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Jean- Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat died young, yet his influence has only grown. Doug Woodham’s book, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon, looks at both the person and the forces that turned him into a global art phenomenon. Woodham begins with Basquiat’s childhood in Brooklyn, his loving but fragile mother, the chaos that followed her illness and…
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Van Gogh exhibition featuring two ‘Sunflowers’ at a Philadelphia Art Museum
Next year the Philadelphia Museum of Art will pull off something special. It is bringing together two of Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers paintings for a show running from June to October 2026. Philadelphia will display its own turquoise version from 1889 alongside the National Gallery’s iconic yellow-background version from 1888. London almost never lets that…
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Forged Picasso
Bavarian police have uncovered a major international art forgery ring involving fake works supposedly by masters such as Picasso, Rembrandt, Miró, Modigliani, and Frida Kahlo. Earlier this month, officers carried out coordinated raids across Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, seizing counterfeit artworks, documents, phones, and digital records. At the center of the investigation is a 77-year-old…
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Dubai Museum of Art (DUMA)
Dubai is set to get its first-ever art museum, the Dubai Museum of Art (DUMA) , a private project led by the Al Futtaim Group. Designed by world-renowned architect Tadao Ando, the museum will rise on an artificial jetty in Dubai Creek, with a striking curved shell design. The project was revealed at a ceremony…
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Agar Khan Collection Breaks record for South Asian art sale
A remarkable Mughal painting by the 16th-century Indian artist Basawan, A Family of Cheetahs in a Rocky Landscape, has made history at Christie’s London, selling for £10.2 million ($13.6m). The sale sets a new record for any classical Indian or Islamic artwork. The piece came from the collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, whose 95-lot…
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Art Basel Paris
Art Basel Paris 2025 attracted international attention, especially from American collectors, signalling a renewed confidence in the art market. Major sales included Gerhard Richter’s ‘Abstraktion’ (1987) for 23 million dollars, Julie Mehretu’s ‘Charioteer’ for 11.5 million dollars, and Alberto Burri’s ‘sacco e oro’ for 4.8 million dollars. Top tier works like a 50 million dollar…
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King Tutankhamun’s Tomb at Risk of Collapsing
Studies show that Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt is deteriorating due to cracks, fungal growth and rising humidity. This damage is directly linked to flash floods and climate change which have therefore increased moisture and weakened the surrounding limestone and shale. Sayed Hemeda from Cairo University found that the fault lines running through the tomb are…
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Missing Picasso
A €600,000 Picasso painting, Still Life with Guitar (1919), disappeared while being transported from Madrid to Granada for an exhibition at the Caja Granada Foundation. The van delivery on October 3 never arrived as expected, but the missing artwork wasn’t discovered until several days later. Police believe the theft likely occurred during an unexplained overnight…
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Stolen Jewels worth 88m Euros
On the 19th of October at 9:30 a.m., two masked thieves accessed the Apollo Gallery by a truck lift. They cut through a window and smashed the display cases, escaping with 19th-century royal and imperial jewels valued at nearly 90 million. These items, linked to personalities such as Marie-Amélie, Hortense, Empress Marie-Louise, and Empress Eugénie,…
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Frieze Abu Dhabi November 2026
Frieze will be taking over the existing Abu Dhabi Art fair through a partnership with the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT). This marks Frieze’s first Middle Eastern fair. The announcement follows rival Art Basel’s plan to debut in Doha, Qatar, in February 2025. Frieze’s expansion coincides with Ari Emanuel’s acquisition of the…