Law & Politics LAPD Is Reportedly Investigating Street Artist RETNA for Vandalizing a Gallery That Declined to Include His Work in Its Show The artist was allegedly angry he wasn't showing alongside Damien Hirst. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 21, 2018
People Auction Rainmaker Francis Outred, Who Brought a ‘Masterpiece Mentality’ to Christie’s, Resigns as Postwar and Contemporary Head He spent a decade at the helm of the department in Europe. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 21, 2018
Art World How Will Amazon’s New Headquarters Affect the Queens Art Scene? We Asked the Optimistic, Jittery, Outraged Locals Some art centers welcome the corporation's arrival, while others fear exorbitant rents and hyper-gentrification. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 21, 2018
Art World Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Giving Parkland, Florida, $1 Million to Create Public Art That Addresses Gun Violence Parkland is partnering on the project with the nearby city of Coral Springs. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 20, 2018
Art World With Two Museum Expansions, the Met Hopes to Both Reinvigorate the Past and Link It With Contemporary Art Architect Kulapat Yantrasast will helm the $70 million overhaul of the Rockefeller Wing. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 19, 2018
Auctions With a Historic Splash, David Hockney Becomes the World’s Priciest Living Artist in Christie’s $358 Million Postwar Sale The work by the British artist topples Koons's Balloon Dog to become the most expensive work by a living artist. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 15, 2018
Auctions New Auction Records for Hopper and de Kooning Lead Christie’s Booming $318 Million Barney Ebsworth Sale Is the Hopper masterpiece headed to a museum? By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 14, 2018
Law & Politics Russian Billionaire Art Collector Dmitry Rybolovlev Is Officially Charged in the Sprawling Monaco Corruption Probe A new twist in a years-long art dispute has now focused scrutiny on the Russian buyer himself By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 13, 2018
Law & Politics Bill Cosby, Sitting in Prison, Hopes to Sell Two Major Thomas Hart Benton Paintings for Millions of Dollars The paintings could be worth a combined $14 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 12, 2018
Auctions Take a 100-Year Trip Through Art History With Claude Monet’s Monumental Water Lily Painting The story of this Monet water lily painting starts 100 years ago with the 1918 Armistice. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 10, 2018
Art Fairs Despite China’s Wavering Economy, Western Dealers Find Plenty of Encouragement at Shanghai’s Art Fairs Art021 and the West Bund Art Fair serve as complements to one another. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 9, 2018
Auctions An Insider’s Guide to the Top Lots in New York’s $1.8 Billion Fall 2018 Auction Season Here are the big-ticket works you need to know about and the trends you need to watch for in the upcoming marathon fall auctions. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 7, 2018
Auctions Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith Warns of a ‘More Subdued’ Art Market in 2019 But he remained bullish on the company's prospects for the fourth quarter. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 1, 2018
Law & Politics A Satanic Group Is Accusing Netflix of Appropriating Its Goat-Man Sculpture in ‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Just in time for Halloween, the co-founder of the Satanic Temple is threatening to sue Netflix. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 31, 2018
Crime Did the Truth About the Fabled Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Just Die Forever With Crime Boss Whitey Bulger? Tales of Bulger's involvement in the heist abound, but the museum says he had nothing to do with it. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 30, 2018