Princess Diana gown, Lebron James jersey and ornate Bronze Age disc lead Sotheby’s latest cross-category auction experiment
The auction house’s first “The One” sale in New York included a mix of ancient artefacts and modern memorabilia organised into thematic sections
Detroit Institute of Arts ordered to keep Van Gogh painting as lawsuit over its ownership heads to appeals court
A judge had previously dismissed the lawsuit brought against the Michigan museum in a dispute over the canvas “The Novel Reader”
Looted archaeological artefacts worth more than $20m returned to Italy
The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt
Jewish collectors’ heirs sue the Guggenheim for return of Blue Period Picasso
The heirs of Karl and Rosi Adler claim “Woman Ironing (La repasseuse)” (1904) was sold under duress by the fleeing couple and are seeking its return—or as much as $200m in compensation
San Francisco gallerist filmed spraying unhoused woman with hose arrested and charged with battery
Shannon Collier Gwin could face up to six months in prison if convicted
Kim Kardashian buys amethyst cross worn by Princess Diana at Sotheby’s
A representative for the reality television star and entrepreneur emerged victorious from a five-minute bidding war
Former manager at the Art Institute of Chicago accused of stealing $2m from the museum
The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years
Amid national crisis, Beirut builds museum to house hidden art collection
Two years after an explosion caused billions of dollars of damage, the Beirut Museum of Art has broken ground in the Lebanese capital
Film on Nan Goldin and her campaign against the Sacklers shortlisted for best documentary Oscar
Laura Poitras’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is one of 15 films on the shortlist to be nominated in the documentary feature category at the 2023 Academy Awards
Did the Metropolitan Museum cover up its acquisition of a Nazi-looted Van Gogh? A new lawsuit alleges so
The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it
Pope Francis returns Vatican Museums’ Parthenon marbles to Greece
The pope’s decision to give the Vatican’s three Parthenon marbles to the head of the Greek Orthodox Church comes amid mounting pressure on the British Museum to repatriate its marbles to Greece
‘We went from having two Cézannes to three’: x-ray of still life painting reveals hidden portrait
On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master
New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs awards $58m in grants to more than 1,000 arts organisations
The 1,070 cultural grant recipients, the first since new municipal reforms to correct for funding biases were introduced, are the largest funding cohort in the department’s history
The Year in Art: We take a look at 2022’s biggest stories—and what they mean
Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year
Biden picks rising star at the Smithsonian to head presidential arts committee dissolved by the Trump administration
Tsione Wolde-Michael, director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the first Black leader of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Three US museums win prize to fund acquisitions at Expo Chicago fair
Museums in Seattle, St Louis and St Petersburg will make purchases at the Chicago fair next year thanks to the Northern Trust Purchase Prize
Bookforum, Artforum’s literary sister magazine, ceases publication
The publication’s sudden closure comes just days after Penske Media Corporation acquired Artforum
Michigan contemporary art museum will close permanently due to funding shortages exacerbated by the pandemic
The Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, which opened 45 years ago, will shutter for good in February 2023
The college disgrace: School of the Art Institute of Chicago rescinds Kanye West’s doctorate
The artist now known as Ye was awarded a degree by his hometown art school in 2015, but his sustained antisemitic rhetoric caused the school to revoke it
Gerhard Richter, giant of German painting, signs exclusively to David Zwirner gallery
Richter, a native of Dresden, will have his first solo show with the Cologne-born mega-dealer in March 2023
'Buy work from living artists': Becky Gochman—supporter of Indigenous artists—on what she collects and why
The collector sees herself more of a temporary custodian than an owner, she says
Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith’s massive mosaic murals for new Manhattan train station revealed
The artists’ vast new works adorn the Grand Central Madison terminal, which opens to the public later this month
My Tennessee museum home: Dolly Parton plots Nashville institution
The country music superstar, already the subject of a museum at her Dollywood theme park, is planning a cultural complex in Nashville
Sculptor Julien Creuzet wins $20,000 French art prize at Art Basel in Miami Beach
The artist’s work is on show in both Andrew Kreps and High Art’s stands at the fair
'I have a painting of two pig butts—portraying love—hanging in my kitchen': collector Ashley Abess on what she buys and why
The Miami native got the collecting bug young, buying a series of portraits—which still hang in her home—when she was in college
'An African way of seeing and Duchamp’s way of playing': artist Alexandre Diop shares his artistic inspirations
As an exhibition opens at the end of his residency at Miami’s Rubell Museum, the artist explains why discarded found objects are fundamental to his work
From a Keith Haring painting to a mummified Barbie: what collector Mario Cader-Frech buys and why
The adviser to the Untitled Art fair, and champion of contemporary artists from his native El Salvador, has only ever sold two works
From working at the dollar store to exhibiting at the museum next door: artist Didier William returns to Miami
The Haitian-American artist’s largest retrospective to date, staged at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, is in the very neighbourhood where he grew up
In pictures: journey back in time through the Everglades
An exhibition in Miami of historic photographs marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of Florida’s famous Everglades National Park
Gagosian showing new Amoako Boafo work in Miami before hosting his first New York solo show
The Ghanaian painter and market darling has not formally joined the world’s biggest gallery—for now