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Artemus, a New York–based art-leasing company cofounded by dealer Asher Edelman, has filed suit against Paul Kasmin Gallery, alleging that the Chelsea enterprise “created and back-dated materially…

In an email newsletter sent out today, the Berlin-based Arratia Beer gallery announced that it has closed. Founded by Euridice Arratia and Elizabeth Beer in 2006, the gallery, which was located in th…

Art Basel has revealed details about the artworks that will be featured in the Buenos Aires edition of its Cities program, which will take place from September 6 to 12. The 18 artists featured&n…

Yasuaki Ishizaka has been appointed chairman & managing director for Sotheby’s Japan. He will start in early September. Ishizaka was the president and managing director of Sotheby’s Japan fro…

Artist Lauren Halsey is the winner of this year’s Mohn Award, which is given by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to a participant in its Made in L.A. biennial. Through the award, Halsey will receive…

Currently on view at the Whitney Museum in New York is an exhibition of prints and drawings by Louise Nevelson, who’s best known for her large, monochromatic sculptures, many of which resemble machi…

Artist Martin Puryear has been picked to represent the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Madison Square Par…

This summer, the Guggenheim Museum in New York has been hosting a well-reviewed, large-scale exhibition of work of Alberto Giacometti. It closes September 12, but just a month later, those in the city…

The thirteenth edition of the Contemporary Istanbul fair, which will be held at the Istanbul Congress Center and the Convention and Exhibition Centre from September 20 to 23, will feature over 80 gall…

There is something quietly miraculous about The London Mastaba, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 600-ton pyramid-like form that glows red-orange and seemingly sprouts out of its own watery reflectio…

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) announced 93 exhibitors—including 10 new participants—for TEFAF New York Fall, which will take place at the Park Avenue Armory October 27-31. In contrast to a sp…

At the contemporary art evening sale at Sotheby’s in London, a new record was set for a Lucian Freud at auction in the capital city, when his Portrait on a White Cover (2003) sold for…

In a lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Alexander Khochinsky, an American art dealer who owns the Antoine Pesne painting Girl with Dove(1754), alleged th…

Oops! A church in Spain turned over the restoration of a 16th-century sculpture over to a local handicrafts teacher, and it didn’t go so well. In something of a bad re-up for the ages, the work is …

Frieze has announced the participants for the 2018 editions of Frieze London and Frieze Masters, both of which run from October 5 to 7 in the English capital’s Regent Park. Some 160 galleries will b…

Gagosian Gallery, Inc. and Jeff Koons, LLC have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in which Jeff Koons’s studio was charged with “non-delivery” of three sculptures by the artist that the collec…

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced the exhibitors participating in its sixth London edition. From October 4-7, 42 galleries from 21 countries will present work at Somerset House, wit…

A sense of place is established as soon as you step into the ground floor of the Swiss Institute’s new 7,500-square-foot location on St. Marks in the heart of the East Village in New York. To your r…