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Restoration as Spectacle: Why Museums Are Putting Conservation on DisplayThere is a moment, in almost every museum visit, when a velvet rope or a closed door reminds you that something important is happening just out of sight. For most of the history of conservation, that “something” was the cleaning, repair, and study of paintings — a discipline practiced in windowless basements by specialists who…
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Artemisia Gentileschi: Painting Power in a Man’s WorldInternational Women’s Day serves as a powerful reminder for the art world to look again — and look more carefully — at the women who altered its course. Few figures demand that reconsideration more forcefully than Artemisia Gentileschi. A master of the Italian Baroque whose career spanned Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, and London, Artemisia transformed…
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Access, Power, and the Price of Participation – Art and Money Series Part 4In the last installment of ARTDEX’s Art and Money series, Why Art Valuation Is Never Just About Money – Art and Money Series Part 3, we challenge the idea that art valuation is simply about price. Moving beyond sticker shock and surface-level complexity, we reveal how art prices function as signals of confidence, trust, and…
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Why Art Valuation Is Never Just About Money – Art and Money Series Part 3Series Recap: From Sticker Shock to Structural Reality In Part 1, Why Is Art So Expensive?, we examined the initial reaction many people have when encountering famous artists’ art prices — sticker shock, disbelief, and the assumption that prices are inflated or arbitrary. In Part 2, Why It’s Complicated, we moved beyond surface reactions to…
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Wifredo Lam: Decolonizing Modernism – A Vision Whose Time Has ComeThere are moments in the life of museums when an exhibition does more than bring together a celebrated body of work; it shifts an axis. Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream at the Museum of Modern Art reminds us that modernism was never a monolith — and that the imagination, when rooted in…
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Eternal Blue in the Realm of IKB: Yves Klein’s Vision Beyond the VisibleIn a dazzling Paris evening sale in October 2025, Yves Klein’s monumental California (IKB 71) (1961), a fourteen-foot expanse of pure ultramarine, sold for €18.4 million (about $21.4 million), the highest price ever paid for the artist in France. The work, created just a year before Klein’s untimely death, stands as both an apex of…