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“Everything deteriorates,” former Public Art Fund director Tom Eccles told Observer. “The question is, what do you want to retain?”
Plenty of artists have gone to Tax Court with claims that they are not just hobbyists and won.
If you shed tears when a museum closes, expect to do a lot of crying.
They may have their work cut out for them when it comes to recovering the value of lost art.
The Guggenheim in new York. Noam Galai/Getty Images In October of last year, internationally renowned artist Julie Mehretu announced a $2.25...
People practice yoga and meditation in front of the art at the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, France. Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo credit...
In September, climate activists held a demonstration to call on MoMA to drop board chair Marie-Josee Kravis over ties to the fossil fuel industry....
You may think of New York’s Kasmin Gallery as a place to look at art, but it is really a moving company, and what they are moving is art. Thousands...
Asked to think about what defines a museum, and most people will point to the institution’s collection or, in some cases, its location....
“Most people visiting a museum really want to learn something, so they walk through the exhibits and read all these labels and try to digest as...
These days, the art at art museums can feel less important than “engagement,” a metric that’s arguably more measurable—from a marketing and...
A few years ago, a seller walked into New York City art dealer Jill Newhouse’s gallery with an 18th-century Italian painting “that he had inherited...
Noel Levine, a real estate investor and photography collector, was a long-time patron of the arts, providing photographs and millions of dollars to...
What does it mean to own a work of art? One might think, a painting or a sculpture is mine, and I can do with it what I want. But not really. If...
“There are a lot of loudmouths out there, people saying ‘repatriate, repatriate—get all this looted stuff out of museums and give it all back to...
Art is long, and life is short, according to an old Roman saying, but sometimes art doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain: the canvas warps, the...
Late last month, artist Audrey Flack passed away at the age of 93. Her photorealist paintings expressed a vision of the life of a woman as...