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Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman, was producing multiple works by many different artists. Forgery is not new. There have been copyists and schools teaching imitation since the time of the ancient Greeks. But in the 21st Century, as the art marketplace has become a veritable commodity exchange for wealthy collectors, a lucrative trade in facsimiles has reached new heights.  We know that a small number of the greatest art forgers have produced a very large number of fraudulent works. The Getty recently featured an exhibition about one such early 20th-century art fraud. Jean-François Millet’s grandson, born 17 years after his grandfather’s death, produced fake preparatory drawings of his grandfather’s work. He started in 1925 with an alleged study for Millet’s classic Man with a Hoe that had debuted at the Paris Salon of 1862. Soon, he and a partner were churning out Millet studies and selling them to unsuspecting Englishmen. Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Nearer the present, there is the example of the once

French art galleries are reportedly financially struggling and skeptical amid a wavering art market. A survey by market researcher Iddem, conducted among the Professional Committee of Art Galleries (CPGA), found that 85 percent of the French gallery association’s 324 members were pessimistic about the economic well-being of the art sector this year. This follows a six percent drop in turnover among French galleries in 2024, with the global art market falling by a total of 12 percent per the UBS Art Basel 2025 report. (The Asian art market, for its part, has been steady, if unspectacular, based on activity at Art Basel Hong Kong and at the auction houses this year.) The relentless pace of the art fair calendar, combined with the overall sluggish art market, has taken its toll on galleries across the globe, with a number of midsize galleries like Blum and Venus Over Manhattan closing up shop. Both noted the strain of following more traditional models, with Tim Blum of the eponymous gallery saying of his departure, “This is about the system.”

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, Phillips, one of the world’s top auction houses, claimed that a billionaire’s son failed to pay $14.5 million for a Jackson Pollock painting that sold in New York this past November. The lawsuit, filed in the Supreme Court of New York, alleges that David Mimran, a film producer and the son of French businessman Jean Claude Mimran, had agreed to pay that sum as a third-party guarantee. Third-party guarantees, which have become common in major sales, especially since the onset of the pandemic, help auction houses defray the risk of offering art by bringing in an outside backer who agrees to buy a work, even if bidding does not break a certain barrier. Documents submitted alongside the lawsuit, which was first reported by the New York Post over the weekend, suggest that the Pollock painting did not reach that amount when it came to sale. Per a third-party guarantee agreement submitted by Phillips, Mimran would have to pay just half of the $14.5 million if the work’s hammer price—an amount that does not account for additional fees—exceeded $14.2 million. The Pollock piece, an early drip painting, was the Phillips sale’s top lot. Painted [...]

Cuomo lost to Mamdani by 12 percentage points on June 24 despite a super political action committee (PAC) spending more than $22 million, the largest amount in the city’s history. Spending is sure to spike as the candidate’s respective campaigns advance towards November 4, and per a recent ARTnews data analysis, prominent art world figures have already gotten involved in the race. Those who made donations to Cuomo’s campaign include: Mamdani also received campaign donations from notable names in the art industry, including:

An artist from Cleveland, Ohio is transforming a classic 1947 Greyhound bus, which he saved from a Pennsylvania junkyard, into a traveling museum.Robert Louis Brandon Edwards, who is also a historian and preservationist, is tearing out the bus’s interior (in a previous life in the 1970s it was a motorhome equipped with a kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom) so he can turn it into the Museum of the Great Migration.The Great Migration was a period between around 1910 and 1970, when millions of African Americans uprooted from the rural South to the North America’s Midwest, West, and Northeast. The museum will highlight the experiences and hardships they endured as they migrated north, including racism, Jim Crow segregation laws, and violence. Its program will include virtual reality exhibitions.Related ArticlesJustin Sun, Billionaire Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan's Banana, Is Purchasing $100 M. of Trump's MemecoinWeTransfer Changes Terms of Service After Criticism About Updates to Licensing Rights “Depending on how quickly I can raise the funds to get the bus operational again, I hope to have it on the road by this time next year, and plan to hit all of the major Great Migration destination c

The company’s new terms of service were set to go into effect on August 8. Many art galleries, museums, and other art institutions use WeTransfer to send digital images of artworks, exhibitions, and art fair presentations. “With that said, members of the art community using WeTransfer can rest assured that we do not use their content to train machine learning models and other AI tools.”

It’s just the latest headline-grabbing purchase for Sun, who made waves in the art world for purchasing Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian—the famed duct-taped banana—at Sotheby’s in December for $6.2 million. (He later ate the banana.) Then, in April, a New York Times investigation into World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency firm majority-owned by a Trump family corporate entity, revealed that Sun had spent $75 million on $WLFI coins. Sun has also been embroiled in legal turmoil over an entirely different purchase. In February, Sun sued billionaire art collector and music mogul David Geffen over the Alberto Giacometti sculpture Le Nez (1949–65), which Sun has said he bought in a private deal. Geffen countersued, claiming that the work was stolen from his collection by an employee and fraudulently sold. Sun has called for Geffen to hand over the sculpture.

Faltaban diez minutos para las diez de la noche cuando la cantante todoterreno Rozalén aparecía en pantalla en calidad de madrina de L'Olleria, que describía como “un pueblo muy bonito que tiene mucha historia”. En la localidad de la Vall d'Albaida, numerosas personas se congregaron en el campo de fútbol del polideportivo municipal para animar a los 35 deportistas locales que competieron en el acontecimiento histórico a través de una pantalla gigante instalada por el ayuntamiento, que vino precedida por animación musical con DJ y una cena a la fresca para todo el pueblo. A continuación, se proyectó un vídeo promocional de l'Olleria en el que compartieron protagonismo las “filaes” de Moros i Cristians, la tradición cohetera del municipio (de la mano de la pirotécnica Nuria Martí), el “arròs al forn” como plato típico y, por supuesto, los artesanos manuales del vidrio, representados con el artista Rafa Abdón. “Somos emprendedores, solidarios y nos gusta mucho la fiesta”, resumió el alcalde.

The gallery’s second solo exhibition with Montréal-based painter Vincent Larouche. Comprising the exhibition are Larouche’s most recent paintings.

This summer, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London will present “Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025”, a major group exhibition and event programme curated by Lubaina Himid, the Turner Prize winning artist who will represent Great Britain at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Celebrating

Boston 20 February – 13 June 2027With over 50 works 'Renoir and Love'  will be the most significant exhibition of the French impressionist’s work in the UK for 20 years.The first exhibition devoted to the artist at the National Gallery since 2007 'Renoir and Love' will which will be exhibited in the UK for the first time.Organised in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 'Renoir and Love' will focus on the crucial years of the artist’s career, from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s. The exhibition merry-making, flirtation, courtship and child-rearing in Renoir’s art. Loans from private collections and museums worldwide include pictures Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena, California; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.Exhibition co-curator Christopher Riopelle, the