On September 20, Christie’s auction house officially opened its new Asia Pacific headquarters in The Henderson, a newly developed office building in Hong Kong’s Central district. This is Christie’s third major auction house to expand its footprint in the city, following Phillips
London’s National Gallery has just scored a monumental acquisition for its 200th anniversary, finally securing a work by the Dutch-born Victorian master Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The painting, After the Audience (1879), was brokered through Christie’s, with the museum paying £2 million to
In a morning conference call with reporters, Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti and other executives provided an overview of the auction house’s performance for the first half of the year. In summary, the results were disappointing. Christie’s recorded auction sales totaling $2.1 billion
Few things shape the human experience as profoundly or as pervasively as creativity does. So begins Elliot Paul Samuel and Dustin Stokes in their seminal article published in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2024 Edition). The authors delve into the philosophical
The exhibition titled Unbinding Histories opened at ‘Ka Space for Visual Culture and Artistic Thinking’ features works created by 8 artists from around the world who met through the 2022 edition of Studio Vortex Residency Program in Arles, France, led by Magnum
In an unprecedented cooperation, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum and Van Gogh Museum will present a pioneering exhibition named “Anselm Kiefer: Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind.” This important event, which runs from March 7 to June 9, 2025, will highlight the fundamental relationship
Stonehenge, the historic and renowned landmark in Wiltshire, UK, sparked a heated discussion on June 19, 2024, when it was targeted by Just Stop Oil campaigners. Around midday, two members of the group, Niamh Lynch, a 21-year-old Oxford University student, and Rajan
Spanish police said on Jan. 12 they had arrested 22 environmentalists over protests at museums and elsewhere, including one where they glued their hands to frames of paintings by Francisco de Goya. The group is suspected of 65 protests in Spain and
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston closed early on Thursday, saying that a planned protest by climate activists would’ve posed a threat to the institution. The museum, which was founded in 1903 and modeled on a Venetian palace, said it had
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon have launched a first-of-its-kind experience at the Museum, Replica, that allows visitors at The Met to scan artwork and bring elements of the works digitally into the global immersive platform Roblox through augmented reality (AR). Users
Keep posted on weekly art & culture news, special reports, opinion pieces and reviews from Turkiye and beyond.
By subscribing our newsletter, you agree with ArtDog Istanbul’s privacy policy.
