2020: art market issues and big shows

<p>Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16) sold for the second highest price ever realised at auction at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday. It was the most notable of several big sales in the sold-out (or “white-glove”) auction of 24 works from the collection of the ... Show More

Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley SpencerAs the Studio Museum in Harlem opens in its first ever purpose-built space, a new building by the architects Adjaye Associates, The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, speaks to Thelma Golden, ... Show More

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, US, has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the enslaved 19th-century potter David Drake to his present-day descendants. By the terms of the contract, one vessel will remain on loan to the museum for at least two years. The other—known ... Show More

تستعرض الحلقة تاريخ المسرح السعودي والعالمي، وتاريخ الحركة الفنية المسرحية في المملكة وتطوراتها وأبرز محطاتها.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

We bring you our dispatch from the 60th edition of the world’s most prestigious art event, which takes the temperature of contemporary art right now. In the first of two programmes, we meet the artists behind the Ethiopian, South Korean and Romanian pavilions. See omnystudio.com/ ... Show More

Cuseum has a solution for art-starved fans who miss going to museums. See great art in their living rooms, via augmented reality and the new [AR] Museum app. Brendan Cieko from Cuseum tells Jefferson Graham all about it.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ ... Show More

We revisit some of the interesting, fun and troubling online events from last year and what it means for the year ahead.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 

‘Tis the season for spending obscene amounts of money. That’s something superstar art dealer Inigo Philbrick excels at. In this re-run from last year, the art world hustler starts making big money “flipping” works of art. Before long, he’s selling shares of paintings to investors ... Show More

Classé au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, l'art gnaoua continue d'enrichir, par sa musique et ses rituels, la culture marocaine. Il en exprime toutes les composantes à l'occasion d'un festival très réputé, qui se tient chaque année à Essaouira... Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les i ... Show More

Art hot takes from a covid fever dream. Western culture historically understands time to be linear, fixed, and unmovable. I explore the ways this impacted European portrait painting and how West African art changed it <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. ... Show More