Slow Start to New York Auctions, Dutch Royal Academy of Art Cuts Ties with Israeli Art School, Filmmaker Smuggled Out of Iran, and More: Morning Links for May 14, 2024 To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. 05/14/2024 - 1:43 am | View Link
$27.7 million Bacon tops New York art auction sales A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York on Monday, topping the first night of contemporary art auctions that grossed ... 05/13/2024 - 4:38 pm | View Link
Art Market Seeks Its Footing After Stumbling Sales and a Hack at Christie’s Declining sales and a cyberattack ignite new worries at spring art auctions. Estimates are still soaring past the $20 million mark and canvases still bear the signatures of dependable ringers like ... 05/12/2024 - 5:35 am | View Link
New York’s Evening Auctions Will Be a Litmus Test for the Art Market. Here’s What to Watch For New York's May evening auctions, otherwise known as "gigaweek," may be more subdued this year. Here is what to look for. 05/10/2024 - 8:11 am | View Link
GENEVA — Conflicts and natural disasters left a record nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East driving two-thirds of new movement, a top migration monitoring group said Tuesday.
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found that the number of internally displaced people, or IDPs, has jumped by 50% over the past five years and roughly doubled in the past decade.
The Biden Administration has announced new tariffs on Tuesday for Chinese made electric vehicles, quadrupling the current tariff from 27.5% to 102.5%, as well as new tariffs on solar cells, steel, and aluminum.
These tariffs are expected to raise $18 billion in imports from China.
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Currently, China exports very few electric vehicles to the U.
Who’s really to blame for the war in Ukraine? Vladimir Putin and his government? Or Russia and its people? Under international law, the answer may seem obvious. The Russian President gave the orders for his military to invade, and he carries ultimate responsibility. But in the 26 months since that calamitous decision, the question of blame has widened in the minds of many Ukrainians.
Twenty-eight-year-old Thai activist Netiporn Sanesangkhom, also known as “Bung,” died in a hospital in Bangkok on Tuesday after going into cardiac arrest. She had been hospitalized following a hunger strike she started in January to protest the country’s judicial system and imprisonment of political dissenters like herself.
Bung’s death comes amid waves of similar hunger strikes initiated by pro-democracy protesters detained in Thailand, which has come under criticism for its ironfisted treatment of activists at odds with the country’s conservative establishment.
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As Gaza solidarity encampments take root at dozens of campuses across the U. S., many Democratic and Republican lawmakers—in addition to President Joe Biden—have accused protestors and colleges of rampant antisemitism.
That’s woefully misguided—and dangerous. Indeed, the blanket assertion by pro-Israel advocates is intended as a political cudgel: weaponizing antisemitism to shield Israel from criticism of its attack on Gaza, which has left at least 35,000 Palestinians dead in the wake of the Oct.
BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Putin will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit starting on Thurday, it said.
The Kremlin in a statement confirmed the trip and said Putin was going on Xi’s invitation.