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#ArtnetNews: Thaddaeus Ropac has been in the art business for over 40 years. The Austrian gallerist has spaces across London, Paris, Salzburg and Seoul that span a total of 12,000 square meters, and his influence is nothing if not international. He represents the estates of behemoths like Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamp, and the foundations of Robert Mapplethorpe, Donald Judd and Robert Rauschenberg. Alongside contemporary giants including Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz, a host of younger names such as Alvaro Barrington, Zadie Xa and Cory Arcangel complete his roster of 70-plus artists. Known for always following his gut, the dealer had his first foray into the art world after a chance encounter with Beuys’s work on a school trip to Vienna. Intent on working for the artist, he traveled to Düsseldorf and landed an unpaid gig in the studio. This life-changing connection led to introductions to Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. He worked with both when he set up his first gallery in 1983. Here, he looks back at 2024 and lets us know what he expects from the year ahead. Read more: https://bit.ly/4h0KZJ7 _______ Pictured: Thaddaeus Ropac. Photo: Romain Duquesne

Could mentorship be the missing link to elevating your career in the Art World? In the current landscape, progressing your art world career has never been less straightforward or slippery. As we start to plan for 2025, whether you are seeking work or in employment looking to progress—what professional changes are you having to, or wishing to, make? Read more: https://bit.ly/3PGTUnH

#ArtnetNews: With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States, alongside beloved cartoon characters Popeye and Tintin. All works by Matisse, Derain, and Kahlo—who died in 1954—are now in the public domain in the United States and countries where the works of individual authorship generally shed their protections after “life plus 70 years,” which includes the U.K., most of the European Union and South America. (Works by creators who died in 1974 are now copyright-free in most of Africa and Asia, where protections stand for a term of “life plus 50 years.”) Continue reading: https://bit.ly/3BTdCJr ________ Pictured: Frida Kahlo. Photo: Getty Images Hergé reading a Tintin comic in Brussels, Belgium, 1982. Photo: Bernard Charlon / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Henri Matisse and his ‘cut-outs’ at his studio in Nice. Photo by Raph Gatti/AFP via Getty Images.

#Artnet News: Greek Cypriot industrialist Dakis Joannou is arguably better known for his illustrious contemporary art collection than he is for his billion-dollar business dealings. Among his holdings are works by Urs Fischer, KAWS and Maurizio Cattelan, and he caused a stir with his 115-foot luxury mega yacht designed by Ivana Porfiri and painted by Jeff Koons, which was christened with a rather tongue-in-cheek name: Guilty. In 1982 he founded Athens’s Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, which exhibits his collection, commissions new works and supports a €10,000 (about $10,600) art prize, which is awarded biannually to a young Greek artist. More recently, the Hydra Slaughterhouse Project has mounted an annual exhibition on the picturesque Greek island, where the great and good of the art world happily descend. To date, Koons, Kiki Smith, Kara Walker and George Condo have all presented work in this industrial space. Here, Joannou looks back at the successes of 2024, and considers what the coming year might bring. Read more: https://bit.ly/3PnRGJq _____ Pictured: Dakis Joannou. Photo: Yiorgos Kaplanidis

#OnView: The coming of 2025 brings with it a fresh crop of exhibitions across the U.S. From artist outings by the likes of Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson to new looks at masterpieces by Van Gogh and Artemisia Gentileschi—we bring together 13 shows from the first half of the new year that you can’t miss. Mark your calendars! Learn more: https://bit.ly/4j2Mb0r

#ArtnetNews: British curator, writer and broadcaster Ekow Eshun has been at the forefront of international culture for several decades. But more recently, he has become something of a household name, having worked on some of the most talked-about exhibitions over the past few years. In 2022, his show “In the Black Fantastic” at the Hayward Gallery brought 11 contemporary artists of the African diaspora together who have a shared interest in mythology, making it the first U.K. exhibition dedicated to Black artists who use the fantastical as part of their practice. Two years later, his ongoing projects across the globe are countless. The touring show “The Time is Always Now,” which debuted at the National Portrait Gallery, explores the Black figure in Western art history through some of the biggest names in contemporary art today. “Keeping Time” with Gallery 1957 in Accra brings together international and Ghana-based artists. And his creative non-fiction book, “The Strangers,” explores the lives of five prominent Black men. Here, he looks back at 2024 and what he expects from the year ahead: https://bit.ly/40fiD8q

Taipei gallerist Claudia Chen reveals the ‘three key features’ for understanding Taiwan’s art world. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3PlF3yQ

#ArtnetNews: We reflect on 6 pivotal moments in the international Art Market in 2024. When it comes to the art market, there are no quiet years, no boring years, no forgettable years. However, there are boom years and less booming years. Two thousand twenty-four was one of the latter. Only a single work sold at auction for more than $100 million (here’s a list of the year’s top sellers on the block), and some key market movers were embroiled in controversy. Nevertheless, there were still thrilling events in salesrooms (here are five of them). And even as the art industry struggled, it experienced some remarkable moments, positive and less so. Six key developments from the past 12 months here: https://bit.ly/41XmoAQ _______ Pictured: https://bit.ly/41XmoAQ

In 2024, we published nearly 4,000 stories. That’s 4,000 glimpses into the art world’s triumphs, challenges, and transformations—moments that made headlines, sparked debates, and gave us pause for thought in this fast-moving world. Our writers brought you everything: from bold investigations and market shakeups to unexpected revivals and voices reclaiming their place in history. Here, we’ve gathered a selection of our favorites—the stories that reminded us why art still matters. As step into 2025, let’s take a moment to look back. Read more: https://bit.ly/40hXdru

#ArtnetNews: Born in the Austrian Empire in 1862 and trained in the academic tradition, Klimt spearheaded the Vienna Secession at the turn of the century, declaring independence from the strictures of genre and school. Klimt’s personal vision culminated in a “golden phase” of portraits and allegories, rendered in lifelike scale and adorned with mesmerizing facets of gold leaf and pigment. The son of a goldsmith, the artist’s fascination with the shimmery hue was fueled by many influences. In the decades since the artist’s death in 1918, his paintings have commanded some of the highest prices ever paid for individual works of art, led by Water Serpents II (1904–1907), which sold to Russian fertilizer mogul Dmitry Rybolovlev for $184 million in 2013. Comprising hundreds of paintings and thousands of works on paper, Klimt’s oeuvre is as wide-ranging as it is radiant. Here are 10 of our favorite pieces to ignite your exploration. Read more: https://bit.ly/4j2hoRg _________ Pictured: Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (1907). Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images); Vienna, Österreichischer Galerie Belvedere (Art Gallery). Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images.