Art Fairs Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 Banana Was Ejected From Art Basel Miami Beach After Drawing Unsafe Crowds (and Getting Eaten) The day after the stunt, the gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin took the artwork down for good a day early. By Javier Pes, Dec 8, 2019
Art World These Historic Maori Carvings Were Taken From New Zealand 130 Years Ago. Now, They May Finally Go Home The move comes a month after Prince Charles returned a Maori cloak. By Javier Pes, Dec 6, 2019
Art World A Museum in Wales Had a Botticelli Right Under Their Noses and Didn’t Realize It Until This Helpful TV Art Detective Told Them The painting is the latest discovery made on the BBC show 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces.' By Javier Pes, Nov 14, 2019
Art World The Venice Biennale Shuts Down as the City Is Hit by Its Worst Floods in Half a Century The mayor of Venice blames climate change as a surging tide and severe rainstorms create a dangerous combination. By Javier Pes, Nov 13, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Steve McQueen’s Photos of Thousands of London Third-Graders Have Triggered a Flood of Field Trips to Tate Britain The artist and filmmaker's new project involves more than 3,000 schools. For two beneath the shadow of Grenfell Tower it is especially poignant. By Javier Pes, Nov 12, 2019
Art World One of the UK’s Leading Sculpture Parks Is Shutting Down Amid Financial Woes It Attributes to Brexit and Overspending In a cautionary tale, Cass Sculpture closes, but its internationally important archive has been saved. By Javier Pes, Nov 6, 2019
Art World Want to Visit London’s National Portrait Gallery? Hurry Up—It’s Closing for Three Years Starting in 2020 Part of the collection will go on tour during the revamp, but most heads to storage as some front-of-house staff face losing their jobs. By Javier Pes, Nov 5, 2019
Law & Politics Prince Charles’s Charity Displayed Paintings by Picasso, DalĂ, and Monet—Until a Convicted Forger Claimed Them as His Own 'There's no way the paintings could pass even the lightest scrutiny," the artist claiming them said. By Javier Pes, Nov 4, 2019
Art Fairs What Gives an Art Fair Staying Power? Turin’s Artissima Remains a Haven for Old-School Collectors After a Quarter-Century The fair isn’t looking to expand into a brand. It just wants you to see (and buy) good art. By Javier Pes, Nov 1, 2019
Art & Exhibitions The Prado’s Second Exhibition Dedicated to Female Artists—Ever—Tells the Story of Two Old Masters Who Were Famous and Then Forgotten Feminist art historians paved the way for the exhibition, which looks at Lavinia Fontana and Sofonisba Anguissola. By Javier Pes, Oct 27, 2019
Law & Politics Three More People Are Arrested in Connection With the Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s Solid Gold Toilet From an English Palace A reward of almost $130,000 is also available to anyone with information leading to the sculpture's recovery. By Javier Pes, Oct 23, 2019
Art & Exhibitions ‘They Seized the Opportunities’: A New London Exhibition Tells the Remarkable Stories of the Women of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement The National Portrait Gallery celebrates the female stars of the art movement that took Victorian Britain by storm. By Javier Pes, Oct 16, 2019
People The Beloved New York Artist, Beat Poet, and Warhol Film Star John Giorno Has Died Over five decades, the New York artist and activist, who famously snoozed for Andy Warhol on film, expanded the definition of poetry. By Javier Pes, Oct 14, 2019
Art & Exhibitions ‘Formal Analysis Cannot Occlude the Real Issues’: How Curators Are Addressing Gauguin’s Dark Side in a New Show at the National Gallery in London Art museums are grappling with how to display great works by artists who abused their models. By Javier Pes, Oct 10, 2019
People High-Profile Curator Tim Marlow Is Leaving the Royal Academy to Run London’s Design Museum The curator and broadcaster takes the helm at the Design Museum in the aftermath of a controversy over its funding. By Javier Pes, Oct 7, 2019