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Lawsuit Alleges Warhol Forgery Scheme Spanning Florida, Peru, and Philadelphia
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (223+ words) Duped into buying more than $6.7 million worth of fake Andy Warhol paintings and prints, real estate investor Richard Perlman and his family have launched a multinational lawsuit against the players they say are complicit in the alleged scam. According to…...
The Largest Ancient Roman Wall Mosaic Ever Found Goes on Public View
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (336+ words) What may be the largest ancient Roman wall mosaic ever found has been open to the public for limited viewing. Roberto Gualtieri, the mayor of Rome, unveiled the 1st-century CE mosaic, along with a fresco discovered at the same time,…...
Rabkin Foundation Names Eight Winners of Its 2026 Arts Journalism Grants
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (507+ words) This year's winners are honored for “deeply interested in the forces that shape what we see—and what we don’t,” wrote the Rabkin Foundation. The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, named eight recipients of its 2026 prize for visual…...
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Faces Lawsuit over Whether It Truly Is a Private Museum at All
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (297+ words) The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the newly inaugurated institution spearheaded by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, may finally have opened to the press and founding members after $1 billion in costs and more than a decade of bureaucratic wrangling,…...
Modernist Trove Rich in Signac Paintings Heads to Sale at Christie’s
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (270+ words) Paintings by Paul Signac are earmarked for high-profile sales in New York, Paris, and London. Christieâs will sell nearly 600 works of modernist art from the same collection under the title âRadiant Modernism.â The sale will occur across…...
Three Stolen Renoir Paintings May Have Been Nazi Looted
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (292+ words) Three of the four initially stolen paintings by Renoir from a southern French museum are ownerless, following their loss during WWII. Three of the Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings stolen yesterday morning from a museum in southern France may have been stolen…...
Eric Firestone to Open Fifth Gallery in West Palm Beach
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (484+ words) Eric Firestone is expanding south. The dealer will open his fifth gallery space, this time in West Palm Beach in mid-November, adding a permanent South Florida location to his two spaces in New York and two in East Hampton. The…...
Kasseem Dean and Alicia Keys Team Up with Bonhams for Initiative That Gives Artists a Cut of Secondary-Market Sales
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (441+ words) By Julie Brener Davich They committed to establishing a program to help living artists benefit from secondary-market sales. After seven years, they finally found a like-minded collaborator in Bonhams. “They were eager to partner with us on a game-changing idea,…...
Lucien Smith, Onetime Market Darling Who Turned His Focus To Helping Emerging Artists, Has Died at 37
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (540+ words) Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, the news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the…...
Former Chairman of Kennedy Center Buys Disassembled Joel Shapiro Sculpture
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (256+ words) A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture that was disassembled last week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has found a new owner: none other than the embattled center’s former chairman, David Rubenstein. Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist,…...