Author: Sam Art

Jack Lang has been re-elected president of the Institut du Monde Arabe (Institute of the Arab World, IMA) in Paris. Lang, who has led the Institute since 2013, was “unanimously” renewed for a three-year term by a board of 14 Arab ambassadors and personalities appointed by the French government. His appointment was supported by President Emmanuel Macron.Lang was the only candidate after former foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian withdrew from the race to lead the French agency for the development of the Saudi province of AlUla (Drian was appointed president of the French Agency for the Development of AlUla earlier…

About three years after the Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) in Reno suspended plans to move forward with a branch museum in Las Vegas, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the philanthropist foundation Elaine P. Wynn announced an unprecedented partnership to launch a new museum in the city called the Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA).The museum, slated to open in 2028, will cost about $150 million and span 60,000 to 90,000 square feet over three floors. Earlier this month, the Las Vegas City Council approved negotiations to dedicate a parcel of land to the Las Vegas…

Established Los Angeles artist Henry Taylor is having something of a renaissance. Taylor was thrust into the spotlight in 2017 when her painting of Jay-Z appeared on the cover of the New York Times style magazine. T. A major exhibition of his works is currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (until January 28, 2024). It was primarily in the spotlight in Paris earlier this year when a show of 30 new paintings, sculptures and works on paper opened at Hauser & Wirth (From sugar to shituntil January 7, 2024), inaugurating the new gallery…

Archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Poland discovered an ancient Native American calendar at the Castle Rock Pueblo archaeological site in western Colorado, which contains the remains of an ancient settlement. Although the oldest petroglyphs found date back to the third century AD. C., JU researchers found previously unstudied rock panel work created in the 13th century, when the site was at its peak. Polish research team leader Radosław Palonka sees these findings as the start of a new discovery process, combining cutting-edge mapping technology and collaboration with local indigenous communities to better understand the area.Castle Rock is the…

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on On Balance, to ARTnews newsletter on the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. At the end of last month, I found myself on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the city of Diriyah, standing in front of the newly opened Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMOCA) and looking at a sight that, as a local arts professional observed. , capture what the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is everything. Before me, I could see the peaceful Wadi Hanifah valley where Diriyah residents gather for leisure activities, to…

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will sell a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington that it has kept for 80 years during a Christie’s auction of American art this January. The 1795 painting depicts Washington near the end of his presidency, and is one of more than 100 portraits of him that Stuart painted. The Met, on the other hand, owns one more, also from 1795, which is more famous than this one; that work is among the most outstanding works in the museum’s holdings. At Christie’s, Stuart’s painting is expected to sell for between $1.5 million and $2.5…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that it has begun the return of 14 sculptures to Cambodia and two to Thailand that were associated with art dealer Douglas Latchford. The returns were the result of an agreement between the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the museum. The returned items are Khmer artifacts “made between the 9th and 14th centuries in the Angkorian period and reflect the Hindu and Buddhist religious systems prevailing at that time,” according to a museum press release. The group also includes statutes from the archaeological site of Koh…

After years of starts and stops, the Bardo National Museum, often called the “jewel of Tunisian heritage,” finally reopened this year. Housed in a 17th-century beylic palace in the suburban town of Le Bardo that also houses the country’s parliament, the newly renovated museum has welcomed several thousand visitors in the months since it reopened in September. The Bardo’s most recent closure came about two years ago after President Kais Saied’s decree to close the parliament, which shares the same building. That was the latest in a series of recent closures that began during the 2011 revolution. It closed again…

A masterpiece hanging in the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid has long sparked debate as to whether it was the work of Raphael. But a group of researchers now claim to have finally solved the mystery by using an artificial intelligence algorithm. O Madonna of the Rose (Madonna of the Rose) it represents Mary, Joseph and the child Jesus, along with a childish version of John the Baptist. Until the 19th century, the painting was attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael. Doubts then arose about the figure of Joseph “which seemed…

Prices at this year’s auctions have been volatile, prompting questions about whether the market is slowing down, but that hasn’t stopped Julie Mehretu from setting and resetting records. In October, the Ethiopian-American painter set a new record for an African-born artist when an untitled work from 2021 sold for $9.32 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. It broke the previous record, set by South African artist Marlene Dumas The Visitor (1995) in 2008, when it sold for $6.33 million at Sotheby’s in London. Then, in November, Mehretu broke her record with a new one: her 2008 work Walkers with dawn and…