Dmitry Rybolovlev is charging forward with his lawsuit against Sotheby’s, the nearly 250-year old auction house that he alleges was at least partially complicit in a plan to defraud him in their support of Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier, who sold the Russian billionaire some $2 billion worth of blue-chip art over the course of more…
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The Safdie brothers, the filmmaking duo behind “Uncut Gems” (2019) and “Good Time” (2017), are splitting up. Benny Safdie confirmed the “amicable” breakup with his brother, Josh, in an interview with Variety, calling it “a natural progression of what we each want to explore.” “I will direct on my own, and I will explore things…
Any German museum that refuses to go to a national advisory commission on Nazi-looted art could be ineligible for federal government funding. This is among several changes from culture minister Claudia Roth aimed at increasing the powers of the national panel, according to a report from the Art Newspaper. But the changes have not been…