently, a major retrospective of the Japanese composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda is on the books, set to take over the entire space. The 40,000 sq.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 16, 2025

It has been closed since 2020, when it was shuttered due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Their discussions focused on reported “irregular” modifications made in 2020 to the museum trust’s documents, replacing the 2002 version that Olmedo had signed before her death ( The Art Newspaper accessed these documents).

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 14, 2025

Newsletter sign-up Information About Contact Cookie policy Data protection Privacy policy Frequently Asked Questions Subscription T&Cs Terms and conditions Advertise Sister Papers Sponsorship policy Follow us Instagram Bluesky LinkedIn Facebook TikTok YouTube © The Art Newspaper Related content Monuments news 3 May 2021 Four artists shortlisted (..)

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 23, 2025

The Art Newspaper understands that the residents of Ostend were consulted by the city council last year, prior to Locke’s piece being selected from 11 shortlisted artists. A spokesperson for Locke says: “There was then a local election; there is now a new party running the town hall. They say there was not enough consultation. “So

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 10, 2025

Among the works by 20 artists will be Warakurna Superheroes , which was developed by Tony Albert and David C. On Country , which is prominently positioned at the Eglise Sainte-Anne in the centre of Arles, will put “First Peoples’ practice and relationality at the core”, according to the organisers.

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Artnet News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The 2020 fundraiser brought in $1.5 The post Annie Leibovitz and Stephen Shore Are Among 200 Artists Selling Prints to Support Voting Rights appeared first on Artnet News. million in just five days.

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Artnet News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Total auction sales of the Colombian artist's work have more than doubled between 2020 and and 2023. The post Fernando Botero’s Market Is Gaining Momentum. Here’s Why appeared first on Artnet News.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 21, 2025

Jarman: Photo: Gorup de Besanez The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (Imma), Ireland, has confirmed it will re-screen a film by the late UK artist Derek Jarman—which shows two men kissing—after rejecting claims that it censored the work because of a complaint from a member of the public.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 6, 2025

Wallis says in a statement: “As the UK’s oldest and foremost artist-led organisation, the extraordinary talent and vision of the Royal Academicians, and their team, leads the creative conversation on a national and international stage.” However, he joins the 256-year-old Royal Academy at a difficult time.

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MIR Appraisal

JANUARY 29, 2021

The year 2020 presented us with many challenges, but the art world continued to show its resilience during the global pandemic. Artists around the nation have been inspired to document this moment in history in a variety of media. 1961) is a conceptual artist working in multiple mediums in Los Angeles, California.

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Mark Hill

APRIL 8, 2024

Early in 2020, I bid on and bought a mid-century modern abstract oil on board painting at auction totally sight-unseen, because it looked like it might be the work of an artist I collect right now. Stupid, I know, for all the reasons and especially stupid because, when I went to collect it, it wasn’t by the artist I collect at all.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 10, 2025

The gallery's final show, Brooklyn-based artist Susumu Kamijo’s Fish & Flowers , opened at the 39 Great Jones Street space in June and will close 17 July. Venus Over Manhattan also gave solo shows to under-recognised artists like Maryan , the Polish Holocaust survivor who made his home at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.

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Art Appraisal Resources

JANUARY 25, 2021

Book Review of Sell Out by Rachel Wilkins As a professional Art Appraiser, consultant, and fine artist myself, I have read many books on the art business. This one stands out from the others as being written with practical and no-nonsense advice for professional artists. LINKS: To buy the book on Amazon: Smart Art Business website

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

USD via Charlton Hall (July 2020). From the earliest forms introduced in the 17th century that borrowed from European traditions to the 18th-century examples that showcased American makers forging their own path, colonial American silver set the bar high for those who followed. Sold for $156.25

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Invaluable

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Journeying through history with a captivating fusion of art and geography, antique maps are not only fascinating geographical documents offering a vision of world’s gone by, but also artistic treasures in their own right. Sold for $23,750 via Swann Auction Galleries (December 2020). Ptolemaeus, Claudius.

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