Market Billionaire Revlon Owner Ronald Perelman Is Reportedly Looking to Sell Off Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Worth of Art The billionaire recently told Vanity Fair he wants "a simpler life, with less running around and more time with my family." By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 28, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Will Mount Two Major Sales to Auction Off the Estate of the Late Spanish-Language TV Tycoon Jerry Perenchio Perenchio was also a major donor to LACMA. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 27, 2020
Auctions Bucking the Traditional Auction Calendar, Christie’s Plans to Hold a Megawatt Livestreamed Modern Art Sale in October The star lot is a Cézanne watercolor estimated at around $25 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 26, 2020
Art and Law Artist Frank Bowling Is Locked in a Bitter Legal Battle With His Longtime Gallery Hales Over Alleged Failure to Pay The artist and the gallery are suing each other in London's High Court By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 25, 2020
Art World Months After Turning the Hagia Sophia Back Into a Mosque, Turkey’s Government Is Converting the Chora Museum Too A Turkish court reversed a 1945 decision that had turned the Chora into a museum. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 24, 2020
Art World Ai Weiwei’s Latest Film Is a Chilling Look at Life Under Lockdown in Wuhan Through the Lens of Chinese State Control Ai Weiwei's new film 'Coronation' was shot by the residents of Wuhan themselves. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 21, 2020
Art Fairs With the Viability of Fairs in Question, Art Basel Is Launching a Pair of Virtual Editions This Fall—and Charging Galleries to Participate Art Basel organizers will charge exhibitors to participate in a new series of online-only viewing rooms this fall. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 21, 2020
Art and Law American Authorities Have Returned 10 Looted Antiquities Worth a Combined $1.2 Million Back to India Four years after the works were seized during New York's Asia Week, authorities formally returned them to their home country. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 20, 2020
Politics Artist Marilyn Minter Has Teamed Up With the ACLU to Create a $400 Original Print to Benefit Its Racial Justice Program "Everyone thinks they can’t do anything because they’re all alone," Minter said. "This is the lie—everyone can do something." By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 20, 2020
Art Fairs Is the Future of Art Fairs… the Mail-Order Catalogue? This Design Fair Is Launching a Glossy Magazine in Lieu of Its In-Person Event At least 35 of the 50 planned exhibitors for the scuttled in-person November edition will participate. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 20, 2020
Art World A New York Nonprofit Is Collecting Plywood From Boarded-Up Storefronts and Redistributing It to Artists to Turn Into Public Art The project will both lend a hand to aspiring artists and create public art. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 19, 2020
Auctions Expanding Its Reach in Asia, Phillips Is Partnering With China’s Poly Auction House on Two Hong Kong Sales Auction houses are looking at new partnerships to boost the bottom line in a highly unusual year. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 19, 2020
Art World The US Postal Service Is in Dire Straits. Help Them Out by Buying Some of These 12 Fantastic Art-Themed Stamps These stamps, featuring the likes of Ellsworth Kelly and Romare Bearden, are works of art in themselves. By Eileen Kinsella & Caroline Goldstein, Aug 18, 2020
Art and Law A Spanish Museum Can Keep a Nazi-Looted Camille Pissarro Painting Despite Family’s Objections, an Appeals Court Rules The court lets the museum off the hook since it did not appear aware of the earlier theft. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 18, 2020
Art and Law A Scholar and an Art Institute Are Currently Waging a Scorched-Earth Legal Battle Over Valuable Modigliani Research The Wildenstein Plattner Institute has filed a scathing response and new legal claims against Modigliani expert Marc Restellini. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 17, 2020
