NewsArt law
US appeals court rules that Warhol’s reliance on a photographer’s portrait image did not constitute ‘fair use’
Decision appears to signal that appropriation artists may have to proceed more cautiously
NewsArt theft
Local man charged in attempted robbery from Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery
George Haag, who has pleaded not guilty, says he thought the portrait of Andy Warhol “would look better somewhere else” and “just wanted to make people laugh”
NewsArt market
UK 'tourist tax' will hit dealers of jewellery, silver and small pictures hard, trade body says
Lobby groups fear abolishing tax-free shopping will deter buyers from China, the Middle East and Russia at a cost of £6bn
FeatureObituaries
Remembering Brigid Berlin: Mainstay of Andy Warhol's Factory who pioneered art of self-representation using Polaroids and cassettes
An upper-class rebel who became Warhol's best friend and "the only person who could yell at him"
FeatureBook Club
In Pictures | Andy Warhol's explicit drawings from the 1950s that he never got to publish
New book brings together hundreds of images of nude young men, which “are imbued with an emotional vulnerability that few of his later works exhibit”
NewsDeaccessioning
Baltimore Museum of Art calls off sale of Warhol, Still and Marden after outcry
Last-gasp decision after talks with the US museum directors association comes just before a Sotheby’s auction
NewsDeaccessioning
Assailing leadership, two former board chairmen say they are rescinding $50m in planned gifts to Baltimore Museum of Art
Two artists also step down as board trustees amid turmoil over plans to deaccession three paintings
NewsDeaccessioning
Responding to outcry, Baltimore Museum of Art board chair defends deaccessioning decision
“The greatness of the BMA’s collection does not live within three individual paintings,” she says as the sale of a Warhol, Still and Marden approaches
NewsDeaccessioning
Former trustees and donors ask state to block sale of three important works by the Baltimore Museum of Art
Letter asks Maryland attorney general and secretary of state to investigate planned deaccessioning of a Warhol, Still and Marden
NewsDeaccessioning
Baltimore Museum of Art will sell important paintings by Warhol, Still and Marden
Acting on relaxed rules, it will use the funds for collection care and salary increases as well as diverse acquisitions
NewsObituaries
Erich Marx, Berlin collector and patron, dies age 99
His collection of works by Warhol, Twombly, Beuys and Kiefer is on long-term loan to the Berlin museums
FeatureBook Club
Art, enlightenment and plenty of sex: life according to John Giorno
Some takeaways from the late US artist and poet’s new memoir Great Demon Kings
NewsArt crime
California man sentenced to five years in prison for $6m international art fraud scheme
Philip Righter pleaded guilty to selling works fraudulently attributed to Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, among others
NewsArt crime
German art dealer and socialite Angela Gulbenkian arrested in Lisbon
Accused of fraudulent sales of a Kusama pumpkin sculpture and a Warhol print, the dealer and collector awaits extradition to the UK after missing court hearing
FeatureBook of the month
Reviewed: Warhol, A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
Three Andy Warhol devotees give their take on the near-1000 page biography
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Andy Warhol at Tate Modern
Can yet another Warhol retrospective tell us anything new about the Pop Art icon?
BlogDiary
Blake Gopnik tweets 25 fascinating takeaways from his new Andy Warhol biography
PreviewExhibitions
Rare Andy Warhol drag queen portraits go on show in Tate Modern exhibition
Near-forgotten series of striking portraits are part of a 100-strong show of works opening at the London museum this week
NewsFraud
German socialite Angela Gulbenkian faces second criminal case over Warhol picture
The Munich-based dealer and collector is also due to stand trial in London for allegedly stealing £1.1m in Kusama pumpkin sale
CommentArt market
Piece by piece: the issues with fractional ownership of art
Billed as the next big thing, schemes to sell shares in works of art have yet to excite the market
NewsObituaries
Artist, activist and Andy Warhol muse John Giorno has died, aged 82
Tributes paid to key figure of US counterculture whose work was “groundbreaking for its time”
Podcast
Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol, as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo
With the Pop artist's blockbuster retrospective currently on show at SFMoMA, we delve into the life and legacy of the ever-popular painter with artist Jeremy Deller and curator Donna De Salvo. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsArt market
Warhol's Prince series ruled fair use by a New York judge in contested copyright case
The ruling settles a heated two-year legal battle between the artist's foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who shot the original image in 1981
NewsCommercial galleries
Warhol and Basquiat's fruitful friendship goes on show at Jack Shainman gallery
Exhibition in upstate New York includes over 100 works, from polaroids to film, some of which are for sale
BlogIn the frame
Burger King wants you to ‘Eat like Andy’—but he would have preferred a Big Mac
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Two venues of Andy Warhol, and young painter Theodora Allen's ancient symbolism
ReviewExhibitions
Essential viewing: Warhol from A to B and Back Again at New York’s Whitney Museum
The sprawling show is a needed revisit for those who remember Warhol as a living, brilliant savant, taste-maker and oddball
BlogLinda on the loose
Andy Warhol is back again and better than ever—thanks to the Whitney’s Donna De Salvo
Podcast
Andy Warhol (part one): Whitney curator Donna De Salvo on the key moments of the king of Pop art's career
From his early life as a commercial artist to his celebrity portraits, as well as his relationship with a certain Donald Trump. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
PreviewExhibitions
Andy Warhol for the Instagram age: huge retrospective opens at the Whitney in New York
Exhibition spanning four decades looks to introduce the king of Pop art to the social media generation
PreviewAndy Warhol
Is Warhol to blame for Trump? Pop pioneer's work touches on many issues facing America today
“It’s a very potent time to raise many of these issues,” says curator of the Warhol survey opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art
NewsConservation & Preservation
Warhol's newly restored 102-canvas work Shadows goes on show in New York
Dia's presentation coincides with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective on the artist
NewsLaw
Fair use or foul? An appropriation case involving Warhol raises an artistic debate in New York court
A legal battle over the Pop artist’s portraits of Prince is heating up
PreviewExhibitions
Brillo Boxes ‘faked’ by museum director included in new Andy Warhol show
Pop artist's fist institutional exhibition revisited 50 years on at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet
NewsExhibitions
Whitney’s Warhol: new blockbuster show to reinvent artist for the Instagram age
Museum’s director Adam Weinberg explains why exhibition took eight years to realise and why it will be "selfie-central"
News
Baltimore museum sells blue-chip art to buy works by minority artists
Five works made around $18m (with fees) at auctions at Sotheby’s New York on 19 May, and two were bought for undisclosed sums in private sales
BlogIn the frame
Hirst shark—and Venice shipwreck piece—installed in Las Vegas casino
NewsClosures
Interview Magazine, founded by Andy Warhol, folds after nearly 50 years
The publication has recently been involved in a rent dispute, departure of upper-level staff and lawsuits from former employees
CommentAndy Warhol
Andy Warhol goes to church
Why the pop artist—a lifelong, closeted Catholic—deserves to be shown at The Vatican
NewsAndy Warhol
The Vatican to host major Andy Warhol exhibition
Show will 'explore the artist's spiritual side' with Last Supper series and skull silkscreens
NewsObituaries
Tim Hunt—flâneur and the curator of the Andy Warhol Foundation—has died, aged 60
"He was the most charming, kind and witty individual imaginable, for whom nobody had a bad word, which is rare in the art world"
NewsArt market
Analysis: Christie's postwar and contemporary auction nets $785.9m, with a big assist from an Old Master
Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
NewsDonations
Berlin art dealer and family donate art by Picasso, Warhol and Richter to city of Chemnitz
Bastian family have collaborated with the German city’s art collection since 2002
NewsPhotography report 2017
High-profile new lawsuits test the limits of fair use
Pending lawsuits surrounding Andy Warhol and Richard Prince could bring clarity to cases involving appropriation
NewsPolitics
Serbian political party slams decision to build Andy Warhol monument in Belgrade
Vice president of the Democratic Party of Serbia describes Pop art as a ‘fad’
ArchiveExhibitions
What happens when artists step into buyers' shoes: New Barbican exhibition "Magnificent Obsessions" showcases curio owned by the likes of Warhol and Hirst
Cookie jars and seven-legged lambs invite us to consider how distinctive styles emerged from the building blocks of various visual languages
ArchiveNews
Warhol to be studied in medical school
The initiative aims to help doctors improve their observation skills
ArchiveExhibitions
Warhol, Rockwell and Walt Disney to come together in high-profile hyphenated exhibition
The show is due to open in Pittsburgh in spring 2017 before travelling to Stockbridge
ArchiveExhibitions
Warhol "Marilyn" tapestry on show in Oxford for the first time since 1968
This will be the first call for a tapestry by the artist for the Andy Worhal Museum
ArchiveArt market
Auction results: Twombly triumphs as one Warhol wobbles
While Sotheby's struggled with Little Electric Chair, Christie's had no such problems
ArchiveArt market
Anger at casino Warhol sale
The works are being sold by Westdeutsche Spielbanken to raise funds for restructuring
ArchiveNews
All of Warhol’s films and videos to be digitised
The project will make hundreds of the artists films more accessible
ArchiveMuseums
Warhol museum expansion gains Lower East Side traction
The institution has formed a partnership with Delancey Street Associates
ArchiveArt market
Chinese businesswoman buys a Warhol
Zhang Lan bought Little Electric Chair for $10.5m
ArchiveLetters
Where are the 35 “fake” Warhols later reassessed as authentic?
Richard Dorment, Chief art critic at The Daily Telegraph, discusses the works
ArchiveNews
List of discredited Warhols now available
An unpublished list provides details of the fate of 44 paintings confiscated by the Andy Warhol estate in 1991
ArchiveNews
Lawsuit raises questions about Warhol authentication process
Foundation’s sales agent also worked for authentication board; president rejects claim decisions may have been made for financial gain
ArchiveAndy Warhol
When Warhol met William Kennedy: Warhol Museum's limited edition portraits
Kennedy captures the artist's private side
ArchiveArt market
First results for Warhol Foundation sell-off
The inaugural sale made $17m last month
ArchiveFrieze
Warhol-Basquiat goes begging at Phillips
Phillips’s chief executive says Frieze might have distracted potential buyers
ArchiveFeatures
Anthony Haden-Guest’s New York: Gallerist Eli Klein, Restoin Roitfeld's "Hue and Cry" at Sotheby's, Catherine Johnson's Warhol biography, and Steinway's artist-in-residence
“I think it’s interesting the way Warhol polarises people,” says Catherine Johnson. “Some people love to hate Andy”
ArchiveExhibitions
The world after Warhol: MoMA exhibition tracks the Pop artist's influence
They hope to back up their bold claim that Warhol "had the greatest impact of any artist in the past 50 years"
ArchiveExhibitions
Dulwich Picture Gallery puts Warhol in context
The decorative qualities of the pop artist put him in a tradition dating back to the 18th century
ArchiveNews
Rauschenberg’s foundation could outspend Warhol’s
The artist’s foundation reveals its intention to become one of the largest grant-making organisations in the country
ArchiveNews
The problem with authenticating Warhol
While some fear the negative effects of the closure of the vetting board, others say its role was not essential
ArchiveNews
Warhol board bites the dust
Few will mourn its demise
ArchiveAndy Warhol
Review: Re-distributed films starring Armando Reverón and David Hockney and Londoners gather on Front Row to recall Andy Warhol encounters
Poignant footage of Reverón's twilight years, Hockney playing the documentarian and Jeremy Deller in conversation with Anthony d'Offay on Warhol's transformative power
ArchiveArt market
73 Warhols flood the market: A quick look at what this means for the High Priest of Pop
A broad range of works reap favourable prices
ArchiveNews
Case against Warhol Foundation withdrawn
Joe Simon-Whelan spent three years trying to prove authenticity of a painting depicting the artist himself
ArchiveArt market
Key lots: Contemporary and post-war
Sarah Morris, Mark Bradford, and Andy Warhol are this season's London highlights
ArchiveArt market
Joe Simon-Whelan's Warhol authenticity claim over
Simon-Whelan says he lacks the financial resources to pursue his case
ArchiveNews
Warhol Brillo boxes downgraded to “copies”
Authentication board says famous museum director “falsified” their history
ArchiveNews
Subpoenas for Warhol Authentication Board trial
Gagosian among four called to court
ArchiveArt market
Contemporary Art auction report: Warhol’s dollar bills attract big bucks in New York sales
The market has recalibrated, but major pieces spark highly charged bidding wars
ArchiveNews
Warhol’s famous athlete portraits stolen from collector Richard Weisman's home
A $1m reward is being offered
ArchiveNews
New evidence uncovered in Warhol Foundation lawsuit
Collector says a signed work from the same series confirms his work is genuine
ArchiveNews
Collector Richard Weisman calls off the hunt for stolen Warhols
Owner cancels reward for his missing set, citing problems with his insurer
ArchiveFeatures
Two new programmes: Warhol is remembered by his ageing stars, and original art is taught
Twenty Factory regulars look back on the creative freedom that fuelled the New York enterprise, while three art schools are brought under the microscope
ArchiveArt market
Buyer of Warhol’s Green Car Crash revealed?
The large-scale “disaster painting” is the most expensive Andy Warhol ever to sell at auction
ArchiveArt market
Warhol Foundation cast doubt on claims that artist worked with Warhol
UK auctioneer says Pietro Psaier worked in The Factory and died in the 2004 tsunami; his body has never been found
ArchiveNews
Artist John Chamberlain can be sued over disputed Warhol, says Judge
Former Factory assistant claims he made the disputed work
ArchiveExhibitions
Andy Warhol’s $28m “Athletes” in Chinese capital for the Games
The series will go on show at the Faurscho gallery in Beijing
ArchiveArt market
Martin Lawrence Galleries files suit to claim stolen Warhol
Jason Beltrez claims it was a flea market find while Christie's is stuck in the middle
ArchiveNews
Warhol Foundation report looks back on 20 years of philanthropy
Shedding light on the donations, grants, and gifts given by the foundation since Warhol's death
ArchiveArt market
Warhol board faces threat of class action
Movie producer Joe Simon-Whelan sues, believing his work is genuine
ArchiveNews
Grant for Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to catalogue Warhol’s “Time capsules”
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded the museum $600,000
ArchiveArt market
Trial Warhol prints may be authenticated in alleged policy adjustment for Authentication Board
A source close to the Andy Warhol Authentication Board hints at a change of heart
ArchiveArt market
Warhol Brillo boxes could be fake
Allegations circulate that curator Pontus Hultén created unauthorised replicas
ArchiveArt Basel
Road trip masterminded by Cedric Christie makes stop at Basel
Each of the twelve motorists have been assigned a vehicle restored by Christie, their route incorporating a series of art fairs
ArchiveNews
Accountant alleges major fraud at art school founded by Andy Warhol
Charges focus on former executive director of the New York Academy of Art
ArchiveArt market
Mugrabi family considering Warhol deal with sheikh
The deal could be worth around $1 billion
ArchiveArt market
Christie’s Warhol could set new record in New York
The work is one of the “Death and Disaster” series which rarely come on the market
ArchiveArt market
Warhol “Athletes” commissioned for $800,000 to be sold for $28m
This is the first time a complete set of the series is on offer
ArchiveFeatures
The films of Warhol’s lost lover rediscovered: A documentary on Danny Williams
Esther Robinson’s engrossing movie includes footage of several of Williams’ films
ArchiveNews
Film-maker claims Warhol sexuality cover up
Denying the artist’s homosexuality makes his work more saleable, she says
CommentDeaccessioning
‘Uniquely egregious’: The disturbing precedent of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s deaccessioning plan
Sale of three valuable paintings by Warhol, Still and Marden points to a thirst for a $65m windfall, with no curatorial rationale
Martin Gammon