Global Art Market Returns to Growth in 2025, but Recovery Remains Uneven
The Art Basel and UBS report puts 2025 global art sales at $59.6 billion, up 4 percent year over year, with gains strongest in top tier auction categories.
New York Academy of Art to Redirect Epstein Linked Funds
The New York Academy of Art says it will donate remaining Epstein linked money to an anti trafficking nonprofit, extending a delayed institutional cleanup process.
Guide: How to Use the #OneWeek100People Challenge to Rebuild Attention
The global sketch challenge asks participants to draw 100 people in seven days. Done correctly, it is a practical method for observation training, not just an online trend.
Unearthed Rego Painting Reframes Edvard Munch as a Formative Influence
A newly surfaced teenage work and archival letter indicate Paula Rego’s early encounter with Edvard Munch was foundational, not incidental, to her visual language.
MSCHF’s Angus Project Saved a Cow and Exposed the Limits of Viral Ethics
MSCHF’s tokenized ‘Our Cow Angus’ project crossed its rescue threshold, but the episode raises harder questions about whether spectacle-driven participation can produce serious ethical discourse.
Frida Kahlo Heads to Netflix as Institutions Reheat the Global Kahlo Cycle
Netflix is developing a drama on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as major museum programming in New York and London signals another high-intensity phase of Kahlo canonization.
Guide: How to Use the #OneWeek100People Challenge as Serious Looking Practice
The global sketch challenge asks participants to draw 100 people in seven days; used well, it is less a social trend than a disciplined method for attention, observation, and visual memory.
Yves Bouvier Ordered to Stand Trial in Paris Over Missing Picasso Works
A French judge has sent dealer Yves Bouvier to criminal trial over alleged disappearances of Picasso works from a storage unit tied to Catherine Hutin, escalating one of the market’s longest-running legal sagas.
Pedro Friedeberg, Architect of Ornamental Defiance, Dies at 90
Mexican artist and designer Pedro Friedeberg has died at 90, closing a seven-decade career that resisted minimalist orthodoxy and made ornament, irony, and perspective central to modern Mexican visual culture.