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Padimai Studio Debuts in Singapore with Olafur Eliasson VR Artwork

11/20/2025

A new experimental space dedicated to the intersection of art and technology will open this November at Tanjong Pagar Distripark in Singapore. Padimai Art & Tech Studio will launch with Your view matter (2022/25), a VR work by artist Olafur …

Метки : искусствотехнологиивиртуальная реальностьэлиассонвыставкасингапур

Ripley’s Buys Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet for $12.1 M.

11/20/2025

The new owner of Maurizio Cattelan’s “America” (2016)—the 18-karat gold, fully functioning toilet that sold for $12.1 million on Tuesday night—is Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The museum announced itself as the buyer on Instagram. Previously, Sotheby’s only identified the …

Метки : искусствоаукционрипликаттелскульптуратуалет

Anonymous Was a Woman Names Winners of 2025 Grants

11/19/2025

Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization that provides funding to woman-identifying artists, has revealed 15 artists who will receive $50,000 grants this year. Those artists include Candida Alvarez, a painter who was recently the subject of an El Museo …

Метки : искусствогрантыженщины-артхудожникиэкологияподдержка

Louvre to Install 100 Surveillance Cameras, Anti-Intrusion Systems

11/19/2025

Some 100 surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion systems are set to be installed at the Louvre Museum as part of increased security measures following the theft of France’s crown jewels last month, reported the Associated Press. The anti-intrusion systems will go …

Метки : луврбезопасностькражамодернизациякамеры наблюдениямеры предосторожности

Met Museum Staff Move to Unionize

11/19/2025

Met Museum Staff Move to Unionize Local 2110 of the United Automobile Workerson November 17 filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to represent more than one thousand workers at theMetropolitan Museum of ArtinNew York. The museum already …

Метки : профсоюзметрополитен-музейискусствоправа работниковзарплатанью-йорк

Sperone Westwater Closing in New York After Five Decades

11/19/2025

Sperone Westwater Closing in New York After Five Decades NotedNew Yorkgallery Sperone Westwater has announced that it is shuttering at the end of the year. “After fifty successful years, Sperone Westwater Gallery will be closing on December 31, as cofounders …

Метки : sperone westwaterзакрытие.нью-йоркискусствогалереявыставка

Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Sells for $12.1 M. at Sotheby’s

11/19/2025

The hopes for one of the past decade’s most controversial artworks achieving a record price circled on the drain at Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening. Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-karat gold toilet, owned by Steve Cohen, fetched just $12.1 million (inclusive of fees) …

Метки : искусствоаукционвыставкакателланзолоторекорд

Sotheby’s Double-Header Sale Totals $706 M., Including Second-Priciest Work Ever Sold

11/19/2025

In a nearly three-hour marathon double sale, the first in its new Breuer Building digs, Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening sold Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth Lederer for $236.4 million, the second highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction—and …

Метки : климтаукционискусствоsotheby'sпродажирекорды

3,600-Year-Old Bronze Age City Discovered in Central Asia

11/19/2025

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have uncovered a Late Bronze Age city dating to ca. 1600 BCE. The ancient site, called Semiyarka, covers nearly 250 acres in northeast Kazakhstan, according to a report Antiquity, a world archaeology journal published by Durham University …

Метки : казахстанархеологиябронзовый векдревние цивилизациисемияркаисторическое открытие

Klimt's Elisabeth Lederer Portrait Sells for $236.4 M. at Sotheby's

11/19/2025

A watershed moment for the November auctions arrived tonight at Sotheby’s, where Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) sold for $236.4 million after 20 minutes of bidding, eclipsing the artist’s previous auction record and instantly becoming one of the …

Метки : климентаукционискусстворекордsotheby'sпродажи

Klimt’s Blumenwiese Achieves $86 M. at Sotheby’s

11/19/2025

Gustav Klimt’s Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)—a jewel-like 1908 landscape painted during one of the artist’s summer retreats to Austria’s Lake Attersee—sold for $86 million (inclusive of fees) tonight at Sotheby’s, landing a few million above its estimate of north of $80 …

Метки : искусствоаукционгустав климтпейзажпроизведение искусстваколлекция

Klimt’s Waldabhang in Unterach Sells for $70.8 M.

11/19/2025

Gustav Klimt’s Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee, which is believed to be the last surviving landscape the artist painted, realized $70.8 million (inclusive of fees) at Sotheby’s Tuesday night, just meeting expectations in excess of $70 million. The work, which …

Метки : густав климтискусствоаукционsotheby'sкартиныживопись

Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Sells for $12.1 M. at Sotheby’s

11/19/2025

The hopes for one of the past decade’s most controversial artworks achieving a record price circled on the drain at Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening. Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-karat gold toilet, owned by Steve Cohen, fetched just $12.1 million (inclusive of fees) …

Метки : искусствоаукционмаурицио каттеласовременное искусствоуникальные произведениярекорды

Kurt Cobain Guitar Goes to Auction at Christie’s, for $2.5–$5 Million

11/19/2025

A 1969 Fender Competition Mustang beloved by Nirvana mastermind Kurt Cobain is heading to the auction block at Christie’s in March, with an estimated sale price of $2.5–$5 million. The instrument figured in the recording sessions for the albums Nevermind …

Метки : гитарыаукциимузыкакурт кобейнколлекцияискусство