S’estimant propriétaire d’une Ferrari 250 GTO, Patrick Bardinon l’a vendue sans demander l’avis à sa famille. Ce qui lui vaut de comparaître, ce jeudi, devant le tribunal correctionnel de Guéret. Habitués à la discrétion, les héritiers de Pierre Bardinon, connu pour avoir été l’un des plus grands collectionneurs de Ferrari au monde, vont exposer leur…
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, the Grade-I listed country home of visionary British architect Sir John Soane (1753-1837), will re-open to the public on 16 March 2019 following a threeyear, £12-million conservation and restoration project. The Regency Manor, built between 1800 and 1804 in then-rural Ealing, will be returned to Soane’s original design – it is…
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to serve as a visual reminder of the impact of climate change on the environment. The hunks of ice are scattered across…
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has teamed up with premium luggage manufacturer Rimowa to design a collection of 46 suitcase stickers inspired by rocks and lava. The Collaborating for a Cause project aims to do exactly what it’s name says – Eliasson and Rimowa have come together to create a series of luggage stickers, with all proceeds going towards helping…
A landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, estimated to be worth between $131,000 and $181,000, was stolen off the walls of the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna on Monday, November 26. According to the New York Times, three men entered the auction house at 5:15 PM, approached the painting, took it out of its frame, and then exited the…
France will return 26 works of art to Benin more than a century after it took them from the west African nation. President Emmanuel Macron ordered the pieces returned “without delay” to the former French colony, according to a report commissioned by the French government. The pieces have been in France’s possession for 126 years,…
Sotheby’s est devenue samedi la dernière maison d’enchères internationale à mettre fin aux ventes d’objets en corne de rhinocéros, retirant des lots anciens d’une vente prévue à Hong Kong après un tollé d’associations de défense de l’environnement. La maison d’enchères devait mettre en vente trois lots de corne de rhinocéros la semaine prochaine. « La société…
David Hockney is the world’s most expensive living artist as of Thursday night, when “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures),” his big, color-soaked picture from 1972, sold at Christie’s New York for $90.3 million. It’s a dubious distinction, given that the eighty-one-year-old British painter won’t see a cent of the proceeds. In the U.S.,…
