Artnet News Pro Georges Mathieu Was a Star of Postwar Art—and Then Disappeared. Here’s Why Top Galleries Are Investing Big to Revive His Market The French painter is now the subject of shows at Perrotin and Nahmad Contemporary in New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 12, 2021
Art Fairs The Armory Show Makes a Triumphant Return to New York With Far-Flung Dealers, Six-Figure Sales, and a Can-Do Attitude Doubts about whether it was too early for fairs to return were assuaged by strong sales and attendance. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 9, 2021
Analysis High Net Worth Millennial Women Are Powering a Gallery Recovery and 7 Other Takeaways From Art Basel’s Latest Market Report Dealers emphasized the importance of maintaining relationships with collectors and attending art fairs By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 9, 2021
Law & Politics A Hedge Fund Titan Triumphs Over the Nation of Turkey in the Legal Fight Over a Multimillion-Dollar Ancient ‘Stargazer’ Idol The judge determined that financier Michael Steinhardt is the idol's rightful owner. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 8, 2021
Art World A Virginia Court Has Ruled That the State Can Finally Remove a Confederate Monument to Robert E. Lee The ruling came in response to two lawsuits that sought to block the removal. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 3, 2021
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 2, 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 29, 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