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The Reynolda House Museum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, welcomed over 55,000 visitors between July 2015 and June 2016. The institution, which specializes in American art from the Colonial period to today, saw a thirty-five percent jump in attendance over the…
The French luxury goods magnate and art collector, Francois Pinault, will exhibit works from his monumental contemporary art collection in Germany this fall. Works by such luminaries as Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, and Steve McQueen will go on view at…
1. Black and White House by Ike Kligerman Barkley. This two-story stunner by Ike Kligerman Barkley was inspired by the English and Swedish country houses of yore—specifically, the eighteenth century home of botanist Carl Linnaeus. Celebrated designer, Alexa Hampton, was…
The German Lost Art Foundation, which is responsible for evaluating the provenance of the artworks that were found in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Munich apartment back in 2012, announced that ninety-one works were likely looted from Jewish owners during World War II.…
The Gagosian Gallery, which operates sixteen gallery spaces across the globe, will pay $4.28 million in back taxes to New York State. According to  Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State Attorney General, the gallery failed to pay sales tax…
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Norman Rockwell’s first Saturday Evening Post cover, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, hosted a model reunion. The event brought together numerous people who had sat for Rockwell, including Lynda Gunn, who, as…
Jeff Koons, the contemporary artist known for his mirror-polished, stainless steel balloon animals, laid off fourteen staff members after they tried to unionize. Koons operates a studio in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, where assistants help bring his often larger-than-life works to…
Over the past decade, the Newport Antiques Show has emerged as a mainstay of the summer antiques show schedule. Held at the St. George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island—a seaside town just north of Newport—the show attracts a top-notch crowd…
A stunning copper and bronze sculpture by the artist and modern furniture designer, Harry Bertoia, will return to public view after it is repaired and conserved. The work, Free Interpretation of Plant Forms, was designed in 1967 for the Philadelphia…
The Los Angeles-based gallerist, Margo Leavin, has donated $20 million to the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. The gift will fund the renovation and expansion of the school’s graduate art studio facilities. The donation marks the largest single gift…
The fourth edition of the Outsider Art Fair Paris will take place October 20-23, 2016, at Hôtel du Duc. The show, which runs alongside FIAC, the city’s most important contemporary art fair, has just released its exhibitor list. Among the…
Last November, the famed British art dealer, Leslie Waddington, passed away, leaving behind a monumental collection of modern and contemporary masterpieces. Christie’s has just announced that it will offer 200 works from Waddington’s illustrious collection this October in London. Among…
A beach house should be a calming retreat from the everyday, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be sedate. Â When longtime clients of Anthony Baratta called on the designer to create the interiors of their newly-built Southampton home, they…
This December, one of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic paintings of his bedroom in Arles will go on view at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. The work is the second in a series of three, painted between 1888 and…
The BBC program Fake or Fortune has attributed an early portrait to the British painter Lucien Freud. The painting belongs to the London-based designer, Jon Turner, who inherited the work from two artist friends. While the original owners said that…
its staff in an effort to combat a $10 million deficit. At least 100 employees are expected to be laid off. The Met, which currently has a staff of about 2,200, announced that it would be making a series of…
UNESCO has added seventeen works by the seminal Modernist architect, Le Corbusier, to the World Heritage List—a collection of sites recognized for their cultural and/or physical significance. The structures, which span seven continents, include the Palace of Assembly in Chandigarh,…
Mark your calendars! On June 12, 2017, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will unveil a long-awaited retrospective dedicated to the one-and-only Frank Lloyd Wright. Widely considered the father of modern American architecture, Wright left an indelible mark on contemporary…
Sotheby’s has named Helena Newman—the auction house’s Co-Head Worldwide of Impressionist and Modern Art—chairman of Sotheby’s Europe. Newman will join fellow chairs Oliver Barker, Mario Tavella, and Philipp Württemberg. Newman, who has been with Sotheby’s for twenty-eight years, oversaw the…
A group of British Parliament members have introduced a bill to return the Elgin Marbles—a collection of classical sculptures made by the people of Athens for the Parthenon—to Greece. For years, Greece has pleaded with the British Museum to return…
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