Crime New York City Police Are on the Hunt for a Couple Who Tried to Make Off With a $45,000 Basquiat From a Chelsea Gallery Taglialatella Galleries staff thwarted the would-be thieves. By Dorian Batycka, 12 hours ago
Style See Inside Yves Saint Laurent’s Lush Garden Villa in Morocco, Which Just Hit the Market for $4.2 Million The late designer and his partner Pierre Bergé bought the place in 1980. By Dorian Batycka, 18 hours ago
Artnet News Pro The New Digital Divide: Sale of Warhol Disk at Bonhams Exposes a Growing Rift Between Original Hardware and Blockchain Tech Why are collectors bypassing art-historical significance in favor of NFTs? By Dorian Batycka, 2 days ago
Science & Tech The Bucharest Biennial Is Curated Entirely by an A.I. Named Jarvis. We Asked It a Question The A.I. selected a dozen artists to participate. By Dorian Batycka, 2 days ago
Auctions A Rare Painting by Joan Carlile, One of England’s First Female Portrait Painters, Is Going to Auction in London The work is expected to fetch upwards of $60,000. By Dorian Batycka, 3 days ago
Crime A Long-Lost Titian Painting, Valued at $7 Million, Was Recovered by Italian Heritage Police After It Was Sent for Restoration The work disappeared in 2004, and was thought to have been taken to Switzerland, but a tip led authorities to a workshop in the Asti area of Piedmont. By Dorian Batycka, May 23, 2022
Crime Hackers Took Over Beeple’s Twitter Account and Stole More Than $400,000 in NFTs and Crypto From the Artist’s Followers The theft was just the latest in a string of NFT-related phishing scams. By Dorian Batycka, May 23, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: Anselm Kiefer Marks Venice’s 1,600th Anniversary With a Startling Vision of Ice and Fire The show is also a meditation on the late Italian philosopher Andrea Emo. By Dorian Batycka, May 23, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions C-C-Cool New Shhhhhhhhow? London’s Design Museum Hosts the World’s First Exhibition Dedicated to ASMR The exhibition takes feeling to a whole new level. By Dorian Batycka, May 20, 2022
Auctions A British Surgeon Bought a Chinese Vase for a Few Hundred Pounds in the 1980s. It Just Sold for $1.9 Million It turned out to be from the 18th-century Qianlong period. By Dorian Batycka, May 19, 2022
People Digital Art Star Refik Anadol’s First Supporters Were in the Tech World. All of a Sudden, His Work Has Become White-Hot at Auction, Too The former artist-in-residence at Google says developing new ideas requires working across disciplinary boundaries. By Dorian Batycka, May 18, 2022
Museums Prominent Indigenous Art Curator Sandra Benites Quits One of Brazil’s Top Museums Amid Accusations of Censorship The controversy surrounds photographs of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), a left-leaning agricultural movement. By Dorian Batycka, May 18, 2022
Auctions A Maud Lewis Painting Once Traded for Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Fetches a Sizzling 10 Times Its Estimate at Auction The work set a new record for the Canadian folk artist. By Dorian Batycka, May 18, 2022
Museums Amid Mounting Public Pressure, Greece and the U.K. Have Agreed to a New Round of Talks About a Possible Return of the Parthenon Marbles The announcement comes just in time for International Museum Day. By Dorian Batycka, May 18, 2022
Art World The Internet Is Trying to Decode Elon Musk’s Recent Tweet of an 18th-Century Painting of King Louis XIV Is this how the Tesla CEO sees himself? Is this what he wants to wear to the Met Gala? Twitter users are wondering. By Dorian Batycka, May 17, 2022
