The Art Newspaper

JUNE 20, 2025

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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Modern Art Maker/Artist Collectibles Paintings 279

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 12, 2025

The cabinet maker Bruno Desnoues, who was employed as a furniture restorer for Versailles and used his skills to create the forgeries, was sentenced to three years in prison, including a 32-month suspended sentence, and a €100,000 fine. He has also been banned from working as an expert for five years.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 2, 2025

Blum, along with his former partner Jeff Poe, co-founded the gallery formerly known as Blum & Poe in 1994 and are credited with introducing American audiences to Japanese artists like Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami, and giving early solo shows to art market darlings including Mark Grotjahn and Anna Weyant.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 24, 2025

© 2025 The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Hujar, who is best known for his black-and-white portraits, spent the bulk of his life in New York City and captured, among others, many of the figures in its thriving artistic scene from the 1960s to the 80s. Gelatin silver print, Overall: 50.8 × 40.6

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Photography Prints Maker/Artist Collectibles 288

Artnet News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The artist's solo show opens at Aye Gallery in Beijing later this monthand he lets us know what's in store. The post 7 Questions for Ji Dachun on Creating the Conditions for a ‘Perfect Picture’ appeared first on Artnet News.

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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 We’re often told to be different—by society, family or even algorithms.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 23, 2025

The first fund in 2022 raised €20m from Swedish investors, which was spent on 46 primarily post-war and contemporary works by artists such as Carmen Herrera, María Berrío, Sheila Hicks, Omar Ba and Stanley Whitney (one work has already been sold, for a profit). ‘A So, the appeal of Arte Collectum was threefold for him.

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Fine Art Liquidation Maker/Artist Analysis 276

The Art Newspaper

JULY 4, 2025

There is one more house that I’ve been trying to get for 15 years All four houses were commissioned by Evan Mirapaul, an art collector and former concert violinist who was inspired to start the project after visiting Naoshima, a Japanese island that features a number of site-specific artist installations.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 18, 2025

UBS says the pop-up—which is also offering a limited-edition tote bag designed in collaboration with the Swiss artist Claudia Comte, while supplies last—allows the company to “share the experience of Art Basel with young audiences in Switzerland, bringing them closer to contemporary art and artists”.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 19, 2025

The nearby cinema Metrograph will show a trio of documentaries he made between 2006 and 2018 with the film-makers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier (20-28 June). Alkan is taking the world where he thinks it’s going to be in 50 to 100 years and extending the scope and scale through AI,” Burtynsky says.

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Photography Prints Maker/Artist Drawings 278

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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Paintings Maker/Artist Condition Authenticity 307

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 16, 2025

Art Basel is this year introducing a section called Premiere, which invites galleries to exhibit presentations of work made in the past five years by up to three artists, staged around a loose curatorial concept. The ten exhibitors in the inaugural section are typically smaller to mid-sized galleries presenting mid-career artists.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 13, 2025

Frank Stella: © Frank Stella / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Isamu Noguchi: © 2025 Estate of Isamu Noguchi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York In June 2023 Sotheby’s announced it would purchase Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum of American Art building, a feat of Brutalist architecture, for $100m.

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Auction House Condition Maker/Artist Function 218

WorthPoint

JUNE 13, 2025

Craftsmanship and Condition This vintage Apple Tree pattern quilt from around the 1940s sold for $1,298 at Dana Auctions. Hand-pieced and quilted in a Baptist fan motif, this quilt was notable for its craftsmanship and condition, despite some yellow spotting. Experience is often the best teacher in the antiques world.

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Sale Collectibles Textiles Age 91

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These awards, which have increased to £75,000 for each recipient this year, are unique in that they come with no conditions

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 6, 2025

The Maker's Lab project by the Almashtal creative incubator in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Photo: Courtesy CDF This year has been named the Year of Handicrafts in Saudi Arabia, in order to highlight their importance to the kingdom’s history, identity and economic growth.

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Quality Textiles Maker/Artist Consultation 241

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 30, 2025

Eagle-eyed arty fashionistas spotted two delectable paintings by the underrated 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin hanging alongside the catwalk. The Art Newspaper

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Modern Art Drawings Analysis Maker/Artist 222

Artnet News

MAY 9, 2024

The chaotic conditions of an art fair are part of his whimsical performance art piece. The post I Sat for a Portrait at Independent by Beloved Artist-Dealer Joel Mesler. Here’s What It Was Like appeared first on Artnet News.

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Maker/Artist Condition 112

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 24, 2025

The team is especially pleased with the condition of the piece. Noelle, who had seen the work at the Strozzi show, says that he and his fellow European art curator in Cleveland, Cory Korkow, “were floored” when they found out. Since arriving at the museum, says Noelle, it has only needed minor in-house conservation treatment.

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Sculpture Sale Identification Textiles 327

The Art Newspaper

JULY 3, 2025

Gallery Wendi Norris will debut what its founder calls “a significant exhibition by a major 20th-century artist” at an offsite location in July. Night Gallery, for instance, has partnered with the non-profit Arsenal Contemporary Art to present a group exhibition at the latter’s New York location until 22 August.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 16, 2025

A representative for Uovo counters that the project is “fully aligned with [the community board’s] desire to ensure our project benefits the local community” and that its presence in the neighbourhood will come with “direct support for art programmes at a local school and continued support for local artists”. renovation project.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 6, 2025

She adds that “the acquisition of this painting is particularly significant, as it fills a long-standing gap in the collection and reflects the historical relationship between Kirchner and the foundation’s founder, Karl Im Obersteg, who actively promoted the artist but never acquired one of his works himself.”

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Paintings Auction House Provenance Maker/Artist 267

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 23, 2025

In April, a letter signed by 500 art world figures, including the artists Maurizio Cattelan and Michelangelo Pistoletto, expressed "serious concern" about the 22% rate, which they said was threatening to turn Italy into a “cultural desert”.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 7, 2025

The combination of new money being made in financial services, its taste for the artists of the day and the availability of information that made art look like it could behave like stocks and shares created the ‘art as an investment’ craze that has pretty much dominated this century. The information is free.

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Sale Auction House Modern Art Maker/Artist 173

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 18, 2025

The panoramic work by the artist Friedrich Kunath ( We See Things They’ll Never See , 2025; $135,000) shows Liam standing over an abyss, mimicking Caspar David Friedrich’s 19th-century romantic hero standing on a mountain peak. It all centres on the truffle season, which runs from October until late January,” she says.

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Paintings Maker/Artist Analysis Condition 246

Artnet News

APRIL 14, 2025

The post This Turkish Artist Duo Mines History to Create Ceramics That Probe the Present Condition appeared first on Artnet News. Erturul Gngr and Faruk Ertekin are the subject of their first European solo show with Anna Laudel gallery in Dsseldorf.

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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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Drawings Sculpture Maker/Artist Age 208

Artifactual History Appraisal

MAY 6, 2020

Silverplate is often thicker and heavier than sterling Age Style (for example, Nouveau is valuable, Rococo Revival less so) Famous makers (such as Tiffany) or retailed from a famous shop (for example Liberty or Cartier) Weight in troy ounces (this is different from regular ounces. Note the thickness of hollowware. Do you see kiln marks?

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 17, 2025

When I make some sales, I will typically try to take a portion of that and buy a work from another artist,” she says. Though I have many works from trades, it has always been especially meaningful for artists I don’t know to acquire my work.” In the early 80s I bought a set of Robert Mangold prints for my parents.

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Sculpture Maker/Artist Prints Collectibles 130

Penrose Appraisals

MARCH 14, 2024

A generalist appraiser has to value everting from coffee makers to oriental rugs to Russian teacups to antique spinning wheels. It may require research, as when faced with unknown maker's marks on the bottom of a piece of pottery. The appraiser will always pay close attention to condition and take it into account.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 25, 2025

For the first time since the beginning of the event in 2000, just one artist will co-host the Summer Party: the world renowned Australian actor, producer and humanitarian Cate Blanchett,” said the Serpentine in advance. asked a guest—and a reimagined installation by the Indian artist Subodh Gupta ( A Place in the Sun ).

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 16, 2025

When Liste Art Fair was founded in 1996, it was strictly for work by young artists, and the fair banned participating galleries from showing artists over the age of 40. Three decades later, the fair is older than many of the artists whose works fill its stands, although those age requirements have been loosened.

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Art Appraisal Resources

JANUARY 16, 2024

Auction houses are a viable option to sell your fine art collection if the conditions are right. Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso are two of the most well-known and collectible artists of all time, but not all of their works will garner the high prices we have come to know from the blockbuster sales that are now well known.

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The Art Newspaper

JULY 10, 2025

Crossing Borders (until 31 July) features the work of 64 artists who shaped Modernist dialogues across the 20th century, including Bhupen Khakhar, Huma Bhabha, Rasheed Araeen and Nilima Sheikh. Greater institutional appetite in the West for Global South artists plays a factor too. Raza and F.N. for a 1950s oil by M.F.

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Auction House Sale Maker/Artist Paintings 162

WorthPoint

AUGUST 28, 2024

Always check for a maker’s mark. Immediately, it caught my eye, not just because of its fine condition but also for its unique color. There seems to be an infinite supply of these items, and how’s a flipper to know which ones might bring in the most money? When in doubt, look for the pieces that stand out.

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Photography Maker/Artist Condition Collectibles 98

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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Art Appraisal Resources

AUGUST 29, 2023

The appraiser will assess its condition, size, materials and overall condition. The appraiser will then research the artist, provenance, exhibition history and market trends related to the artwork and similar pieces. Art Appraisal for Artists Fine artists can also benefit from getting their own artworks appraised.

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