Crime A Palm Beach Dealer Peddling Cheap Warhol and Basquiat Replicas for Millions Has Been Sentenced to Over Two Years in Prison The dealer has started paying back victims of his scam. By Sarah Cascone, May 31, 2023
Art World Officials in Philadelphia Have Removed a Beloved Public Art Installation to Make Way for Upcoming Renovations 'Your Move,' installed outside the city’s Municipal Services Building since 1996, will now be 'disposed of.' By Adam Schrader, May 31, 2023
Politics Chinese President Xi Jinping Has Told a State Art Museum to Uphold ‘a Politically Correct Direction’ Amid Pressures on China’s Cultural Sector The president urged the museum to champion the core values of socialist culture under Xi Jinping Thought. By Vivienne Chow, May 31, 2023
Art World A Palatial Home by Frank Lloyd Wright—With a Circular Design Echoing His Guggenheim Museum—Has Hit the Market for $8 Million The architect stayed there during the museum's construction. By Lee Carter, May 31, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: Celebrities Turned Out in Force for Billionaire Collector Joe Nahmad’s Lavish Wedding in Sardinia + Other Stories Plus, a company will sell a $55 million Francis Bacon in $100 shares and Anicka Yi joins Esther Schipper. By Artnet News, May 31, 2023
Auctions Disco Queen Donna Summer’s Personal Possessions—Gold Records, Handwritten Lyrics, and Her Own Abstract Paintings—Are Heading to Auction This June Christie's relives the legend's heyday with a shimmering sale timed with her HBO documentary. By Vittoria Benzine, May 30, 2023
Gallery Network Spotlight: In an Ottawa Exhibition, Three Emerging Canadian Artists Rethink What Painting Means in a Digital Age The exhibition "Constructed Truths: Alexandra Flood, Atticus Gordon, and Andrew Morrow" coincides with the gallery's 10th anniversary. By Artnet Gallery Network, May 30, 2023
Auctions Two Miniature Qing Dynasty Jars, Snapped Up at a U.K. Thrift Store for $25, Just Sold for More Than $74,000 at Auction The 18th-century jars bear the mark of the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty. By Artnet News, May 30, 2023
People Ilya Kabakov, the Ukrainian American Conceptual Artist Who Lived Through Totalitarianism But Dreamed of Utopia, Has Died at 89 The artist died peacefully during the night on Saturday, surrounded by his family. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 30, 2023
Artnet News Pro By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Christie’s Hong Kong Evening Sales, May 2023 The combined hammer total from the Post-Millennium and 20th/21st Century Sales barely surpassed the presale low estimate. By Vivienne Chow, May 30, 2023
Crime A Michigan Dealer Charged With Conning Collectors Out of More Than $1.6 Million Is Expected to Strike a Plea Deal The dealer, Wendy Beard, faked life-threatening health scares and invented fake employees to dodge payments to clients. By Taylor Dafoe, May 30, 2023
Gallery Network 7 Questions for Dealer Bernard Jacobson on Why He’s Devoting Three Back-to-Back Exhibitions to Robert Motherwell’s Work Bernard Jacobson Gallery in London is presenting an expansive exhibition program revisiting the many facets of Motherwell's oeuvre. By Artnet Gallery Network, May 30, 2023
On View Ernest Cole’s Groundbreaking Photographs of South African Apartheid Have Been Rediscovered After Going Missing for Decades. See Them Here Amsterdam's FOAM museum hosts the first exhibition of the artist's lost archive, rediscovered in a bank vault in 2018. By Sarah Cascone, May 30, 2023
Art World Damien Hirst’s Colorful Spin Painting of Leonardo DiCaprio Just Raised $1.3 Million for Charity Collector Christian Levett donated the work to be sold at the amfAR gala in Cannes. By Richard Whiddington, May 30, 2023
Auctions ‘The Stuff of Legend’: $20 Million Worth of Treasures From the Rothschild Dynasty Is Heading to the First Auction of Its Kind The Christie's sale features Renaissance paintings, furniture, jewelry, and silver. By Artnet News, May 30, 2023
