Carlie Porterfield
Bored Ape Yacht Club collectors sue Sotheby’s over NFTs auction
The auction house’s 2021 sale helped lend legitimacy to the line of cartoon apes, the plaintiffs claim, and was “misleading promotion”
Chelsea gallery Hollis Taggart expanding again despite fears of a slowing market
The gallery’s space will grow by nearly 700 sq. ft thanks to an expansion into the space next door
Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta denies withholding payments of more than $600,000 from artist Jeffrey Gibson
Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta denies withholding payments of more than $600,000 from artist Jeffrey Gibson, who will represent the US at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Detroit-area photography dealer pleads guilty to $1.5m art fraud scheme
Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year after an FBI investigation
Art Basel names new director for Miami Beach fair
Bridget Finn, a partner at a Detroit-based gallery and co-founder of one of Brooklyn's legendary DIY spaces, will oversee North America's most important art fair
The Photography Show fair will relocate to New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2024
The long-running photography fair was last held at the Upper East Side institution until 2016, when it decamped to Midtown
San Francisco gallerist filmed hosing down unhoused woman strikes deal to have battery charges dismissed
Collier Gwin, who was facing up to six months in prison if his case had gone to trial, will complete 35 hours of volunteer work
Angelina Jolie is renting Jean-Michel Basquiat’s last New York apartment
The property on Great Jones Street in Manhattan will house Jolie Atelier, the actress’s latest project
Art Market Hamptons fair postponed until 2024
The Hamptons’ longest-running art fair has been called off this year due to “unforeseen logistical issues”
Tel Aviv museum cancels art restitution conference with Christie’s over $202m auction linked to Nazi fortune
The event was scheduled to mark the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles, which helps guide the return of artwork looted during the Holocaust.
Less than half of California State University campuses are complying with federal Native American restitution regulations, audit finds
The California universities “generally lack the policies, funding and staffing necessary to follow the law and repatriate their collections”, the report found.
Ancient Mesoamerican artefact with ties to ritual ball game returned to Mexico
An auction house in Austria intended to sell the artefact before officials stepped in, according to the Mexican government
13 art destinations for day trips near New York City this summer
Our picks of the must-see shows within a (relatively) short train, car, bus or ferry ride from New York City this summer, from the Storm King Art Center to the Newark Museum
Climate activists, protesting against federal charges against their colleagues, rally at the Metropolitan Museum
Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art
Germany returns two Indigenous masks to Colombia after more than a century
During their time in Berlin, the two sacred masks were treated with a pesticide that may still be dangerous
Douglas Latchford’s estate hands over $12m to settle US trafficking case
The late antiquities dealer was accused of profiting off stolen Cambodian antiquities
Major Robert Colescott painting coming to auction during Armory Week in New York
"1919" is among Colescott’s most important works, according to Bonhams, and figured prominently in a recent touring retrospective
A gallery's new island residency in the Philippines focuses on sustainability and the local community
The first cohort of artists participating in Silverlens's residency will use materials found on Kopiat Island to create public art installations
Wool you look at that: rare set of François-Xavier Lalanne sheep net $1.3m at Bonhams New York
Buyers flocked to Lalanne’s famous sheep and helped ramp prices up past the auction house's estimates
German restitution commission recommends Bavarian bank return Kandinsky painting to heirs of former Jewish owners
Kandinsky’s "A Colorful Life" (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction
MFA Boston settles ownership dispute with Jewish dealers’ heirs over a painting Hitler wanted for his Führermuseum
"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations
New York fair Portal will not return to Governors Island after clash with trust over event space
Representatives for The Trust for Governors Island said they could not accommodate the fair’s requests amid surging demand for exhibition space on the island.
Wildfire smoke in New York shuts down art world events
Hazardous air blowing smoke into the city from fires in Canada pressed cultural institutions and art spaces to close or postpone events
Starfish brooch designed by Salvador Dalí sells for nearly $1m at Christie’s
The brooch once belonged to socialite Rebekah Harkness, the subject of a Taylor Swift song
Dealer Robert Mnuchin and his daughter opened a restaurant on New York's Shelter Island
The blue-chip art dealer and his daughter Valerie Mnuchin have opened Léon 1909, serving French and Italian dishes
186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday
Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Sotheby’s will pay $100m for the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer building
The auction house expects to move into the Madison Avenue building in 2025, vacating its current York Avenue headquarters
French actor Alain Delon’s art collection heads to auction
"The Leopard" star’s collection could bring in as much as €5m at Bonhams in Paris
Palm Beach art dealer sentenced to over two years in prison for blue-chip art fraud scheme
Victims spent “tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars” on counterfeit art sold by the dealer, according to the US Department of Justice
Propelled by Marie Antoinette's poodle, mid-season Old Masters auctions in New York fetch nearly $13m
Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market