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The Logic Behind Balenciaga’s Pierpaolo Piccioli Appointment

Kering has named the former Valentino designer known for his deft use of colour and sculptural couture to succeed Demna in an apparent reset at the Paris-based brand. [...]

Bath & Body Works Appoints Former Nike Executive Daniel Heaf as CEO

The former Nike chief strategy and transformation officer will assume the new role effective immediately. [...]

British Luxury Exports to EU Lag Due to Brexit, Lobby Group Says

Shipments of UK designer goods to the EU have grown more slowly than they would have otherwise, according Walpole. [...]

The 2025 Playbook for Employer Branding

During a recent LinkedIn Live, BoF’s senior correspondent Sheena Butler-Young and commercial features editorial director Sophie Soar shared insights into how companies can account for a workforce with evolving needs [...]

US Treasury Secretary Says Walmart Will ‘Eat Some of the Tariffs’ After Trump Demand

The US Treasury Secretary claimed Walmart’s CEO assured him the retailer would absorb some tariffs, contradicting the company’s earlier statement about raising prices last week. [...]

The End of the Lipstick Index

After years of double-digit growth and a perception of being impervious to wider economic downturns, the beauty industry is finding that cash-strapped customers aren’t interested in “little luxuries.” [...]

What’s the Carbon Footprint of Your Shoes?

Efforts to map the footwear industry’s carbon footprint have lagged behind those in fashion. A new study aims to start addressing that. [...]

When Parke Pops Up, Gen-Z Comes Out

The apparel brand, which has become a viral sensation on TikTok, hosted its largest pop-up yet over the weekend, attracting long lines of devoted fans. [...]

At Raisefashion, Supporting Underrepresented Designers at the Forefront of Sustainable Fashion

With sustainability falling down the priority list for fashion executives in 2025, emerging designers are looking to meet demands for conscious consumerism — but face substantial challenges in an oversaturated [...]

Saks Creditors Form Majority Group Ahead of Potential Debt Talks

The bondholders have organised and hired advisors Lazard Inc. and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison while they prepare for potential financing talks with Saks Global. [...]

Indian Cosmetics Brand Colorbar Eyes IPO in Early 2027

The cosmetics company expects to double revenue to over $117 million in the fiscal year starting April 1. [...]

System Launches New Bi-Annual ‘System Collections’

The title could provide a handy source of new revenue for the Anglo-French magazine. [...]

This Week: Liberation Day’s Long Tail

As more retailers report earnings, the industry is hoping more countries follow China in reaching agreements to lower tariffs. [...]

The Next Sneaker Powerhouse?

Dick’s Sporting Goods’ surprise purchase of Foot Locker sets it up to be a major new player in the global sneaker market — if it can execute on its vision. [...]

Creative Entrepreneurship Takes Centre Stage at BoF and Self-Portrait Los Angeles Cocktail

Creative entrepreneurs Shay Mitchell, Mike Amiri and Tina Craig joined cultural aficionados Becky G, Bella Poarch, Victoria Justice, Janaya ‘Future’ Khan, Elaine Welteroth and Nara Aziza Smith at the ‘Creatives [...]

Mary Tyler Moore’s art collection heads to auction

The actor’s character on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was unprecedented for a woman on primetime television [...]

Top Phillips rainmakers Cheyenne Westphal and Jean-Paul Engelen to leave auction house

Westphal is to set up her own business working directly with collectors and artists while Engelen will join Aquavella Galleries [...]

Comment | When it comes to tariffs, here's why the art market should be grateful to a long-retired US congressman

A 1988 amendment to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, secured by Howard Berman, could stop art imports being hit by Trump's tariff hike [...]

Sunday Times Rich List 2025 reveals changing art world fortunes

Leonard Blavatnik moves down and Denise Coates up amid tax changes that could affect the philanthropic landscape [...]

New book explores how Rome’s ruins have resonated in art and literature over centuries

A survey tracing the city’s greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures [...]

Kinetic energy: events across Europe and the US celebrate Jean Tinguely anniversary

100 years since the artist’s birth, there are exhibitions, commissions—and even an actual birthday party [...]

Foundations' emergency arts and humanities grants provide temporary fix for gaps left by Trump’s slashing of federal funding

Staff reductions, budget cuts and grant cancellations at the NEA, NEH and IMLS have left state and local organisations seeking alternative support [...]

Self-taught artist’s erotic needlepoint provides spark in film about gallery assistant’s slow, searching summer

Film-maker Lucio Castro’s new feature, “Drunken Noodles”, is set in part in a Manhattan gallery and just premiered in Cannes [...]

Shaping the future through culture and connection

International Museum Day 2025 reminds us that true progress is built by the human spirit and expressed through culture, writes the Chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism–Abu Dhabi, [...]

Best-selling memoir about being a guard at the Metropolitan Museum takes the stage

Patrick Bringley’s Off-Broadway one-man show distils ‘All the Beauty in the World’ into an 80-minute meditation on art, life and human connection [...]

Manhattan District Attorney's Office returns eight artefacts to Peru, including golden Moche mask

Many of the antiquities being returned were looted from northern Peru in the 1960s and 70s [...]

Tentatively, Photo London's tenth edition moves away from traditional content and crowds

New fair director Sophie Parker's plan to “reward galleries that take risks” was seen in action [...]

Debate over author of ‘Napalm Girl’ image deepens as World Press Photo suspends attribution

The decision follows a report from Associated Press and a documentary calling into question the long-held belief that photographer Nick Ut took the shot [...]

Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art repatriates ancient silk manuscript to China

The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US nearly 80 years ago [...]

Koyo Kouoh remembered, Queen Elizabeth II memorial, Jasper Johns by Robert Storr—podcast

Remembering Koyo Kouoh, the Venice Biennale curator who died earlier this month, plus a look at the five designs competing for the late-Queen's memorial commission, and a discussion with curator [...]

Huge Paris exhibition reveals David Hockney’s love of Van Gogh

Hockney, now 87, says he is always happy when he paints—“just like Van Gogh” [...]

Is Trump painting an ‘awesome portrait’ or by ‘Tariff Lautrec’?

A new portrait of the US leader, looking defiant following the attempted assassination last year, has drawn, er… mixed responses [...]

A personal story of loss in post-apartheid South Africa wins the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

The Johannesburg-based Magnum Photos member Lindokuhle Sobekwa claimed contemporary photography's biggest prize in London last night [...]

Family of Prussian kings settles century-old dispute with Germany over royal treasures

Art, furniture, porcelain and other objects that once belonged to Prussia’s rulers will now become the property of a charitable foundation and will remain in museums [...]

‘Halo effect’ of powerful art dealers’ collections boosts Sotheby’s sale

Works from the estate of Barbara Gladstone and the home of Daniella Luxembourg—plus a litter of Lichtensteins—energised 15 May marquee auction of post-war and contemporary art [...]

Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art and Saudi Arabia strike deal to collaborate on exhibitions, conservation and more

The deal centres on the ancient Incense Route trading hub of Dadan in northwestern Saudi Arabia [...]

Gauguin's last self-portrait could be a fake

Kunstmuseum Basel is analysing the work, which has been in its collection since 1945 and may have been painted by the artist's friend, Ky-Dong Nguyen Van Cam [...]

Art Basel Awards name inaugural medalists including artists, curators and patrons

The 36 medalists will be honoured at a reception during Art Basel’s Swiss fair [...]

‘A new lease of life’: London’s Annely Juda Fine Art looks to the future with Mayfair move

The gallery plans to take on more young and emerging artists as David Juda hands the baton to the next generation [...]

The world according to Cattelan? Maverick Maurizio updates ‘autobiography’

Maurizio Cattelan sheds light on his famous golden toilet and that duct-taped banana [...]

Magna Carta ‘copy’ once sold at Sotheby's is an original, say UK professors

The document was consigned to the auction house in 1946 then, later the same year, purchased by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 [...]

Ten essential works of art to see on the French Riviera

From Paul Signac’s Saint-Tropez scene to Jean Cocteau’s fishermen’s chapel, here is our pick of the art to see all year round on the coveted stretch of the Mediterranean coast [...]

Marlene Dumas’s $13.6m semi-nude breaks auction record for a living female artist

Women rescued Christie’s otherwise quiet 21st century evening sale in New York, which also set a new auction high-water mark for Simone Leigh [...]

Adam Lindemann opens exhibition of 19th-century African sculpture and contemporary Black abstraction

The dealer brings together five Urhobo sculptures for the first time in the US in an exhibition at his private residence on Manhattan's Upper East Side [...]

Despite record-breaking results for four women artists, Phillips’s evening auction in New York sparks few fireworks

The auction brought in a hammer total of $44.2m, just below Phillips’s low estimate for the night and exactly in line with last November’s equivalent sale [...]

Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther

The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others [...]

From Africa to the Arctic Circle, this public artwork is stampeding into cities with a cry for climate action

‘The Herds’ is an expanding throng of life-sized moveable animal sculptures—and it succeeds where many ostensibly green projects fail [...]

More than 160 Tutankhamun treasures have arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum

Conservation work will be carried out on on key objects ahead of the museum's long awaited launch on 3 July [...]

Extended from one volume to three, the new ‘Taste and the Antique’ expands on four centuries of interactions with sculpture

The essential guide now includes colour photographs of 95 works [...]

How Javier Milei’s war on history is threatening art spaces in Argentina

After effectively shutting down two cultural centres, the Argentine president appears to have the ESMA Museum, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in his sights [...]

$70m Giacometti bombs at patchy Sotheby’s Modern art auction

The prize lot, a bust depicting the artist’s brother Diego, failed to attract bidders during the $186.4m sale [...]

Mexican authorities decry ‘distorted information’ in MrBeast video filmed at ancient Mayan sites

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History released a statement praising MrBeast's mission while correcting some moments of "theatricality" in his video [...]

Justin Sun and David Geffen's legal feud over $78m Giacometti sculpture expands

In a countersuit stand-off, the two parties are broadening the scope of their allegations beyond the disputed sculpture [...]

Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect

Kulapat Yantrasast has a design philosophy of “cultural Pad Thai”—multiple perspectives combined into something unique and approachable [...]

British MP Patrick Spencer charged with sexual assaults at London art world haunt The Groucho Club

The Metropolitan Police say the charges are unrelated to accusations of a “serious criminal offence” that resulted in the club having its licence suspended in November [...]

Why is the art market turning Gulf-wards?

As China’s market drops, auction houses and dealers have been following the money to Saudi Arabia [...]

‘There is not enough money for education’: French philanthropist to fund museum visits for 100,000 UK children

Frédéric Jousset will provide £1m over four years to send school children to cultural venues, including the British Museum [...]

For its 10th edition Photo London aims to look beyond the notorious ‘Kate Moss Index’

Opening later this week with new leadership, the photography fair is determined to move away from the clichés of supermodels, artful murmurations of birds and majestic beasts [...]

Comment | The greatest failure of PST Art: its successes are not travelling

As the Getty wraps up its third edition of this initiative, it is time to address a persistent problem [...]

In Rotterdam, a new art museum explores the city's rich history of migration

Opening on 16 May, Fenix addresses the arrivals and departures that have given the Dutch port its energy and modernity [...]

Artist Alison Saar wins High Museum’s 20th annual Driskell Prize

The renowned sculptor, whose distinctive public work was most recently featured in the Desert X biennial, will be formally honoured with the $50,000 prize at a gala in September [...]

Record-breaking female Surrealists spice up underwhelming Christie’s New York sales

Last night’s low-risk, low energy auctions made $489m in total, including $272m for the collection of Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio, along with new records for Dorothea Tanning and [...]

Chile to get a new contemporary art museum

The New Museum of Santiago will highlight Latin American artists with more than 1,000 works from the Chilean businessman Claudio Engel’s private collection [...]

5,000-year-old woman uncovered in Peru with hair and nails still intact

The exceptional find at Áspero reveals women’s high status in the ancient Caral civilisation [...]

The Waverley rules were designed to protect UK cultural heritage—are they having unintended consequences on the art market?

The scheme, introduced in the 1950s, is meant to help keep important works of art in Britain [...]

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