Art & Tech Did Monet Owe His Hazy, Impressionistic Style to the Early Effects of Climate Change? A New Scientific Study Suggests So The artist painted at the height of the Industrial Revolution. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 28, 2023
The Back Room The Back Room: A Year That Went Boom This week: art-market acceleration hits a new gear, Sotheby's outsells itself, European gavels get loud too, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Dec 17, 2021
Politics The Kunstmuseum Bern Will Give Up Dozens of Works With Murky Provenance From the Collection of the Late Cornelius Gurlitt The works include two watercolors by Otto Dix that will go directly to the heirs of the rightful owners. By Vivienne Chow, Dec 13, 2021
Law & Politics A Drawing Believed to Be the Final Nazi-Looted Artwork in the Gurlitt Collection Has Been Returned to Its Rightful Owners The provenance of some 1,000 artworks from the notorious collection still remain unknown. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 13, 2021
People In Memoriam: Remembering Those the Art World Has Lost in the Coronavirus Pandemic [UPDATED] We take a look at the lives of some of those lost. By Artnet News, Jul 8, 2020
Art World A Years-Long Research Project Into the Gurlitt Trove Has Ended Without Being Able to Resolve ‘a Very Large Gray Area’ Around 1,000 Works “Whatever research was possible, we have exhausted it," says the project's director. By Sarah Cascone, May 26, 2020
Law & Politics In a Dramatic About-Face, the Kunstmuseum Basel Will Compensate the Heirs of a Jewish Collector for Disputed Works in Its Collection The museum had first ruled out restitution in 2008. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 27, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s London Met Expectations With a $64.8 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale—But Expectations for the Category Are Softening Auction house experts attribute the increasingly slim sale estimates to a dearth of masterpieces. By Colin Gleadell, Feb 4, 2020
Art World Less Than a Month After the Louvre Hired a Nazi Loot Expert to Investigate Its Collection, She Found 10 Ill-Gotten Works Hiding in Plain Sight Emmanuelle Polack has identified the works as belonging to the collection of a Jewish lawyer. By Naomi Rea, Jan 22, 2020
Art World Germany Returns Three Paintings Once Owned by the Notorious Art Dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt to a Jewish Collector’s Heirs The government also returned six pieces of silver from a Munich museum. By Kate Brown, Jan 14, 2020
Market ‘Exceptional’ Nazi-Looted Impressionist Masterworks Reclaimed From the Musée d’Orsay Could Fetch $25 Million at Auction The heirs of a French collector reclaimed paintings by Camille Pissarro and Paul Signac from France, plus a work in the Gurlitt hoard from Germany. By Kate Brown, Jan 13, 2020
Art World The Nazis Purged German Museums of Thousands of ‘Degenerate’ Works. Now an Expressionist Painting Sold by Hildebrand Gurlitt Has Gone Home An old museum label alerted staff at Ketterer Kunst that the watercolor had been confiscated from the museum in Halle. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 6, 2019
Art World The Kunstmuseum Bern Is Selling a Stormy Manet Seascape Previously Owned by the Infamous Collector Cornelius Gurlitt for $4 Million The work is heading to the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. By Naomi Rea, Nov 7, 2019
Art & Exhibitions The Notorious Collection of Nazi-Looted Art Amassed by Hildebrand Gurlitt Will Travel for an Emotional Show in Jerusalem The show is called "Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove." By Sarah Cascone, Sep 6, 2019
Art World With a New Show, the V&A Has Become One of a Handful of Museums Outside of Germany to Address the Legacy of Nazi-Era Loot In December, an exhibition will explore previously untold stories of Nazi theft. By Javier Pes, Aug 27, 2019
