Aug 8, 2022 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
The Hall des Lumieres will open this fall in New York City, and bring immersive digital art to a whole new scale. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank was built in 1909, a Beaux-Arts icon designed by Raymond F. Almirall. When it was completed in 1912, it was the...
Jul 25, 2022 | Art, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Looted artifacts are on their way back to Italy, as New York investigators hand over 142 objects they’ve seized in the past year. A third of the stolen assortment came from the collection of Mr. Steinhardt, a billionaire antiquities collector who was made to...
May 23, 2022 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
The Macklowe collection, the artwork at the center of a high-profile divorce case, has sold at auction for just shy of $1 billion. Harry and Linda Macklowe married in 1959, and for nearly 60 years lived an extremely affluent lifestyle together. They had a $72 million...
Apr 18, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
An art trove found in an abandoned barn by a mechanic may be worth millions of dollars. Jared Whipple heard from a friend of his that there was something odd in a dumpster in an abandoned barn in Watertown, Connecticut. Curious, he went out and found hundreds of...
Apr 11, 2022 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Xeo Chu is 14, opening a solo London show, and already a darling of the art world, but still ‘just a kid.’ Xeo Chu’s first ever painting was a portrait of his mother, gallery owner Nguyen Thi Thu Suong. “Ears are very difficult,” is all he has to say...
Mar 28, 2022 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Yves Klein’s invisible art sold for pure gold in 1958, and the receipt will sell for half-a-million Euros, according to Sotheby’s. In 1958, French artist Yves Klein set a empty cabinet in an empty room in a Paris art gallery and thousands of people paid to...