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Yesterday, Christie’s opened its branch in Saudi Arabia – the first international auction house to do so. The new space will be curated by Noor Kelani, who was appointed the maiden managing director of Christie’s in Saudi Arabia.…

The year 2023 finally saw a downturn in the rising trend that began in 2021. The pandemic era saw even more interest in blue-chip art, with all of the top ten artworks of 2021 selling for more than $50 million. Just a year prior in 2020,…

Here is the last part of the series that covered the biggest events that rocked the art world in the year 2023: Also Read: Art Insider Roundup: Events That Shook 2023: Part 2 AI Art continues making us ask: What’s Real Art? Like the…

Obviously, it's not easy to cover everything that impacted the art world. So, here is the second part of the series detailing a few more of the events that shook the art landscape in 2023: Also Read: Art Insider Roundup: Events That Shook…

As the year 2023 comes to a close, it is time to take a look back and see how the art world fared. And like every year, it was not without challenges. While the difficulties that arose from the pandemic are now finally in the past, new…

Heirs of an Austrian, Jewish gallery owner have filed a case against Sotheby’s for faking the provenance of a painting sold in 2019. The painting in question is St. Francis of Paola Holding a Rosary, Book, and Staff by Giovanni Battista…

Twenty tombs, over 2500 years old and from the Late Period, have been unearthed in Damietta, Egypt. Some of the tombs were encased in mudbrick linings, while others were simply put in a dirt pit. Early dating of the tombs suggests that…

Mark Pereira, the art dealer beloved in Trinidad & Tobago, was killed at his home on Monday during a robbery attempt. The tragic event occurred on the evening of December 19 at Pereira’s vacation beach house in Blanchissuese,…

The heirs of a Jewish art collector have sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, over an allegedly Nazi-looted Vincent van Gogh painting. The case was filed at a federal court in San…

American painter Philip Pearlstein, known for bringing realism to nude portraits in the 60s, died at age 98. He died at a New York hospital on Saturday due to natural causes. His death was confirmed by Betty Cuningham, the gallery which…