The Zurich-based Germann Auction House made history last month by selling the first ever work of art solely authenticated using AI. Germann have worked with a Swiss AI authentication company, Art Recognition, in what has been described as a “pivotal test case”.
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Jasleen Kaur has won the coveted 2024 Turner Prize with a vibrantly eclectic installation that showcases the Scottish Sikh community. Everyday personal objects collide with highly charged political images in her installation at London’s Tate Britain, amongst them a giant doily draped over a vintage Ford Escort.
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The British Museum will be receiving a gift valued at around £1 billion, the highest value gift any UK museum has ever received. The Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation have announced that they will be donating around 1,700 Chinese ceramics to the London museum, who will now have the largest and most significant public collection of Chinese ceramics outside of the Chinese speaking country.
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“I’ve bought the banana!!!” revelled Justin Sun, the Chinese billionaire and founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON. Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019) smashed auction records at Sotheby’s New York, selling for a staggering $6.2 million (£4.9 million) including buyer’s premium on 20th November 2024.
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Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr., creator of “Undead Apes” NFTs, has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering by a Florida jury. Nowlin and his co-creator made nearly $400,000 from the scheme, which piggybacked off the success of their previous collections to mislead investors.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s controversial duct-taped banana is predicted to achieve more than $1 million (£771,000) at Sotheby’s New York next month. Titled Comedian, the piece split opinions around the world when it appeared at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019.
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Archaeologists in Peru have recently uncovered the first known painted throne room of a powerful Moche woman at Pañamarca. The so-called “Hall of the Moche Imaginary” was built by the prosperous civilisation in the 7th century CE.
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An extremely rare engraving by the Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), which was discovered in a landfill, has fetched £33,390 at auction.
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After a lengthy investigation, police have arrested a Spanish man in connection to a forged Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) painting that was misleadingly valued at €1.3 million (£1.1 million). French Customs officers thwarted the sale in 2022 thanks to an expired export license raising suspicion.
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The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York has repatriated the remains of 124 Native American ancestors and 90 cultural items. Revised federal regulations that came into effect earlier this year motivated the AMNH to reconsider their collection, which contains the remains of around 12,000 individuals, approximately 25% of whom are of Native American descent.
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