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• Exhibition of Erotic Art Owned by Top 200 Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Opens at Miami’s Museum of Sex October 16, 2025
  “Hard Art: Unruly Selections from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection” includes work by artists like Sally Mann, Judith Bernstein, Marilyn Minter, Dash Snow, and Derrick Adams.
  Lmiller
• $3.2 M Basquiat Headlines Smaller Phillips London Sale, Down 30 Percent From Last Year October 16, 2025
  A sign of the times.
  Sarah Douglas
• Poor Farmer Posed as Maharaja to Sell Fake Paintings by M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, Indian Investigators Allege October 16, 2025
  An investment banker accused the farmer of working a dealer to swindle him.
  Alex Greenberger
• Man Arrested for Vandalizing Martin Luther King Memorial in Atlanta October 16, 2025
  The suspect urinated into a reflection pool and stomped on the symbolic eternal flame.
  Francesca Aton
• Pace Japan Director Makes the Case for Why Tokyo Can Be Asia’s ‘Center of Art’ October 16, 2025
  “I want Tokyo to be the center of art in Asia,” Pace Japan Vice President Kyoko Hattori said in a recent interview. “I want to see it happen.”
  Harrison Jacobs
• The Stakes Are High For Emerging Galleries at Frieze; Some Are Selling, Others Aren’t As Lucky October 16, 2025
  Despite at least two galleries selling out their booths in Frieze's "Focus" section, many are keeping schtum, which is usually not a good omen.
  George Nelson
• Ice Sculpture Spelling ‘Democracy’ Melts on National Mall in Washington, DC October 16, 2025
  The installation was short lived, which was entirely the point.
  Francesca Aton
• At Frieze London, We Asked Dealers, ‘What’s On Your A Wall?’ October 16, 2025
  There’s an old saying about quality: you’re only as good as the weakest link in the chain. That may go for art-fair booths too, but it’s not the middling pictures that pull people in. You need a banger—something that borders on spectacle, that cuts through the noise and overpowers the lure of the Ruinart champagne […]
  Daniel Cassady
• One Month After Armory Week Hit, U-Haul Gallery Crashes Frieze London with Bootleg Merch October 16, 2025
  "We are here to reverse what The Beatles did in 1964,” Jack Chase, one of the two enterprising art dealers behind U-Haul Gallery said about their trip to London.
  Daniel Cassady
• ‘Democracy’ on Ice, Arts Funding at Risk, and More: Morning Links for October 16, 2025 October 16, 2025
  Small and mid-size cultural organizations are banding together to weather federal funding cuts.
  Harrison Jacobs

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