The £12.2m auction relied on tried and tested names, but estimates proved too high for buyers’ appetites
What might the fallout be after Creative Australia’s unpopular decision to cancel Khaled Sabsabi’s project? Plus, AI art beyond this week’s open letter and a chat about Catlett’s terracotta sculpture ‘Tired’
Artist of memorials to family memory and sprits exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles, Documenta Fifteen (2022) and the Ghetto Biennale, in Port au Prince
The ring, which dates from the ninth or tenth century, has been unofficially likened to J.R.R. Tolkein’s “one ring to rule them all“
‘Women in Revolt!’ heads to Manchester, Tracey Emin makes the Independent Women 2025 Influence List and EmpowerHER ‘25 creates a space where “women’s voices in art could truly be seen and heard”
A recent documentary claimed that a local freelancer, not photographer Nick Ut, took the famous shot of a naked Vietnamese girl. Ut—and his legal team—say different
‘Sag mir wo die Blumen sind’, the centrepiece of a new two-part exhibition, is titled after a 1950s anti-war song by the folk singer Pete Seeger
At the last minute hundreds of Kiefer’s home-grown sunflower seeds stuck on a huge painting needed to be replaced after they had attracted insects
The artist’s first major museum survey, “Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, tracks 20 years of his identity-driven photorealism
Due to be sold at Sotheby’s New York in May, the group of works includes pieces by Guardi and Canaletto and is billed as the “most valuable single-owner collection of Old Master paintings ever to appear at auction”