2024

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Foreign Sunscreens Battle It Out in the Biggest SPF Market in the World

Sun care brands hoping to win over the US, like Australia’s Naked Sundays or Korea’s Beauty of Joseon, have to play by the FDA’s (regressive) rules. [...]

De Beers Group Is Hiring on BoF Careers

Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion and beauty talent. [...]

Case Study | How Brands Build Genuine Communities

Community is too often reduced to a buzzword, but when cultivated correctly, it can be one of fashion’s most powerful means for engaging customers and building loyalty, particularly in times [...]

How to Make a Members Club Work in New York

Private clubs like LA’s San Vicente and London’s The Twenty Two are flooding New York City. Can they make membership a ‘must-have’ for a new generation of affluent New Yorkers? [...]

Harper’s Bazaar Italia Names New Creative Directors

Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, the founders of design studio M/M, will spearhead the publication’s visual identity. [...]

Nike Sued Over Closure of Crypto Business

Purchasers of Nike-themed cryptocurrency assets said they suffered significant losses when the company abruptly closed its RTFKT unit in December. [...]

Shein Hikes US Prices Ahead of Tariff Increases

For women’s clothing the average rise was 8 percent, but some items saw much more substantial price rises. [...]

This Week: Adidas, Prada and the US Conference Board Assess the Tariffs’ Impact

A busy stretch of economic data and earnings will offer a clearer picture of how Trump’s trade war is affecting the industry. [...]

‘Protect the Dolls’ T-Shirt Becomes a Fashion Symbol for Trans Rights

The viral Conner Ives-designed shirt has been worn by musician Troye Sivan and actor Pedro Pascal; its sales have raised £380,000 for Trans Lifeline with “that figure going up by [...]

Abbvie Lifts Profit Guidance, Cosmetic Treatments Revenue Lags

The drug manufacturer’s cosmetic business, which includes anti-wrinkle treatments like Botox, missed Wall Street expectations, and may be further impacted by potential tariffs on European countries. [...]

Zegna Group Revenues Down 1% as Wholesale Struggles and DTC Grows

‘We are encouraged by these early positive results but also mindful of the recent geopolitical and economic uncertainties,’ the Italian luxury group’s chairman and CEO Ermenegildo Zegna said in a [...]

Trump Sees Trade Deals Getting Done in Three to Four Weeks

The US president told Time magazine he expects to wrap up deals with trade partners seeking lower tariffs soon — though China’s fate remains up in the air. [...]

North America’s Oldest Firm Meets Its End. Some Argue Its Fate Was Avoidable

Hudson’s Bay Co. ULC previously planned to save six of its 96 stores from liquidation — but those six locations, including its flagship store, are now also being wound up. [...]

What’s Behind the Art Market Malaise?

The fine art sector is facing existential challenges that go far beyond the current market turbulence, argues Marc Spiegler. [...]

Collections of two leading dealers, Barbara Gladstone and Daniella Luxembourg, hit the auction blocks in New York

Sotheby’s will sell the works from collection of Gladstone, who died last year, and more than a dozen pieces from Luxembourg’s New York home [...]

Head to head: medieval experts clash over exact number of penises in Bayeux Tapestry

In a new blog post, a scholar in Anglo-Saxon nudity doubles down on his belief that the mystery appendage is a phallus, not a scabbard [...]

Edward Gorey’s surreal back-of-the-envelope illustrations tell a moving story

The writer and artist’s delightful illustrated correspondence chronicle a long friendship [...]

Two new art centres set to open in Venice

The new San Marco Art Centre will be based in St Mark’s Square from next month, while the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation will take over the Dorsoduro building [...]

Older women artists go it alone as new report reveals how the traditional art world is failing them

Meanwhile their younger counterparts struggle more acutely with living costs [...]

‘It’s much more extreme’: US institutions and artists enter a new culture war

The Trump administration’s efforts to slash funding and influence programming have pushed cultural workers to organise [...]

Trump’s Garden of American Heroes seeks artists for its 250 statues

Meanwhile, Americans of all political stripes disapprove of the president’s cultural takeover while Max Hollein says Trump’s new anti-DEI rules “do not apply” to the Met [...]

Activity and optimism at Expo Chicago attest to the city's 'fearless' community of collectors and patrons

The fair's 12th edition opened with high spirits and swift business in the five-figure price range [...]

Chicago's Intuit Art Museum set to unveil $10m renovation

The small but mighty museum for outsider art is reopening after a two-year overhaul [...]

MFA Boston to return Benin Bronzes to wealthy donor, close gallery

The unusual move follows years of negotiations between the museum, the collector and the Kingdom of Benin [...]

Sistine Chapel to close for conclave preparations

Other cultural sites have also been steadily shutting down to visitors as the Vatican marks the death of Pope Francis [...]

Public mosaic by Jeremy Deller and Coralie Turpin explores the history and nature of Scarborough

The Roman-style work completes the Wild Eye art and nature trail, which connects five other artist commissions along the coast [...]

Holy ground: why Persian carpets played an important symbolic role in the funeral of Pope Francis

For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, including Andrea del Verrochio, to indicate a carefully defined, sacred [...]

Judge orders the Art Institute of Chicago to restitute Nazi-looted Schiele drawing

The latest development in the ongoing dispute over a 1916 portrait believed to have been stolen from Fritz Grünbaum by the Nazis [...]

Gallery sharing event Constellations Warsaw brings international flavour to a quickly developing art scene

The show's second edition comes amid a rise in collecting by Poland's professional classes, and the relocation of the city's public Modern art museum [...]

Pope Francis and art, J.M.W. Turner’s 250th birthday, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’—podcast

Exploring the late pontiff’s deep connection to and impact on visual culture, plus why Turner’s work continues to resonate so strongly today, and the story of Sargent’s most famous painting [...]

‘The arts are vanishing from education’: new report urges UK government to invest in arts sector

Backed by MPs and artists including Tracey Emin and Larry Achiampong, the report calls for a £5m grassroots visual arts fund and a reversal of funding cuts [...]

Fragility, resilience and humour: Wolfgang Tillmans and Boris Mikhailov to open photography show in war-torn Kharkiv

The exhibition, entitled Pairs Skating, is due to open later today at the Yermilov Centre [...]

After a failed export block by the UK, Nicolas Poussin masterpiece goes on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi

The mid-17th-century painting, titled 'Confirmation', is a key work from the vast collection of the emirate's Department of Culture and Tourism, which is now being made public [...]

Conservation of Tintoretto painting in UK reveals ‘layer of history hiding under the surface’

Research on ‘Wise and Foolish Virgins’, which is going back on display at the National Trust’s Upton House in Warwickshire, has revealed alterations made by the Venetian artist and others [...]

Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism [...]

Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló is reaping the rewards from its continual reinvention

The Barcelona museum's latest revamp has added 2,000 sq. m for immersive exhibitions [...]

Nelson-Atkins Museum picks architect for $160m expansion

The museum in Kansas City has tapped the firm Weiss Manfredi to overhaul its campus [...]

Rembrandt works called into question by experts in the Netherlands

Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery say famous paintings may have been made by the Dutch Old Master’s students or studio assistants [...]

Leading Indian artist Anita Dube accused of ‘intellectual theft’ after using protest poem in Delhi gallery show

The writer Aamir Aziz said in a widely shared social media post that four works by Dube, offered for sale at Vadehra Art Gallery, use his words without permission [...]

Yayoi Kusama survey at National Gallery of Victoria becomes best-selling art exhibition in Australian history

The museum reported that 570,537 tickets were purchased for the show, which closed in April [...]

Former Sotheby's chairman recounts the birth of the London art market as we know it

James Stourton's new book explores changes from the power shift to the auction houses in the mid-20th century to the excesses of the 1980s and 90s [...]

Zurab Tsereteli, Georgian-born artist and Russian patriot, has died aged 91

Artist, who also ran museums and institutions in Russia, was best known for his monumental sculptures, including a 30m-high memorial to victims of 9/11 in the US [...]

Ahead of Romania’s re-run presidential election, its art scene remains vigilant

With the far-right candidate George Simion leading in the polls, concerns have been raised about what his victory may mean for “contemporary, critical, or progressive forms of art and culture” [...]

Taiwan's newest art institution taps into a flourishing local scene

The New Taipei City Art Museum, which opens to the public on 25 April, is part of a drive to distinguish the municipality from the neighbouring capital [...]

Comment | Trims to Sotheby's African Modern and contemporary art department are just one unwelcome sign for this previously healthy market

Auction sales for contemporary and Modern African art have declined—but African art fairs are still going strong [...]

Blanc gallery celebrates 15 years in Chicago's historic centre of Black enterprise

A springboard for emerging and overlooked artists, the Bronzeville space offers a bridge to other institutions [...]

Banksy balloon heart mural back on view in New York ahead of charity auction

The giant slab of wall adorned with Banksy's "Battle To Survive a Broken Heart" will go to auction to benefit the American Heart Association [...]

Hotly debated Caravaggio becomes ‘first by the artist to be shown in India’

“Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” will be on display at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi until 18 May [...]

Swiss Bührle Foundation reaches settlement with heirs of Jewish collector over Manet’s ‘La Sultane’

The settlement with the successor of Max Silberberg, of which details are confidential, allows the painting to remain on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich [...]

The story of the Met’s ‘missing’ Banksy

The New York museum’s former security head admits to taking the street artist's work after it was illicitly hung on the wall in 2005 [...]

Tate announces 2025 Turner Prize shortlist

The four nominated artists will take part in an exhibition in Bradford later this year as part of the UK City of Culture festival [...]

A brush with… Salman Toor — podcast

Salman Toor talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work [...]

Guy Ullens, collector and patron of Chinese contemporary art, has died, aged 90

The Belgian businessman co-founded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens [...]

Kehinde Wiley responds to woman's lawsuit alleging sexual assault

This is the first known time allegations against Wiley have been brought to court [...]

Jeremy Deller to close National Gallery's bicentenary celebrations with ‘first of its kind’ parade and party

The event, planned to take place in London's Trafalgar Square on 26 July, will draw folklore and traditions from across the UK [...]

Why the inaugural Art Week Riyadh was a fair in everything but name

The event saw 32 galleries take part to test out Saudi Arabia's growing art market—but organisers maintain it was a non-commercial venture [...]

‘Message of solidarity’: Barbara Kruger to unveil new text work on Ukrainian train

The work will travel across Ukraine, emblazoned across a passenger train [...]

Chicago's cultural affairs department hits crisis point

The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events recently added new members to its Cultural Advisory Council to help right the ship [...]

Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams to create large-scale commissions for Obama Presidential Center

The centre in Chicago will feature a tiled installation by Finch and a bright, abstract composition by Adams [...]

Wafaa Bilal: ‘I see democracy slowly eroding now’

On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Iraqi American artist reflects on how his work grapples with the personal impact of political power [...]

Expo Chicago connects the Midwest to the global art market

For its second edition under Frieze’s ownership, the Windy City’s art fair aims to extend its international impact, including deepening ties with Korean galleries [...]

Turkish artists face pressure amid government crackdown on opposition

Mahir Polat, the head of Istanbul’s cultural heritage department, was recently released after being arrested along with other key cultural figures [...]

Haarlem Resistance hero commemorated with illicit 'stumbling stone'

When the Dutch city authorities declined to honour the bravery of a policeman who sheltered Jewish people, his family enlisted the help of the artist Gunter Demnig [...]

San Francisco Art Fair brings attention to Bay Area scene and sales for exhibitors from near and far

The fair’s programming included events with local institutions and stands devoted to non-profits and collectives [...]

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