Auctions Banksy’s Infamous Shredded Painting Is Out of the Bin and Back at Auction—for Nearly Four Times Its Previous Price Sotheby's will sell the painting in October with a current low estimate set at $5.5 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 3, 2021
Artnet News Pro As Health and Administrative Hurdles Mount, Some Participants Worry That This Year’s Art Basel Could Become a Very Costly Flop New travel and vaccine guidelines have thrown a curveball at the Swiss fair's plans. By Naomi Rea & Eileen Kinsella, Sep 3, 2021
Art World New Orleans Museums and Cultural Organizations Largely Escaped Ida’s Wrath. But Lingering Power Outages Still Pose a Threat The storm forced arts organizations in New Orleans to cancel events, resort to emergency measures, and re-evaluate future plans. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 31, 2021
Art World A Work in the Tate’s Collection, Thought to be by Paul Gauguin, May Actually Have Been Done by Another Artist, Some Scholars Say The unfinished work on paper 'Tahitians' was rejected from the recently published catalogue raisonné. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 31, 2021
Art World Amsterdam Will Return a Long-Disputed Wassily Kandinsky Painting at the Stedelijk to the Heirs of Its Original Owners Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema cited the importance of "correcting wrongs of the past." By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 30, 2021
Artnet News Pro ‘What’s the Rush?’: Art-Industry Pros Are Ambivalent About Returning to the Art-Fair Traveling Circus This Fall Collectors and advisors are largely avoiding international travel, even as art fairs return in force. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 30, 2021
Analysis 7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’ Questions continue to swirl about the world's most expensive painting. By Sarah Cascone & Eileen Kinsella, Aug 27, 2021
Art World Bob Ross’s Former Business Partners Hit Back at a ‘Slanted’ Netflix Documentary That Alleges They Seized Control of His Legacy The Kowalski family says that the filmmakers are biased towards Steve Ross, Bob's son. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 27, 2021
Crime New York Dealer Gets Busted for Selling Hundreds of Brazenly Fake ‘Cookie-Cutter’ Antiquities, Says Manhattan D.A. Authorities have been homing in on looted artifacts. Then they got a tip about fake ones. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 26, 2021
Politics Hundreds of Artists Have Signed an Open Letter Demanding the U.S. Accept Afghan Culture Workers as Refugees Coco Fusco and Lynne Tillman are among the signers. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 24, 2021
Pop Culture Here’s the Little-Known History of the Robin’s Egg Blue Basquiat Painting That Stars in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s New Tiffany Ad The painting is due to go on display at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship in New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 23, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Partnering With MGM Resorts for a Mega $100 Million Picasso Auction in Las Vegas The star lot, a portrait of Picasso's lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter, is estimated to sell for between $20 million to $30 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 11, 2021
Law A California Man Has Pleaded Guilty to Peddling Fake Richard Hambleton and Barkley Hendricks Paintings Jason Harrington will pay $1.1 million in restitution. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 10, 2021
Artnet News Pro An NFT Startup Is Selling What It Calls a Genuine Claude Monet for $2 Million. The Problem? It May Not Be Real The work's provenance can allegedly be traced from Northern Ireland to Cuba to Mexico to Miami. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 10, 2021
Law Sotheby’s Is Suing a Miami Couple for Consigning Millions of Dollars Worth of Allegedly Fake Diego Giacometti Works Sotheby's said the sellers provided forged provenance documents. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 9, 2021
