On View The Getty Museum Just Acquired the Recently Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi Painting That Set a New Record at Auction The work will go on view when the museum reopens this spring. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 30, 2021
Art World From a Gallery’s Removal of the Sackler Name to the Sale of the World’s Largest Painting: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news, fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 26, 2021
Auctions A Medici-Themed Basquiat Painting Could Sell for $50 Million at Sotheby’s to Become One of the Priciest Works by the Artist Ever 'Versus Medici' hails from 1982, the most sought-after era of the artist's production. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 26, 2021
On View Watch Julie Mehretu Surround Herself With Unfinished Canvases Until She Finds a Work’s ‘New Point of Entry’ As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 25, 2021
Art World Rainstorms in Greece Helped Archaeologists Uncover a 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Idol of a Bull That May Have Been an Offering to Zeus The Greek culture ministry announced the remarkable find by calling it an "accidental" discovery. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 24, 2021
Art World Newly Published Letters Reveal That Vincent van Gogh’s Sister Sold 17 of His Works to Pay for Her Mental Health Treatment The hundreds of letters are only in Dutch. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 22, 2021
Art World ‘We Inevitably Project Into It’: Watch Artist Cao Fei Explain Why Online Role-Playing Reveals a Person’s True Identity As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 18, 2021
On View ‘I’ve Always Been Interested in Objects That Seem Badly Behaved’: Watch Phyllida Barlow Make Towering Art From Industrial Materials As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 11, 2021
On View ‘I’m Not Making Fun of It… Well, Yeah I Am’: Watch Artist John Feodorov Use Humor to Examine How the West Co-Opts Shamanism As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 5, 2021
Art and Law Thanks to an Eagle-Eyed Appraiser, the Louvre Has Recovered Renaissance Armor That Was Stolen Almost 40 Years Ago The gold and silver encrusted pieces were gifts from the Rothschild family. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 3, 2021
On View A Sprawling James Turrell Exhibition Presents One Artwork From Each Decade of the Artist’s Storied Career—See Images Here The artist creates whole experiences from often simple interventions. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 3, 2021
Art World It Looks Like Bansky Has Struck the Wall of England’s Reading Prison, Which Once Detained Oscar Wilde, in His Latest Mural The mural appears to be a nod to Wilde's stay at the prison during the late 19th century. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 1, 2021
Auctions A Bargain Hunter Picked Up This Small Ceramic Bowl for $35 at a Junk Sale. Now, It Could Sell for Up to $500,000 at Sotheby’s As it turns out, it's an exceedingly rare example of Ming Dynasty porcelain. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 26, 2021
On View Awol Erizku’s Strange, Striking Photographs Will Grace Hundreds of Bus Shelters Across New York and Chicago—See Images Here The Public Art Fund is bringing the artist's work to the streets. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 25, 2021
Art World ‘It Just Keeps Haunting You’: Watch Photographer Richard Misrach Document the Beauty and Horror of the US-Mexico Border As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 25, 2021