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    Embattled New York adviser Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients out of $6.5m

    Embattled New York adviser Lisa Schiff pleads guilty to defrauding clients out of $6.5m

    “Lisa Schiff attempted to paint a picture of a successful fine-art advisory business, when in reality—as she admitted today—it was actually a multimillion-dollar fraudulent scheme,” the FBI’s James E. Dennehy said in a statement.


    Artist and gallery awards announced at Frieze London

    Artist and gallery awards announced at Frieze London

    His photographic work Artificial Sun II (2024) has just been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is already all over the fair as the inspiration for the stylishly dotty Stone Island T-shirts being worn by the Frieze staff.


    Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery

    Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery

    During Trump’s Presidency, she didn’t speak publicly very often—“There is absolutely no question that she has been quieter than any modern First Lady we’ve known,” the Washington Post’s Mary Jordan, who has written a biography of Melania, said, in 2020—and even when she did make a rare address, such as the speech she gave at the 2016 Republican National Convention, some of her words were revealed to have been lifted from Michelle Obama.


    A brush with
Sonia Boyce — podcast

    A brush with
Sonia Boyce — podcast

    An in-depth interview with the Golden Lion-winner, discussing her shift to social practice, the influence of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and how William Morris’s wallpaper designs have made their way into her work


    Pricking the art market bubble?

    Pricking the art market bubble?

    However, Michael Macauley, Sotheby's head of contemporary art in Europe, says: “Watch this space, we are expecting more to come in before the sale.” The top lot is David Hockney’s 1968 painting from the south of France, L’Arbois, Sainte-Maxime (1968) with an almost Ruscha-esque vibe to the depiction of a building with large umbrella pines in the foreground.


    7 October survivor’s show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks painful anniversary

    7 October survivor’s show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks painful anniversary

    In thinking of the enormity of the tragedy of 7 October and all that has unfolded since, Coen-Uzzielli adopts the message that Jon Polin, the father of the recently murdered Israeli American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, shared at August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago: “In a competition of pain, there are no winners.”


    Curatorial risks worth taking to foster a sense of belonging in museums

    Curatorial risks worth taking to foster a sense of belonging in museums

    Moving away from approaches that merely “add and stir” historically excluded art and creative traditions into a set of canonical narratives, the Brooklyn Museum is exploring new paths forward in research, interpretation and care for collections that are inspired by the ways strategically undervalued communities see and experience the world.


    Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle

    Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle

    In June, the New York State Court of Appeals issued a six-to-one ruling that allowed the city to move forward with its plans to demolish the garden.


    How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

    How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

    And that is why Bridget [Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women & Equalities] and I have kickstarted a review of the curriculum to put arts, sports and music back at the heart of our schools and communities where it belongs."


    Atlanta steps into the art market spotlight

    Atlanta steps into the art market spotlight

    Creatives like the multi-disciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte, the photographer Myra Greene and the painter Gerald Lovell were able to “make names for themselves beyond the boundaries of Atlanta 
 by cultivating relationships that started from within the community”, Johnson says.


    Does Anyone Really Know You?

    Does Anyone Really Know You?

    Standing to speak at the Fort Gibson National Cemetery, in Oklahoma, her youngest son spoke movingly about what she’d been like as a parent, recalling moments from his childhood, including a time when she dived to rescue him from the bottom of a lake.


    How to Opt Out of A.I. Online

    How to Opt Out of A.I. Online

    Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid the plague of artificial intelligence online.


    Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera rebrands as launch of new modern art space nears

    Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera rebrands as launch of new modern art space nears

    Founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria, the state-run Pinacoteca di Brera possesses one of Milan’s richest and most varied public art collections, including works by Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, Mantegna, Caravaggio, Titian and Bellini, as well as Francesco Hayez’s beloved painting The Kiss (around 1859).


    In Promotional Video, Lady Gaga Modernizes the Mona Lisa’s Smile

    In Promotional Video, Lady Gaga Modernizes the Mona Lisa’s Smile

    The museum released an 80-second video featuring Lady Gaga, who stars opposite Phoenix’s Joker as his maniacal love interest Harleen Quinzel, bopping through the Louvre’s halls, pointing finger guns at priceless works of art.


    Slowly, Brazil’s art market is becoming more racially diverse

    Slowly, Brazil’s art market is becoming more racially diverse

    “We have a culture of erasing the past in Brazil, but racism is finally no longer being ignored.” Mendes Wood DM has since signed Afro Brazilian artists such as Sonia Gomes and Rosana Paulino, the latter of whom currently has a show of paintings, botanical drawings and installations at the house museum of Eva Klabin in Rio.


    After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month

    After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month

    Among the artists currently represented in the collection are many women, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, MĂĄria BartuszovĂĄ, Sarah Lucas, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Sandra Mujinga, Senga Nengudi, Alina Szapocznikow, Rebecca H. Quaytman and Vivian Suter, she says.


    Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women

    Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women

    The typical BGIAS meetup sees the women have a private tour of an exhibition dedicated to work by a Black artist at a commercial gallery, museum or other art space, followed by a guided conversation about what they have just seen and then a meal together.