The World Monuments Fund (WMF) reports that it has made strides in rehabilitating historic sites in the Yemeni city of Taiz, devastated by a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people across the country in a mammoth humanitarian crisis. In March, local restorers overseen by the organisation completed work on an emergency stabilisation…
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The traditional recipe for an exhibition includes some art and one or two curators to select and organise the display of it. But for the past ten years the rise of social media has made it easier for museums to involve the public in various projects, which has been particularly popular in France. One of…
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The London-based Reuben family has been revealed as the buyer of a $15.4 million Vincent van Gogh landscape purchased during Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art sale in Paris on Thursday. Scène de rue à Montmartre (Impasse des deux frères et le Moulin à Poivre), from 1887, made its auction debut there after more than a century in private…
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Cambodia’s Culture and Fine Arts Ministry has rejected a proposal by the Hong Kong casino operator NagaCorp to build a resort and theme park near the sprawling Angkor Wat temple complex after concerns raised by Unesco. The government’s rejection of NagaCorp’s plan to develop 75 hectares of land located around 500m south of the protected…
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India Art Fair (IAF) in Delhi, South Asia’s largest commercial art event, has chosen Jaya Asokan as its new director. She will replace Jagdip Jagpal, who has led the fair since 2017. Asokan previously served as IAF’s deputy director and director of exhibitor relations. Prior to that she worked as senior manager, client relations at…
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An 1887 painting by Vincent van Gogh, which has never before been exhibited, has sold for €11.2m (€13m with fees) at Sotheby’s Paris. Although the work was fresh to auction, this was its second time under the hammer, having been nearly sold less than an hour before. Scène de rue à Montmartre (Impasse des deux…
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A coalition of activist groups has announced a 10-week “strike” against the Museum of Modern Art with the ultimate goal of “disassembling” the institution, arguing that it is tainted by elitism, racism and misogyny. The new alliance, called the International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings, says it plans a series of protests, writing projects and…
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Ernesto Mallard, one of the leading figures of the Mexican Op-art movement and an early proponent of Kinetic art, has died, aged 89. Latin America in the 1960s was generously endowed with Modern artists but Mallard—who did more than anyone else to engage audiences and invite them to explore his three dimensional creations—was the first…
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Art theft typically conjures pieces ripped from the walls of world-class museums, and while art heists take place frequently, they are not the only means by which priceless treasures are taken. Throughout history, masterpieces have plundered, looted, and stolen, and taken far away from the original locales. For the former owners of such stolen works,…
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Damien Hirst has made a foray into the fast-rising crypto art market. The British artist is selling a series of eight prints called “The Virtues,” which depict cherry blossoms in bloom, and for those interested in buying them, he is willing to accept cryptocurrency—an unusual gesture for a blue-chip artist. “It’s hard for any of…
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