Politics Charlottesville’s Divisive Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Melted Down to Create New Public Artwork The proposal was put forward by a local heritage center. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 8, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction Around the World in November 2021 We scoured the Price Database for the top-selling lots in November. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 7, 2021
Art World Barbados, Which Just Shook Free of British Oversight, Has Tapped David Adjaye to Build a New Heritage District The announcement comes just days after the nation swore in its first-ever president. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 6, 2021
Museums & Institutions Washington’s National Gallery of Art Will Return a Looted Benin Bronze Cockerel to Nigeria The work once lived on an altar in Benin city, where it honored queen mothers. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 6, 2021
Artnet News Pro Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at Art Basel Miami Beach 2021 Here's what dealers say they sold last week. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 6, 2021
Art World ‘I Pick Up Whatever’s Around’: Watch Photographer Sally Mann and Her Family Reflect on How Their Everyday Lives Became Art As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 2, 2021
People In Miami, the Week’s Most Anticipated—and Most Emotional—Event Was Virgil Abloh’s Posthumous Collection Show. Watch It Here The show was a fitting tribute to the late designer. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 1, 2021
Museums & Institutions More Than 20 Years After an Ohio Museum Forced a Native Group to Buy Its Own Artifacts Back, It Has Repaid the Tribe The tribe rushed to buy back its own artifacts in 1996, and has now finally been reimbursed. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 30, 2021
Museums & Institutions The Met Just Received $125 Million—the Largest Gift in Its History—to Build Its Long-Awaited Modern Wing Expansion The gift comes from financier Oscar Tang and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 30, 2021
Art History A Potentially ‘Embarrassing’ Nude Self-Portrait That Lucian Freud Disavowed Is Almost Certainly by the Artist, Experts Say The artist may have disowned the work because he was self-conscious of its implications. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 29, 2021
Art World ‘It’s Fabulous But Also Pathetic’: Watch Salman Toor Pair His Paintings of Queer Life With Vermeers for an Unlikely Show at the Frick As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 18, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction Around the World in October 2021 Last month's top sales were dominated by Sotheby's Picasso bonanza in Las Vegas and a half-shredded Banksy. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 17, 2021
Politics An Artist Is Imploring China to Grant Him Safe Passage to Hong Kong to Dismantle His Threatened Tiananmen Square Monument The Danish artist said his presence is required on site to ensure the sculpture isn't destroyed. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 15, 2021
Art World ‘I Like the Vulgarity of it’: Watch John Akomfrah Use Noise and Music to Engross Audiences in His Video Works As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 12, 2021
Sustainability In Pictures: Jenny Holzer, Cornelia Parker, and Other Artists Call for Urgent Climate Action at the COP26 Summit in Glasgow Environmentally themed work are on view in Scotland and beyond. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 10, 2021