Young artist Aziz Hazara has been awarded the Future Generation Art Prize of US$100,000 (£76,000) for his video installation documenting the resilience of people in Afghanistan. Through his work Hazara draws attention to his hometown of Kabul, one of the many cities ravaged by war since US military intervention began after 2001.
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US billionaire Michael Steinhardt has surrendered his collection of antiquities worth US$70 million (£53 million), after a lengthy investigation found they had been looted or illegally smuggled into the country.
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Renowned American pop artist Jeff Koons faces an infringement lawsuit for allegedly copying a sculptural stage setting of a serpent wrapped around a rock designed by another artist, which Koons used for his series “Made in Heaven”.
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This year an Irish pub installation has been crowned winner of the coveted Turner Prize. By translating their activism into artwork, Belfast-based activist group Array Collective won the £25,000 prize.
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Unseen since it was last sold in 1949, the famous Hamilton Aphrodite is to be offered in a dedicated sale at Sotheby’s in London. The larger than life-size Roman statue is now estimated to fetch between £2 million and £3 million.
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Frida Kahlo’s (1907-1954) intimate oil painting has sold for a staggering $34.9 million (£25.9 million) at Sotheby’s New York, setting a new auction record for the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist. It is significant as one of her final self-portraits, which candidly reveals the artist’s distress over her husband Diego Rivera’s (1886-1957) public affair with friend and famed actress Maria Félix (1914-2002).
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Rising from the ashes of a devastating fire, The Scottish Crannog Centre on Loch Tay has defiantly won a prestigious national museum award. “We’ve had brilliant support from partners to make this happen, so a big thank you to all and a big well done to everyone within the Crannog community,” reflected managing director Mike Benson.
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Curators at the Museo del Prado in Madrid are the latest in a long string of scholars and other arts professionals to publicly announce their doubts about the attribution of the Salvator Mundi to Leonardo da Vinci. The painting was sold at Christie’s in 2017 as by Leonardo for a staggering $450m, however even prior to the sale there was considerable debate over this attribution.
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Two diamond bracelets that once belonged to Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), the queen of France, have sold at Christie’s in Geneva for CHF 7.5 million (£6.1 million). The jewellery, which includes 112 diamonds in total, outshone the pre-sale estimate by more than double.
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In 1979, five paintings were stolen from Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha, Germany. The works did not re-emerge for 40 years, and the event became communist East Germany’s biggest ever art heist. In 2019, however, the paintings were returned to Friedenstein, and new scientific analysis and research indicates that one of the portraits, previously attributed to seventeenth-century artist Ferdinand Bol, might be a lost masterpiece by Rembrandt.
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