The Outsider Art Fair has revealed the exhibitor list for the 2018 edition of its New York fair. Now in its 26th year, the fair will once again return to Chelsea’s Metropolitan Pavilion, where 63 galleries from seven countries will show work by outsider artists. (The fair also alights annually in Paris.) In addition to…
The Venice Biennale announced this morning that Ralph Rugoff, director of London’s Hayward Gallery since 2006, will be curator of the 58th Venice Biennale, in 2019. A prolific writer about art for numerous publications, Rugoff was also the artistic director of the 13th Biennale de Lyon in 2015. Prior to the Hayward, he spent six…
After 17 years of research and analysis, the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation has completed the digital catalogue raisonné of the Spanish Surrealist’s paintings. The project makes more than 1,000 works between 1910 and 1983—excluding watercolours and drawings—freely available on the English, Spanish, Catalan and French versions of the foundation’s website. The online resource, compiled by the…
The Whitney Museum revealed today that the 2019 edition of its closely watched biennial will be organized by Jane Panetta, who is an associate curator at the museum, and Rujeko Hockley, an assistant curator there. Hockley joined the museum in March from the Brooklyn Museum, where she was assistant curator of contemporary art. Her curatorial…
Art Brussels has revealed the exhibitor list for its 2018 fair. For the fair’s 50th-anniversary edition, which will run April 20-22, Art Brussels will include 146 galleries from 33 countries, with nearly a quarter of the exhibitors showing for the first time. Newcomers and galleries returning to the fair include the Belgian outfits Mendes Wood…
Poor Rembrandt. Of all the greats, he is perhaps the artist most concerned with truth—but also the artist whose works have been most hopelessly muddled by art historians. Lot 10 in Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 7 December was a case in point: a perfectly respectable portrait of Petronella Buys, traceable within her lifetime…
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who was recently identified as the buyer of the $450m Salvator Mundi painting by Leonardo, has launched an artistic arm of his philanthrophic Misk Foundation. The Misk Art Institute, aims to “become Saudi Arabia’s leading platform for grassroots cultural production, diplomacy and exchange”. It…
Leonardo DiCaprio spent more than 45 minutes in a private room haggling over the price of an $850,000 Basquiat drawing at Art Basel Miami. The Oscar winner — who tried but completely failed to hide his identity under a baseball cap and a black hoodie while walking around with a huge entourage — spent more…
The buyer of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500), which as of last month is the most expensive artwork ever sold, is the Saudi Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud. The buyer’s identity, reported by the New York Times this evening, was discovered in the midst of an investigation into Saudi Arabia’s…
A pack that included some of the world’s top art collectors streamed into Art Basel Miami Beach’s First Choice preview this morning, and as the day went on buyers snapped up dozens of seven-figure works from the 268 galleries that have set up in booths at the city’s convention center. Despite construction outside related to…
