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In 2025, Censorship and Firings Defined a Fractured Art World

12/29/2025

In its 2024 Year-in-Review, ARTnews noted a widening schism in the art world, defined by a moral fault: the continued support of Israel amid the destruction of Gaza. A year later—and more than three years into what a UN commission …

Метки : искусствоцензураполитикавыставкисвобода выраженияпротесты

From Pollocks to NFTs: The 12 Cases That Shaped Art Litigation in 2025

12/26/2025

The art world spent much of 2025 not unveiling masterpieces but unsealing court documents, as if the industry had drifted into a year-long deposition. What began as the usual background hum of disputes swelled into something grander: collectors accusing advisers, …

Метки : искусствосудебные разбирательстваприбыль#культурагалереиnft

Leslie Wexner Denies Being Jeffrey Epstein's 'Co-Conspirator'

12/26/2025

A recently released set of files related to Jeffrey Epstein implied that the convicted sex criminal’s ties to collector Leslie Wexner ran deeper than some previously thought, placing new scrutiny on the former Victoria’s Secret CEO. One email from an …

Метки : искусствоновостискандалколлекционерыэпштейнуэкснер

Ukraine Demands Extradition of Archaeologist for Illegal Excavations

12/26/2025

Ukraine has requested the extradition from Poland of an archaeologist who was detained in Warsaw earlier this month on suspicion of conducting illegal excavations in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to the Polish media. The Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office received the extradition …

Метки : украинаэкстрадицияархеологиякрымраскопкиэрмитаж

Egyptian Archaeologist Vows to Bring Nefertiti Bust Back from Germany

12/26/2025

Zahi Hawass, a well-known Egyptian archaeologist, renewed his promise to bring an ancient bust of Nefertiti home this week, claiming that his country was readier than ever to host it once more, thanks to the recent opening of the Grand …

Метки : нефертитиархеологиярепатриациязахи хавассвеликий египетский музейегипет

10 Must-See Chapels in Italy

12/25/2025

While most flock to museums to experience world-famous artworks, some of the most influential pieces reside outside institutions—especially in Italy, where, during the Renaissance, a number of wealthy patrons commissioned works of art in smaller chapels. Those chapels were intended …

Метки : искусствоиталияренессанскапеллыархитектураистория.

A Year in Gallery Closures: Collapse or Transition to Smarter Market?

12/24/2025

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Leo Tolstoy wrote in the opening of Anna Karenina. The line is so iconic that it gave rise to a principle: for success to occur in …

Метки : искусствогалереирынокзакрытияновостисобытия

Ruth Foundation Names 2026 Ruth Award Recipients

12/24/2025

Ruth Foundation Names 2026 Ruth Award Recipients TheRuth Foundation for the Artshas revealed the five winners of its Ruth Award: Yuji Agematsu, Ranu Mukherjee, Will Rawls, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Anna Martine Whitehead. The prize was inaugurated in 2024 and …

Метки : искусствопремиянаградахудожники#культураобщество

Galerie 1900-2000 Closes New York Branch: ‘Business Was Quite Slow’

12/24/2025

In a multi-year market slowdown, numerous galleries large and small have either gone out of business or retrenched. Galerie 1900-2000, founded in Paris, opened a New York branch on Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side in February 2023 as …

Метки : искусствогалереинью-йорксовременное искусствовыставкизакрытие.

China Launches Probe Into Alleged Art-Theft Scheme at Nanjing Museum

12/24/2025

Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to …

Метки : китайнанкинмузейкультурные реликвиирасследованияскандал

43 Looted Antiquities Are Returned to Turkey

12/24/2025

Reflecting growing pressure by New York prosecutors on museums and private collectors, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and an American collector have returned dozens of looted antiquities to Turkey. As reported by the New …

Метки : античные предметырепатриацияпрокуратурамузеитурциядемосфен

Pathbreaking Austrian Postwar Painter Arnulf Rainer Dies at 96

12/24/2025

Pathbreaking Austrian Postwar Painter Arnulf Rainer Dies at 96 Arnulf Rainer, whose work provided crucial inspiration to the Viennese Actionists, died on December 18 at the age of ninety-six. His death was confirmed by gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which represents him. …

Метки : искусствоавстрийские художники#творчестворайнернаследиеискусствоведение

White House Intensifies Funding Threats Against Smithsonian

12/24/2025

White House Intensifies Funding Threats Against Smithsonian The Trump administration, whichthis past August announced that it would reviewcurrent and forthcoming Smithsonian exhibitions “to assess tone, historical framing and alignment with American ideals,” has reiterated its threat to pull funding if …

Метки : смитсоновский институтадминистрация трампафинансированиеистория.автономиягражданские инициативы

In Memoriam 2025: Notable Art-World Figures Who Died This Year

12/23/2025

Each December, we remember the art-world figures we have lost in the past year. This year, our list includes the famous and the not-so-famous, insiders and outsiders, those who had long careers and those whose lives were cut tragically short. …

Метки : искусствопамятихудожникивлияниепотеринаследие