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Basquiat’s ‘Baby Boom’ at Christie’s: $20M-$30M Estimate

Basquiat’s ‘Baby Boom’ at Christie’s: $20M-$30M Estimate

Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Baby Boom' (1982), a stylized family picture painting, heads Christie's 21st-century sale with a $20M-$30M estimate. Formerly owned by Peter Brant, it references post-WWII birthrates.


Imran Qureshi: Miniatures, Scale, and Pakistani Culture

Imran Qureshi: Miniatures, Scale, and Pakistani Culture

Artist Imran Qureshi explores miniatures, scale, and Pakistani culture, drawing inspiration from history, politics, and everyday life. His Concrete exhibit blends large works with miniature paintings and woven charpai.


Geffen Countersues Sun Over Giacometti Sculpture Dispute

Geffen Countersues Sun Over Giacometti Sculpture Dispute

David Geffen countersues Justin Sun over a $78.4M Giacometti sculpture, alleging fraud and deleted messages after a crypto crash and NFT marketplace misrepresentation. Sun's lawyer calls Geffen's claims "misguided".


Guggenheim Fellowships: Funding Arts & Humanities

Guggenheim Fellowships: Funding Arts & Humanities

Guggenheim Fellowships, awarding $30k-$45k, support artists and scholars. Celebrating a century of funding, vital amid US federal cuts to humanities and arts.


Harvard vs. Trump: DEI, Pluralism, and Academic Freedom

Harvard vs. Trump: DEI, Pluralism, and Academic Freedom

Harvard resists Trump's threats over DEI. Colleges shift to pluralism amid political stress. Funding frozen. The debate: Academic freedom vs. political control and culture war.


Artist Censorship: Odee’s QR Code Mural Protests Bergen University

Artist Censorship: Odee’s QR Code Mural Protests Bergen University

Icelandic artist Odee protests censorship by Bergen University & Kunsthall after a planned mural was preemptively blocked. He replaced it with a QR code linking to a protest site, alleging undue influence from a fishing company.


What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

Viktor Shvets, a global-market strategist at Macquarie Capital, said, on Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots” podcast, “I keep asking myself, ‘What is this Administration trying to do?’ ” Was the objective to reindustrialize the United States, or to raise revenue to help pay for tax cuts to the rich, or to change the global flow of funds?


Why Trump Backed Down on Tariffs

Why Trump Backed Down on Tariffs

In an announcement, his publisher described the eighty-seven-year-old’s latest plot as involving a private eye and a missing cheese heiress, as well as “Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them.” It brings to mind what the magazine’s reviewer thought after reading “Gravity’s Rainbow”: “Whew!”


David Hockney 25 review: an absolutely enormous splash ★★★★

David Hockney 25 review: an absolutely enormous splash ★★★★

A gallery of densely salon-hung portraits shows how much Hockney likes to create a world around himself—many family members, other artists (including the late Derek Boshier and John Baldessari), the queen of arts public relations Erica Bolton, rendered in charcoal and crayon; the designer Celia Birtwell, in tartan trousers; an unnamed man in an armchair whose red velvet upholstery looks real enough to touch.


Trump administration sued by 21 states’ attorneys general for trying to eliminate Institute of Museum and Library Services

Trump administration sued by 21 states’ attorneys general for trying to eliminate Institute of Museum and Library Services

A coalition of 21 state attorneys general is suing the administration of US President Donald Trump for attempting to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and several other agencies through executive orders and actions that, the group says in its legal filing, "are illegal several times over".


Against a tense political landscape, we can learn a lot from the cool head of a picture restorer

Against a tense political landscape, we can learn a lot from the cool head of a picture restorer

In times past, one of my favourite ways to switch off was to go through online auction catalogues in pursuit of mis-catalogued paintings (or “sleepers” as the art trade calls them).


A brush with Dhyandra Lawson

A brush with Dhyandra Lawson

Belgian film-maker Johan Grimonprez exposes how the Eisenhower administration manipulated jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong to distract from the murder of Lumumba.