As they did last year, Christie’s set the pace for the British modern art market this week, and it proved to be as healthy as it has ever been. Included in the sale of works on […]

The Age of Aquarius—made popular by the 1967 rock musical Hair—is a period of about 2,160 years that is characterized by the passage of the vernal equinox through the air sign Aquarius. Opinions differ about […]

Two years after moving her fast-ascending gallery from Seattle to Chicago, Mariane Ibrahim will open a new location of her namesake enterprise in Paris with plans to further her focus on art from the African […]

Sotheby’s has announced it will offer items from the estate of German designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in February 2019, later this year at its Monaco outpost. The executor for the Chanel designer’s estate has […]

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines AFTER MORE THAN FOUR DECADES IN BUSINESS, the influential New York gallery Metro Pictures said that it will close its doors at the end of […]

On Sunday, the 40-year-old New York gallery Metro Pictures announced that it will close toward the end of 2021. The announcement email sent by the gallery referenced “a demanding year of pandemic-driven programming, and the […]

In June 2018, a Paris appeals court ruled that American Philadelphia-based collectors Bruce and Robbi Toll must return an 1887 Camille Pissarro gouache titled La Cueillette des Pois (“Picking Peas”) to the heirs of Simon Bauer, […]

There are a host of advantages to using pan watercolor paints, especially for novice watercolorists. They are compact and contained, so they can be tucked away in a desk drawer. They’re easily portable for carrying […]

For much of 2020, the renowned Paris-based art fair, FIAC, planned to go forward with its in-person fair in October. However, due to a surge of Covid-19 cases in France this fall, the fair was […]

Inside his final studio, on East 59th street in New York, Dutch painter Piet Mondrian covered each wall with painted papers cut into crisp rectangles. Mondrian had become famous at the beginning of the 20th […]