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Giant mirrored globe and concert venue will rise on Miami Beach during art week

For his Faena Art commission, the Abu Dhabi-based artist Christopher Joshua Benton is creating a 28ft-tall sculpture that ...
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Legal troubles and family feud keep Klimt portrait off the market

The unfinished painting’s mysterious origins were further complicated by a family betrayal during the Second World War and, ...
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Major London museums join forces for new South Asian arts festival

The nine-day event will take over South Kensington's cultural quarter next summer, bringing together artists from India and ...
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All six of Edward Hopper’s early oils, long thought to be original works, revealed to be copies

In an exclusive extract from his new Edward Hopper biography, Louis Shadwick tracks down the original works—many reproduced ...
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Before banana fame, Maurizio Cattelan made ends meet delivering letters—and sperm

The art world’s most mischievous japester, Maurizio Cattelan, showed his more human side in a recent interview in The ...
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As France is rocked by explosive protests, art school students have their say

Speaking before nationwide demonstrations escalated on Saturday, students at various art schools discuss why they have felt ...
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Jewellers Buccellati create collection inspired by Venetian lace-making

Called Serenissima, the jewels use finely wrought metals to capture the art of the lace makers found on the island of Burano ...
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British Museum’s Red Ball sparks Energy Embargo for Palestine protests

While protests occurred outside the ball, the museum announced an anonymous £30m donation toward its masterplan redevelopment ...
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Hungarian art community takes stock of populist Orbán era’s enormous toll

After 16 years of Fidesz rule, artists and cultural institutions assess the damage and consider what comes next ...
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Exhibition highlights overlooked William Morris collection and his collaborations with women makers

Fitzwilliam Museum show in Cambridge displays drawings, paintings and designs acquired by Sydney Cockerell, a friend and private secretary of the English designer ...
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Collection of Monsoon founder Peter Simon becomes highest value single-owner collection ever sold at Christie's London

The Peter Simon Collection became the highest value single-owner collection ever sold at Christie's London bringing in ...
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Comment | Art does not function like other commodities, so why is it being priced like one?

A commodity economist explains why the art market's plumbing, its financial apparatus and its blind spots all look familiar—and why it enables fraudsters like Inigo Philbrick ...