Can These Six Artists Predict the Fate of the Art Market?
The spring sales of modern and contemporary art often arrive in May with a steady drumroll of paintings whose estimates soar above $50 million — a sign of...
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Billionaires’ Battle Over a Sculpture Exposes a Mysterious Art Market
Billionaire art collectors rarely air their deals or dirty laundry out in public. But a battle between a pair of boldfaced names over a Giacometti sculpture is...
The Founder of the 65-Year-Old Pace Gallery Reflects on a Changed Art World
“It was all fascinating,” he said. “I learned about Impressionism. I learned about Egypt. I grew up at the Boston museum. I owe it everything.” (He has, as a...
Ariel Aisiks Is on a Mission to Elevate Latin American Art
Wealthy collectors who want to be involved with museums typically donate works, write checks and sit on a board of trustees — these are the essential steps...
In New York, an African Art Fair Returns for Its 10th Year
In her previous works, the photographer Hazel Mphande would focus the camera on herself to shoot discomforting black-and-white self-portraits. But after a...
Museum’s Benin Bronzes Are Reclaimed by Wealthy Collector
When it began displaying a group of finely crafted treasures from the Kingdom of Benin in 2013, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acknowledged that British...
How Conservators Save Art from Climate Disasters
The conservator Nicole Grabow has spent thousands of hours vacuuming fine art. In her Minneapolis office, Grabrow demonstrated how to use a canister vacuum...
Near Bangkok, a Sprawling Forest Where Art Seems to Grow on Trees
Three times a day, a delicate fog drifts from nozzles hidden in flower beds and rolls down sloping hills and into a large clearing in the Khao Yai Art Forest....
The Torlonia Marbles Offer Everything We Ask of Art
The two women are a coil of contradictions: Roman but also Greek, flesh but also stone. They both are confident, blessed with the poise of the noble and...
In Taipei, a Mother and Daughter Reflect on the Art Scene
When Tina Keng entered Taiwan’s art world three decades ago, her career — and the industry’s future — was far from assured. “It was like a desert — so much...
