Art Fairs Frieze Los Angeles Opens With Pop-Cultural Cachet in the Aisles, on the Stands, and in the Sales Figures The fair debuted with an impressive slate of sales, including several works that spoke directly to a hoped-for Hollywood clientele. By Tim Schneider, 1 day ago
Art and Law Veteran Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tax Evasion The veteran art dealer pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion in September. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 days ago
Art World From Frieze’s Takeover of Los Angeles to the Loss of Robert Ryman: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Caroline Goldstein, 16 hours ago
Art World Here Are 18 Photos of a Slightly Bewildered Brad Pitt Taken By Ecstatic VIPs at Frieze Los Angeles It's like we've never seen a famous person before. By Henri Neuendorf, 16 hours ago
On View ‘Art Makes New Spaces’: Watch How Artist Lucas Blalock Uses Photoshop as His Digital Darkroom As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By artnet News, 19 hours ago
Art World Germany Is Returning Artifacts Stolen From a Namibian Freedom Fighter During Its Colonial Rule Namibia's president will personally receive a bible and whip that German colonizers looted in 1893. By Henri Neuendorf, 19 hours ago
Art Fairs What Art Should You Buy at Frieze LA? A Psychic Art Advisor Is on Hand to Help Solve All Your Creative Conundrums We sat down with the Psychic Art Advisor at Frieze LA. Did she set us on the path to art world greatness? By Sarah Cascone, 19 hours ago
On View This Artist Spent 5 Years Chasing Wildfires Across California. See His Harrowing Footage Here The violent effects of climate change are on full view in Jeff Frost's latest work. By Sarah Cascone, 23 hours ago
Auctions SFMOMA Is Selling a Painting by Mark Rothko at Sotheby’s This Spring, and It Could Fetch Up to $50 Million The museum plans to use the proceeds to diversify its collection, which is heavy on white, male, and blue-chip figures. By Eileen Kinsella, 23 hours ago
Art World Art Industry News: France’s Most Prolific Art Thief Is Caught Red-Handed—Again + Other Stories Plus, the Morgan Library launches a $12.5 million renovation and an all-women art collective stage a protest outside the National Gallery of Art. By artnet News, 1 day ago
Art Fairs Who Shops at Frieze Los Angeles? We Buttonholed Brad Pitt, Jane Fonda, and Other Famous Names at the Fair Here's what the Hollywood stars thought of the fledgling fair. By Sarah Cascone, 1 day ago
On View For the First Time Ever, the Rijksmuseum Is Showing All 400 of Its Rembrandts at Once. Take a Look Inside the Momentous Exhibition Tickets are flying for the once-in-a-lifetime tribute to the Dutch artist’s genius. By Naomi Rea, 1 day ago
Art Fairs Why Would a Mega-Collector Want a Fair of His Own? We Spent a Rainy Afternoon With Felix Founder Dean Valentine Trying to Find Out We shadowed the veteran Los Angeles collector as he inspected the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ahead of his debut fair. By Matt Stromberg, 2 days ago
Politics ‘A Major Victory’: Artists React to Amazon’s Decision to Drop Plans to Establish a New York City Campus In the face of opposition from local politicians and community activists, the online retail giant scrapped plans to move to New York. By Henri Neuendorf, 2 days ago
Exhibitions Japanese Architect Junya Ishigami Plans to Defy Gravity With His 2019 Serpentine Pavilion The architect, who won the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, wants to create a "hill made out of rocks" in Hyde Park. By artnet News, 2 days ago
Galleries The Famed Paris Gallery Bernheim-Jeune, Which Held the First van Gogh Retrospective in 1901, Has Closed The gallery also held the first Futurist exhibition ever to come to Paris in 1912. By Kate Brown & Naomi Rea, 2 days ago
Galleries Los Angeles Gallery Various Small Fires Expands to Seoul, Citing a Growing Appetite for Western Art in Korea The gallery will launch in April with a show of work by legendary Los Angeles artists Billy Al Bengston and Ed Ruscha. By Henri Neuendorf, 2 days ago
