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Angelina Jolie’s New York Studio Space Runs Into a Legal Challenge

12/30/2025

When actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie took over a Manhattan studio building in 2023 with a plan to offer clothes shopping, Turkish coffee, and Syrian mini pies, and workshops for under-represented tailors and artisans from around the world, part of …

Метки : анжелина джолиискусствоконфликтывыставкимодагуманитарная деятельность

Imperial War Museum Faces Criticism for Medal Gallery Closure

12/30/2025

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) is facing criticism from Lord Ashcroft after the institution closed its long-running gallery of Victoria Cross medals and launched a new virtual tour focused on LGBTQ+ histories. The upper floor of the museum previously housed …

Метки : музейлгбтк+войнаколлекцияэшкрофтискусство

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

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.

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

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

MoMA Acquires 16 Onchain Artworks

12/23/2025

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has added eight CryptoPunks and eight Chromie Squiggles to its permanent collection. The acquisition, which comes via donations from multiple collectors, is the latest acquisition by a major museum of on-chain art …

Метки : искусствокриптоискусствоnftmomaколлекцияцифровое искусство

Louvre Installs Bars on Notorious Window at Center of Art Heist

12/23/2025

While the Louvre was closed on Tuesday, the museum continued beefing up its security, this time by installing bars on the window through which thieves entered the institution in October and stole bejeweled objects, most of which still have not …

Метки : луврбезопасностьискусствограбежмероприятия#культура

Sotheby’s to Host Its Second Auction in Saudi Arabia in January and This Time Only Art will Be Sold, No Luxury

12/23/2025

Sotheby’s has announced it will hold its second auction in Saudi Arabia on January 31, 2026. The house hosted the kingdom’s first international auction in February, selling a mix of art, luxury goods, and sports memorabilia in the hyper-gentrified town …

Метки : sotheby'sсаудовская аравияаукционсовременное искусствоискусстворынок коллекционирования