Art World Acclaimed Author Alice Walker Is Selling a Painting by Bill Traylor Once Given to Her as a Gift From Steven Spielberg Walker cites anxiety about fires in her home state of California as one impetus for selling the piece. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 17, 2019
Art World Police Are Investigating Spanish Nuns After a Statue Owned by Their Convent Turned Up for Sale at TEFAF It's not the first time these nuns have come under suspicion. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 17, 2019
Art World The US Treasury Department Sanctioned Dealer Nazem Ahmed for Allegedly Using His Gallery to Fund a Terrorist Group The Lebanese collector, fond of works by Warhol and Picasso, is under fire from the Treasury Department. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 16, 2019
Art World Want to Win a €1 Million Picasso? This Charity is Raffling Off €100 Lottery Tickets for a Shot at the Big Prize That 1921 Cubist still life would look stunning above your couch. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 13, 2019
Art World ‘A Banana Is Worth More Than Us’: Maurizio Cattelan’s $120k Fruit Art Has Sparked an Uprising Among Miami’s Underpaid Janitors The “platanito protest” saw unionized janitorial workers marching with the fruit taped to their shirts. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 12, 2019
Art World Boris Johnson Has Broken His Promise to Fund a Memorial to the Victims of Slavery, Citing Insufficient Funds The prime minister had formerly applauded the project back in 2008, when he was the mayor of London. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 12, 2019
Art World A Gardener Found a Stolen Gustav Klimt Painting Tucked Behind a Secret Panel—in the Very Building It Was Stolen From 'Portrait of a Lady,' pilfered over two decades ago, was found in a black bag and originally mistaken for a sack of trash. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 11, 2019
Art World Buyers of Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 Banana Defend the Work as ‘the Unicorn of the Art World,’ Comparing It to Warhol’s Soup Cans Still, two of the new owners are aware of the 'blatant absurdity' at the heart of the work. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 10, 2019
Art World Seven Ancient Warrior Helmets Are Headed Back to Spain After Their Owner Learned They Were Looted in the 1980s British collector Christian Levett discovered that the armor he owned had been plucked from an archaeological site in Spain. He chose to do the right thing. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 10, 2019
Art World An Ornate Shield Found in a Celtic Warrior’s Grave Is Challenging What We Know About Ancient Combat The piece of armor, found on a UK housing development, is being called “the most important British Celtic art object of the millennium.” By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 10, 2019
Art World Banksy Just Unveiled a Poignant New Mural And Video About the UK’s Homelessness Crisis Ahead of the General Election The artist-activist's holiday-themed mural and video are both magical and melancholic. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 9, 2019
Art World LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art Swiftly Agrees to Recognize Its New Union as Museum Workers Across the Country Continue to Organize After successful union efforts at the Guggenheim and New Museum, the museum workers' rights movement has reached the West Coast. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 9, 2019
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 See Inside Turner Contemporary’s New Show Featuring Gee’s Bend Quilts and Other Vital Art from the Deep South The stunning show, slated to open in 2020, highlights the impact of African-American artists from the '50s and '60s. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 5, 2019
People Former Getty Director Stephen Garrett, Who Turned the California Museum Into an International Powerhouse, Has Died at 96 He designed some of the institution's original architecture, pushed to broaden acquisitions, and launched conservation initiatives that continue to this day. By Caroline Elbaor, Dec 4, 2019
