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
Art World A Typhoon in Japan Has Swept a Famous Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Sculpture Out to Sea The pumpkin had been perched on a pier. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 9, 2021
Market Acquavella Galleries and Ex-Sotheby’s C.E.O. Bill Ruprecht Invest in NFT Platform MakersPlace as Part of a $30 Million Funding Round Eminem is also a new investor in the platform. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 4, 2021
Artnet News Pro Art Dealers at Intersect Aspen Say the Pop-Up Fair Was a Roaring Success—and a Great Chance to Finally See Collectors Again "Where better to be than Aspen?” one dealer asked. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 4, 2021
Market Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code to Creating Low-Priced Works on Canvas Artifly was inspired by Christie's sale of AI-generated art by Obvious. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 2, 2021
Auctions Phillips Auction House Says It Pulled In More Than Half a Billion Dollars in the First Half of 2021, a 25 Percent Increase Over 2019 Private sales and demand from Asia were key drivers of growth. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 2, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Is Looking to Bank $200 Million From the Storied Impressionist Art Collection of the Late Oil Magnate Edwin L. Cox The top works Christie's hopes to sell—by Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent Van Gogh—each come with eight-figure estimates. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 30, 2021
