Carlie Porterfield

Venus Williams and Adam Pendleton team up for charity auction to fund restoration of Nina Simone’s childhood home

The legendary civil rights activist and musician was born in the North Carolina house and spent the first years of here life there

Chinati Foundation names new executive director

Caitlin Murray will take over at the Marfa museum founded by Donald Judd

Seven more paintings from Paul Allen’s collection could fetch $30m at Christie’s

Last year, the late Microsoft co-founder’s art collection brought in a record $1.6bn over two auctions

David Chipperfield, architect of renowned museums from Margate to Mexico City, wins 2023 Pritzker Prize

Chipperfield’s building projects include Turner Contemporary and Museo Jumex, as well as expansions of Kunsthaus Zürich and London’s Royal Academy

Female cult leaders, clay creatures and pink rooms: highlights from this year’s Outsider Art Fair in New York

This marks the 31st iteration of the fair, which champions self-taught, folk, naïve and outsider artists

Collection of San Francisco photography museum could fetch $15m at Sotheby’s

The family behind Pier 24 Photography, which will close in 2025, is sending much of its enormous collection to auction, though the Maryland-based Glenstone Museum has already snapped up 112 choice pieces

Dismissal of billionaire collector and MoMA trustee Leon Black’s racketeering lawsuit upheld

Black claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy to push him out of his private equity firm

A new hotel fair for up-and-coming galleries will launch in Dallas

The inaugural Dallas Invitational Art Fair will be held in April across the street from the established Dallas Art Fair

Lawsuit over controversial Marilyn Monroe statue reinstated by appeals court panel

The 26ft-tall statue of Marilyn Monroe has been called sexist by community members in Palm Springs, where it has been on public display since 2021

New York gallery migration continues as Marian Goodman and Alexander Gray plot moves to same Tribeca block

The galleries, longtime fixtures of the Midtown and Chelsea gallery districts, will open directly across Broadway from each other

Palm Beach art dealer pleads guilty to selling counterfeit blue-chip art

Daniel Elie Bouaziz was accused of selling fake works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Joan Mitchell Foundation sends cease-and-desist to Louis Vuitton over handbag ads

The late abstract artist’s foundation claims Louis Vuitton used Mitchell’s work in a campaign without permission

Works from publishing billionaire S.I. Newhouse’s collection could bring more than $144m at Christie's

A previous group of 11 works from Newhouse's collection brought in $216.2m across two Christie's sales in 2019

Rubens portrait from Met trustee’s collection could fetch $30m at Sotheby’s

“Portrait of a Man as the God Mars” once broke the Old Master’s auction record and was on display at the Metropolitan Museum for several years

Art Bridges acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction

The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton

Artist and the local football club help fairgoers with soccer skills at Frieze Los Angeles

Alake Shilling demonstrated the art of football at a clinic organised by the Art Production Fund and Los Angeles Football Club

Gold rush: collectors snap up California artists’ work at Frieze Los Angeles

Dealers open new outposts and auction house activity intensifies around the growing fair

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist says he was conned in dealer’s $1.6m art fraud scheme

Detroit-area gallery owner Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year on mail and wire fraud charges following an FBI investigation

Indiana university under fire over plan to sell $15m Georgia O’Keeffe painting to fund dorm renovation

Museum associations and the university’s former art department chair have spoken out against the planned deaccessioning

Celebrated Chicago museum co-founder’s vast Outsider art collection heads to auction

A cut of the sale’s proceeds will benefit the Intuit museum as it plans for expansion

Hermès wins lawsuit against maker of MetaBirkins NFTs

A jury ruled NFT artist Mason Rothschild’s line of digital handbags was subject to trademark law

Restituted Kandinsky painting lost in the Holocaust could sell for $45m

The painting, which was the subject of a decade-long provenance dispute, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s London in March