Carlie Porterfield

New York’s Malin Gallery to close after eight years in Chelsea

The contemporary art gallery will shutter amid allegations of overdue payments to artists and vendors

Jeff Poe steps down from Blum & Poe, a mainstay of the Los Angeles gallery scene

Jeff Poe and Tim Blum have been running the gallery together since 1994

Bored Ape Yacht Club collectors sue Sotheby’s over NFTs auction

The auction house’s 2021 sale helped lend legitimacy to the line of cartoon apes, the plaintiffs claim, and was “misleading promotion”

Chelsea gallery Hollis Taggart expanding again despite fears of a slowing market

The gallery’s space will grow by nearly 700 sq. ft thanks to an expansion into the space next door

Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta denies withholding payments of more than $600,000 from artist Jeffrey Gibson

Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta denies withholding payments of more than $600,000 from artist Jeffrey Gibson, who will represent the US at the 2024 Venice Biennale

Detroit-area photography dealer pleads guilty to $1.5m art fraud scheme

Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year after an FBI investigation

Art Basel names new director for Miami Beach fair

Bridget Finn, a partner at a Detroit-based gallery and co-founder of one of Brooklyn's legendary DIY spaces, will oversee North America's most important art fair

The Photography Show fair will relocate to New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2024

The long-running photography fair was last held at the Upper East Side institution until 2016, when it decamped to Midtown

Crime news

San Francisco gallerist filmed hosing down unhoused woman strikes deal to have battery charges dismissed

Collier Gwin, who was facing up to six months in prison if his case had gone to trial, will complete 35 hours of volunteer work

Angelina Jolie is renting Jean-Michel Basquiat’s last New York apartment

The property on Great Jones Street in Manhattan will house Jolie Atelier, the actress’s latest project

Art Market Hamptons fair postponed until 2024

The Hamptons’ longest-running art fair has been called off this year due to “unforeseen logistical issues”

Tel Aviv museum cancels art restitution conference with Christie’s over $202m auction linked to Nazi fortune

The event was scheduled to mark the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles, which helps guide the return of artwork looted during the Holocaust.

Less than half of California State University campuses are complying with federal Native American restitution regulations, audit finds

The California universities “generally lack the policies, funding and staffing necessary to follow the law and repatriate their collections”, the report found.

Ancient Mesoamerican artefact with ties to ritual ball game returned to Mexico

An auction house in Austria intended to sell the artefact before officials stepped in, according to the Mexican government

13 art destinations for day trips near New York City this summer

Our picks of the must-see shows within a (relatively) short train, car, bus or ferry ride from New York City this summer, from the Storm King Art Center to the Newark Museum

Climate activists, protesting against federal charges against their colleagues, rally at the Metropolitan Museum

Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art

Germany returns two Indigenous masks to Colombia after more than a century

During their time in Berlin, the two sacred masks were treated with a pesticide that may still be dangerous

Douglas Latchford’s estate hands over $12m to settle US trafficking case

The late antiquities dealer was accused of profiting off stolen Cambodian antiquities

Major Robert Colescott painting coming to auction during Armory Week in New York

"1919" is among Colescott’s most important works, according to Bonhams, and figured prominently in a recent touring retrospective

A gallery's new island residency in the Philippines focuses on sustainability and the local community

The first cohort of artists participating in Silverlens's residency will use materials found on Kopiat Island to create public art installations

Wool you look at that: rare set of François-Xavier Lalanne sheep net $1.3m at Bonhams New York

Buyers flocked to Lalanne’s famous sheep and helped ramp prices up past the auction house's estimates

German restitution commission recommends Bavarian bank return Kandinsky painting to heirs of former Jewish owners

Kandinsky’s "A Colorful Life" (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction

MFA Boston settles ownership dispute with Jewish dealers’ heirs over a painting Hitler wanted for his Führermuseum

"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations

New York fair Portal will not return to Governors Island after clash with trust over event space

Representatives for The Trust for Governors Island said they could not accommodate the fair’s requests amid surging demand for exhibition space on the island.

Wildfire smoke in New York shuts down art world events

Hazardous air blowing smoke into the city from fires in Canada pressed cultural institutions and art spaces to close or postpone events

Starfish brooch designed by Salvador Dalí sells for nearly $1m at Christie’s

The brooch once belonged to socialite Rebekah Harkness, the subject of a Taylor Swift song

Dealer Robert Mnuchin and his daughter opened a restaurant on New York's Shelter Island

The blue-chip art dealer and his daughter Valerie Mnuchin have opened Léon 1909, serving French and Italian dishes

186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday

Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Sotheby’s will pay $100m for the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer building

The auction house expects to move into the Madison Avenue building in 2025, vacating its current York Avenue headquarters

Carlie Porterfield. , with additional reporting by Scott Reyburn

French actor Alain Delon’s art collection heads to auction

"The Leopard" star’s collection could bring in as much as €5m at Bonhams in Paris