3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (336+ words) What may be the largest ancient Roman wall mosaic ever found has been open to the public for limited viewing. Roberto Gualtieri, the mayor of Rome, unveiled the 1st-century CE mosaic, along with a fresco discovered at the same time,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (507+ words) This year's winners are honored for “deeply interested in the forces that shape what we see—and what we don’t,” wrote the Rabkin Foundation. The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, named eight recipients of its 2026 prize for visual…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (297+ words) The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the newly inaugurated institution spearheaded by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, may finally have opened to the press and founding members after $1 billion in costs and more than a decade of bureaucratic wrangling,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (270+ words) Paintings by Paul Signac are earmarked for high-profile sales in New York, Paris, and London. Christie’s will sell nearly 600 works of modernist art from the same collection under the title “Radiant Modernism.” The sale will occur across…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (292+ words) Three of the four initially stolen paintings by Renoir from a southern French museum are ownerless, following their loss during WWII. Three of the Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings stolen yesterday morning from a museum in southern France may have been stolen…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (484+ words) Eric Firestone is expanding south. The dealer will open his fifth gallery space, this time in West Palm Beach in mid-November, adding a permanent South Florida location to his two spaces in New York and two in East Hampton. The…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (441+ words) By Julie Brener Davich They committed to establishing a program to help living artists benefit from secondary-market sales. After seven years, they finally found a like-minded collaborator in Bonhams. “They were eager to partner with us on a game-changing idea,…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (540+ words) Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, the news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (256+ words) A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture that was disassembled last week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has found a new owner: none other than the embattled center’s former chairman, David Rubenstein. Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist,…...

6+ day, 53+ min ago   (343+ words) They are among five recipients of the top arts award given by the Japan Art Association for work that has had a “lasting impact on humanity.” Artists Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are among the five recipients of Japan’s…...