London-based private equity firm Pemberton Asset Management has purchased auction house Bonhams from private equity group Epiris. The terms and amount of the sale remain undisclosed, but the acquisition comes two years after Epiris aborted an effort to float...

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A quartet of thieves made off with priceless necklaces, tiaras, and earrings encrusted with thousands of diamonds and other gems after breaking into the Louvre in Paris on the morning of October 19. Staff and visitors were present when...

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The Kalil House in Manchester, New Hampshire, a Usonian Automatic home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the US Secretary of the Interior. Completed in 1957 as a private...

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San Francisco’s Altman Siegel Gallery is set to close November 22 after sixteen years in operation. Its last exhibition, of the work of Japanese painter Shinpei Kusanagi, will close a week earlier, on November 15. Founded in 2009 in...

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The City of San Francisco has proposed a $35 million renovation of Embarcadero Plaza that does not include the park’s Vaillancourt Fountain, a 710-ton Brutalist concrete structure completed in 1971 by Canadian artist Armand Vaillancourt. Built to circulate 30,000...

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Curates sound as ceremony at the 2025 Venice Music Biennale

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The Courtauld Gallery and Institute in London has revealed itself to be the recipient of a £30 million ($40 million) donation, the largest in its ninety-three year history. The gift was made by the Reuben Foundation, a charitable organization...

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The announcement last week by the Government of Flanders that it planned to “reform the landscape of its own museums and the visual arts sector” and strip Antwerp’s Museum of Modern Art (M HKA), Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum,...

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The Smithsonian on October 12 closed all twenty-one of the museums operating under its auspices as the US government shutdown begun on October 1 continued to draw on. The organization also shuttered its fourteen education and research centers and...

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London-based art fair operator Frieze on October 10 announced the launch of Frieze Abu Dhabi. The event is being staged through a partnership with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), which organizes Abu...

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Chilean activist, artist, and poet Cecilia Vicuña, known for her quipus—strands of knotted fibers that reference the ancient Andean communication system—has been named the winner of the 2025 Roswitha Haftmann Prize. Established in 2001, the honor, which is accompanied...

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Filmmaker Ken Jacobs, a towering figure in the world of experimental cinema, died of kidney failure on October 5 in New York. He was ninety-two. Alongside peers including Jack Smith and Jonas Mekas, Jacobs pioneered the use of found...

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Artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley, interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim, multidisciplinary artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and basket artist Jeremy Frey have been named as among the 2025 class of MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation....

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The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, closed its doors to the public on October 5, six days after the federal government ceased operations following the failure of Republicans and Democrats to agree on a spending bill....

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The Frick Collection in New York has announced Aimee Ng as its next chief curator, effective this November. Ng, who is currently the museum’s John Updike Curator, has been a member of its curatorial department since 2015. She will...

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Artnews has announced the nominees of its second annual Artnews Awards. The platform established the prizes last year to honor “excellence in art achievements at US arts institutions,” per a press release. Qualifying nominees are those who mounted exhibitions...

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Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj has won the 2027 iteration of the Nasher Prize. Established in 2015, the award, considered to be the world’s most prestigious sculpture honor, is presented biennially by the Nasher Sculpture Center to a living artist...

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The Qatar Foundation has revealed that it will inaugurate a new institution dedicated to the life and work of influential Indian modernist Maqbool Fida Husain in Doha’s Education City later this fall. Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum...

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