Opinion Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince’ Is Actually Bad, and the Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith Decision Is Actually Good We need to reboot the arguments we make about appropriation art. By Ben Davis, 6 hours ago
Museums ‘The Act of Opening a House Is So Beautiful’: Berlin’s Historic House of World Cultures Relaunches With an Ambitious Multisensory Weekend Newly helmed by the visionary director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the building will be pulsing with new rhythms, views and tastes. By Kate Brown, 23 hours ago
Gallery Network 7 Questions for British Artist Francesca Mollett on How Fireflies, Canals, and Ancient Grottoes Inspire Her Light-Filled Canvases The artist's solo show 'Francesa Mollett: Halves' opens at Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, this week. By Artnet Gallery Network, 10 mins ago
Art World Sotheby’s Has Inked a Deal to Buy the Whitney Museum’s Iconic Breuer Building for Approximately $100 Million The Modernist landmark will become the auction house's new flagship space. By Katya Kazakina, 56 mins ago
Archaeology An Ancient Rock Art Site in Australia, Home to a Million Petroglyphs, Has Been Damaged by Petrochemical Emissions, Scientists Say The earliest Murujuga rock art dates back 40,000 years. By Richard Whiddington, 2 hours ago
Crime Italian Police Recover a Long-Lost Roman Marble Head Nearly 50 Years After Its Theft The precious antiquity was traced to a private collection in Switzerland. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, 3 hours ago
Art World Art Industry News: Last-Minute Visitors to the Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Blockbuster Miss Out on ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ + Other Stories Plus, London Gallery Weekend kicks off and Xavier Hufkens wins the estate of Leon Kossof. By Artnet News, 4 hours ago
Valuations Art Advisor Maria Vogel Hosts Art-Inspired Dinner Parties, Cherishes Handwritten Notes, and Keeps an Eye Out for Overlooked Women Artists We asked the founder of Rococo art advisory about the things she values most—in art and in life. By Katie White, 9 hours ago
On View Pokémon as Muse? See Artist Katherine Bernhardt’s Exuberant New Paintings That Channel the Beloved Pocket Monsters It's the artist's first solo show in Hong Kong. By Richard Whiddington, 11 hours ago
Museums Three Years After It Was Damaged, the Sursock Museum Reopens as a Small Ray of Cultural Hope for Lebanon ‘It is a miracle we are reopening,’ the museum’s director said, amid the country’s ongoing economic collapse and social upheaval By Rebecca Anne Proctor, 11 hours ago
Gallery Network Spotlight: Italian Artist Giovanni Tresso Synthesizes Painting and Photography to Create a Revealing New Form of Portraiture The artist is the subject of a solo show of recent work with Agora Gallery in New York this July. By Artnet Gallery Network, 19 hours ago
Art Fairs TEFAF’s Global Managing Director Bart Drenth Has Resigned Following an Artnet News Report on His Provocative Anti-Woke Tweets Drenth has stepped down less than six months after being appointed to the position. By Taylor Dafoe, 19 hours ago
Art World New York Mayor Eric Adams Proclaims May 31 Ellsworth Kelly Day as Museums Across the U.S. Celebrate the Artist’s Centenary The move came after museums pushed the mayor’s office to commemorate the pioneering painter. By Artnet News, 20 hours ago
Art World Restoring Visibility: How Gallery Weekend Beijing Is Revitalizing the Chinese Art Industry After The Pandemic Tried to Quash It Gallery Weekend Beijing is open through June 4. By Cathy Fan, 20 hours ago
Style A New Book Explores How Andy Warhol’s Notions of Pop Foresaw the Union of Art and Fashion—Read an Excerpt Here "Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol" is out now. By Natasha Degen, 21 hours ago
Pop Culture Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, and Other ‘Asteroid City’ Stars Respond to the Viral Wes Anderson TikTok Trend With Their Own Parody The Van Gogh Museum, the South London Gallery, and the National Gallery of Art have all joined in on the fun. By Anna Grace Lee, 22 hours ago
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling a Mother Lode of 37 More NFTs From the Collection of Bankrupt Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital This auction follows Sotheby's first sale of 3AC NFTs, which fetched $2.4 million. By Richard Whiddington, 22 hours ago
