The theft of royal jewelry, collectively valued at $102 million, from the Louvre Museum’s Apollo Gallery on October 19 has sparked everything from memes to heated debate over the museum’s…
Annah Otis
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s recently opened Dive Egypt exhibition is the latest in a long line of shows centered on ancient Egyptian art to draw massive crowds and fanfare.
Faced with government funding cuts and mounting redevelopment expenses, the British Museum is taking a page out of the American fundraising playbook with an inaugural ball on October 18th.
Stock exchanges have been offering the public a piece of corporate earnings since the Dutch East India Company opened one in 1602, but only recently has art become a tradable security. Half a dozen…
Amid reports of the auction market’s steady decline, Sotheby’s has clinched a collection from the estate of Leonard Lauder valued at more than $400 million.
Contemporary museums and galleries are faced with the dual challenge and opportunity of working directly with living artists to display work in a way that feels authentic to both parties. However, in…
The impending closure of Christie’s digital art department and the reduction in staff working on NFT sales at other auction houses during the past year calls into question the future of…
At a time when climate change solutions feel farther from the national agenda than they have in years, cultural institutions across the United States are staging exhibitions that seem like well-…
Influencer marketing has been a mainstay of consumer brands for years, but only recently have museums embraced the trend with the same enthusiasm. With about 300 million people globally…
Amid the horrific loss of life and suffering resulting from geopolitical conflicts across the globe, dozens of organizations and individuals are quietly saving the art and artifacts that continue to…
Alberto Giacometti’s “Large Thin Head” is still waiting for its next collector after failing to sell at Sotheby’s New York auction in May for an asking price of $70 million. Andy Warhol’s “Big…
