Art Basel has revealed the exhibitors and programming highlights for its 2025 Hong Kong edition, which opens to the public on March 28 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Some 242 galleries are currently set to participate, the same number of exhibitors as the 2024 edition, give and take a few names: 46…
Welcome to Wet Paint in the Wild, the freewheeling—and free!—spinoff of Artnet News Pro’s beloved Wet Paint gossip column, where we give art-world insiders a disposable camera to chronicle their lives on the circuit. To read the latest Wet Paint column, click here (members only). It’s been about four years since collector Lonti Ebers opened…
“Everyone who works (in the job) has stories about the expensive, delicate, sacred and impossibly large things they’ve had to pack into a crate and ship somewhere:” weird things such as an electric chair, and difficult things like a 3,000 pound pre-Columbian artifact amidst an ice storm. – The Washington Post (MSN) Source link
“Hi, My name is Edward Berger and I’m the director of the movie “Conclave.” So we’re about 30 minutes into the movie. We’ve set up the place as the Vatican and the Pope has died. And now Cardinal Lawrence, the character played by Ralph Fiennes, is the Dean of the College of Cardinals, meaning he…
Christie’s has been consigned to sell Claude Monet‘s Pommiers en fleurs (1872) by the Union League Club of Chicago to help fund a $10 million renovation of its building. The auction house will feature the painting of a French lane with blooming white flowers and bushes at its 20th Century Evening Sale on November 19. The…