Art World Steven Spielberg Is Planning a Film Shoot Six Miles From Stonehenge—But Conservationists Are Worried About Damaging the Site Filming could be delayed if a site review is deemed necessary. By Javier Pes, Feb 6, 2019
Shows & Exhibitions Hauser & Wirth Will Present a Show of Founding Matriarch Ursula Hauser’s Feminist Art Collection on Her 80th Birthday Louise Bourgeois has a special place in Ursula Hauser's collection, says her daughter Manuela Wirth. By Javier Pes, Jan 21, 2019
Art World The Little-Known Story of How Brexit Plotters Hatched Their Plans in the Galleries of Tate Britain The covert meetings held by the "Tate Plotters" is the subject of a TV drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch. By Javier Pes, Jan 21, 2019
Law Looters Beware: The British Museum Is Leading an International Task Force Fighting the Illicit Trade in Egyptian Antiquities An expert team and powerful new database will help recover stolen artifacts and expose fake documentation. By Javier Pes, Jan 21, 2019
Shows & Exhibitions More Than 30 Works by Edvard Munch Are Missing From Oslo. Did University Students Steal Them? Works by the famed painter and five other artists disappeared after a loan scheme to a student housing complex. By Javier Pes, Jan 8, 2019
Art World The Louvre Shatters Attendance Records With 10 Million Visitors in 2018—With a Little Help From Beyoncé and Jay-Z A blockbuster Delacroix retrospective also aided the museum as it recovered from an attendance drop following the Paris terrorist attacks. By Javier Pes, Jan 3, 2019
Art World These Are The 12 Biggest Controversies That Rocked the Art World in 2018 From resistance to the Met's new admission policy to outrage over museum funding, these were the biggest debates of 2018. By Javier Pes & Eileen Kinsella, Dec 28, 2018
On View The National Gallery’s New Artemisia Gentileschi Should Be a Triumph—But Clouds Are Forming Over Its Ownership During WWII The self-portrait by the female Old Master discovered in France is listed among the paintings that could have been looted during the Nazi era By Javier Pes, Dec 12, 2018
Politics Major Paris Museums Are Shuttering as France Braces for a Fresh Wave of ‘Yellow Vest’ Demonstrations The Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, and the Musée d’Orsay are all shuttering as France is rocked by protest. By Javier Pes, Dec 7, 2018
Art World Fears Grow for Tania Bruguera After Cuban Authorities Detain the Activist-Artist Tate directors condemn her arrest as she and fellow artists are reported to be on hunger strike in their fight against a new censorship law. By Javier Pes, Dec 5, 2018
Art World Charlotte Prodger Wins the 2018 Turner Prize With a Poetic iPhone Video About Gender Identity, Landscape, and Mythology The Scottish artist has taken home the top British art prize with her deeply felt work melding her native landscapes with her queer identity. By Javier Pes, Dec 4, 2018
Law How Much Should Taxpayers Pay for a Private Museum? A French Watchdog Group Files a Claim to Find Out A Paris museum is locked in a battle with a French watchdog organization over allegations of tax fraud. By Kate Brown & Javier Pes, Nov 30, 2018
Analysis It’s Not Just Art That Indigenous People Are Fighting to Reclaim From Museums. They Want Their Ancestors’ Remains Back, Too There are thousands of bones, skulls, and even preserved heads of the victims of colonization hidden in museums' storage. But repatriation is rarely a simple process. By Javier Pes, Nov 29, 2018
Auctions 11 Advisors Resign From a Jewish Museum in London to Protest the ‘Heartbreaking’ Sale of Its Collection Nicholas Serota and Norman Rosenthal are among the experts who have resigned as London’s Ben Uri Gallery and Museum begins to deaccession 700 historic works. By Javier Pes, Nov 21, 2018
Shows & Exhibitions Julian Schnabel Is the Latest Celebrity to Guest Curate a Major Museum Show—a Trend That Is Here to Stay The artist has cherry-picked the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, taking part in a curating phenomenon that goes back to Warhol. By Javier Pes, Nov 9, 2018
