Museums A Museum Has Renamed a Vegetable Still Life by Van Gogh After a Chef Spotted Something Was Off About the Onions It took a chef's practiced eye to realize which kind of allium the artist had included in the 1887 still life. By Sarah Cascone, May 1, 2023
Art History An X-Ray Scan of a 16th-Century Bronzino Painting of Duke Cosimo de’ Medici Has Revealed a Mysterious Underlying Portrait The painting, one of 25 versions, currently hangs in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. By Richard Whiddington, May 1, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: A Helsinki Art Museum Cut Ties With Zionist Arms Heir Poju Zabludowicz Amid an Artists’ Boycott + Other Stories Plus, New York City repatriated antiquities to Yemen, and eight Basquiat paintings will come back together in Basel. By Artnet News, May 1, 2023
Pop Culture Artist Baseera Khan’s Sculpture That Won Them the Top Prize on Reality Show ‘The Exhibit’ Will Go on View at the Hirshhorn Khan beat out six other contestants to win a solo showcase at the museum and $100,000. By Min Chen, May 1, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions How Lavinia Fontana Broke Renaissance Tradition to Become the First Woman Artist Known to Depict Female Nudes—and Earn Equal Pay as Men The National Gallery of Ireland is staging a rare exhibition of the trailblazing painter. By Karen Chernick, May 1, 2023
Crime A U.K. Court Has Found Two Collectors Guilty of an Illegal Scheme to Sell a $960,000 Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins The coins belong to the Heresfordshire hoard and were never reported, violating the U.K.'s Treasure Act. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 28, 2023
People Photographer Ryan McGinley’s Unfiltered Debut Show ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Defined a Generation. 20 Years Later, the Artist Takes a Look Back The Whitney Museum exhibition catapulted the New Jersey skate kid to art world fame. By Ryan McGinley, Apr 28, 2023
Museums The Florida Principal Fired for Allowing a Lesson on Michelangelo’s ‘David’ Went to Italy to See the Sculpture Herself—and Was Rather Impressed “Michelangelo would have done him wrong to sculpt him in any other way," Hope Carrasquilla said. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 28, 2023
Law An Art Collector Is Suing His Former Attorney For Allegedly Stealing a $5 Million Andy Warhol Painting Stuart Pivar sold the painting to his lawyer for $100,000, then wanted to buy it back for $150,000. The attorney refused. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 28, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions From Rising-Star Painters to the Return of Post-Internet Art—Here’s What’s Stealing the Spotlight at Gallery Weekend Berlin Berlin Gallery Weekend is open across the city through April 30. By Kate Brown, Apr 28, 2023
Museums Tate Modern Taps Karin Hindsbo—the Force Behind Scandinavia’s Largest-Ever Museum—as Its New Director The Danish curator, who oversaw the opening of the National Museum in Oslo, Norway, will face a different set of challenges in the U.K. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Apr 28, 2023
Art World Art Industry News: A Pair of Climate Activists Have Been Detained After Rubbing Paint On a Display Case Containing a Degas + Other Stories Plus, STPI changes leadership and four museums get a major Ellsworth Kelly gift. By Artnet News, Apr 28, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center Launches Its ‘Big Art’ Initiative With an Interactive Installation That Seems to Defy Gravity and Physics "Both art and science get at big questions that are at the core of the human experience," said the institution's CEO. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 27, 2023
People ‘I Hope I Learn Something New’: Alex Da Corte on How He Found His Own Artistic Voice By Inhabiting Pop Culture As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 27, 2023
People Wet Paint in the Wild: Gallerist Mills Moràn Goes to Texas to Spend Late Nights at the Midnight Rambler and Days at the Dallas Art Fair The art dealer takes us through a week of his life in Dallas. By Annie Armstrong, Apr 27, 2023
