Art World The Fierce Legal Battle Over Who Owns ‘Fearless Girl’ Has Now Re-Emerged Halfway Around the World, in Australia According to Kristen Visbal, State Street Global Advisors has “blocked and manipulated the very artist who created the work—a woman!” By Brian Boucher, Nov 27, 2019
Art World A Whistleblower Busted the Lincoln Museum for Improperly Renting a Copy of the Gettysburg Address to Glenn Beck for $50,000 The conservative commentator hosted the rare document at a pop-up exhibition, and the museum got money to help pay off a debt. By Brian Boucher, Nov 26, 2019
Art Fairs Puerto Rico’s MECA Art Fair Boosts an Art Scene Valiantly Struggling Amid Hurricane Damage, Debt, and Upheaval In San Juan, an international roster of dealers came together for a fair that definitely wasn't business-as-usual. By Brian Boucher, Nov 25, 2019
Politics Would Michael Bloomberg Be the Most Pro-Art President of All Time? We Took a Look at His Impressive Record From dissolving his New York predecessor’s 'decency commission' to a nationwide record of billions in support of the arts, Mayor Mike could be a new Medici in Washington. By Brian Boucher, Nov 21, 2019
Art World The Metropolitan Museum of Art Is Strengthening Its Partnership With South Korea, Which Has Now Given the Institution Nearly $2 Million The country’s new gift, supporting scholarship and programs, follows a 2015 agreement that also included a hefty check. By Brian Boucher, Nov 19, 2019
People The Artist Behind Wall Street’s ‘Charging Bull’ Is Seeing Red Over a Plan to Remove the Sculpture From the Financial Hub Arturo Di Modica isn't buying the city's explanation for moving his 'Charging Bull' to a spot outside the New York Stock Exchange. By Brian Boucher, Nov 19, 2019
Art World The Art World’s Indiana Jones Tracked Down a Twice-Stolen Ring Once Owned by Oscar Wilde. He Tells Us How He Did It. This tangled tale involves a quartet of elderly gangsters and a custodian-turned-jewelry-thief. By Brian Boucher, Nov 18, 2019
People ‘Maybe Adam Driver Can Help Set Things Right’: Jenny Holzer on Why She Teamed With Amazon to Promote Its New Political Drama 'The Report' focuses on the fight to make public evidence of CIA torture. By Brian Boucher, Nov 15, 2019
People Ex-Whitney Veteran Donna De Salvo Is Returning to the Dia Art Foundation as a Special Projects Curator De Salvo left the Whitney Museum in June after organizing the recent smash Andy Warhol retrospective. By Brian Boucher, Nov 15, 2019
Art World What Is Pace Planning for Its Hotly Anticipated ‘Live’ Division? The Inaugural Program Includes a Celebration of Black Creativity Yto Barrada will screen films and cook, and Torkwase Dyson will collaborate with the likes of Arthur Jafa. By Brian Boucher, Nov 14, 2019
Law & Politics Police Foiled a Brazen Thief Who Tried Sneak Out of a London Museum With Two Rembrandts in Tow The would-be robber evaded arrest by spraying a cop with an unknown substance. By Brian Boucher, Nov 14, 2019
Art World Paintings by Van Dyck and Delacroix Are Among a Trove of Almost 400 Works Heading to the Met From a Late Trustee “The Met would not be what it is today without Jayne and Charles Wrightsman," said the museum's director, Max Hollein. By Brian Boucher, Nov 13, 2019
Auctions A Bronze Hippo Bathtub Made a Giant Splash at Christie’s, Selling for $4.3 Million—25 Times What Its Seller Bought It For Someone will be taking their bubble baths in a multimillion-dollar fixture by François-Xavier Lalanne. By Brian Boucher, Nov 13, 2019
On View Artist Duke Riley Definitely Did Not Infest the Trump Hotel with Bedbugs. No, Really, He Definitely Didn’t A new project finds the artist imagining a skin-crawling form of insect sabotage. By Brian Boucher, Nov 13, 2019
People A Fugitive Russian Billionaire’s Cache of Art Has Been Discovered in a Village Outside of Moscow A journalist came upon the heap of 20th-century Russian art, which belonged to a private museum, in a storage space. By Brian Boucher, Nov 12, 2019