Can These Six Artists Predict the Fate of the Art Market?
[ad_1] 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...
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Billionaires’ Battle Over a Sculpture Exposes a Mysterious Art Market
[ad_1] 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...
The Founder of the 65-Year-Old Pace Gallery Reflects on a Changed Art World
[ad_1] “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,...
Ariel Aisiks Is on a Mission to Elevate Latin American Art
[ad_1] 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...
In New York, an African Art Fair Returns for Its 10th Year
[ad_1] In her previous works, the photographer Hazel Mphande would focus the camera on herself to shoot discomforting black-and-white self-portraits. But after...
Museum’s Benin Bronzes Are Reclaimed by Wealthy Collector
[ad_1] 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...
How Conservators Save Art from Climate Disasters
[ad_1] The conservator Nicole Grabow has spent thousands of hours vacuuming fine art. In her Minneapolis office, Grabrow demonstrated how to use a canister...
Near Bangkok, a Sprawling Forest Where Art Seems to Grow on Trees
[ad_1] 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...
The Torlonia Marbles Offer Everything We Ask of Art
[ad_1] 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
[ad_1] 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...
